3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1021638BNR for all students in the 2nd semester
at
a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.
- Semester
- 2nd semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Enrollment Requirements
- Students must have followed 'Chemistry: Structure of Matter and Chemical Reactions I’ and 'Chemistry: Structure of Matter and Chemical Reactions II' and 'Physics: Electromagnetism' and 'Thermodynamics', before they can enroll for ‘Mechanical and Thermal Unit Operations’.
Enrolling in ‘Mechanical and Thermal Unit Operations’ means also that you simultaneously follow 'Thermal-Fluid Sciences : Principles' or have successfully passed ‘Thermal-Fluid Sciences : Principles’.
- Taught in
- Dutch
- Faculty
- Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
- Department
- Bio-Engineering Sciences
- Educational team
- Joeri Denayer
(course titular)
Fréderick Matheuse
- Activities and contact hours
- 24 contact hours Lecture
12 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
- Course Content
This course deals with the classical mechanical and thermal unit operations. The operation principles, design, calculation are presented.
The most common mechanical and thermal unit operations in process industry and biotechnology (filtration, sedimentation, cyclones, evaporation, drying, crystallisation, evaporation) are discussed. Simple models are applied to a range of unit operations. A methodology to understand, analyse and optimize the operation of chemical processes and sequences of unit operations is educated.
The objectives of this course are to describe the fundamentals of mechanical and thermal unit operations and to be able to develop and use simple models for unit operation design and analysis.
- Course material
- Course text (Required) : Mechanische en thermische bewerkingen, Eigen notas, Joeri Denayer, VUB, 2220170005287, 2018
Digital course material (Required) : De slides van de hoorcolleges, Canvas
- Additional info
Own notes
J.M. Coulson and J.F. Richardson
Chemical Engineering, Vol. 1-6
Pergamon, Oxford 1990
- Learning Outcomes
-
General competencies
- Develop models and balances for unit operations in chemical industry, based on fundamental aspects of thermodynamics, fluid flow, mass and heat transfer.
- Explain the functioning of equipment in unit operations based on schemes and technical drawings.
- Explain the relationship between operational parameters and performance and behavior of selected unit operations (filtration, centrifugation, distillation, cyclones, evaporation, drying, crystallisation).
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Theory: written + oral
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
Note: Written + oral exam on theory as discussed during the course
- Additional info regarding evaluation
- exam on theoretical aspects of course: testing knowledge and insight
- participation to the lab sessions is mandatory. In the event of unauthorized absences during the lab sessions, the score loss is charged pro rata to the absences. In the event of unauthorized absence during the lab sessions, participation in the exam can be refused.
- Partial marks for the exercises exam and the lab sessions, if the student obtains at least half of the score (for this part), are transferred to the second session, and to the next academic year. Students may not relinquish partial marks.
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Bioengineering Sciences: Profile Cell and Gene Biotechnology (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Bioengineering Sciences: Profile Chemistry and Bioprocess Technology (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Bioengineering Sciences: Initial track (only offered in Dutch)