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 Academic Year: | 2018/9 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Chemical Engineering |
| Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
| Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
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| Assessment Summary: | EX 100% |
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| Description:
| Aims: To provide students with the ability to produce engineering designs of ideal reactors where the rate of reaction is controlled by chemical and biochemical reaction kinetics. Learning Outcomes: After successfully completing this unit students should be able to: * carry out a reaction engineering analysis on the controlled growth of microorganisms and enzymes in biological reactors; * perform material balances to derive general reactor design equations for different reactor types using appropriate reaction kinetics. * perform energy balances for the different reactor types * combine and apply material balances, rate laws, stoichiometry, and energy balances for optimal reactor design and operation. Skills: Analysis [T,F,A] Problem solving [T,F,A] Content: * Introduction to biochemical techniques and their potential for transfer to large scale; * Microorganism growth kinetics and kinetics of product formation; * The effects of environmental variables such as pH and temperature on performance of bioreactors * Isothermal reactors: Material balances and design equations for batch, continuous stirred tank, plug flow and packed bed reactors. Effect of volume changes on stoichiometry and design equations. * Non-isothermal reactors: Energy balance for different reactor types, adiabatic temperature rise. * Reactor networks: Comparison of reactor performances and series/parallel reactor systems * Multiple reactions: series, parallel and reversible reactions, conditions for optimal reactor performance. * Introduction to non-ideal reactors. |
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CE20091 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Chemical Engineering
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