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Heriot-Watt University - Course Descriptor Template
1. Course
Code
2. Course
Title
B40DD
Chemical Reaction Engineering
3. SCQF
Level
6. Course
Co-ordinator
10
4. Credits
5. School
Engineering and Physical Sciences
7. Delivery:
Location &
Semester
Edin
SBC
Orkney
Dubai X
IDL
Collaborative Partner
Approved Learning Partner
Sem 2
Sem…….
Sem………..
Sem 2
Sem….
Name:
Sem:
Name: Baku Higher Oil School
Sem: 2
8. Pre-requisites
15
CRP
Satisfactory completion of Stage 9 courses, including B49CC Chemical Reaction Engineering
9. Linked Courses
(specify if synoptic)
10. Excluded Courses
11. Replacement Courses
Code:
12. Degrees for which
this is a core course
Date Of Replacement:
13. The course may be
delivered to:
UG only
PG only
UG & PG
All BEng/MEng Chemical Engineering programmes
14. Available as an Elective?
Yes
No
15. Aims
To develop students’ knowledge of and abilities in reactor design, including bioreactors.
16. Syllabus
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Heat effects: temperature effects. Heat balance lines. Optimum temperature profiles. Accounting for heat effects in reactor sizing. Potential operating points in an
adiabatic CSTR.
Gas-solid catalytic reactions: true catalytic reaction kinetics and their simplification. Diffusion within catalysts, internal effective diffusivity and Thiele modulus.
Determining the rate controlling mechanism. Sizing a G/S catalytic reactor. External mass transfer. Non-isothermal G/S catalytic reactions.
Modelling a range of unit operations; simultaneous heat and liquid level problems, those involving chemical reactions, solution using advanced modelling tools (e.g.
Matlab).
Comparison of reactions with biological agents with those of chemical agents; microbial/fungal/animal/plant cell culture
Culture modes: batch, fed-batch, perfusion, continuous
Bioreactor types
Scaling up and scaling down; characteristic times; dimensionless numbers
Mixing, shear, kla, immobilised cell systems
17. Learning Outcomes (HWU Core Skills: Employability and Professional Career Readiness)
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Subject Mastery
Understanding, Knowledge and Cognitive
Skills
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Personal Abilities
Scholarship, Enquiry and Research (Research-Informed Learning)
Understand the mechanisms to incorporate temperature effects on stoichiometry, reaction kinetics and chemical equilibrium;
Understand the significance of internal diffusion and reaction, i.e. Thiele modulus, in gas-solid catalytic reactions;
Be able to size a reactor when heat effects are involved;
Be able to size a reactor in gas-solid catalytic reactions.
Understand the specific requirements for working with biological materials
Industrial, Commercial & Professional Practice
Autonomy, Accountability & Working with Others
Communication, Numeracy & ICT
After completing this module, students will be able to:
 Understand the principles of advanced reactor design.
 Use software to model chemical reaction problems.
 Be able to suggest a suitable reactor system for a given biological agent
 Be able to suggest appropriate schemes for scaling up and down
18. Assessment Methods
Method
19. Re-assessment Methods
Duration of Exam
Weighting (%)
Synoptic courses?
Method
(if applicable)
Examination
Duration of Exam
Diet(s)
(if applicable)
100
20. Date and Version
Date of Proposal
15/12/14
Date of Approval by
School Committee
Date of
Implementation
January 2015
Version
Number
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