IDENTIFYING DATA 2021_22
Subject (*) UNIT OPERATIONS LABORATORY Code 17655208
Study programme
Industrial Engineering (2013)
Cycle 2nd
Descriptors Credits Type Year Period
3 Optional 1Q single exam
Language
Català
Department Chemical Engineering
Coordinator
FONT CAPAFONS, JOSÉ
E-mail jose.font@urv.cat
Lecturers
FONT CAPAFONS, JOSÉ
Web http://moodle.urv.cat
General description and relevant information <p>La informació publicada en aquesta guia és la que correspon a classes presencials i pot servir de guia orientativa. A causa de l’emergència sanitària provocada per la COVID-19 poden haver-hi canvis en la docència, avaluació i calendaris del curs. Aquests canvis s’informaran a l’espai Moodle de cada assignatura.</p><p>DESCRIPCIÓ GENERAL DE L'ASSIGNATURA: 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&nbsp; disposa d'una sola convocatòria d'avaluació. Els estudiants que matriculin aquesta assignatura no podran sol·licitar la convocatòria addicional d’exàmens. </p>

Competences
Type A Code Competences Specific
 TI4 The ability to analyse and design chemical processes.
Type B Code Competences Transversal
 CT5 Communicate complex ideas effectively to all sorts of audiences
Type C Code Competences Nuclear

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
 CT5 Produce quality texts that have no grammatical or spelling errors, are properly structured and make appropriate and consistent use of formal and bibliographic conventions.
Draw up texts that are structured, clear, cohesive, rich and of the appropriate length, and which can transmit complex ideas.
Draw up texts that are appropriate to the communicative situation, consistent and persuasive.
Use the techniques of non-verbal communication and the expressive resources of the voice to make a good oral presentation
Construct a discourse that is structured, clear, cohesive, rich and of the appropriate length, and which can transmit complex idea.
Produce a persuasive, consistent and precise discourse that can explain complex ideas and effectively interact with the audience.
Type C Code Learning outcomes

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
1. Continuous distillation
2. Absorption
3. Liquid-liquid Extraction
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
CT5
25.5 40.5 66
Personal attention
1 1 2
 
Multiple-choice objective tests
TI4
CT5
3 3 6
 
(*) 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.
Personal attention 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
CT5
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%
Multiple-choice objective tests
TI4
CT5
Avaluació individual de cada alumne.
Cas que sigui necessari, es podrà realitzar la prova a distància.
S'hauran de respondre a qüestions relacionades amb les pràctiques dutes a terme en el laboratori.
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
D.W. Green et al. (eds), Perry's chemical engineers' handbook, McGraw-Hill, 9th ed., 2019

Així mateix, a l'espai

Moodle

de l'assignatura, es disposarà de bibliografia addicional.

Complementary

Recommendations

Subjects that continue the syllabus
ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF CHEMICAL PROCESSES/17655113

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.