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Lecturer(s)
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Pecha Jiří, doc. Ing. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Course is composed from following topics: - Introduction to process engineering, basic principles - laws of conservation, material balances (integral and differential mass/material balance), balances in systems with chemical reactions - Basic calculations of chemical reactors (material and energy balances), ideally mixed batch and flow reactor - Mass transfer (diffusion, multiphase systems) - principles, modelling - Absorption - Mathematical description of microbial systems, kinetics of enzyme catalysed reactions, microbial kinetics - Bioreactor modelling - model synthesis - Bioreactor simulation - balance calculations, prediction of process behaviour - Bioreactors - overall problematics, mixing - Sedimentation - Filtration - Membrane processes
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming), Exercises on PC, Text analysis, Individual work of students
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| Knowledge |
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| The knowledge of basic mass/material and energy balances, principles of heat transfer, calculus (differential and integral) |
| The knowledge of basic mass/material and energy balances, principles of heat transfer, calculus (differential and integral) |
| learning outcomes |
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| The student is able to elaborate basic quantitative description of processes common in environmental technologies and apply this knowledge to evaluation, simulation, design and optimization of these processes at industrial scale. The course cover especially following areas: |
| The student is able to elaborate basic quantitative description of processes common in environmental technologies and apply this knowledge to evaluation, simulation, design and optimization of these processes at industrial scale. The course cover especially following areas: |
| - kinetics of chemical reactions - overview of basic types of chemical reactors and their mathematical description - relationships in heterogeneous reaction systems - quantitative description of enzyme and microbial kinetics - basics of process scale-up |
| - kinetics of chemical reactions - overview of basic types of chemical reactors and their mathematical description - relationships in heterogeneous reaction systems - quantitative description of enzyme and microbial kinetics - basics of process scale-up |
| describe processes common in environmental technologies |
| describe processes common in environmental technologies |
| explain their use for the design, evaluation, simulation and optimisation of industrial scale processes |
| explain their use for the design, evaluation, simulation and optimisation of industrial scale processes |
| explain the basic issues of process scale-up, describe the kinetics of chemical reactions |
| explain the basic issues of process scale-up, describe the kinetics of chemical reactions |
| list the basic types of chemical reactors and their mathematical description |
| list the basic types of chemical reactors and their mathematical description |
| explain the issues of multiphase reaction systems |
| explain the issues of multiphase reaction systems |
| characterize the quantitative description of enzyme and microbial kinetics |
| characterize the quantitative description of enzyme and microbial kinetics |
| Skills |
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| - assessment of process effectivity and feasibility based on balance calculations - evaluation of experimental data - reaction kinetics - chemical reactor calculation - basic simulations based on experimentally verified process kinetics - basic calculations of process economy |
| - assessment of process effectivity and feasibility based on balance calculations - evaluation of experimental data - reaction kinetics - chemical reactor calculation - basic simulations based on experimentally verified process kinetics - basic calculations of process economy |
| propose the use of balance sheets to evaluate the efficiency and feasibility of processes |
| propose the use of balance sheets to evaluate the efficiency and feasibility of processes |
| implement the evaluation of experimental kinetic data |
| implement the evaluation of experimental kinetic data |
| design a model of reactors |
| design a model of reactors |
| apply indicative simulation calculations based on experimentally verified process kinetics |
| apply indicative simulation calculations based on experimentally verified process kinetics |
| apply basic process economic calculations |
| apply basic process economic calculations |
| teaching methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming) |
| Text analysis |
| Text analysis |
| Exercises on PC |
| Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming) |
| Individual work of students |
| Individual work of students |
| Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing) |
| Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing) |
| Exercises on PC |
| assessment methods |
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| Conversation |
| Analysis of works made by the student (Technical products) |
| Analysis of works made by the student (Technical products) |
| Analysis of a presentation given by the student |
| Analysis of a presentation given by the student |
| Analysis of seminar paper |
| Analysis of seminar paper |
| Conversation |
| Composite examination (Written part + oral part) |
| Composite examination (Written part + oral part) |
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Recommended literature
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BIRD, R. B., STEWART, W. E., LIGHTFOOT, E. N. Transport phenomena. New York: J. Wiley, 2007. ISBN 978-0-470-11539-8.
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Octave Levenspiel. Chemical reaction engineering. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999. ISBN 9780471254249.
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