The course aims to provide notions related to:
The course aims to provide students with the basic notions on: periodic table and reactivity of the elements of the main groups, metal extraction processes, for example pig iron and steel, binary diagram phases, the classification of polymers, organic coatings.
Attendance and active participation in the proposed training activities (lectures, exercises) and individual study will allow the student to:
For a successful learning, basic knowledge of mathematics, chemistry and physics is required, but no formal prerequisites are foreseen.
Lectures in the classroom. The presentation of theoretical contents alternates exercises aimed at favoring the learning and application of theoretical arguments to specific applications.
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 Federico Scarpa (federico.scarpa@unige.it ), the Polytechnic School's disability liaison.
The program develops the following topics:
Introduction to the course
Periodic table. Representative elements of main groups: structures, compounds and reactivity. Hydrogen. Group 1 and 2 (alkaline and alkaline-earth metals). Group 13 (Boron and Aluminum). Groups 14 (Carbon and Silicon). Group 15 (Nitrogen and Phosphorous). Group 16 (Oxygen and Sulphur). Group 17 Halogens. Transition metals. Coordination compounds.
Metals production. Metal extraction: preliminary phases. Pyrometallurgy: Ellingham diagram. The blast furnace: structure, functioning and main reactions. Scheme of a steel plant. Conversion processes: Linz-Donawitz, LD Classification of cast irons and steels.
Phase diagrams: Single phase diagrams and Binary phase diagrams
1. Solid/liquid systems with complete solubility in liquid phase and:
2. Liquid/vapor systems.
Basic pricnciples of corrosion.
The didactic material used during the lessons will be available in Aulaweb.
Ricevimento: By appointment. E-mail: Elisabetta.Finocchio@unige.it, phone: 010.3352919
Ricevimento: Upon appointment to be fixed at the teacher office: DICCA - Chemical Engineering Section, Polytechnic School, second floor via Opera Pia 15 - Pavilion A Genoa.
DAVIDE CLEMATIS (President)
ELISABETTA FINOCCHIO (President)
ALBERTO LAGAZZO (President)
MASSIMO VIVIANI (President)
https://corsi.unige.it/10375/p/studenti-orario
The final test of the module consists in passing a written test, composed of 4 questions, which may require a theoretical answer or a numerical sequence. Each question can be evaluated at most 8 points based on the correctness and completeness of the answer. Students who have passed the written test with a minimum grade of 18/30 will be able to: • accept the vote obtained • take an oral test: in the oral exam one can increase the evaluation, but one can also be rejected, in this case losing the vote of the written exam and therefore having to re-take the written exam in the subsequent sessions Whoever obtains a vote (at least 18/30) that he does not consider adequate for her/his preparation, may decide to repeat the exam in subsequent sessions. Attention: whoever evaluates the new written exam, definitively loses the vote of the previous exam. Two exam sessions will be available for the 'winter' session (January, February) and three calls for the 'summer' session (June, July, September). No extraordinary appeals will be granted outside the periods indicated by the Polytechnic School, except for students who have not included in the study plan training activities in the current academic year.
The written test focuses on 3 theoretical questions, on the topics of the program, and 1 application calculation similar to the exercises done in class. The oral exam includes theoretical questions on the topics indicated in the program. The exam aims to ascertain the knowledge of the teaching and the ability to apply the theoretical bases to general or specific cases of practical interest. The quality of the writing/speaking, the correct use of the technical terminology, the schematic and the synthesis capacity will also be evaluated.
