ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 27 Interactive Classroom: 21 Total: 51
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Chemistry Engineering
Areas: Chemical Engineering
Center Faculty of Biology
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
It focuses on the learning of two basic concepts for the design and study of the industrial production systems of any biotechnological product resulting from previous studies on lab and pilot plants, such as fluid transport and heat transfer. It includes the following items:
- To solve the main problems associated with fluids transport and pumping.
- To identify and to modify the design characteristics of fluids flow.
- To identify the different mechanisms of heat transfer.
- To solve the basic equations for heat transfer.
- To identify the key elements of heat exchangers.
- To apply the evaporation to biotechnological processes.
The contents specified in the degree report are as follows:
1. Concepts and basic equations of fluid flow. Mechanical energy balance.
2. Flow of incompressible fluids.
3. Fluid flow equipment: valves, pumps and compressors.
4. Heat transfer mechanisms. Conduction. Convection.
5. Heat exchangers: Overall heat transfer coefficient and basic design.
6. Recovery operations (evaporation, sedimentation, filtration...).
And they are presented to students in 24 hours of expository sessions that complement each other.
And they are presented to the students at the lectures, which are complemented with interactive seminar sessions (9 hours) focused on solving fluid transport and heat transfer problems and with interactive laboratory sessions (15 hours) where students will carry out experimental practices in pilot units of fluid transport and heat transfer:
1) Fluid Transport Practices: Fluid Plant; Testing of valves for liquids; Study of centrifugal pumps; Study of a pump and its components.
2) Heat Transfer Practices: Thermal insulation; Study of a heat exchanger (I): Double tube and flat plates; Study of a heat exchanger (II): Double tube, casing and tubes, flat plates.
In small group tutorials (2 hours), short papers will be presented in pairs related i) to fluid handling and heat exchange equipment in the field of biotechnology and ii) to the relevance of downstream operations in biotechnological processes.
Basic references
Calleja Pardo, G., ed. 2016. Nueva introducción a la Ingeniería Química [on line]. Madrid: Síntesis. Available at: https://prelo.usc.es/Record/Xebook1-9219
Further references
Costa López, J. et al. 2002. Curso de ingeniería química: introducción a los procesos, las operaciones unitarias y los fenómenos de transporte. Barcelona: Reverté.
Díaz M. 2012. Ingeniería de Bioprocesos. Madrid: Paraninfo.
Incropera, F.P. et al. 2007. Introduction to Heat Transfer. Hoboken: Wiley.
Mott, R.L., Untener, J.A. 2015. Mecánica de fluidos [on line]. 7ª ed. México: Pearson. Available at:
https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/#/search?q=9786073232883&context_toke…
Knowledge/Contents: Con01, Con03
Abilities/Skills: H/D01, H/D04, H/D05, H/D07, H/D10, H/D12, H/D14
Competences: Comp03, Comp04, Comp05, Comp06, Comp06
The teaching-learning process is based on the use of different teaching methodologies:
Lectures, in which the teacher will provide the essential, structured and most up-to-date information possible on the subject, based on various textbooks and scientific documentation, also making use of audiovisual support to allow a better approach to the operations and associated equipment.
Problem solving, with the combined use of a blackboard and spreadsheet, dealing in detail with the approach of a series of model problems or exercises and their practical development until the final solution is reached.
Seminar, where in smaller groups and under the premise that the students have worked on the proposed problem sheets beforehand, the teacher will discuss the problems posed, promoting student participation and resolving any doubts that may have arisen during the autonomous work.
Laboratory practices, where students will be provided with a basic operating manual for each of the practices that cover the most relevant aspects of safety and occupational risk prevention.
In the small group tutorials, case studies will be put into practice, so that students in pairs will have to locate a biotechnological process of their interest on which they will develop the two assigned tasks.
The virtual campus (Moodle) will be used as the main tool for communication with students, providing them with information on the teaching program and the assessment tests throughout the course, making various support materials available for the study of the subjects.
For the practical sessions, the equipment available in the Fluids and Heat Laboratory of the ETSE will be used, with prior authorization from the management of the center.
Continuous monitoring of learning will be carried out by means of different activities, assignments or problem solving. As a result, the final grade will be obtained based on these tests as detailed below:
# Performance of two short control tests with an overall value of 15% of the final grade.
Knowledge/Contents: Con01, Con03
Abilities/Skills: H/D01
Competences: Comp03, Comp05
# Laboratory practical report will be worth 25% of the final grade.
Knowledge/Contents: Con01, Con03
Abilities/Skills: H/D01, H/D04, H/D05, H/D07, H/D10, H/D12
Competences: Comp03, Comp04, Comp05, Comp06
# Group tutorials 10% of the final grade.
Knowledge/Contents: Con01, Con03
Abilities/Skills: H/D01, H/D05, H/D14
Competences: Comp03, Comp04, Comp05
# Final exam, with theoretical questions and problem solving, which will be worth 0% of the final grade.
Knowledge/Content: Con01, Con03
Abilities/Skills: H/D01, H/D10, H/D14
Competences: Comp03, Comp04, Comp05
The laboratory and the final exam are considered compulsory activities. Students who have not completed any of these activities will be considered NOT PRESENTED. In addition, students who miss more than 3 hours of experimental sessions will not be able to pass the subject, and it is important to justify their absences.
Before the final exam, students will know the grade obtained in the continuous assessment. A minimum grade of 3 points out of 10 in the final exam will be necessary to be able to incorporate the continuous assessment, whose grade will be maintained for the second opportunity.
Exceptionally, the grade for laboratory and group tutorials will be kept for the following year, provided that the student so requests during the first week of class.
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises and tests, the provisions of the Regulations on the evaluation of students' academic performance and revision of grades shall apply.
The course has a workload of 6 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System). Each ECTS credit corresponds to 25 hours of total work, so 150 hours are estimated with the following distribution:
Activity············Face-to-face hours Personal work
Lectures 24
Seminars 9
Lab classes 15
Tutorials (group) 2
Tutorials (individual) 1
Exam and revision 3
TOTAL 54 86
Following the subject on a day by day basis is highly recommended, are the concepts are connected and there is a risk of quickly losing the thread. Problems should be solved by the students in order to get training on that. Just copying what is done on the blackboard is not enough to guarantee the success learning process.
The use of the individual tutorials to solve the doubts that might arise during the semester is recommended.
Lessons will be delivered in Spanish/Galician.
The admission and permanence of the students in the practical laboratory requires that they know and comply with the rules included in the "Protocolo de formación básica en materia de seguridad para espacios experimentales" of the Technical School of Engineering, available in the security section of its website, which you can access proceeding as follows:
1. Access your intranet. // 2. Enter Documentation / Security / Training. // 3. Click on "Protocolo de formación básica en materia de seguridad para espacios experimentales".
Further information regarding the academic and research activities of the Department of Chemical Engineering can be found here: https://www.usc.gal/gl/departamento/enxenaria-quimica
Jorge Sineiro Torres
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816803
- jorge.sineiro [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Almudena Hospido Quintana
Coordinador/a- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816797
- almudena.hospido [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Óscar Rodríguez Figueiras
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816704
- oscar.rodriguez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
Alberte Regueira Lopez
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- alberte.regueira [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) PhD Assistant Professor
Andrea Arribas Jimeno
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- andreaarribas.jimeno [at] usc.es
- Category
- USC Pre-doctoral Contract
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