Chemical Process Engineering

Course contents

Fundamentals of chemical process engineering:
- Introduction
- Economic aspects

Chemical reactors:
- Idealized reactor models
- Temperature control
- Production performance
- Stoichiometry, conversion, yield and selectivity
- Types of construction

Chemical kinetics and catalysis:
- Kinetics of homogeneous reactions (formal kinetic approaches, Arrhenius approach)
- Kinetics of complex reactions (parallel, subsequent and equilibrium reactions)
- Non-isothermal reactions
- Evaluation of kinetic data
- Residence time behavior
- Heterogeneous catalysis (reaction mechanisms, sub-steps of catalysis, deactivation of catalysts)

Link to with material and energy balances:
- Modeling of reactors
- Preparation of balances (material and heat balance) and their numerical solution
- Material and energy balances of relevant chemical systems

Department

Bachelor's program Environmental, Process & Energy Engineering