IDENTIFYING DATA 2015_16
Subject (*) UNIT OPERATIONS LABORATORY Code 17655208
Study programme
Industrial Engineering (2013)
Cycle 2nd
Descriptors Credits Type Year Period
3 Optional AN single exam
Language
Català
Department Enginyeria Química
Coordinator
CONTRERAS IGLESIAS, SANDRA
E-mail sandra.contreras@urv.cat
gulsenbetul.aktas@urv.cat
Lecturers
CONTRERAS IGLESIAS, SANDRA
AKTAS -, GÜLSEN BETÜL
Web http://moodle.urv.cat
General description and relevant information L'objectiu principal de l'assignatura és adquirir un coneixement pràctic de les principals operacions unitàries de separació i reactors. Els alumnes hauran de planificar, executar, interpretar i presentar els resultats d'un treball experimental, formant part d'un equip però amb plena responsabilitat individual. OBSERVACIONS: Assignatura que pel seu caràcter eminentment pràctic sols disposa d'una sola convocatòria d'avaluació. Els estudiants que matriculin aquesta assignatura no podran sol·licitar la convocatòria addicional d’exàmens.

Competences
Type A Code Competences Specific
 TI4 The ability to analyse and design chemical processes.
Type B Code Competences Transversal
Type C Code Competences Nuclear
 C4 Be able to express themselves correctly both orally and in writing in one of the two official languages of the URV

Learning outcomes
Type A Code Learning outcomes
 TI4 Are familiar with the safety rules for working in a laboratory.
Are familiar with and apply the specifications of the equipment, and can design experiments according to the specifications, regulation and obligatory standards.
Can consider the significance of errors in the validation of experimental results.
Can study the behaviour of different types of ideal and real reactors, and calculate operating parameters starting with kinetics obtained in the bibliography.
Can optimise the operating conditions of unitary processes using the experimental data obtained in the laboratory.
Can relate the theoretical knowledge on the design of unitary operations and processes in general with their experimental behaviour.
Can solve experimental problems related to mass and energy balances, thermodynamics, transport of mass and fluid.
Type B Code Learning outcomes
Type C Code Learning outcomes
 C4 Produce oral texts that are appropriate to the communicative situation.
Produce written texts that are appropriate to the communicative situation

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
1. Continuous distillation
2. Absorption
3. Liquid-liquid Extraction
4. Reverse osmosis
5. Reactors - Continuous Stirred Tank reactors and series of CSTRs
- Plug Flow Reactor

Planning
Methodologies  ::  Tests
  Competences (*) Class hours
Hours outside the classroom
(**) Total hours
Introductory activities
0.5 0.5 1
Laboratory practicals
TI4
C4
25.5 40.5 66
Presentations / expositions
TI4
C4
3 3 6
Personal tuition
1 1 2
 
 
(*) 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
Methodologies
  Description
Introductory activities Activities to make contact and gather information and to present the subject to the students.
Laboratory practicals Performing laboratory practices in groups for experimental study of the basic concepts of the subject. This includes home work for the analysis of obtained results and preparation of practices reports.
Presentations / expositions Oral presentation by students of the results of the practices.
Personal tuition Meet students individually or in small groups to to solve doubts/questions.

Personalized attention
Description
Personalized attention will be in the office number 303 of the Department of Chemical Engineering via previous appointment by email (sandra.contreras@urv.cat) or during office hours.

Assessment
Methodologies Competences Description Weight        
Laboratory practicals
TI4
C4
Assessment of reports and laboratory notebook: Students will analyze the results of experiments and present the findings in a report of each practice (to be performed in group) that will be evaluated, along with the good practice of the laboratory notebook and attitude in the laboratory. 80%
Presentations / expositions
TI4
C4
Presentation and defense of the experimental results obtained by the group and answer questions in a subsequent discussion of the results. 20%
Others  
 
Other comments and second exam session

COMMENTS: Subject that due to its experimental character has only one call for evaluation.


Sources of information

Basic McCabe, Warren L. et al., Operaciones unitarias en ingeniería química , McGraw-Hill, 7a ed., 2007
Coulson, J.M. et al., Coulson & Richardson's chemical engineering, Vol. 1-6, Pergamon Press, 1994
Fogler, H.S., Elementos de ingeniería de las reacciones químicas, Pearson Educacion, 4a ed., 2008
Fariñas Iglesias, M., Ósmosis inversa : fundamentos, tecnología y aplicaciones, McGraw-Hill, 1999
Perry, R.H. et al., Manual del ingeniero químico, McGraw-Hill, 4a ed., 2001

Complementary

Recommendations

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously
KINETICS AND REACTORS/17655206
FUNDAMENTALS OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING/17655205
BASIC UNIT OPERATIONS/17655207

Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before
KINETICS AND REACTORS/17655206
FUNDAMENTALS OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING/17655205
BASIC UNIT OPERATIONS/17655207
(*)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.