Experimental training in chemical engineering (2nd year)
Written reports (work synthesis and skills assessment)
The objective of this Teaching is to put into practice the notions of chemical engineering that students have acquired in the first year and during the first semester of the 2A. Students, in groups of three, pilot and study experimental pilot installations (tubular or stirred tank reactors, calorimeter type DSC). This allows students to influence the properties and particularities of the main reactors used in chemistry. They also discover the principle of acquiring kinetic measurements of chemical reactions using calorimetry. Finally, they build industrial process simulations using ASPEN HYSYS and COMSOL software in steady state mode. In this way, students learn good simulation practices in chemical engineering and acquire the concepts of degrees of freedom. They also learn to remain critical of the results obtained by these tools.
At the end of the teaching, the student will be familiar with the specificities and properties of chemical reactors used in research and industry. It will be suitable for the implementation of kinetic measurements from a DSC type calorimeter. It will also be able, depending on the complexity of the problem, to select the most relevant software to study a single reactor or a complete process in steady state.
The student will master a know-how consisting in the construction and optimization of a stationary simulation including a reactor and various operations of pressure build-up, heating, separation, purification… He will be able to remain critical towards the hypotheses formulated and the results obtained from simulation tools.
Teaching language: FR
Documents:
handouts and pdf documents
