ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.25 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.5
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Chemistry Engineering
Areas: Chemical Engineering
Center Higher Technical Engineering School
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
To provide students with an overview of chemical technology, the structure of production processes, the factors that influence their development, operating variables and socioeconomic and strategic variables.
Detailed study of industrial chemistry processes: description, flow diagram, units, operation and control. Process simulation.
EXPOSITORY CLASSES:
BLOCK I.- ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF CHEMICAL PROCESSES.
Lesson 1-The production structure of the chemical industry. Dynamics of raw materials, products and energy markets: global trends. Product curves. Technological evolution curves.
Lesson 2- Evolution of the development of a process. Exploratory phase. Chemical transformation. Separation. Recirculation. Energy efficiency and utilities. Pilot phase. Scale-up. Demonstration phase. Commercial operation.
BLOCK II.- INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY PROCESSES.
Lesson 3- Refinery platform and basic chemical products.
Lesson 4-Biorefinery platform. Integrated refinery-biorefinery processes.
Lesson 5-Polymer-biopolymer production platform.
Lesson 6- New products based on life sciences.
INTERACTIVE SEMINAR CLASSES
Team work: Design of an industrial chemistry process. Advice to students on the tasks.
Individual work: Case studies, technological innovations.
INTERACTIVE CLASSES-GROUP TUTORING
Professional ethics. Lawful industrial practice. Non-export of risk. Commitment to resource conservation. Debate.
INTERACTIVE COMPUTER CLASSROOM CLASSES:
Simulation of chemical processes using the AspenHysys simulator and similarly effective tools.
Basic bibliography:
- Moulijn, J.A.; Makkee, M.; Van Diepen, A.E. Chemical Process Technology,2nd Ed. Wiley (2013). ISBN 9781444320251
Complementary bibliography:
- Martín Martín, M. Industrial Chemical Process Analysis and Desing, Elsevier, Amsterdam. (2016) ISBN 9780081010938. Recurso disponible en línea: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-101093-8.00022-7.
- Lluch Urpí, J. L.; Tecnología y margen de refino del petróleo, Díaz de Santos, Madrid (2008). ISBN 978-84-7978-875-9
- Turton, R.; Bailie, R. C.; Whiting, W. B.; Shaeiwitz, J. A. Analysis, Synthesis and Design of Chemical Processes, 2nd Ed. Prentice Hall, New Jersey (2003). ISBN 978--0-13--512966-1
Specific Competences
CI.9 Basic knowledge of production and manufacturing systems.
CQ.1.6. Knowledge on valorization and transformation of raw materials and energy resources.
CQ.2.1. Capacity for the analysis and design of processes and products.
CQ.2.2. Ability to simulate and optimize processes and products.
General competences
CG.4 Ability to solve problems with initiative, decision making, creativity, critical reasoning and to communicate, creativity, critical reasoning and to communicate and transmit knowledge, skills and knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of industrial chemical engineering.
CG.7 Ability to analyze and assess the social and environmental impact of technical solutions.
Transversal competences
CT.2. Capacity of analysis and synthesis.
CT.3. Ability to organize and plan
CT.4 Skills for the use and development of computer applications CT.5.
CT.5 Ability to manage information
CT.7 Decision-making
CT.13 Ability to apply knowledge in practice
Expository teaching: Master class with audiovisual support (slides and videos).
Development of competences:
CI.9 Basic knowledge of production and manufacturing systems.
CQ.1.6. Knowledge on valorization and transformation of raw materials and energy resources. and energy resources.
CQ.2.1. Capacity for the analysis and design of processes and products.
CG.7 Ability to analyze and assess the social and environmental impact of technical solutions. technical solutions
Interactive teaching: seminars and group tutoring.
Case studies. Team work.
Development of competences:
CI.9 Basic knowledge of production and manufacturing systems.
CQ.1.6. Knowledge on valorization and transformation of raw materials and energy resources.
CQ.2.1. Ability to analyze and design processes and products.
CG.4 Ability to solve problems with initiative, decision making, creativity, critical reasoning, and to communicate and transmit knowledge, skills and abilities in the field. knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of industrial chemical engineering.
CG.7 Ability to analyze and assess the social and environmental impact of technical solutions.
