Educational guide 2011_12 School of Chemical Engineering

Learning aims

Objectives	Competences
To know the fundamentals of heterogeneous catalysis and of the kinetics of chemical reactions catalyzed by solid catalysts.	AP1
To develop a mathematical model to describe a multi-phasic reacting system and to solve it with adequate numerical calculation tools	AP4
To design a reactor for a specific application, both in homogeneous and heterogeneous reacting systems.	AP6 AP9
To discriminate among several feasible solutions for a reactor design, and to recommend the most suitable solution for a given situation.	AP8
To plan communication effectively: generate and organize ideas, find the required information, schematize the information coherently, assess the characteristics of the audience and establish the objectives that have to be achieved during the interaction with the audience.		BP1
To write documents using adequate format, contents, structure, language and grammar, and to use the formatting conventions coherently (graph sizes, symbols, captions, titles, etc.		BP1
To write reports and documents in English, which is the language that will be used during the course, and to develop public presentations of the tasks and homework of the course in the same language.		BP1	CC1 CC2