ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 2 Expository Class: 15 Interactive Classroom: 34 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Chemistry Engineering
Areas: Chemical Engineering
Center Faculty of Sciences
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
- Knowledge of the fundamentals and industrial applications of energy integration.
- Ability to design heat exchanger networks.
- Applied knowledge on energy cost savings in systems with chemical reaction and component separation sequences.
- Know how to use specific computer tools for the integration of energy in chemical processes.
- Ability to synthesize processes.
- Energy integration: the Pinch method.
- Analysis and design of heat exchange networks.
- Integration of heat and work.
- Energy integration in chemically reacted systems.
- Energy integration in component separation systems.
BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
- KEMP, I.C.,“Pinch analysis and process integration : a user guide on process integration for the efficient use of energy”. 2ª Ed. Amsterdam. Ed. Elsevier-Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007. ISBN 9780750682602. Signature: QUT 393.
- EL-HALWAGI, M.M., “Process integration”. Boston. Ed. Elsevier/Academic Press, 2006. ISBN 0123705320. Signature: QUT 415.
COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PUIGJANER L. y col., "Estrategias de modelado, simulación y optimización de procesos químicos". Madrid., Ed. Síntesis, 2006. ISBN 9788497564045. Signature: QUT 388 - 390.
- SINNOT R. y TOWLER G., “Diseño en ingeniería Química”. Barcelona. Ed. Reverté, 2012. ISBN 9788429171990. Signature QUT 398 - 401, QUT 410.
BASIC
- CB3: That students have the ability to collect and interpret relevant data (usually within their study area) to make judgments that include reflection on relevant issues of a social, scientific or ethical nature.
- CB4: That students can transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to a specialized and non-specialized audience.
- CB5: That students have developed those learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.
TRANSVERSE
- CT2: Ability to use computer applications in the field of Industrial Engineering.
- CT3: Ability to manage information.
- CT4: Ability to work in a team.
- CT11: Ability to make decisions.
- CT12: Ability for autonomous learning (included in CB5).
AS OPTIONAL SUBJECT
- CEOP12: Knowledge about the utility and use of energy integration in industrial chemical processes, and the ability to use specific computer tools for the simulation and integration of equipment and processes.
The achievement of the student's training will be through 15 hours of expository teaching, where the theoretical foundations of the subject will be explained and exercises will be solved that serve to apply theoretical knowledge. The active participation of the student will be sought, who will be encouraged to intervene continuously. Interactive teaching will be carried out through seminars (10 hours). The practices of the subject matter (24 hours) are mandatory and assessable (Agreement of the Governing Council of 25/11/2024, which approved the Regulations for class attendance in professional undergraduate and master's degree courses at the University of Santiago de Compostela), and will focus on the approach and resolution of problems and practical cases on the contents of the subject.
During the second week of the course the compulsory completion of a group work will be indicated, in which the students, autonomously, must carry out the energy integration of an installation trying to minimize its operating costs. Individual tutorials will be held to clarify particular problems of each student, as well as tutorials in small groups (2 hours) to monitor student learning.
During the course, students will have at their disposal on the USC Learning Management System the basic theoretical contents of the subject, as well as a collection of exercises for explanation during classes. Free and freely accessible specific computing tools will be used for this subject, such as Heatit v5.2.4 or Hint v.2.2, but also Excel and the chemical process simulation program Hysys.
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or proofs, the provisions of the “Regulations for evaluating student academic performance and reviewing qualifications” will apply. Only students who have not participated in any of the assessment activities may receive the final grade of "Not Presented".
A) FIRST OPPORTUNITY
The evaluation will be carried out through Continuous Evaluation (75%) and a complementary Final Exam (25%).
A1) Continuous Assessment, the minimum grade required to pass the subject without having to take the Final Exam will be 67%, and will consist of three sections:
1) Group Work: compulsory and asynchronous, you can get up to 25%. Competencies assessed: CB3, CB4, CT2, CT3, CT4, CT11 and CEOP12.
2) Classroom activities (seminaries): compulsory and synchronous, you can get up to 25%. Competencies assessed: CB4, CB5, CT3, CT11 and CEOP12.
3) Practices: compulsory and synchronous, you can get up to 25%. Competencies assessed: CB3, CB4, CB5, CT2, CT3, CT4, CT11, CT12 and CEOP12.
Students who do not reach the minimum required grade must compulsorily take the Final Exam; Students who wish to improve their final grade may also take this exam.
A2) Final Exam, synchronous, with the following characteristics:
1) Theoretical Part: you can get up to 5%; minimum qualification required 2%.
2) Practical Part: you can get up to 20%; minimum qualification required 8%.
Assessed competencies: CT3 and CEOP12. It is mandatory to achieve the minimum qualification required in each of the parts. The final grade will be the result of adding each and every one of the grades obtained in the sections described above.
B) SECOND OPPORTUNITY
The grades obtained during the Continuous Assessment are not retained and there will be a synchronous Final Exam, which will have two parts with the following characteristics:
1st) Theoretical Part: up to 2.5 points can be achieved; minimum qualification required 1.5 points.
2nd) Practical Part: you can get up to 7.5 points; minimum required grade 3.5 points.
Assessed compecencies: CT3, CT12 and CEOP12. It is mandatory to achieve the minimum qualification required in each of the parts to pass the subject.
The subject is divided into 15 hours of expository teaching, 34 hours of interactive teaching, 2 hours of group tutoring and 4 hours of exam. Therefore, the student must use a total of 95 hours of personal work to complete the total of 150 hours of dedication to the subject: 30 hours for the theoretical part, 56 hours for the applied part (group work, problems, seminars and practices), 3 hours for tutorials and 6 hours for the preparation of the final exam.
It is essential that the student has a laptop, tablet or any other device that allows him or her to use a spreadsheet in the classroom. It is highly recommended to have previously completed the subjects of "Matter Transfer", "Heat Transfer", "Chemical Reaction Engineering" and "Industrial Chemistry Processes", in addition to having user-level knowledge of Excel and the chemical process simulation program Hysys. It is very important to take the day to the subject, as well as try to do all the problems and exercises proposed.
The subject is taught in both official languages of the community: Spanish and Galician.
Jorge González Rodríguez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 982824155
- jorgegonzalez.rodriguez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary supply professor to reduce teaching hours
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| 09:00-10:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician | 2P CLASSROOM 3 SECOND FLOOR |
| 05.22.2026 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | 1P CLASSROOM 2 FIRST FLOOR |
| 06.29.2026 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | 1P CLASSROOM 2 FIRST FLOOR |