Chemical Engineering

Membrane separation processes: separation mechanisms, types of membranes, practical applications, membrane reactors (plant engineering aspects), sizing. Direct flame equipment: heat transfer mechanisms, types of furnaces, practical applications (reformers, process furnaces, rotary kilns and their sizing and simulation), sizing of burners, elements of combustion fluid dynamics. Drying: selection and sizing of specific equipment. Reactor engineering: practical examples and selection of the correct reaction equipment, plant engineering aspects.

Basic knowledge of process units Basic knowledge of transport phenomena and thermodynamic methods Basic knowledge of the process simulator

slides and textbook suggested by the professor

in presence

Numerical exercise on the sizing of a specific piece of equipment

Lectures and exercises

-Thermal exchange: Shell and tube heat exchangers capacitors Reboilers Thermal exchange in the vessels Evaporators -Problems related to heat exchange: Insulation Thermal circuits Thermal integration – pinch theory -Liquid Liquid Extraction -Unconventional distillations

-termodynamics -Chemical Plant -transport phenomena

• A.K. Coker, “Ludwig’s Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants”, 4th ed., Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2007. • R.H.Perry, D.W.Green, "Perry's Chemical Engineer's Handbook", 7th ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1997. • J.F.Richardson, J.H.Harker, J.R.Backhurst, "Coulson & Richardson’s Chemical engineering”, Vol.2, 5th ed., Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, 2002. • R. Sinnot, G.Towler "Chemical Engineering Design - Coulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering Series", Vol.6, 6th ed., Btterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, 2020.

In class

Written exam Oral exam

Traditional lessons and use of simulation software (pro II)