Exercises in Selected Processes of Chemical Industry

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Status of the course

Course objectives

Qualifying students how to implement experiments in the laboratory and semi-industrial scale, and how to analysis the chemical and/or physical process in particular phases of technological processes of selected inorganic and organic industry.

Course enrolment requirements and entry competences required for the course

Enrolled in or passed the cours Selected Processes of Chemical Industry

Learning outcomes expected at the level of the course (4 to 10 learning outcomes)

After passing the course the student will be able to:
1. Conduct experiments in the laboratory and industry.
2. Perform measurements independently and teamwork.
3. Interpret the collected data and measurement results using the methodology of chemical engineering.
4. To analyze the chemical and / or physical processes according to present conditions and material properties.
5. Recommendation of process parameters in order to optimize processes in particular phases of production and application of selected inorganic and polymeric materials.

Course content broken down in detail by weekly class schedule (syllabus)

1. Water treatment. Water softening processes. Lime-Soda process. Ion-exchange process.
2. Electrochemical processes. Electrolysis of sodium chloride solution.
3. Catalytic processes. Contact oxidation of sulphur dioxide.
4. Hydration processes. Physical and chemical properties of silicate cement (density, specific surface area, normal consistency, sitting time, heat of hydration).
5. Chemical resistance of soda-lime-silica glass.
6. Physical and chemical properties of petroleum products (fuels and lubricants).
7. Dehydration of ethanol to acetaldehyde.
8. Esterification of phthalic anhydride with n-butanol (Synthesis of di-butyl phthalate).
9. Manufacture of soap.
10. Synthesis of azo dyes.
11. The sulphonation of styrene / divinyl benzene.
12. Step polymerization (synthesis of polyester or polyamide).
13. The radical chain polymerization (suspension polymerization of styrene emulsion polymerization of vinyl acetate).
For the proposed exercises pertaining to organic part of the student will make four (4).

Format of instruction:

Student responsibilities

Implementation and analysis of selected processes according to preset conditions.
Each student is required to do the entire exercises planned program. On completion of all exercises the final written exam is obligated.

Optional literature (at the time of submission of study programme proposal)

R. Krstulović, Tehnološki procesi anorganske industrije, Sveučilišni udžbenik, Sveučilište u Splitu, Split, 1986.

Quality assurance methods that ensure the acquisition of exit competences

Quality of the teaching and learning monitored at the level of the
(1) teachers, accepting suggestions of students and colleagues, and
(2) Faculty, conducting surveys of students on teaching quality.

Other (as the proposer wishes to add)