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91731 Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering
Danish title: Kemiteknik

Type: Å, Language: EED
Credit points: 5 point
Offered by: Department of Applied Chemistry (IFAK)
No credit points with: C3601, D7032
Prerequisite: 91711. 91721
Recommended semester: 3rd semester
Examination: Written exam partly with aid (13 point scale )
Contact person: Karsten Clement, IFAK, Building 376, Tel. +45 4525 5468
Aim: The aim of the course is to present basic principles for selection, design and use of the most common types of chemical engineering equipment and thereby enable the students to perform quantitative experimentation on pilot or production scale equipment
Contents: Filtration. Heat transfer by conduction, convection and radiation. Heat exchangers. Steam plants. Properties of steam. Use of steam. Evaporation. Continuous mass transfer operations. Gas absorption. Distillation. Air conditioning. Drying. Leaching. Liquid-liquid extraction. For each topic the course covers the following: An explanation of physical apparatusses and their function. - The mathematical model of the operation is developped.