Unit Operations Skills

Full course description

In this skills course, you are introduced to the various unit operations used in the field of chemical engineering. Through examples from textbooks and the infrastructure existing on the Brightlands Chemelot Campus, you evaluate the four basic unit operations including fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, equilibrium stages and operations involving particulate solids. Starting from process flow diagrams in combination with visits of real life production plants, you discuss various components including cooling towers, refrigerators/heat pumps, distillation towers (boiling/condensation), mixing and emulsification processes and their typical equipment design and operation.