ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 2 Expository Class: 41 Interactive Classroom: 8 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Chemistry Engineering
Areas: Chemical Engineering
Center Faculty of Sciences
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
- Knowledge of the operations governed by mass transfer, and their equipment.
- Understanding and application of simplified calculation methods.
- Knowledge of rigorous calculation methods.
- Design of separation equipment by continuous and intermittent contact between phases.
- Solving of problems effectively.
- Separation operations based on the transfer of matter.
- Intermittent contact separation between phases. Binary systems: distillation, absorption and extraction.
- Separation by continuous contact between the phases. Binary systems: distillation, absorption and extraction.
- Multi-component systems.
BASIC BIBLILOGRAPHY
- WANKAT, P.C., "Separations in Chemical Engineering: Equilibrium Staged Separations", Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1994-). ISBN: 0-13-500968-5. References: QUT 180 - 181.
COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
- COULSON, J.M. y RICHARDSON, J.F., "Coulson and Richardson’s Chemical Engineering", Vol. 2 – “Unit Operations”, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford (1996). ISBN: 0-7506-4445-1. Reference: QUT 76.
- HENLEY, E.J. y SEADER, J.D., "Operaciones de separación por etapas de equilibrio en ingeniería química", 2ª ed., 1ª impr., Reverté (1998). ISBN: 84-291-7908-9. References: QUT 64 - 66.
- MARCILLA GOMIS, A. y col., "Introducción a las operaciones de separación. Cálculo por etapas de equilibrio", Textos Docentes Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, 1998. ISBN: 84-7908-405-7. References: QUT 280 - 287.
- MARCILLA GOMIS, A. y col., "Introducción a las operaciones de separación. Contacto continuo", Textos Docentes Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, 1999. ISBN: 84-7908-440-5. References: QUT 292 - 296, QUT 306 - 309.
- MARTÍNEZ DE LA CUESTA, P.J. y RUS MARTÍNEZ, E., "Operaciones de Separación en Ingeniería Química. Métodos de Cálculo", Pearson, Madrid (2004). ISBN: 9788420542508. References: QUT 380, QUT 418.
- OCÓN GARCÍA, J. y TOJO BARREIRO, G., "Problemas de Ingeniería Química: Operaciones Básicas", 3ª ed., 3ª reimpr., Aguilar, Madrid, 1976. ISBN: -. Reference: QUT 84.
- SINNOTT, R.K., "Chemical Engineering Design" (Serie Coulson-Richardson, Vol. 6), 2ª ed., Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford (1997). ISBN: 0-7506-2558-9. Reference: QUT 26.
- TREYBAL, R.E., "Operaciones de Transferencia de Masa", 2ª Ed., McGraw-Hill, México (1989). ISBN: 968-6046-34-8. Reference: QUT 178.
BASIC
- CB1: Demonstrability by the students of knowledge and understanding of concepts in a field of study that is based on general secondary education, and is typically at a level where, albeit supported by advanced textbooks, it also includes aspects that involve knowledge coming from the cutting-edge front of its field of study.
- CB2: Ability of the students to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way, having the competences that are customarily demonstrated by means of the elaboration and defence of arguments and the solving of problems within their field of study.
- CG4: Ability to solve problems with initiative, decision making, creativity, critical reasoning and to communicate and transmit knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of Industrial Engineering in their specialty of Industrial Chemistry.
- CG10: Ability to work in a multilingual and multidisciplinary environment.
TRANVERSE
- CT1: Capacity of analysis and synthesis.
- CT2: Ability to use software within the context of Industrial Engineering.
- CT3: Capacity for information management.
- CT4: Team working.
- CT10: Problem solving.
SPECIFIC:
- CE20: Knowledge about mass and energy balances, biotechnology, mass transfer, separation operations, chemical reaction engineering, reactor design, and recovery and transformation of raw materials and energy resources.
- CE22: Capacity for the design and management of applied experimentation procedures, especially for the determination of thermodynamic and transport properties, and modeling of phenomena and systems in the field of chemical engineering, systems with fluid flow, heat transfer, mass transfer operations, kinetics of chemical reactions and reactors.
The achievement of the student's basic training will be done through 41 hours of master classes (face-to-face exhibition teaching activity), where the theoretical fundamentals of the subject will be explained, and exercises and problems will be solved in order to better understand and apply theoretical knowledge. Active participation of the students will be sought. The seminars (8 h) are mandatory and assessable (Agreement of the Governing Council of 25/11/2024, which approved the Regulations for class attendance in official bachelor's and master's degree courses at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela). At these seminars, will be presented problems and activities to be solved, will focus on developing the capacity for the design of separation equipment by continuous and intermittent contact between the phases.
Group tutorials (2 hours) will be held to work on specific topics with particular emphasis on the active participation of students, organized in groups. Software tools will be used to support the learning activity, including the utilisation of the Learning Management System (LMS) of the USC. Visits to process plants will be scheduled to observe in situ the application of the knowledge acquired. These field practices will be subject to the availability of funding.
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the “Regulations for evaluating student academic performance and reviewing grades” will apply. The learning process will be continuously monitored through the solving of case studies and activities, in person or not, individually or in groups. Moreover, a final exam will take place. The final mark of the student will consider both the result of the exam and all other developed activities, and it is structured in the following items:
1) Work developed during seminars: up to 3.5 points. Assessed competences: CB1, CB2, CT1, CT2, CT3, CT4, CT10, CE20 and CE22.
The first item will correspond to the continuous monitoring assessment (35% of the final mark). Personal initiative, team working capacity, and ability to face and solve problems, along with the obtained results and their critical analysis, will be evaluated in these activities.
2) Final exam: up to 6.5 points. Assessed competences: CB1, CB2, CT1, CT2, CT3, CT10, CE20 and CE22.
Only those students not having participated in any of the seminars, group tutorials, and exam will be granted a ‘Not shown’ mark.
To pass the course, a minimum final mark of 5.0 points will be needed, as well as a minimum of 40% of the maximum possible mark in the exam. In the case of meeting the first requirement but not the second, the overall mark finally assigned to the student will be 4.9 points. If the student does not pass the course in the First Opportunity, her/his mark of the continuous monitoring will be transferred to the Second Opportunity, thus having to repeat just the exam. No partial marks will be kept from one call (academic year) to another.
The subject is divided into 41 hours of expository teaching, 8 hours of interactive teaching, 2 hours of group tutorials and 4 hours of exam. From the above, the student must use a total of 95 hours of personal work to complete the total of 150 hours of dedication to the subject: 41 hours for the theory part, 36 hours for the applied part (seminars), 2 hours for tutorials and 16 hours for the preparation of the final exam.
It is advisable to have knowledge of thermodynamics applied to chemical engineering, application of matter and energy balances and basic calculation methods for the resolution of basic problems. In addition, it is very important to have previously taken and passed the subjects "Chemical Engineering I", "Applied Thermodynamics" and "Chemical Engineering II".
The course will be taught in both official languages of territory: Galician and Spanish.
Jorge González Rodríguez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 982824155
- jorgegonzalez.rodriguez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary supply professor to reduce teaching hours
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| 06.08.2026 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | 1P CLASSROOM 2 FIRST FLOOR |