ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 1.5 Expository Class: 20 Interactive Classroom: 17 Total: 38.5
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Chemistry Engineering
Areas: Chemical Engineering
Center Faculty of Biology
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
- Provide theoretical knowledge and skills in solving problems on operations governed by the transfer of matter. It is intended to show the student the common treatment for these operations, enabling him to start the study of other operations in this group by himself. Study of design fundamentals and methodologies
-Identify teams based on intermittent and continuous contact. Distinguish the main characteristics and advantages in its use.
.- Give a global and real vision of the teams in which these operations are carried out.
.- Train the student to use calculation techniques and useful tools in solving biotechnological processes problems and specifically Mass Transfer.
.- Lectures
Unit 1. Transport by mass transfer (6 h)
Kinetic equations in molecular transport. Fick's Law. Transport of matter by diffusion and convection. Transport by mass transfer. Mass transfer coefficients.
Unit 2. Unit operations (2 h)
Classification Type of Contact. Separation sequences.
Unit 3. Separation operations controlled by mass transfer (I). Absorption and distillation (6 h)
Generalities. Liquid-gas/liquid vapor equilibrium. Continuous and intermittent contact. Binary systems. Simplified calculation methods.
Unit 4. Separation operations controlled by mass transfer (II). Liquid-liquid and solid-liquid extraction (6 h)
Generalities. Equilibrium. Extraction in a single stage. Multistage extraction: cross current, countercurrent.
.- Seminars: resolution of mass transfer problems
Seminar 1 (1 h): Estimation of mass transfer coefficients
Seminar 2 (1 h): Calculation of mass transfer rates
Seminar 3 (2 h): L-G/L-V equilibrium calculations
Seminar 4 (2 h): Absorption. Differential distillation
Seminar 5 (2 h): Flash and batch distillation
Seminar 6 (2 h): L-L Extraction
Seminar 7 (2 h): S-L Extraction
.- Interactive Classes in the Computer Classroom
- Learn to use a process simulator for the analysis of separation operations controlled by balance and/or the rate of mass transfer, of special interest in the biotechnology-based industry ("downstreaming").
- Basic Bibliography
WANKAT, P.C. Separation Process Engineering, 2nd Ed., Pearson Education, México 2008
.- Complementary bibliography
MARTINEZ DE LA CUESTA P.J. RUS, E.; Separation Operations in Chemical Engineering. Calculation Methods, Pearson Education, Madrid 2004
OCÓN, J. and TOJO G.; Problems of Chemical Engineering. Aguilar de Edic., Madrid, (1968)
TREYBAL R.E .; Mass Transfer Operations, 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York 1980
SINNOTT R., TOWLER G.; Chemical Engineering Design, 6ª ed., Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford (2020). [available as e-resource at USC Library.]
SEADER J.D. , HENLEY E.J. , ROPER D.K. ; Separation Process Principles, 3rd Ed., John Wiley and Sons, New York 2011
- Knowledge/content: Con03
- Abilities/skills: H/D01, H/D03, H/D06, H/D14
- Competences: Comp04, Comp06
Lectures will be dedicated to presenting the theoretical content of the subject through lectures and problem-solving by the instructor, always with active student participation and the support of audiovisual tools.
- Interactive seminar classes will be held, in most cases, at the end of the lectures using the problem-based learning methodology. In these classes, students will solve problems related to the subject (some using spreadsheets).
- Practical work in the computer lab is mandatory. At the end of the sessions, students will be asked to submit a simulation problem to the Virtual Classroom, which will be considered for the final assessment.
- The Virtual Campus will be used as a teaching support tool.
- Students may also ask any questions they wish in individual or small group tutorials during the designated times.
- Attendance at lectures and seminars is not mandatory.
The grading is divided into continuous assessment and exam.
1. Continuous assessment: 35% of the grade
This part of the assessment will take into account two evaluable aspects:
1.1. Conducting short tests at the end of a unit: 17.5% of the grade (not mandatory, evaluable)
1.2. Computer science class with submission of proposed simulation exercises and completion of one exercise to be submitted: 17.5% of the grade (mandatory, evaiuable)
2. Final semester exam: 65% of the grade (mandatory, evaluable, and complementary to continuous assessment)
To pass the course, a minimum overall grade of 5.0 is required, as well as achieving at least 4 points out of 10 on the exam.
The grades for the continuous assessment activities (participation, seminars, and computer lab) will be communicated to the student before the exam. The grades for these sections will be maintained for the second attempt, with the exam weighting remaining at 65% of the overall grade.
By learning outcomes:
Exam: Co03
Participation: H/D01, H/D06
Seminars: Co03, H/D01, H/D03, Comp04
Computer science class: Co03, H/D14, Comp06
In cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions of the "Regulations for the Evaluation of Students' Academic Performance and Review of Grades" will apply.
The subject is 4.5 ECTS (total 112.5 h)
Classroom Activity
Exhibition Classes 20 h
Seminar Classes 12 h
Computer classes 5 h
Tutorials 1 h
Examination and revision 3 h
Personal work 71.5 h
It is recommended to have completed and passed the subjects "Fundamentals of Bioprocess Engineering" and "Transport of Fluids and Heat Transmission", as well as to bring the study of the subject up to date.
The course will be taught in Spanish (computer science class in Galician/Spanish).
The Virtual Classroom (on the USC web platform) will be used as a repository for course documentation and as an additional means of communication with students.
Jorge Sineiro Torres
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816803
- jorge.sineiro [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Maria Amaya Franco Uria
Coordinador/a- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816777
- amaya.franco [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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