Course detail
Systems Engineering II
FSI-KS2Acad. year: 2010/2011
The course extends the knowledge from previous partial subjects of the specialization. It presents the systematic survey of the most important process plants
from main process industries (industry of complex crude-oil treatment and natural gas processing, chemical and petrochemical industry, cement and lime industry, food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industry, ecological and special process plants) together with their brief historical development to present solutions. During the course the students obtain the base knowlegde of the chemical reaction kinetics and reactors designing. The important process plants are connected with series of examples and calculation solutions of concrete industrial applications. It enables to demonstrate the problematics of plants creation and complex evaluation of plants conception and possibilities, together with evaluation of individual equipment and its influence on plants characteristics.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
They will have obtain an overview of chemical production and safety of environment.
The course objective is to make students familiar with the most important process plants, methodology of process plant creation, its balancing and complex evaluation of fitness for given intention
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
The examination consists of both written and oral parts. At the examination students demonstrate acquired knowledge.
Course curriculum
2. Basic processes of the crude oil treatment and petrochemical industry
3. Basic processes in the other branches of chemical industry (food, pharmaceutical,cement industry, etc.)
4. Design principles of chosen equipments of chemical industry
5. Introduction into the reaction kinetics and reactor design
Work placements
Aims
decision if more solutions appear.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Santoleri J., J., Reynolds J. and Theodore L., Introduction to Hazardous Waste Incineration“, Second Edition, 2000, John Wiley & Sons, New York, ISBN 0-471-011790-6 (EN)
Shackley, S., Gough, C., Carbon Capture and its Storage, An Integrated Assessment, 2006, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, UK, ISBN:0 7546 4499 5 (EN)
Recommended reading
Kizlink, J.: Technologie chemických látek I. a II. díl, FCH, VUT Brno, 2001
Perry, J.: Chemical Engineers´ Handbook, Mc Graw Hill, New York, 1997
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Introduction to process plants-classification of technologies, position of chemical industry in the CR,raw materials for chemical industry.
2. Crude oil production and principal processes of the basic crude oil treatment (dewatering, distillation, hydrotreating, solvent treating)
3. Principal processes in the secondary and depth crude oil treatment (hydrocracking, catalytic cracking, catalytic reforming, partial oxidation, etc.)
4. Physical properties of crude oil fractions, their determination on the basis of
distillation analysis
5.Principles for heavy naphtha catalytic reforming process design, especially of the reactors, as an example of alternative technological line solution
6.Principal processes of the natural gas utilization and chemical treatment. Reaction conditions and principles for the design of equipment for natural gas steam reforming process for hydrogen or synthesis gas manufacture (ammonia, methanol) and fertilizer production.
7. Basic processes of the petrochemical industry, especially the light naphtha pyrolysis for ethylene and propylene production. Products of pyrolysis as a source for plastics manufacture
8. The technology and industrial plants for cement and lime manufacture.
9. Important plants for ecology and special production. Principal methods of the flue gas cleaning in the plants for gaseous or solid wastes incineration.
10.Specific aspects and problems of biotechnologies, consumer industry plants (glass, stoneware, paper and mill industry).
11. Important plants of food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industry.
12. Introduction into the reaction kinetics a reactor design.
13. Basic charactersitics of the ideal types of chemical reactors (ideal mixed continual or batch reactors, reactor with the plug flow, working at the adiabatic a isothermal conditions) and principles of their desing
Computer-assisted exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2)Process plant balance at unsteady state. Calculation of the concentration changes during the time in some types of equiments.
3)Determination ofm the main physical and transporting features of the hydrocarbons and their mixtures, especially the crude oil fraction.
4)Analysis of the working conditions of the catalytic reforming process.
5)Marking of the measuring and controlling devices on the technological scheme.
6)Balance of the steam reforming process (primary reformer).
7)Balance of the steam reforming process (equilibrium of the shift reaction, balance of the shift reactor).
8)Balance of the proces of biomass gasification.
9)Balance the VENTURI scrubber for the incineration gas cleaning.
10)Calculation of the adibatic warming-up for the process of hydrocarbons catalytic oxidation
11)Calcultation of the degree of conversion during the process of catalytic oxidation in the various types of reactors.
12)Hydraulic desing of catalytic reactors with axial and radial fluid flow.
13)Application of the oxygen balance for flue-gas flow rate calculation.