ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Chemistry Engineering
Areas: Chemical Engineering
Center Higher Technical Engineering School
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable | 1st year (Yes)
- Acquisition of skills in the identification of ionic liquids: formulation and nomenclature.
- Critical analysis of their advantageous properties as compared to traditional solvents.
- Knowledge of the main processes based on ionic liquids and their degree of development.
- Use of knowledge, previously acquired or new, in the design and simulation of processes (by means of computer tools) based on the use of ionic liquids.
Unit 1. Introduction.
Green Chemistry and Green Engineering. Sustainability. Ionic liquids: definition, attractiveness, origins, historical evolution.
Unit 2. Ionic liquids: categories, properties and production.
Cations and anions in ionic liquids. Classes of ionic liquids. 'Designer solvents’. Physical, chemical, and biological properties. Databases. Production of ionic liquids.
Unit 3. Electrochemistry with ionic liquids.
Storage of energy. Electrochemistry and batteries.
Unit 4. Ionic liquids as solvents (and catalysts) in reactions.
Organic reactions with ionic liquids. Catalysis and biocatalysis.
Unit 5. Ionic liquids in separation processes.
Distillation. Absorption. Extraction. Aqueous biphasic systems. Liquid membranes. Dissolution and fractionation of biomass.
Unit 6. Materials based in ionic liquid technology.
Synthesis of materials. Nanotechnology. Surface technology.
Unit 7. Bio-ionic liquids.
Ionic liquids with a biological property as a primary design criterion. Antimicrobial activity. Pharmaceutical compounds and others.
Basic bibliography:
- M. Freemantle. An Introduction to Ionic Liquids. RCS Publishing, Cambridge (UK), 2010. ISBN 978-1-84755-161-0.
- M. B. Shiflett (Ed.). Commercial Applications of Ionic Liquids. Springer, Cham (Switzerland), 2020. ISBN 978-3-030-35244-8.
Complementary bibliography (on-line resources):
- S. T. Handy (Ed.). Ionic Liquids-Classes and Properties. InTech, Croatia, 2011. ISBN 978-953-307-634-8.
- S. T. Handy (Ed.). Applications of Ionic Liquids in Science and Technology. InTech, Croatia, 2011. ISBN 978-953-307-605-8.
- J. I. Kadokawa (Ed.). Ionic Liquids-New Aspects for the Future. InTech, Croatia, 2013. ISBN 978-953-51-0937-2.
- A. Kokorin (Ed.). Ionic Liquids: Applications and Perspectives. InTech, Croatia, 2011. ISBN 978-953-307-248-7.
- A. Kokorin (Ed.). Ionic Liquids: Theory, Properties, New Approaches. InTech, Croatia, 2011. ISBN 978-953-307-349-1.
(See the Memory of the Master’s Degree for interpretation of the coding.)
Basic and general skills: CB6, CB9, CG1, CG6, CG15.
Specific skills: CE3, CE5, CE6, CE7, CE11.
Transferable skills: CT2, CT6.
Different teaching methodologies will be utilised during the course, looking for an optimisation of the efficiency of the teaching-learning process. There will be expositive lectures in which the basic contents of the program will be presented (CB6, CG1, CT6). Despite following a conventional teaching class structure, the continuous involvement and active participation of the students will be thoroughly sought. These lectures will be complemented by seminar with interactive participation between the students and the instructor, for discussion of miscellaneous topics after having read materials on such topics (CB6, CG1, CT6), resolution of problems (CG6, CG15, CE3, CE5, CE6, CE7, CT6), poster presentation (CB9, CG1, CE11, CT2, CT6), development of activities with computer tools (CG1, CG6, CG15, CE3, CE5, CE6, CE7, CE11, CT2, CT6), etc. There will be an activity focused on the oral presentation of an assignment, carried out in reduced groups, consisting in a process based on ionic liquids and its computer simulation.
Laboratory activities will be developed with the software Aspen-Hysys.
The USC virtual learning environment (Moodle platform) will be used as a teaching support tool.
Time distribution of activities in the classroom sessions:
- Session 1. Introduction. Ionic liquids: categories.
- Sessions 2 and 3. Ionic liquids: properties and production. Electrochemistry with ionic liquids.
- Sessions 4 and 5. Ionic liquids as solvents (and catalysts) in reactions. Preparation and presentation of a poster on ionic liquids and reactions.
- Sessions 6 to 8. Ionic liquids in separation processes. Guided tour through the laboratories of the Research Group GI-1616 of the USC.
- Sessions 9 and 10. Materials based on ionic liquid technology. Analysis and discussion of research publications on materials based on ionic liquid technology. Bio-ionic liquids.
Time distribution of activities in the computer room sessions:
- Session 1. Simulation with Aspen-Hysys of an extraction column using ionic liquids as solvents.
- Session 2. Simulation with Aspen-Hysys of an extractive distillation column using ionic liquids as entrainers.
- Session 3. Simulation with Aspen-Hysys of a refrigeration cycle involving an ionic liquid.
Additionally, a presentation of a process based on ionic liquids and its simulation will be carried out.
Connection between skills and assessment of activities:
- CB6, CG1, CG15: Exam
- CB9, CG1, CG6, CG15, CE3, CE5, CE6, CE7, CE11, CT2, CT6: Simulation and presentation of a process based on ionic liquids.
- CB9, CG1, CG15, CT2, CT6: Elaboration and presentation of a poster. Activities in the classroom sessions.
A continuous monitoring of learning will be carried out, by means of different activities, assignments, or resolution of problems either individually or in groups. Also, there will be an exam with theoretical-practical questions, which will enable a better individualisation of the final marks.
Distribution of the assessment weights:
1. Exam: 30%
2. Assignments:
- Activities: 30%
- Simulation work and presentation: 30%
- Docents’ report: 10%
The assessment system is the same for both calls (the marks of the activities will be kept for the second call).
If it is detected that any assignments or tests are carried out by the students in a fraudulent manner, the document "Regulations for assessment of the academic performance of the students and for revision of marks" ("Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico ods estudants e de revisión das cualificacións") will be of application.
This course corresponds to 3 ECTS (a total of 45 h)
Classroom time (h) – Personal work time (h)
Expositive lectures: 12 – 12
Seminars: 8 – 10
Computer room: 6 – 7
Group tutorials: 1 – 4
Individualised tutorials: 1 – 4
Exam and its revision: 2 – 8
Total: 30 – 45
Spanish will be the language of instruction of the course.
Ana Maria Soto Campos
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816760
- ana.soto [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Hector Rodriguez Martinez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816804
- hector.rodriguez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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