Chemical Unit Operations Laboratory

• Explain principles and main components of the unit operations.
• Recognize technical components on real life plants.
• Operate a pilot scale experimental setup, incl. data acquisition, control manipulation, and sampling.
• Analyse results and apply theory on practical experimental problems.
• Formulate conclusions concerning the quality of the experimental data and applicability of the theory.
• Draw consequences for the process operation.
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Perform and report on 4 exercises within the following areas: Gas and liquid flow in pumps, pipes and fittings, flow through particle beds, flow of bulk solids, agitation and aeration, heat transmission, distillation, absorption, ion exchnage, extraction, filtration, membrane separation, centrifugation, drying, evaporation, crystallization, organic synthesis, high temperature technology and CIP processes.
The exercise reports will be assessed not only for the general presentation of theory and results but also for the students’ ability to apply the obtained data within a professional engineering, science, and technology context.

28020/28022/28025, Theoretical course in chemical unit operation/process technology is necessary in order to be able to complete the course.
Basic knowledge in inorganic, organic, analytical chemistry, physics, thermodynamics and matematics.

Average of 2 days of lab.work and additional 30-40 hrs of home work each week in groups of 2-3 students.
In total 4 exercises including reports.

If experiments have been performed already in other courses new exercises have to be selected in 28125

Maximum: 30.

Please be aware that this course has a limited number of seats available. If there are too many applicants, a pool will be created for the remainder of the qualified applicants, and they will be selected at random. You will be informed 8 days before the start of the course, whether you have been allocated a spot.