Course detail

Computer Aided Design in Chemical Engineering

FSI-9SVC Acad. year: 2022/2023 Both semester

The postgraduate students will get acquainted with process simulations and computer-aided design of processes and equipment. The course includes classification of mathematical modelling approaches for systems with mass and heat transfer, fluid flow, and chemical reactions. The students will enhance their knowledge of balancing and simulations of complex systems including multiphase, reactive, or transient processes. Furthermore, attention will be paid to numerical methods for the solution of systems of equations. Optimisation techniques for process systems will also be discussed together with error propagation and regression analysis.

Language of instruction

Czech

Supervisor

doc. Ing. Vojtěch Turek, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Process Engineering

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will understand the principles of mathematical modelling and simulations of complex systems. They will have general knowledge regarding computer-aided design, analysis, and optimisation.

Prerequisites

Graduate-level knowledge of mathematics, physics, and chemistry.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through lectures focused on the topics required to finish the chosen doctoral projects. These include using appropriate software tools.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Each student will develop a model of a process or a simulation model related to their doctoral thesis.

Aims

The main aim of the course is for students to be able to develop, implement, and apply models suitable for solving problems related to their doctoral theses.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Attendance at lectures is recommended. Absences are compensated by self-study of the literature specified by the lecturer or, if needed, by pre-arranged consultations at which the models developed by the students are discussed.

The study programmes with the given course

Programme D-ENE-P: Power Engineering, Doctoral, recommended course

Programme D-ENE-K: Power Engineering, Doctoral, recommended course

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

20 hours, optionally

Syllabus


  • Classification of mathematical modelling approaches

  • Balancing of complex systems including multiphase, reactive, or transient processes

  • Modelling of systems with mass and heat transfer, fluid flow, and chemical reactions

  • Process simulations utilising the modular approach

  • Process simulations utilising the equation approach

  • Numerical methods for the solution of systems of equations

  • Transient process simulations

  • Optimisation techniques pro process systems

  • Error propagation