| Educational guide School of Chemical Engineering |
english |
| Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Energy (2016) |
 Subjects |
| UNIT OPERATIONS |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2016_17 |
| Subject | UNIT OPERATIONS | Code | 20735214 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 2nd | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 3 | Optional | 1Q |
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| Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
| Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
| Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Introduction | Characteristics and types of separation unit operations. |
| Equilibrium stages | Equipments. Equilibrium stages. Mass balance. Operating lines. Calculations with graphical methods. |
| Binary distillation | Flash distillation. Distillation with reflux. Equipments. Operating lines. Calculation of number of stages with the McCabe-Thile method. Concept and calculation of stage efficiency. Fenske equation (minimal number of stages). Minimum reflux ratio. |
| Basic concepts in mass transfer operations |
Theoretical models and evaluation of mass transfer coefficients with empirical correlations. |
| Gas absorption | Continuous contact equipment. Differential mass balance. Number of Transfer Units (NTU): Empirical correlations and models. |
