Course: Process-system Engineering

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Course title Process-system Engineering
Course code UECHI/C907
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
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)
  • Bendová Helena, Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
week 1 Topology of the process. Graph theory. week 2 Steward decomposition of a system of equations. week 3 Balance calculations with precise data. week 4 Real and fictive streams, their parameters. Physical meaning of parameters of fictive streams. week 5 Generation of a system of balance, stoichiometric and additional equations. week 6 Balance calculations with measured data. week 7 Data balancing of onecomponent streams - Lagrange multiplier method. week 8 Data balancing of multicomponent streams - Lagrange multiplier method. week 9 Data balancing of multicomponent streams - Lagrange multiplier method - simplified methods. week 10 Reduction of balance scheme. Identification of gross errors. week 11 Fundamentals of mathematical modelling of processes. Classification of models. Statistical and physical models. week 12 Statistical models, determination of parameters. Fitting criteria. week 13 Models based on physical laws, design of physical models, determination of parameters.

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 create a complex concept on balace calculations in chemical industry, where physical and chemical processes can be encountered.
After this course, the student is able to solve complex balance problems, where precise and also measured data exist. Moreover, he is able to reconcile the data measured and identify gross errors in the balance calculations using measured data.
Prerequisites
Chemical engineering I, Chemical engineering II

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Written examination

There is an 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 a test during the semestr and its result is included into the total classification.
Recommended literature
  • Henley, Ernest J. Separation process principles : international student version. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2011. ISBN 978-0-470-64611-3.
  • HLAVÁČEK V., VÁCLAVEK V., KUBÍČEK M. Bilanční a simulační výpočty složitých procesů chemické technologie. Praha: Academia, 1979.
  • MADRON F. Process plant performance. Measurement and data processing for optimization and retrofits. New York: Ellis Horwood, 1992.
  • Peters, Max S. Plant design and economics for chemical engineers. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003. ISBN 0-07-124044-6.
  • RAINIAK P., VÁCLAVEK V. Základy modelovania a systémového inžinierstva chemických výrobných procesov. ALFA Bratislava, 1993.
  • VÁCLAVEK V., ECKERT E., VANĚK T. Základy chemického systémového inženýrství. Praha: VŠCHT, 1990.


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