The goal of this course is to provide students with the knowledge and analytical tools for understanding the elementary phenomena that govern unit operations in the chemical process industry. Specifically, the course will deepen knowledge in the following areas:
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
The course is delivered through lectures for a total of 40 hours (equivalent to 5 CFU). During the year, homework assignments will be given in order to help students to acquire the concepts covered during the lectures.
The supporting teaching material for exam preparation will be made available on the AulaWeb instance dedicated to the course.
Optional topics:
Notes provided by the teacher and used for the lectures
Textbooks
W.L. McCabe, J.C. Smith, and P. Harriot, Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering, 7th edition, McGraw-Hill (2005).
Metcalf & Eddy, Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse, 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York (2013).
H.S. Fogler, Elements of Chemical reaction Engineering, 4th edition, Prentice Hall (2006).
R.E. Treybal, Mass-Transfer Operations, 3-rd edition, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1980 (International Edition, softcover) (alternative to McCabe).
Reference texts:
R.B. Bird, W.E. Stewart, and E.N. Lightfoot, Transport Phenomena, 2nd edition, John Wiley (2007)
R.E. Cunningham and R.J.J. Williams, Diffusion in Gases and Porous Media, Springer Science + Business Media New York (1980).
P.C. Wankat, Rate-Controlled Separations, Elsevier Applied Science (1990).
Additional materials for working students or students with specific learning disabilities is available upon request.
Note: the copies of the lecture slides are not sufficient for a good preparation for the exam; it is strongly recommended to use the textbooks and reference books.
Ricevimento: Always by appointment by e-mail (servida@unige.it)
ORIETTA MONTICELLI (President)
ALBERTO SERVIDA (President)
CAMILLA COSTA
PAOLA COSTAMAGNA
MARCELLO PAGLIERO
ANTONIO COMITE (President Substitute)
This course is held on the first semester. Lesson starting is managed according to the Manifesto (avaialble at https://corsi.unige.it/corsi/11767/). A specific communication will be sent to registered students.
The class schedule is available at https://easyacademy.unige.it/portalestudenti
UNIT OPERATIONS, REACTOR ENGINEERING AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGIES MOD.1
Oral exam only. Admission to the oral exam is conditional on the submission of the project assigned during the year. The project involves the sizing of equipment for physical separation (absorption, distillation, or water cooling tower) or an isothermal heterogeneous catalytic reactor.
The oral exam consists of three questions: a) discussion of the project, b) two questions on topics covered during the lectures.
Registration must be done online and by sending an email to the course instructors within 7 days of the exam date. Online registration for the exam can be done from the webpage: https://servizionline.unige.it/studenti/esami/prenotazione.
For students with disabilities or with SLD, the assessment method corresponds to the UNIGE rules summarized at https://unige.it/disabilita-dsa.
Only in urgent cases can the exam be conducted online, in accordance with the regulations issued by the University.
The exammination committee is composed of at least two members, one of whom is A. Servida. The oral exam lasts at least 30 minutes. With these modalities, the committee is able to verify the acquisition of knowledge in:
If these knowledge areas are not acquired, the student is invited to deepen their study, requesting additional explanations from the responsible instructors if necessary.
The overall evaluation also takes into account the ability to apply theoretical knowledge to solve industrially relevant problems.
Students who have valid certification of physical or learning disabilities on file with the University and who wish to discuss possible accommodations or other circumstances regarding lectures, coursework and exams, should speak both with the instructor and with Professor Sergio Di Domizio (sergio.didomizio@unige.it), the Department’s disability liaison.