CT.2. Capacity of analysis and synthesis.
CT.3. Ability to organize and plan
CT.5 Ability to manage information
CT.7 Decision-making
CT.13 Ability to apply knowledge in practice.
Interactive teaching: Computer classroom.
Development of competences:
CQ.2.2. Ability to simulate and optimize processes and products
CG.4 Ability to solve problems with initiative, decision making, creativity, critical reasoning and to communicate and transmit knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of industrial chemical engineering. knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of industrial chemical engineering.
CT.4 Skills for the use and development of computer applications.
A technical visit will be made, subject to budgetary availability, to an industrial facility of relevance to the contents of the subject. After the visit, the student will have to complete a questionnaire that will form part of the assessment.
The evaluation will consist of:
1. Team work. Virtual Campus will be used to submit the assignments. 20 % of the overall grade.
2. Individual activities carried out in the seminars. Virtual Campus will be used to submit the assignments. 15 % of the overall grade.
3. Group tutorial (debate) and technical visit. Face-to-face. 10 % of the grade.
4. Computer classroom: 30 % of the overall grade.
5. Exam. 25 % of the global qualification.
Attendance to lectures is not compulsory and will not be assessed. Attendance at seminars, computer classes, technical visits and tutorials is not compulsory but may form part of the assessment. Advance notice will be given of evaluable tasks.
To add up the grade, the student must obtain at least 30% of the grade in section 4 and 5. Otherwise, these sections do not add up in the overall grade.
In case of failure at the first opportunity, the student must take a questionnaire of the whole content of the expository part of the seminar and group tutoring for the second opportunity. In this case, the continuous evaluation will account for 40% of the overall evaluation and the recovery questionnaire will account for 60% of that grade.
The evaluation of computer classroom will be carried out by means of the delivery of one or several files made during the sessions in the computer classroom. This activity is not recoverable and its grade will be retained for a second opportunity. To add up the grade, students must obtain at least 30% of the grade in this section, otherwise, this section does not add up in the overall grade.
For the final exams, students must complete a questionnaire of all the content of the expository part of the seminar, tutorial and computer room.
For cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations on the assessment of students' academic performance and review of qualifications shall apply.
*Competency-based assessment
-The competencies assessed by tasks and tests are as follows
CI.9 Basic knowledge of production and manufacturing systems.
CQ.1.6. Knowledge on valorization and transformation of raw materials and energy resources.
CQ.2.1. Ability to analyze and design processes and products.
CG.4 Ability to solve problems with initiative, decision making, creativity, critical reasoning, and to communicate and transmit knowledge, skills and abilities in the field. knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of industrial chemical engineering.
CG.7 Ability to analyze and assess the social and environmental impact of technical solutions.
CT.2. Capacity of analysis and synthesis.
CT.3. Ability to organize and plan
CT.4 Skills for the use and development of computer applications CT.5.
CT.5 Ability to manage information
CT.7 Decision-making
CT.13 Ability to apply knowledge in practice.
-The competences assessed in the Computer Classroom are:
CQ.2.2 Ability to simulate and optimize processes and products.
CG.4 Ability to solve problems with initiative, decision making, creativity, critical reasoning, and to communicate and transmit knowledge, skills and abilities in the knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of industrial chemical engineering.
CT.4 Skills for the use and development of computer applications.
Activity: Classroom Hours (h) - Personal Work Hours (h)
Lectures: 15 h - 15 h
Seminars: 7 h - 21 h
Computer Classroom: 15 h - 8 h
Group Tutoring: 1 h - 4 h
Individualized tutorials: 1 h- 2 h
Tests and revision: 5 h - 18,5 h
Total: 44 h- 68,5 h
It is recommended to keep up with the coursework and to have passed Process Engineering.
LANGUAGE. Teaching will be given in Spanish and Galician.
BIBLIOGRAPHY. As for the bibliography, although a specific edition is referenced, any edition is valid.
The Galician version of this teaching guide will prevail over the Spanish and English versions in case of contradiction between them.
Gemma Maria Eibes Gonzalez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- gemma.eibes [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Miguel Mauricio Iglesias
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816800
- miguel.mauricio [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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