CODE 90669 ACADEMIC YEAR 2024/2025 CREDITS 6 cfu anno 3 INGEGNERIA CHIMICA E DI PROCESSO 10375 (L-9) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR ING-IND/24 LANGUAGE Italian TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA SEMESTER 2° Semester PREREQUISITES Propedeuticità in ingresso Per sostenere l'esame di questo insegnamento è necessario aver sostenuto i seguenti esami: CHEMICAL AND PROCESSES ENGINEERING 10375 (coorte 2022/2023) MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS I 56594 2022 FUNDAMENTAL OF PHYSICS 72360 2022 TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB OVERVIEW Chemical reactors are the core of almost all industrial production processes. The correct choice of a chemical reactor, which operates in the most efficient and safe way, is often the key to the economic success of a production plant. The field of knowledge related to chemical reactors is the one that most characterizes a chemical engineer with respect to all other types of engineer, and it is presented in this course. AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES The aim of the course is to enable the student to apply the basic concepts of chemical engineering (mass balances, kinetic laws, stoichiometry, energy balances, etc.) to the design of homogeneous chemical reactors. AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES Active participation in the proposed training activities will allow the student to: Write the material balance equations for an ideal reactor Properly design an ideal reactor once the kinetic law is known Determine the kinetic law of a chemical reaction from the analysis of laboratory tests Calculate the selectivity for the case of multiple reactions in ideal reactors Set the energy balance equation in chemical reactors PREREQUISITES Although formally no prerequisites are required, it is strongly recommended to follow the course only after the math exams (I and II) have been successufly passed TEACHING METHODS Teaching is delivered by frontal lectures in the classroom. 35 hours will be devoted to the presentation of theoretical contents while 25 hours to the solution of problems and numerical exercises. Transversal skills will be acquired through the solution of numerical exercises to be carried out in groups with the use of commercial software packages. SYLLABUS/CONTENT Definition of reaction rate, material balance for a chemical reactor. Definition of conversion degree, dsign of ideal chemical reactors. (15 h) The kinetic laws. Stoichiometric tables for the various types of reactors. (10 h) Chemical reactors in unstready-state regime. (5 h) Determination of the kinetic law from laboratory data: integral method, differential method, initial velocity method. (10 h) Multiple reactions in chemical reactors (5 h) Non-isothermal reactors in steady-state and dynamic regime. (10 h) Residence times distribution in chemical reactors. Models for non-ideal chemical reactors. (5 h) RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY Recommended textbook: Scott Fogler "Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering" Prentice Hall internation Series TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD RENZO DI FELICE Ricevimento: please write to renzo.difelice@unige.it for an appointment LESSONS LESSONS START https://corsi.unige.it/10375/p/studenti-orario Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION The final assessment test consists in an oral exam made up of to three questions regarding the subject studied during the course. .Students who have successfully passed the numerical tests proposed during the semester will be exempted from the final assessment test. ASSESSMENT METHODS The tests and the final exam will focus on the numerical design of an ideal chemical reactor. Both the correct setting of the problem and the correctness of the numerical calculations will be taken into consideration in the evaluation.
