che491 - Chemical Process Engineering (Complete module description)

• Building on the Technical Chemistry module from the chemistry-oriented Bachelor's program, this course teaches fundamental principles of process engineering, introducing key aspects with regard to the complexity of industrial chemical plants.

• In this module, the fundamentals of chemical production processes are taught. The design of chemical plants is placed in the context of chemical reaction engineering and chemical process engineering from the perspective of technical feasibility as well as the economic, environmentally, and resource-efficient considerations.
• The importance is given to heat- and mass-transfer processes and their influence on the chemical reaction rate. 
• Additionally, fundamentals oft he reactors scalability are provided. 
• Unit operations describe the process steps that are upstream and downstream of the actual reactor. 
• This includes, in particular, thermal separation processes such as distillation, extraction, absorption, crystallization, adsorption, membrane separation processes, as well as mechanical processes like stirring, pumping of gases and liquids, crushing, spraying, filtration, and the treatment of wastewater and exhaust gas streams, or the prevention and reduction of these, along with the development of environmental strategies.

• M. Baerns, A. Behr, A. Brehm, J. Gmehling, K.O. Hinrichsen, H. Hofmann, U. Onken, R. Palkovits, A. Renken: "Technische Chemie" (2. Auflage), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2013 
• Additional literature is provided in the lectures.

Lecture materials via Stud.IP

• During the lecture-free period, according to a separate announcement

• Oral exam