Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics and Kinetics

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This course builds upon the first-year course Thermodynamics and Engineering Physics and uses the knowledge of the mathematical courses. In circular and sustainable process engineering, the word symbiosis encompasses the output of one process being the input of another process that traditionally are non-related. Traditionally, chemists and chemical engineers work with pure or refined resources, but inclusion of the circular concepts and symbioses impact process design. In this course, you link concepts in process design, including (i) flow sheet design and topology (using ASPEN software), and (ii) economic and environmental simulation and optimization of reactor, separation and energy conversion unit sequences following extended hierarchical Douglas methodologies to fundamentals of thermodynamics and kinetics. Gibbs free energy and chemical potential are introduced in the context of phase equilibrium, chemical reaction equilibria and rates in ideal and heterogeneous systems. Additionally, concepts in power generation and refrigeration cycles are introduced and analysed.