37648 - Unit Operations Laboratory T

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Moduli: Valerio Cozzani (Modulo 1) Micaela Pasquini (Modulo 2) Lorella Guadagnini (Modulo 3)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2) Traditional lectures (Modulo 3)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (cod. 8887)

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to provide some practical experience on the operation of typical equipment used in the process industry.

Course contents

Skills required to access the course

All lessons and laboratory training will be in Italian. Safety reasons thus require an excellent understanding of the Italian language (C1 level suggested).

All Erasmus+ and other exchange students need to proof to the teacher that they have a sufficient understanding of the italian language. Since supervision during laboratory training will only be available in Italian, the teacher may exclude from the course for safety reasons student not showing a sufficient understanding of the italian language.

A good knowledge of thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, transport phenomena, and unit operations is required to access the course.

Course Contents

The course will consist in the realization of five laboratory experiences and in the discussion of the underlaying theory:

1) Heat transfer. Double pipe heat exchangers: calculation of heat transfer coefficients and of pressure drops by test-runs on laboratory scale equipment.

2) Heat transfer. Shell and tube heat exchangers: calculation of heat transfer coefficients and of pressure drops by test-runs on laboratory scale equipment.

3) Heat transfer. Stirred tank reactors: calculation of heat transfer coefficients by test-runs on laboratory scale equipment.

4) Fluid dynamics in packed columns: identification of flooding and loanding conditions, and calculation of pressure drops by test-runs on laboratory scale equipment.

5) Temperature-dependent diffusion and evaporation. Assessment of diffusion coefficient and vapor pressure as a function of temperature.

Office hours

See the website of Valerio Cozzani

See the website of Micaela Pasquini

See the website of Lorella Guadagnini