THE CONTENTS OF THE COURSE
Week 1 - Introduction to unit operations. Mechanical and thermal separation processes. Fundamentals of mechanical macroprocesses. Characterization of disperse systems. Seminar - Tasks: Characterization of coarse disperse systems.
Week 2 - Fundamentals of mechanical separation. Gravity sedimentation. Selection of equipment. Seminar - Tasks: Sedimentation.
Week 3 - Sedimentation in a field of centrifugal force. Selection of sedimentation centrifuges.
Week 4 - Partial exam I: Characterization of dispersed systems, sedimentation.
Week 5 - Filtration and centrifugal filtration. Selection of filtration equipment. Seminar - Tasks: Filtration.
Laboratory task I: Filtration test.
Week 6 - Mixing of liquids and suspensions. Design of mixing systems. Fundamentals of powder mixing. Seminar - Tasks: Mixing.
Week 7 - Fundamentals of dispersion state change process. Comminution kinetics. Selection of equipment. Seminar - Tasks: Comminution.
Laboratory task II: Comminution test.
Week 8 - Partial exam II: Filtration, mixing, comminution.
Week 9 - Overview and fundamentals of thermal separation processes. Heat exchangers. Seminar - Tasks: Heat exchangers.
Week 10 - Heat exchangers. Evaporation. Energy saving methods of evaporation. Equipment overview. Seminar - Tasks: Evaporators.
Week 11 - Crystallization. Kinetics (mechanisms of nucleation and growth). Overview of equipment. Seminar - Tasks: Crystallization.
Week 12 - Drying. Kinetics (mathematical description of the process). Methods of energy conservation. Equipment overview. Seminar - Tasks: Drying.
Week 13 - Partial exam III: Heat exchangers, evaporation, crystallization, drying.
Distillation. Methods of implementation. Column design (height, diameter, number of transmission units). Seminar - Tasks: Distillation.
Laboratory task III: Distillation/Rectification
Week 14 - Absorption. Column absorption. Overview of equipment. Seminar - Tasks: Absorption.
Week 15 - Extraction. Process types. Overview of equipment. Seminar - Tasks: Extraction.
Laboratory task IV: Batch extraction.
GENERAL AND SPECIFIC COMPETENCE
Acquisition of knowledge about equipment selection, definition of optimal process conditions and analysis of complex processes in chemical engineering.
STUDENTS' TEACHING OBLIGATIONS AND THEIR PERFORMANCE
Regular participation in classes (lectures, seminars and lab tutorials). Writing papers, homework and seminar assignments.
TEACHING METHODS
Lectures, seminars and laboratory exercises.
KNOWLEDGE TESTING AND EVALUATION
Written/oral exam for entry into laboratory exercises.
4 written partial exams (4 numerical tasks; 50% required to pass).
Written test (4 numerical tasks; 50% required to pass).
Oral Examination.
MONITORING OF THE COURSE QUALITY AND SUCCESSFULNESS
University-level student survey.
LEARNING OUTCOMES AT THE LEVEL OF THE COURSE
1. Analyze thermal separation processes and heat exchangers.
2. Identify when it is necessary to use energy (heat) and/or auxiliary components to perform a particular separation process.
3. Distinguish the mechanisms of mass and heat transfer that occur in a given separation process and the corresponding individual and total transfer resistance.
4. Create diagrams of the cumulative and differential particle size distribution.
5. Analyze mechanical separation processes and mechanical mixing.
6. Analyze the energetic and kinetic aspects of the comminution process.
7. Solve experimental tasks to evaluate the parameters required for the process design and comment on the results obtained.
LEARNING OUTCOMES AT THE LEVEL OF THE STUDY PROGRAMME
1. Recognize the basic elements of environmental engineering and transport phenomena of mass and energy balances, unit operations which are applied in environmental protection, reactors and bioreactors, thermodynamics.
2. Use basic laboratory skills and work rules in the physical, chemical and microbiological laboratories.
3. Define simple problems in the field of environmental engineering in order to solve them.
4. Theoretically interpret the results of experimental work.
5. Present the results of their work in written and oral form.
LITERATURE
1. A. Sander, Unit Operations in Environmental Engineering (Part I); Thermal Separation Processes (in Croatian), Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, 2011. - compulsory literature
2. G. Matijašić, Unit Operations in Environmental Engineering (Part II); Mechanical unit operations (in Croatian), Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, 2016. - compulsory literature
3. M. Rhodes, Introduction to Particle Technology, John Wiley, London 1998. - non-mandatory literature
4. A. Rushton, A. S. Ward, R. G. Hodlich, Solid-Liquid Filtration and Separation Technology, VCH Weinheim, 1996. - non-mandatory literature
5. K. Satler, H. J. Feindt, Thermal Separation Processes - Principles and Design, VCH Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Weinheim, 1995. - non-mandatory literature
6. J. D. Seader, E. J. Henley, Separation Process Principles, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2006. - non-mandatory literature
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Jedinične operacije u ekoinženjerstvu - Toplinski separacijski procesi, A. Sander, Interna skripta, Fakultet kemijskog inženjerstva i tehnologije, 2011.
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Jedinične operacije u ekoinženjerstvu - Mehanički separacijski procesi, G. Matijašić, Interna skripta, Fakultet kemijskog inženjerstva i tehnologije, 2016.
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Introduction to Particle Technology, M. Rhodes, J. Wiley&Sons, 2008.
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Thermal Separation Processes - Principles and Design, K. Satler, H. J. Feindt, VCH Verlagsgesellschaft, 1995.
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Solid-Liquid Filtration and Separation Technology, A. Rushton, A. S. Ward, R. G. Hodlich, VCH Weinheim, 1996.
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Separation Process Principles, J. D. Seader, E. J. Henley, John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
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