INDUSTRIAL CHEMESTRY AND TECHNOLOGIES

The course provides students with the fundamental concepts for understanding industrial chemical processes. Starting from the basic concepts of thermodynamics and kinetics of reactions, particular attention is paid to catalytic processes. At the end of the course, the student will have acquired the skills to make a critical analysis of the main industrial chemical processes and to evaluate the effects of changing operating parameters on them.

Face-to-face lessons in the classroom with remote mode available for foreign students waiting for a VISA.

The theoretical lessons will be integrated with practical examples and exercises, through which applicative aspects and quantitative methodologies are developed.

General chemistry (chemical equilibria, thermodynamics, kinetics, organic chemistry)

Mandatory for 70% of hours (as required by the “Regolamento didattico”)

The course provides students with the fundamental concepts for understanding industrial chemical processes. Starting from the basic concepts of thermodynamics and kinetics of reactions, particular attention is paid to catalytic processes. At the end of the course, the student will have acquired the skills to make a critical analysis of the main industrial chemical processes and to evaluate the effects of changing operating parameters on them. Hints of industrial symbiosis

1. Moulijn J.A., Makkee M., Van Diepen A.E., Chemical Process Technology, Wiley, 2013.

2. Lecture notes (ppt)

To go into further specifications

A. Principi della chimica industriale vol. 1 and 2 (Natta, Pasquon, Centola) http://www.giulionatta.it/pdf/pubblicazioni/00537.pdf,  http://www.giulionatta.it/pdf/pubblicazioni/00615.pdf
B. Satterfield, Heterogeneous catalysis in practice, McGraw-Hill.
C. Jens Hagen, Industrial Catalysis – A Practical Approach, Wiley-VCH 2015
D. Giavarini, Guida allo studio dei Processi di Raffinazione e Petrolchimici, Edizioni Efesto
E. Levenspiel, Chemical Reaction Engineering, John Wiley & Sons 1999
F. Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial ChemistryWiley‐VCH.

Classify the products of the chemical industry. Describe the effects of operating parameters on the thermodynamics of reactions. Describe the approach to determining the reaction order. Properties of catalysts. Phases of heterogeneous catalysis. Description via block diagram of a crude oil distillation system. Description of the catalytic cracking process. Description of the main reactions in the production of synthesis gas via steam reforming of natural gas. Describe the ammonia synthesis process also using block diagrams. Describe the operating principle of an electrolytic cell for the production of chlorine. Describe the process of synthesis of nitric acid. Illustrate the industrial process for the production of PVC. Kinetics of uninhibited and inhibited enzymatic reactions. Kinetics of uninhibited and inhibited cell growth. Material balances and design of a perfectly mixed reactor.