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The course aims to provide the students with sufficient breadth and depth of knowledge about catalysis and its applications to catalyst design and theory and practice of reactor engineering. The course is developed towards undergraduate degree holders in chemical engineering or related disciplines, such as polymer, petroleum, oil and gas, food and materials engineering, and bioengineering, who aspire to gain advanced technical skills and knowledge in the field of chemical and process engineering.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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The course is divided in two parts. The teaching and learning time should be spent equally between these parts.
Catalyst Design and Characterization
Catalyst function; catalyst structure and surface chemistry; catalyst development, materials and preparation methods; catalyst testing, characterization and kinetics; catalyst deactivation and regeneration.
Reactor Design
Review of fundaments of reaction engineering, reaction kinetics and ideal reactors; transport processes in heterogeneous reactions catalysed by solids; gas-liquid and gas-solid reactions without catalysts; reaction and reactor modelling; non-ideal reactors; reactor scale-up and optimization.
Suggested reading
Richardson, James T. Principles of catalyst development. Springer, 1989.
Nauman, E. Bruce. Chemical reactor design, optimization, and scale-up. Wiley, 2002.
Froment, Gilbert F., Kenneth B. Bischoff, Juray De Wilde, Chemical reactor analysis and design, 3rd Ed, 2011.
Course objective
The aim of this course is to provide the students with sufficient breadth and depth of catalyst and reactor design, optimization, scale-up and operation.
Course content
The course covers the following topics:
• Catalyst design and preparation.
• Catalyst deactivation and regeneration.
• Catalyst characterisation.
• Heterogeneous catalysis.
• Ideal reactors and reactor sizing.
• Heterogeneous catalytic reactors.
• Non-ideal reactors.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 30 | |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 40 | |
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The students will receive a generic feedback within 3 weeks of the assessment submission or exam. Specific feedback can be requested by the student. |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 30 | |
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Timed online test 2.5 hours plus additional 30 minutes to upload files. |
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There are no assessments for this course.
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Procedural | Evaluate | Design of suitable catalysts for new and improved processes, taking into account deactivation and regeneration |
| Procedural | Apply | Characterise and evaluate the performance of catalysts to establish structure-activity correlations for new and improved processes |
| Conceptual | Understand | Calculate concentrations, temperatures, and reaction rates on the surface of catalyst particles in presence of external and internal diffusional limitations |
| Procedural | Analyse | Select and size heterogeneous catalytic reactors for new and improved processes |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Analyse the behaviour, predict activity and selectivity and perform modelling for real reactors |
| Reflection | Create | Develop and use a systematic approach towards a problem solution and communicate it effectively by means of a written report |
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