| Educational guide School of Engineering |
english |
| Industrial Engineering (2013) |
 Subjects |
| ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF CHEMICAL PROCESSES |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2023_24 |
| Subject | ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF CHEMICAL PROCESSES | Code | 17655113 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 2nd | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 4.5 | Compulsory | Second | 1Q |
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| Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
| Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
| Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Context of industry and energy | - Main raw materials of the chemical industry. - Renewable and non-renewable resources. |
| Process synthesis | - Analysis of alternatives. - Process diagrams. |
| Heat exchangers | - Types of heat exchangers. - Basic design of heat exchangers. - Energy integration. |
| Separation operations | - Phase equilibrium. - Main separation operations. - Distillation columns. - McCabe-Thiele. -Methods for the design of separation sequences: heuristics and Vmin method. |
| Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) | - Introduction to LCA. - Incorporation of LCA to process design. |
| Introduction to process simulators | - Tutorials of the most common process simulators: ASPEN/HYSYS. |
| Plant design | - Basic design of a production plant incorporating, at a minimum, a PFD with a reactor, heat exchanger, flash separator or distillation column. - Basic economic feasibility study of the process. |
