Course: Simulation of Chemical Technology Processes

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Course title Simulation of Chemical Technology Processes
Course code UECHI/C448
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
Course content
week 1 Characteristics and types of simulation problems. week 2 Transformation of open simulation to sequence calculation. Algorithms for tearing of closed loops. week 3 Methods for open simulation. week 4 Methods for closed simulation. week 5 Dynamic simulation. week 6 Simulation software ASPEN Plus of ASPEN Technology, Inc. week 7 Simulation software ASPEN Plus of ASPEN Technology, Inc. (cont.) week 8 Simulation software CHEMCAD of Chemstations, Inc.. week 9 Simulation software CHEMCAD of Chemstations, Inc. (cont.). week 10 Optimization problems and their formulation. Extremes of functions of real variables. Classical optimization problems without and with constraints. week 11 Numerical methods for searching minima of functions of one variable. Fibonacci's method. Golden section method. Newton's method. week 12 Numerical methods for searching minima of functions of several variables. Cyclic coordinate descent method. Simplex (Nelder-Meada) method. week 13 Numerical methods for searching minima of functions of several variables. Gradient methods. Newton's method.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the subject is to make students acquainted with simulation and optimization calculations of complex chemical, food and pharmaceutical technologies.
After this course, the student is able to solve complex processes of chemical, food and pharmaceutical industries at steady and unsteady states. Moreover, he is able to find such parameters of the processes, at which an optimum exists.
Prerequisites
Chemical engineering I, Chemical engineering II

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Written examination

Oral examination. The primary form is a debate about selected themes. The level of acquired knowledge, conceptions and application acquirements is examined. Knowledge is examined by solving a project during the semestr and its result is included into the total classification.
Recommended literature
  • Baldick, Ross. Applied optimization : formulation and algorithms for engineering systems. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-521-10028-1.
  • HLAVÁČEK V., VÁCLAVEK V., KUBÍČEK M. Bilanční a simulační výpočty složitých procesů chemické technologie. Praha: Academia, 1979.
  • KUBÍČEK M. Optimalizace inženýrských procesů. Praha: VŠCHT, 1986.
  • Luyben, William L. Distillation design and control using Aspen simulation. Hoboken: Wiley-Interscience, 2006. ISBN 0-471-77888-5.
  • NOCEDAL, J., WRIGHT, S. J. Numerical optimization. 2nd edition.. 2006.
  • Seider, Warren D. Process design principles : synthesis, analysis, and evaluation. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 1999. ISBN 0-471-24312-4.


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