Chemical engineering

At the end of this course, students will have acquired the basic concepts of chemical engineering/process engineering, enabling them to understand and analyze the operation and sizing of industrial plants carrying out certain important unit operations (OPU). They will then be able to communicate with Process Engineers and understand their needs and reasoning methods in their development/industrialization or production monitoring work directly on site.
Mainly, this means being able to:
- Understand the orders of magnitude involved in the chemical and more generally process industries: quantities of materials and energy, power, financial, environmental and social issues, etc. ...
- Know how to draw up material and energy balances at the macroscopic level for a specific OPU or a process as a whole
- Master the main operating and sizing principles of a number of unit operations commonly used in the chemical industries (see course outline for details of OPUs covered).

Energy thermodynamics and thermochemistry
Chemical kinetics
Fluid mechanics

Introduction: Concepts of material balance, material transfer and energy thermodynamics

Dimensioning of unit separation operations:

Distillation
Liquid-liquid extraction

Reactor design and operation:

Material balance in ideal reactors (closed, perfectly stirred, piston)
Combination of ideal reactors
Yield and selectivity for composite reactions

Engineering Sciences and Techniques

Chemical reaction engineering / J. Villermaux. Lavoisier Tec et Doc 1993
Chemical reaction engineering / O. Levenspiel. John Wiley and Sons 1980
Perry's chemical engineers' handbook / R.H. Perry. Mc Graw Hill 1984
Techniques de l'ingénieur
Introduction au Génie des Procédés, Didier Ronze, Tec et Doc, 2008
Introduction au Génie des Procédés - Applications et développements, Didier Ronze, Tec et Doc, 2013