COURSE GUIDE: 2014-15 COURSE DETAILS
Name : Chemical and Biotechnological Engineering Process
Code : 44103217 Plan : Grade in Industrial Chemical Engineering Academic year : 2014-2015 Level : Grade
Course : 3 Type : Compulsory
Semester : 2
TIME DISTRIBUTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION
ECTS : 6 In-class hours: 45
Not in-class hours: 105
Total time (in hours): 150
USE OF VIRTUAL PLATFORM: LECTURER DETAILS
Name Tania Mazzuca Sobczuk
Department Engineering
Building CITE IIA
Office 1.31
Phone 950015901 E-mail tmazzuca@ual.es
Personal webpage
ACTIVITIES ORGANIZATION
Planned activities for learning and workload distribution per activity (in hours)
I. STUDENT’S ACTIVITIES (In-class / Online)
Seminars
0,0
Teaching group
26,0
Work group / small group
19,0
Total In-class/Online time : 45,0
II. STUDENT’S AUTONOMOUS ACTIVITIES (not in-class)
105,0
Total not in-class time : 105,0
ELEMENTS OF INTEREST FOR COURSE LEARNING
Justification of contents
To know the industrial methods to transform raw material into high value products, as well as temporal evolution and factors influencing such evolution.
To understand the bases of the design, construction and operation of chemical engineering industrial process.
To acquire expertise in the dimension and complexity of a real process, as well as the self difficulties of the process and the solutions currently used.
To understand the health and safety rules in the industry and its repercussion in the development of industrial chemistry process.
Other courses related Mass and energy balances.
Design and operation of basics Unit Operations Design and operation of Chemical reactors. Industrial Health and Safety.
Minimum knowledge required to deal with the Course
Mass and Energy Balances, Chemical Reactors and Unit operations.
COMPETENCES
Generic competences
Generic competences of the University of Almeria
To have acquired knowledge in their professional field.
Capacity to prepare and defend arguments and solutions to problems within their area of studies.
Other generic competences
Capacity of expressing conclusions including thoughts about relevant social, scientific or ethical subjects.
Specific competences developed
To know a process´ synthesis technique, based on the suppression of molecular, composition, temperature, phase and pressure differences between raw materials and products.
To know several processes comparing its unit operations according to the use of the raw material and to the optimization of the process to obtain the desired product.
To know and apply the specific English vocabulary. To know the chemical, physical and biological risk.
To read plans and flow charts and to identify its elements and analyse the values of the fundamental variables of the process.
To plan alternatives to carry out a process, to compare the choices and to select the most suitable. To discern between professional illness and work accidents.
LEARNING OJECTIVES/OUTCOMES
To develop the capacity to: generate alternatives, know the process’ synthesis´ techniques and select the most suitable.
To know how to interpret plans and flow charts.
To know how to apply safety and health criteria to design and operate industrial chemical processes.
CONTENTS
Module 1 INTRODUCTION TO CHEMICAL PROCESSES
Content Industry and chemical processes.
Economic factors in chemical processes. Health and safety in the chemical industry. Quality in the chemical industry.
Environmental sustainability in the chemical industry.
Learning system and methodology
System Learning procedures
and activities Observations
Hours In-class/
Online
Work group Case studies 1,0
Teaching group Lectures 5,0
Description of autonomous workload
Preparation of the case study. To study.
Module 2 AIR AND WATER AS RAW MATERIAL
Content Air as a raw material.
Water as a raw material. Sea water as a raw material.
Industrial effluents´ treatments.
Learning system and methodology
System Learning procedures
and activities Observations
Hours In-class/
Online
Work group Case studies 3,0
Work group Writing reports 1,0
Work group Team work 3,0
Teaching group Lectures 6,0
Description of autonomous workload
Preparation of the case study. To study.
Module 3 INORGANIC CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
Content
Limestone and gypsum as raw material. Uses of phosphate rock.
Sulphuric acid production. Nitrogen compounds. Potassium and fertilisers. Metallurgic industry. Paper industry.
Learning system and methodology
System Learning procedures
and activities Observations
Hours In-class/
Online
Work group Visit to an industry Cement plant 2,0
Work group Case study 2,0
Teaching group Lectures 3,0
Description of autonomous workload
To write the visit report. To study.
CONTENTS
Module 4 ORGANIC CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
Content Oil and refinery products.
Uses of coal. Biofuel industry. Fibres, dyes and paints.
Plastic and elastomer´s industry.
Learning system and methodology
System Learning procedures
and activities Observations
Hours In-class/
Online
Teaching group Lectures 3,0
Work group Case study 2,0
Work group Visit to an industry Oil refinery or coal-fired power
station 2,0
Description of autonomous workload
To study.
To write the visit report.
Module 5 INDUSTRIAL BIO-TRANSFORMATIONS
Content Industrial fermentations.
Pharmaceutical industry. Extractive industries.
Learning system and methodology
System Learning procedures
and activities Observations
Hours In-class/
Online
Teaching group Lectures 7,0
Work group Case study 1,0
Work group Visit to an industry 2,0
Description of autonomous workload
To study.
To write the visit report.
EVALUATION SYSTEM
The evaluation system must consider the conceptual capacities as well as the procedural capacities and skills. In this sense, any evaluation should consider this issue, considering the student’s knowledge level and the capacity to structure, synthesise and transmit information.
Marking system
Activity (Number of hours) Percentage
I. STUDENT ‘S ACTIVITIES (In-class/Online)
Teaching group
26 30%
Work group/ small group
19 40%
II. STUDENT’S AUTONOMOUS ACTIVITIES (Autonomous work)
Individual work [example]
105 30%
Assessment instruments Self assessment.
Valuation of reports, tests, etc. Exams (oral and written). Monitoring mechanisms
Registration and use of WEBCT.
Use of virtual tools (blogs, forum, email, etc...). Completion of WEBCT activities.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Recommended bibliography
Guidelines for risk based process safety / Center for Chemical Process Safety, Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, cop. 2007.
Chemical process equipment [Recurso electrónico] : selection and design / James R. Couper ... [et al.]. Burlington, MA ; Oxford, UK : Butterworth-Heinemann, c2010.
Erler, S., Shrewsbury : Smithers Rapra Technology, Ltd., 2009. Framework for chemical risk management under REACH [Recurso electrónico] : regulatory decision-making / Steffen Erler.
Hocking, M.B.(.B., 1938-, San Diego : Academic, c2005. Handbook of chemical technology and pollution control [Recurso electrónico] / Martin B. Hocking.
Mcketta, J.J., [s.n.], 1995. De Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology,.
Smith, R., Chichester :] John Wiley & Sons, L, 2005. Chemical process : design and integration / Robin Smith,.
Bibliography existing in the library of the University of Almeria http://almirez.ual.es/search/x?SEARCH=44103217
WEB ADRESSES
http://feique.org/
http://www.fertiberia.com Fertiberia
http://www.repsol-ypf.com/ Repsol-YPF
http://www.europeanchemicalnews.com European Chemical Industry
http://www.eurochlor.org European Industry of Chlorine
