Type A
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Competences Specific | | A1.4 |
Understand and apply tools and strategies for the management and/or design of processes and products in the ambit of environmental and energy sustainability. |
| A2.1 |
Understand and apply the latest and most innovative environmentally friendly technologies to solve problems in various areas. |
| A2.2 |
Analyse the energy installations and apply the latest and most innovative strategies for energy saving and performance enhancement. |
| A2.3 |
Manage complex technical or professional projects that may require knowledge from outside the discipline. |
Type B
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Competences Transversal | | B2.1 |
Provide purpose and direction. Influence and guide others to improve èrformance and achieve objectives. |
| B2.2 |
Lead and define multidisciplinary teams that can respond to technical changes and management needs in national and international contexts and in poorly defined situations. |
| B2.3 |
Create a suitable environment for personal development. |
| B2.4 |
Pool knowledge and recognise the difficulties inherent in making judgements and taking decisions on the basis of incomplete or limited information, especially when such decisions require reflection on the social and ethical responsibilities of professional practice |
| B3.1 |
Work in a team collaboratively and with responsibility shared among multidisciplinary, multi-lingual and multicultural teams in complex environments. |
| B3.2 |
Achieve interdependence and shared responsibility. |
| B3.3 |
Resolve disputes in a constructive manner. |
| B4.1 |
Be able to learn autonomously in order to maintain and improve the personal competencies relating to continuous improvement acquired during the course. |
| B5.2 |
Solve complex problems critically, creatively and innovatively in multidisciplinary contexts |
Type C
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Competences Nuclear |
Type A
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Learning outcomes |
| A1.4 |
Understand industrial process design in the chemical industry and related areas using tools to support the decision making process (envirnomental databases and process simulations).
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Propose environmentally friendly technologies in the design of industrial processes.
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Incoporate energy saving in the design of industrial processes.
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Adequately develop a full range of specific, transversal and core competences for a comprehensive scientific project.
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Type B
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Learning outcomes |
| B2.1 |
Actively collaborate in planning team work, in dividing responsibilities among teams members and in fostering high performance levels.
Encourage all team members to commit to the management and good functioning of the team.
Evaluate and classify the resources needed to intervene in a real situation. Prioritise the project's most important requirements.
Identify long term operating objectives.
Develop strategies to involve the team in achieving objectives.
Explain the principal models for transformational leadership based on competencies.
Define the concepts of vision, mission and values.
Identify and explain key behaviours for positively influencing external groups.
Identify and explain key bahviours for driving continual improvement and innovation in the organisation.
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Propose ambitious and clearly defined goals for the group.
Identify and explain the key behaviours for maxmimsing the potential of the members of the organisation.
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Establish strategies to enable each member to develop their own competencies to the full.
Create plans for effective personal development.
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Deploy knowledge from different subjects taught on the master's course during a comprehensive and integrated project.
Identify and explain the key behaviours that illustrate "Integrity".
Identify and describe the elements that constitute a systems for managing with excellence.
Identify and differentiate between the functions of leadship and management.
Define transformational leadership and compare it with the type of leadership proposed in models of organisational excellence.
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Actively participate and share information, knowledge and experiences.
Make personal contribution within the allotted time and with the resources available.
Accept and comply with the group rules.
Actively collaborate in planning teamwork and in the distribution of tasks and deadlines.
Take into account the points of view of others and provide constructive feedback.
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Understand all the different areas of the project.
Actively collaborate with team members in achieving the projects objectives.
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Facilitate the positive management of differences, disagreements and conflicts that arise in the team.
| | B4.1 |
Autonomously adopt strategies for learning in each situation.
Establish personal learning objectives.
| | B5.2 |
Collate the information needed to solve problems on the basis of objective criteria.
Present laternative solutions to a problem and evaluate the possible risks and advantages.
Create a strategy for solving a problem.
Develop an analytical, creative and critical spirit when assessing real-life professional situations.
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Type C
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Learning outcomes |
Topic |
Sub-topic |
1. Overview of synthesis and design of processes.
2. Process optimization: Process constaints
Product constaints
3. Environmental metrics assessment of products and processes Lifecycle data bases (Ecoinvent...)
4. Use of environmental criteria and indicators in the design of more sustainable chemical pocesses.
5. Evaluate the effect of the modifications in operational parameters and topological changes in the environmental behaviour of the process.
6. Energetic integration of process. Pinch methodology.
7. Support decision tools: Sequential simulators
Equation-based simulators
Degrees of freedom
Design variables
8. Resolution of cases using licensed software: EES, AspenPlus, Hysys, Superpro...
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Methodologies :: Tests |
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Competences |
(*) Class hours
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Hours outside the classroom
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(**) Total hours |
Introductory activities |
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1 |
1 |
2 |
Lecture |
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15 |
15 |
30 |
Problem solving, exercises in the classroom |
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15 |
0 |
15 |
Presentations / oral communications |
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1 |
0 |
1 |
IT-based practicals in computer rooms |
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15 |
15 |
30 |
Projects |
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31 |
32 |
63 |
Personal attention |
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1 |
0 |
1 |
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Mixed tests |
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3 |
0 |
3 |
Practical tests |
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3 |
0 |
3 |
Oral tests |
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1 |
1 |
2 |
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(*) On e-learning, hours of virtual attendance of the teacher. (**) The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students. |
Methodologies
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Description |
Introductory activities |
Overview of general aspects |
Lecture |
Theoretical concepts to be developed during the course |
Problem solving, exercises in the classroom |
Solution of closed-ended problems |
Presentations / oral communications |
Explain the results of the project developed |
IT-based practicals in computer rooms |
Use of licensed software tools in the computer room |
Projects |
Development of an integrated project |
Personal attention |
Personal tuition |
Description |
Please send me an e-mail (laureano.jimenez@urv.cat) to fix time and place for the meeting.
Alternatively you can phone to my office (977-558643) or contact me by skype (laureanojimenez).
Scheduled meeting during the office hours of Dieter Boer |
Methodologies |
Competences
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Description |
Weight |
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Mixed tests |
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Exercises solved individually during class hours |
10 |
Practical tests |
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Presentation of the project and technical questions |
20 |
Oral tests |
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Final report (and midle report) of the project. |
70 |
Others |
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Intermediete project |
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Other comments and second exam session |
Evaluation test during the presentation to distribute the grade of the final project among the participants will be done. |
Basic |
A. Kayode Coker, Ludwig's Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants , (Fourth Edition,
L. Puigjaner, P. Ollero, C. de Prada, L. Jimenez, Estrategias de Modelado, Simulación y Optimización de Procesos Químicos, 2006, Síntesis
Moran, Sean , Applied Guide to Process and Plant Design, ,
Moran, Sean, Using Aspen Plus in Thermodynamics Instruction, ,
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- Ludwig's
Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants (Fourth
Edition,A. Kayode
Coke. Science
direct
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780750677660
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780750683661
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780750685245
- Applied
Guide to Process and Plant Design, Moran, Sea.Science direct
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128002421
- Using Aspen
Plus in Thermodynamics Instruction, Sandler,
Stanley I. MyiLibrary
http://lib.myilibrary.com/Open.aspx?id=770104
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Other comments |
It is forbidden to use mobile phones or other communication devices during evaluations. In case of violating this norm the professor will act as indicated in article 24 of the Academic Regulations and registration of the URV, considering that action is performed fraudulent activities of evaluation.
All course communication will be made using moodle. |
(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation. |
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