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Syllabus |
1. Introduction to chemical and related industries
Main products of the chemical industry in Portugal and Europe.
Petroleum refining.
Petrochemical complexes in Portugal; main products and main clusters.
2. The role of the graduated on industrial chemical in chemical industry.
3. Process diagrams.
4. Review of chemical equilibrium and thermochemical concepts.
5. Analysis of a case study (nitric acid production) to illustrate the integration of thermodynamic information, ass and energy balances, chemical reactions and unit operations.
6. Non-isothermal reactors
7. Introduction to instrumentation and process control.
8. Presentation of several equipment (mixers, reactors, distillation and absorption towers, heat exchangers, etc.)
9. Introduction to equipment design.
10. Analysis of a transformation process (group work) according to paragraph 5; draft design of one or more pieces of equipment.
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Main Bibliography |
1. Bibliografia principal / Main Bibliography
Ramôa Ribeiro, Fernado; Nunes, Clemente Pedro, As indústrias Químicas em Portugal – Perspectivas para o século XXI, Escolar Editiota.
Shreve, R.N. e Brink, J.A., Indústrias de processos químicos, Editora Gunabara, Rio de Janeiro
Levenspiel, O., Chemical Reaction Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, New York
2. Bibliografia complementar / supplementary bibliography
Coulson, J.M., Richardson, J.F., Tecnologia Química, Vol. I (Fluxo de fluidos, transferência de calor e transferência de massa), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Coulson, J.M., Richardson, J.F., Tecnologia Química, Vol. II (Operações Unitárias), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Coulson, J.M., Richardson, J.F., Tecnologia Química, Vol. VI (Uma introdução ao projecto em tecnlogia química), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Green, D.W. e Perry, R.H., Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook, 8th Edition, Edited by McGraw-Hill.
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
The teaching method is student-centered, but it is up to teachers to review fundamental concepts, introduce new subjects, provide a framework for all topics covered, and guide students through the learning process, particularly in the project/analysis work of a given transformation process or part thereof.
Therefore, the assessment criteria cover three aspects: (i) progress and final project/analysis work of a given transformation process, in its different aspects (50%), (ii) written assessment of the subjects taught (40%); (iii) other work presented by students (10%).
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