Chemical Sciences

MARCO ZEPPILLI

The course contributes to the achievement of the training objectives set out in the Manifesto of Studies of the Bachelor Degree in Chemical Sciences.
In particular, the course aims to provide students with the basic knowledge related to the phenomena of transport of heat, matter and momentum in order to:
a) select the separation / purification operations of material stream based on their chemical-physical characteristics;
b) dimension the equipment to perform unit separation operations based on thermodynamic properties;
c) size the equipment to perform the heat exchange;
d) apply a kinetic or equilibrium approach in the design of the equipment to perform unit operations of a physical nature.
Students who have passed the examination will have known and understood (descriptor 1: acquired knowledge):
• Fundamentals on the phenomena of transport of heat, matter and momentum
• Fundamentals and main types of unit separation operations based on thermodynamic properties
• Fundamentals of unitary heat exchange operations
• Fundamentals of equipment design for unit operations
Students who have passed the examination will be able to (descriptor 2 - acquired skills):
• select from the various options the separation / purification operations most suitable for the characteristics of the materials to be treated
• sizing preliminarily equipment for matter transfer (absorption columns, plate distillation columns, number of stages in solvent extraction)
• preliminarily size heat exchange equipment (concentric tube heat exchangers , plate heat exchangers and tube bundle heat exchangers)

Along with lectures, participation to in class demonstrations and numerical exercises with self-employment of written reports on the studied topics will allow to get the acquisition of these skills and to increase and evaluate the critical skills and judgment (descriptor 3) and the ability to communicate what has been learned (descriptor 4)