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Process Engineering II

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 651-3021/01
Abbreviation PI II
Course title Process Engineering II
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Chemistry and Physico-Chemical Processes
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Pavel Leštinský, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1. Crystallization. Solubility of solids in liquids, description of crystals,
principle of crystallization, nucleation, crystal growth, types of
crystallizers, design of equipment.
2. Multicomponent rectification. Equilibrium distillation, short-cut method
for column, Fenske equation.
3. Other distillation methods. Reactive distillation, molecular distillation,
water steam distillation.
4. Absorption with chemical reaction. Two-film theory, surface renewal theory,
experimental determination of the mass transfer coefficients, Hatta number,
single irreversible reactions.
5. Technology of 3D print and its application in chemical engineering.
6. Microfluidics a Microreactors.

Limit factors of process devices:
7. Multiphase flow regimes.
8. Trays columns. Sieve trays, valve trays and bubble cap trays. Geometry of
tray and weirs. Entrainment and weeping, Flooding of downcomer. Trays
fouling.
9. Packed column. Random packing. Structured packing. Columns internals.
Loading and flooding.
10. Optimization of heat transfer technology (Pinch analysis, Shell and Tube
design).

Project management of technological buildings:
11. Definition of project, basic concepts, feasibility studies, cash flows
(investments, operating costs, profitability).
12. Design of process technology and construction (Regalement, Process Flow
Diagram, Data Sheets, Piping & Instrumentation Diagram), legislation (EIA,
IPPC), construction of technology and testing.
13. Costs of construction (estimates of costs of building and technological
part).

Exercise:
Examples of selected lectures are solved using AspenPlus, Polymath, MATLAB and MS Excel software.
Practical design of a 3D chip in available CAD software, followed by 3D printing. Calculation of flow characteristics and pressure losses. Experimental verification of reactor function or microfluidic chip.
Creation of Process Flow Diagrams of chemical technologies and Piping & Instrumentation Diagram of process devices are created. Calculation of investment and operating costs are carried out.

Literature

SEADER, J. D., Ernest J. HENLEY a D. Keith ROPER. Separation process principles: chemical and biochemical operations. 3rd ed. Hoboken: Wiley, c2011. ISBN 978-0-470-48183-7.

SINNOTT, R. K., J. M. COULSON a J. F. RICHARDSON. Chemical engineering design. 4th ed. Oxford: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005.

Advised literature

GREEN, Don W. a Robert H. PERRY, ed. Perry's Chemical engineers' handbook. 8th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2008. ISBN 978-0-07-142294-9.

FROMENT, Gilbert F., Kenneth B BISCHOFF a Juray DE WILDE. Chemical reactor analysis and design. 3rd ed. Hoboken: Wiley, c2011. ISBN 978-0-470-56541-4.

KASHID, Madhvanand N., Albert RENKEN a Lioubov KIWI-MINSKER. Microstructured devices for chemical processing. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, Verlag GmBH &Co., 2015. ISBN 978-3-527-33128-4.