- Docente: Ernesto Salzano
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ING-IND/27
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Energy Engineering (cod. 0935)
Learning outcomes
Reduction of the environmental impact of combustion processes. Analysis and design of absorption and stripping columns. Membrane separators: typologies of membranes, separation with porous membranes and thick membranes (gas permeation, osmosis,..). Hydrogen production, storage and transport. Introduction to Fuel cells.
Course contents
Introduction
Processes involving separation of mixture components. Design of absorbing/stripping apparatuses: plate-tower and packed-towers design (plate number, height, ). Plate and packed columns hydraulics (flooding, loading, pressure drops).Gas liquid contacting systems.
Membrane separation
Fundamentals on mass transport, membrane types and modules. Membranes in chemical and energy industries, membranes for waste treatment.
Hydrogen
Environment pollution due to combustion processes. CO2 and greenhouse effect. Benefits due to hydrogen consumption. Hydrogen production and storage by several methods. Safety of fuels, including hydogen. Fuel cells
Readings/Bibliography
J.D. Seader, E.J. Henley, Separation Process Principles, John Wiley & Sons, 1998
J.A. Moulijan, M. Makkee, A. Van Diepen, Chemical Process Tecnology, Wiley, 2013
R.H. Perry Chemical Engineers' Handbook, 7^ ed., McGraw-Hill, 1998.
Teaching methods
Lessons and numerical exercises.
Assessment methods
Written test and oral examination
Teaching tools
Slides
Guided vist on industrial plants
Some small scale equipment (membrane modules, fuel cell) will be analysed
Office hours
See the website of Ernesto Salzano