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 Academic Year:
| 2013/4 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Department of Chemical Engineering |
| Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
| Period: |
Semester 1 |
| Assessment:
| CW 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
| This unit is offered to students with no previous experience/knowledge of chemical engineering or technical chemistry. |
| Description:
| Aims: To introduce the principles and practices of material and energy balancing (both steady state and unsteady state) for non-reacting and reacting systems in chemical and biochemical engineering. To introduce the principles of reaction engineering and their application to chemical and biological reactor design. Learning Outcomes: After successfully completing this unit students should be able to: * Formulate and solve manually material and energy balances for process systems that may include multi-component streams, phase changes, simple reactions, recycles, purges, bypasses and mixing. * Perform simultaneous material and energy balances on adiabatic, non-adiabatic and isothermal reactors, including equilibrium-controlled reactions. * Calculate reaction orders, rate constants and half-lives for simple reaction mechanisms. Apply the Arrhenius equation to calculate activation energies. * Distinguish between various reactor types and explain their applications in chemical and biochemical processes. Skills: Analysis and problem solving (taught/facilitated and assessed). Content: * Introduction to process systems. * Units and dimensions; concept of dimensionless numbers. * Flow rate and concentration (mass, molar, partial pressure). * Law of conservation of mass. * Material balances on non-reacting systems, steady and unsteady state (continuous, batch, semi-batch, and batch-fed). * Synthesis of the process flowsheet; the process flow diagram. * Material balances on reacting systems (stoichiometry, elemental balances, conversion, yield, recycle, purge, by-pass and mixing). * Forms of energy and their interchangeability. * Sensible and latent heats; mixing and solution; multicomponent systems. * First and second laws of thermodynamics; the general energy equation for closed and open (flow) systems. * Heats of formation, reaction and combustion; standard and non-standard conditions. * Energy balances on single and multiphase systems with and without reaction (adiabatic, non-adiabatic and isothermal systems). * Incomplete conversion, excess reactants, inerts. * Material and energy balances in combustion. * Elementary and non-elementary reactions. * Order of reaction and analysis of rate data. * Homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions. * Kinetic rate expressions; rate and equilibrium constants; Arrhenius equation and activation energy; conversion and yield. * Reactor types and basic design equations. |
| Programme availability: |
CE50170 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Chemistry
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