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Study programmes 2007-2008Last update : 7/05/2008
CHIM0055-1  Chemical Engineering of Polyphase Systems
Duration :  18h Th, 24h Pr
Credits/ECTS :  
civil engineering in chemist, 3rd year3
civil engineering in chemist (programmes for "licenciés" in chemical sciences), 2nd year3
Holder(s) :  Pierre Marchot
Language :  Langue française
Course contents :  Multiphased reactors classification, Methodology, spatial and temporal scales, hydronamical regime. Differential reactors,heat and mass transfer, internal, external, coupling, global efficiency. Gas-liquid-solid bubble columns: description,hydrodynamical regimes, modelisation, transfer parameter estimations. Gas-liquid-solid mechanically agitated slurry reactors: description, hydrodynamical regimes, modelisation, transfer parameter estimations. Trickle-bed reactors: desctiption, hydrodynamical regimes, wetting, modelisation, transfer parameter estimations. Introduction to numerical methods: ordinary diffential equations, partial differential equations, orthogonal collocation.
Course objective :  Application of the Chemical Reaction Engineering methods to the complex situations occurring in the description of multiphased reactors
Prerequisites :  CHIM0012-1 Chemical kinetics, CHIM0023-1 Chemical Engineering (reactors), CHIM0024-1 Applied Physical Chemistry
Workshops :  In small groups, it consists in a quatitative explanation of results coming from the Chemical Engineering literature
Organization :  1st semester
Written notes :  the text of the course is available as a printed syllabus and can be access on internet at http://www.ulg.ac.be/bioreact then select CHIM0055-1
Assessment :  discussion of a particular question and explanations about the
group report
Contacts :  Pierre Marchot


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