The competence to be developed by the students throughout this course is the E06 and it corresponds to the M03 module (Specific Technologies):



To get basic and applied knowledge about mass and energy balances, biotechnology, mass transfer, separation processes, chemical reaction engineering, reactor design and the transformation and valorization of raw materials and energy resources.



The results of the learning process in this course are focused on getting a deeper understanding of technical topics (whose basic knowledge has been acquired in the previous module), so that, the students that pass this course will be able, within the field industrial chemical engineering and relating areas:



- To understand real problems from the field of the industrial engineering within any of its specialties. Besides that, it is considered especially relevant to develop capacities to evaluate the importance of any industrial problem and to adopt decisions to avoid human, environmental and/or economic loses.

- To solve through structured procedures, multidisciplinary problems in any industrial field.

- To design and implement industrial facilities and production and control processes, taking into account relevant aspects such as energetic, mechanic- structural, electrical or environmental ones.

AT THE CLASSROOM:



1. Introduction to Chemical Technology

2. Mass and Energy Balances

3. Introduction to engineering chemical kinetics

4. Elements of Unit Operations

Classroom activities:

In the lectures brief expositions supported by audiovisual resources hosted at eGela will be used to present the basic concepts and the fundamental laws of each of the topics to be covered. These presentations will be combined with the discussion with students of relevant everyday or industrial examples in order to clarify the corresponding concepts.



Exercises:

Further work at the classroom will be dedicated to the resolution of theoretical questions as well as numerical exercises that allow a better and deeper understanding of the most important aspects of the considered topics. Some of them will be worked at the classroom and some others can be solved by the student. These problems can be presented to the professor in order to be considered in the final mark. All these questions and exercises will be available through eGela platform.



Activities for continuous evaluation:

Finally, to ensure a continuous learning process of students several activities (labwork, complex exercise resolutions, tests…) under the direct supervision of the professor will be carried out both individually or as teamwork.



The dates when these activities must be carried out will be published before the starting date of the course at the Webuntis platform.



Each student must present at the end of each session a written report.

The evaluation of this course will be carried out taking into account the following items:

- Written exam: 70 %

- Continuous evaluation: 30%, divided into:

- Deliverables: 15 %. Reports, presentations, work-problems, … developed by the students

along the course.

- Lab-work and related practices: 15 %. Evaluated through the questionnaires and written

reports delivered by the students and their behavior at the lab.



Those students that get a mark lower than 4.5 out of 10 in the written exam will not pass this course.



The students who present a written document reigning to the continuous evaluation activities before the 9th week of the term must pass an additional oral exam in order to prove the acquisition of the corresponding competences.



The final mark will be calculated through the following formula:



Final mark = 0.70 (written exam mark) + 0.15 (labwork mark) + 0.15 (deliverables).



- If the written exam mark is higher than 4.5 and the final mark calculated using the previous formula is equal or bigger than 5, the final mark will be the one resulting from the application of the formula.

- If the written exam mark is higher than 4.5 and the final mark calculated using the previous formula is lower than 5, the final mark will be the one resulting from the application of the formula.

- If the written exam mark is lower than 4.5, the final mark will be the same as the exam.



If the health situation avoids the development of any teaching or evaluation activity, a non-presential alternative will be used and the students will be promptly informed

The students must use the materials containing questions and exercises delivered by the teaching staff and available at the eGela platform.

The syllabus of the course as well as the instructions for the practical work will also be available at this same platform in order to facilitate the learning process.

Basic bibliography

Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering. (6th edition) Himmelblau. Prentice-Hall, 1996

Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes. (3rd edition) Felder and Rosseau. Wiley, 2005

Chemistry. A Project of the American Chemical Society. ACS. Freeman, 2004

Chemical Principles. The Quest for Insights. (3rd edition) Atkins y Jones. Freeman, 2005

Introduction to Chemical Engineering. Thompson y Ceckler. Mc Graw-Hill, 1977

Understanding Engineering Thermo. Levenspiel. Prentice-Hall, 1996

In-depth bibliography

Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics. (7th edition) Smith et al. Mc Graw-Hill, 2005
Chemical, Biochemical and Engineering Thermodynamics. (4th edition) Sandler. Wiley, 2006
Mass and energy balances. Reklaitis. Wiley, 1983
Chemical Engineering Kinetics. (3rd edition) Smith. Mc Graw-Hill, 1981
Chemical Reaction Engineering. (2nd edition) Levenspiel. Wiley, 1998
Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering. (4th edition) Fogler. Prentice-Hall, 2006
Chemical and Process Analysis. Luyben y Wenzel. Prentice Hall, 1988