ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Chemistry Engineering
Areas: Chemical Engineering
Center Faculty of Chemistry
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
To provide students with a knowledge base of the different areas that make up Chemical Engineering with special emphasis on conservation equations and the application of transport phenomena, allowing them to understand the main unitary operations and the fundamentals of the equipment that allow the correct operation of an industrial chemical facility
The contents of the course revolve around the following descriptors: Chemical process and chemical industry. Mass and energy balances. Application of transport mechanisms. Molecular and convective transport. Unit operations: fluid circulation, heat transfer and mass transfer. Design of chemical reactors. The following topics are structured:
Unit 1.- Chemical Engineering and chemical processes.
Origin, concept and institutionalization of Chemical Engineering. General scheme of the chemical industry. Continuous and discontinuous operations. Steady and unsteady state. Classification of unit operations
Topic 2.- Conservation principles I: Mass balances
Mass balances in systems without chemical reaction. BMass balances in systems with chemical reaction. Chemical reactors
Topic 3.- Conservation principles II: Energy balances
Energy balances in systems without chemical reaction. Energy balances in systems with chemical reaction
Unit 4.- Fluid flow.
Continuity equation. Mechanical energy balances
Unit 5.- Heat transfer.
Heat transfer mechanisms. Heat energy balances
Unit 6.- Introduction to separation processes
General features. Continuous and intermittent contact. Distillation
Basic
Calleja, G.; García, F., de Lucas, A., Prats, D., Rodríguez, J. M.: “Introducción a la Ingeniería Química”. Ed. Síntesis, Madrid, 2008. ISBN 9788499581095 (Online)
Himmelblau, D.M., Principios Básicos y Cálculos en Ingeniería Química, 6ª edición Ed. Pearson, 2002
Complementary
Costa, J., Cervera, S., Cunill, F., Esplugas, S., Mans, C., Mata, J. Curso de Ingeniería Química: Introducción a los Procesos, las Operaciones Unitarias y los Fenómenos de Transporte. Reverte, Barcelona (2002).
Felder, R. M.; Rousseau, R. W.: “Principios Elementales de los Procesos Químicos”, 3ª ed., Ed. Limusa., México D.F, 2003.
Feijoo, G.; Lema, J.M; Moreira, M.T.: "Mass balances for chemical engineers", 1ª ed., Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin, 2020.
Himmelblau, D.M., Riggs, J.B., Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering, 8ª Edición, Prentice Hall, 2015
Levenspiel, O.: “Flujo de Fluidos e Intercambio de Calor”, Ed. Reverté. Barcelona, 1993.
Vian Ortuño, Á.: “Introducción a la Química Industrial”, 2ª ed., Ed. Reverté; Barcelona, 1994.
General
CG2-To be able to gather and interpret data, information and relevant results, draw conclusions and issue reports on scientific and technological problems or problems of other areas requiring the use of knowledge of chemistry
CG3-To apply both theoretical and practical knowledge and the ability of analysis in the problems definition and approach, finding their solutions in both academic and professional contexts
CG4-To learn to communicate, both in writing and oral, knowledge, procedures, results and ideas in chemistry
CG5-To be able to study and learn, independently, new knowledge and techniques in any scientific or technological field
Specific
CE9- To learn about Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering
CE14-To solve qualitative and quantitative problems with previously developed models
CE15-To recognize and analyze new problems, and to plan strategies to solve them
Cross-curricular
CT7-Working in a interdisciplinary team
CT8-Working in an international context
CT11-Ethical commitment
CT12-Self-learning
CT15-Leadership
CT16-Motivation for quality
CT17-Sensitivity to environmental problems
The course will be taught based on lectures and interactive classes, mainly seminars that will be dedicated to solving problems in the bulletins that are delivered, by the teacher and / or students. There will be two group tutorials.
The Learning Management System will be used as a teaching support tool.
Teaching will be given in Spanish / Galician.
Expository and interactive seminar classes: face-to-face, will take place in the classroom
Group tutorials: face-to-face, in the classroom. In one of the group tutorials, teamwork will be considered.
Individual tutorials: face-to-face
The assessment of this subject will be carried out through a continuous assessment and a final exam. The student's grade will not be lower than the final exam grade or the grade obtained by weighting it with the continuous assessment grade.
Continuous assessment will account for 35% of the final grade, distributed as follows:
5% active class participation: This score will take into account the assessment of questionaries and works established in the lectures, as well as attendance at the group tutorials held around weeks 14 and 15 of the academic year.
15% seminars: Attendance at seminars, in accordance with USC class attendance regulations, and evaluation of the problems collected/submitted.
15% group tutoring: includes the teamwork assessment, which will be conducted during Weeks 13-15 of the academic year.
Attendance at lectures will not be graded but is recommended for a better understanding of the subject matter.
Attendance at small group interactive classes (seminars) and group tutorials will be mandatory as a general rule.
There will be a single final exam for all students of the subject with a weight of 65% of the total qualification (theory 1/3, problems 2/3) that will deal with all the contents of the subject.
A minimum score of 35% will be required in each part (both in theory and problems) in order to pass the exam.
Repeating students will be governed by the same rules as those taking the subject for the first time.
The grades of the continuous evaluation are kept for the second exam opportunity of the corresponding academic year.
If the subject is not passed at the first opportunity and if required, the student will be able to recover the part corresponding to teamwork at the second opportunity.
Competency assessment
Final exam: CG2, CG3, CG4, CG5, CT11, CT12, CT16, CE9, CE14
Participation / Seminars: CG2, CG3, CG4, CG5, CT7, CT8, CT11, CT17, CE9, CE14, CE15
Tutorials: CG2, CG3, CG4, CG5, CT15, CT16, CE15
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, that established in the "Regulations for the evaluation of the academic performance of students and the review of qualifications" will apply.
The subject is 6 ECTS, corresponding to an ECTS of 25 hours of total work, which are distributed, on average, as follows:
Face-to-face Self-employment student
Exhibition clases 24 40
Seminars 22 44
Tutorials 2 6
Exam 4 8
Total 52 98
Basic knowledge of physics and mathematics is necessary for this subject.
It is recommended to attend class as well as the prior preparation of the seminars by the students
Teaching will be given in Spanish / Galician
The Learning Management System (Moodle) will be used as a teaching support tool
Jose Antonio Souto Gonzalez
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816757
- ja.souto [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
Sara Gonzalez Garcia
Coordinador/a- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816806
- sara.gonzalez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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| 10:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Technical Chemistry Classroom (ground floor) |
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| 09:00-10:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Physical Chemistry Classroom (ground floor) |
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| 09:00-10:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | Spanish | Physical Chemistry Classroom (ground floor) |
| 10:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 | Spanish | Physical Chemistry Classroom (ground floor) |
| 10:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLIS_03 | Spanish | Technical Chemistry Classroom (ground floor) |
| Thursday | |||
| 09:00-10:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | Spanish | Technical Chemistry Classroom (ground floor) |
| 10:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 | Spanish | Technical Chemistry Classroom (ground floor) |
| Friday | |||
| 10:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLIS_03 | Spanish | Physical Chemistry Classroom (ground floor) |
| 01.16.2026 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Physical Chemistry Classroom (ground floor) |
| 01.16.2026 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Technical Chemistry Classroom (ground floor) |
| 06.19.2026 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Inorganic Chemistry Classroom (1st floor) |
| 06.19.2026 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Organic Chemistry Classroom (1st floor) |