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Chemical Engineering Bachelor  | ||||||
 Bachelor Studies (Programme Regulations 2006) | ||||||
| 6. Semester | ||||||
| Compulsory Subjects | ||||||
| Examination Block Catalysis and Heterogeneous Process Engineering | ||||||
| Number | Title | Type | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
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| 529-0192-00L | Industrial Chemistry Replacement for 529-0502-00L Catalysis | O | 4 credits | 3G | J. A. van Bokhoven, M. Ranocchiari | |
| Abstract | The lecture will describe how the most important chemicals and intermediates are produced from both a chemical and chemical engineering point of view. Reaction mechanisms up to reactor design will be covered. | |||||
| Learning objective | Basic knowledge of reaction mechanisms and reactor design of the most important chemicals and intermediates. | |||||
| Content | The vast majority of all intermediates and chemicals originate from coal, oil or gas. The development of these processes over a time span of more than hundred years has resulted in fascinating chemistry and processes. The lecture will describe how the most important chemicals and intermediates are produced from both a chemical and chemical engineering point of view. Reaction mechanisms up to reactor design will be covered. | |||||
| Lecture notes | Supplemental material will be available on the webpage: http://www.vanbokhoven.ethz.ch/education.html | |||||
| Literature | Hans-Jürgen Arpe, Industrial Organic Chemistry, 5th Edition, Wyley-VCH, 2010 G. P. Chiusoli, P. M. Maitlis, Metal-catalysis in Industrial Organic Processes, RSC Publishing, 2008 | |||||
| 529-0633-00L | Heterogeneous Reaction Engineering | O | 4 credits | 3G | J. Pérez-Ramírez, C. Mondelli | |
| Abstract | Heterogeneous Reaction Engineering equips students with tools essential for the optimal development of heterogeneous processes. Integrating concepts from chemical engineering and chemistry, students will be introduced to the fundamental principles of heterogeneous reactions and will develop the necessary skills for the selection and design of various types of idealized reactors. | |||||
| Learning objective | At the end of the course the students will understand the basic principles of catalyzed and uncatalyzed heterogeneous reactions. They will know models to represent fluid-fluid and fluid-solid reactions; how to describe the kinetics of surface reactions; how to evaluate mass and heat transfer phenomena and account for their impact on catalyst effectiveness; the principle causes of catalyst deactivation; and reactor systems and protocols for catalyst testing. | |||||
| Content | The following components are covered: - Fluid-fluid and fluid-solid heterogeneous reactions. - Kinetics of surface reactions. - Mass and heat transport phenomena. - Catalyst effectiveness. - Catalyst deactivation. - Strategies for catalyst testing. These aspects are exemplified through modern examples. For each core topic, assignments are distributed, corrected, and discussed. The course also features an industrial lecture. | |||||
| Lecture notes | Script and booklet of exercises as well as links to the Zoom recordings of the lectures are available in the corresponding Moodle course. | |||||
| Literature | H. Scott Fogler: Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1992 O. Levenspiel: Chemical Reaction Engineering, 3rd edition, John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey, 1999 Further relevant sources are given during the course. | |||||
| 151-0926-00L | Separation Process Technology I | O | 4 credits | 3G | M. Mazzotti, A. Bardow | |
| Abstract | Non-empirical design of gas-liquid, vapor-liquid, and liquid-liquid separation processes for ideal and non-ideal systems, based on mass transfer phenomena and phase equilibrium. | |||||
| Learning objective | Non-empirical design of gas-liquid, vapor-liquid, and liquid-liquid separation processes for ideal and non-ideal systems, based on mass transfer phenomena and phase equilibrium. | |||||
| Content | Methods for the non empirical design of equilibrium stage separations for ideal and non-ideal systems, based on mass transfer phenomena and phase equilibrium. Topics: introduction to the separation process technology. Phase equilibrium: vapor/liquid and liquid/liquid. Flash vaporization: binary and multicomponent. Equilibrium stages and multistage cascades. Gas absorption and stripping. Continuous distillation: design methods for binary and multicomponent systems; continuous-contact equipment; azeotropic distillation, equipment for gas-liquid operations. Liquid/liquid extraction. The lecture is supported by a web base learning tool, i.e. HyperTVT. | |||||
| Lecture notes | Lecture notes available | |||||
| Literature | Treybal "Mass-transfer operations" oder Seader/Henley "Separation process principles" oder Wankat "Equilibrium stage separations" oder Weiss/Militzer/Gramlich "Thermische Verfahrenstechnik" | |||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | Prerequisite: Stoffaustausch A self-learning web-based environment is available (HyperTVT): http://www.spl.ethz.ch/ | |||||
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