Courses Bachelor Display 2024-2025

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Course title Chemical Engineering
Course code BENC2009
ECTS credits 5,0
Assessment Whole/Half Grades
Period
Period Start End Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
4 (BENG) 3-2-2025 30-3-2025 X X L
Level Introductory/Intermediate
Coordinator Carla Koopman
For more information: c.koopman@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Language of instruction English
Goals
* To determine the yield, conversion and selectivity of chemical reactions
* To know some typical chemical industrial unit operations and their application
* To complete energy and mass balances in flowsheets
* To perform some calculations on chemical reactions
* To discuss a circularity challenge of the chemical industry
Description
Many daily used products contain materials produced in industrial chemical plants. "Chemical engineering" studies the development, design, operation and improvement of these chemical plants, their chemical and physical processes and their economical feasibility.
This course will introduce students to the challenges of the modern chemical engineer, in which basic chemical and physical concepts, like material/heat balances, process design and typical unit operations, will be combined with discussions on sustainability/circularity and business consequences, like pay back times.
Literature
Elementary principles of chemical processes 4th edition, R.M. Felder, R.W. Rousseau, L.G. Bullard, 2016
Prerequisites
BENC1003 Fundamentals of Engineering
BENC1007 Materials Engineering
Keywords
Teaching methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) Lecture
Assessment methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) Written Exam
Evaluation in previous academic year For the complete evaluation of this course please click "here"
This course belongs to the following programmes / specialisations
Bachelor Business Engineering Year 2 Elective Course(s)
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