Educational guide School of Chemical Engineering |
english |
Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering (2010) |
Subjects |
POLYMERIC SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES |
Contents |
IDENTIFYING DATA | 2022_23 |
Subject | POLYMERIC SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES | Code | 20204208 | |||||
Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||
Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
6 | Optional | Fourth | 1Q |
Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
Topic | Sub-topic |
1. Introduction | What are the polymers. The polymers in the world. Brief history |
2. Morphology | Bonds and forces. Individual molecules. Cohesive energy, Physical states, Transition temperatures, Crystallisation, Structure-properties relations |
3. Thermodynamics of polymer solutions | Non-ideality of polymer solutions; the Flory-Huggins theory. Chemical potential and osmotic pressure. Swell of a chain by solvent. Rubber elasticity. Solubility. Phase equilibria. |
4. Polymerisation | Reactions of polymerisation. Functionality. Kinetic schemes. Chain polymerisation. Step polymerisation. Polymerisation processes. Copolimerización. |
5. Molecular weight distributions | Mean values of the molecular weight. Theoretical molecular weight distributions. Empirical molecular weight distributions. Experimental methods to analyse the molecular weight. |
6. Viscoelasticity | Mechanical behaviour of the polymeric materials. viscous solids and elastic liquids. Models for the viscoelastic behaviour. Molecular motions and transition temperatures. |
7. Rheology | Characteristics of non-Newtonian flow. Dependence of the viscosity with the shear rate. Dependence of the viscosity with the molecular weight. Dependence of the viscosity with the temperature. Normal stresses. |