|
36100 Introduction to Chemical Engineering
| |
Danish title: Kemisk procesteknik
| |
Language: Danish
Credit points: 12,5 |
|
| Type: | Open University
Language: Danish |
| |
Previous course: C3600, C3601
| |
No credit points with: C3600, C3601
| |
| |
Prerequisite: 21262 og 1532/10032/10010 ((senest samtidig)
| |
| |
Recommended semester: 3rd semester
| |
Scope and form: Lectures, problem solving sessions in groups, homework problems, experimental exercises and a course problem
| |
Examination: Assessment of written exam and approval of experimental report (13-scale)
| |
|
Remarks: Course material: R.M. Felder og R.W. Rousseau: Elementary
Principles of Chemical Processes, 3rd edition, J.Wiley, 1999 og L. Alfred
Hansen: Enhedsoperationer i den Kemiske Industri, Polyteknisk Forlag.
|
| Contact person: | Anker Jensen, Building 229, Tel. +45 4525 2841, email AJ@kt.dtu.dk
Kaj Thomsen, Building 229, Tel. +45 4525 2860, email KTH@kt.dtu.dk, http://www.ivc-sep.kt.dtu.dk/STAFF/KTH/KTH.HTM
Tue Johannessen, bygn. 227, tlf. 4525 2966, email tj@kt.dtu.dk |
| |
| |
Department: Department of Chemical Engineering
|
Aim: The aim of the course is to give an introduction to chemical
engineering concepts that are used in the chemical, biotechnological, and
the pharmaceutical industry. This introductory course will make the student
able
To understand and sketch flowsheets for chemical plants
To calculate size, composition, temperature and pressure of streams in
chemical plants
To calculate energy transfer in pumps, compressors, turbines and in pipe
systems
To understand the fundamental principles behind a number of important types
of chemical process equipment and to get a general knowledge of such
equipment
To make quantitative calculations to design process equipment and to predict
performance and capacity of existing equipment when operating conditions are
changed
To get a better understanding of the basic features for a number of
important chemical engineering operations through experimental exercises.
|
Contents: The course is extended over two semesters and combines theory,
experimental exercises and a major course problem. Mass balances for systems
without chemical reactions exemplified by single- and multistage extraction.
Stage processes exemplified by absorption columns. Applications of phase
equilibria, bubblepoint and dew point calculations in multicomponent
systems. Design of distillation columns.
Chemical reactions. Yield, selectivity. Atomic balances for systems with
several chemical reactions.
Energy balances for systems without or with chemical reactions.
Thermodynamic properties (heat capacity, heat of reaction etc.). Combustion
processes.
Examples: A number of typical problems from industrial processes are
presented to illustrate practical applications and to form a background for
understanding the quantitative methods described in the course. Descriptions
and calculations of one or several important chemical processes. Practical
examples on solution of environmental problems.
Experimental exercises in groups of two on technical equipment including
absorption and distillation. Written reports must be handed in before the
end of the examination period.
Flow: The mechanical energy balance, flow of gases and liquids, calculation
of friction losses in pipe systems. Pumps, compressors and turbines. Design
of pipe systems. Particle motion. Flow through particle layers.
Fluidization.
Heat transfer: Heat transfer by conduction and convection. Condensation.
Heat exchange and design of heat exchangers. Evaporation.
Mass transfer: Differential mass balances. Batch distillation. Diffusion.
Rate dependent mass transfer operations (absorption, stripping). Operations
involving heat and mass transfer (drying).
Experimental exercises in groups of two on technical equipment including
absorption and distillation. Written reports must be handed in before the
end of the 14-week period, autumn.
Solving a major course problem.
|
|
|
