Chemical Engineering 3A (U02565)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 9 ? Acronym : EEL-3-CHCEA

This course comprises Kinetics and Reactor Design, Unit Operations . The basic concepts of chemical kinetics and reactor behaviour are introduced and applied to the design of isothermal and non-isothermal reactors. Unit Operations extends earlier treatment of stagewise equilibrium processes to numerical solutions for absorption and stripping in multicomponent systems, graphical solutions for binary distillation in the case of non-constant molal overflow and the analogous case of solvent extraction. Multicomponent equilibria and both short-cut and extended solutions for multicomponent flash and distillation are also treated. In addition, there is an introduction to mass transfer operations in packed columns.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Separation Processes and Process Calculations 2

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Chemical, (School of Engineering and Electronics, Schedule M)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 8 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	09:00	13:00	KB

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Derive reactor design equations
- Perform energy balances for basic reactor types
- Calculate the parameters corresponding to optimal reactor design
- determine graphically or analytically the number of stages in an absorption or stripping column;
- analyse critically the choice of stage vs. packed column;
- size an absorption or stripping packed column for dilute and non-dilute gas systems;
- design graphically a binary distillation column using the Ponchon-Savarit method;
- design a multicomponent distillation column using group methods and stage-by-stage (rigorous) methods.