Industrial Chemistry

COURSE CURRICULUM

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Course title

Industrial chemistry

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Code

HEM-608

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Study curriculum

Applied chemistry

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Organizer of the curriculum (institute, department)

Institute of chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Skopje

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Degree (BSc, MSc, PhD)

BSc

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Academic year/semester

III/VI

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ECTS points

6

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Lecturer

Prof. PhD Miha Bukleski

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Prerequisites

Organic chemistry II, Physical chemistry I

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Course objectives (competences):
The goal is to cover the basic principals of applying chemistry in the industry by studying series of different operations (mechanical, thermal, diffusional). Chemical reactors are thoroughly studied to perform different kinds of chemical reactions. 

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Course content:
Basic operations and processes in chemical industry. Mechanical operations. Fluid mechanics. Fluid statics. Fluid dynamics. Fluid transport. Solid material transport. Mixing and crushing of materials. Sieving of solid materials. Separation of nonhomogeneous mixtures. Heat transfer operations. Heat transfer by conduction. Heat transfer by mixing (convection). Heat transfer by irradiation. Cooling. Condensation and condensation apparatus. Evaporation, diffusion and classification of diffusion processes. Ways of expressing the constituents of a mixture. Mass equilibrium. Mechanism and rate of mass transfer, molecular diffusion, turbulent diffusion, convective transfer. Absorption. Atsorption. Destilation. Rectification. Extraction. Drying. Crystalisation. Chemical reactors. Classification of chemical processes. Rate of a chemical reaction. Ideal reactors. Comparison of reactors for a simple reactions. Multistep reactor systems. Industrial reactors. Raw materials in the chemical industry. Water in chemical industry. Energy in chemical industry. Different kinds of fuel. 

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Teaching methods: Lectures, problem solving tasks

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Total available time

180 hours

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Time distribution

4+1 per week (lectures 60, problem solving tasks 15)

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Teaching methods distribution

15.1.

Teaching - lectures

60 hours

15.2.

Practicals (laboratory, problem solving), seminars, team work

15 hours

16.

Other activities

16.1.

Projects

15 hours

16.2.

Independent work

20 hours

16.3.

Homework

70 hours

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Grading methods

17.1.

Tests

60 points

17.2.

Seminars/projects (written/oral presentation)

15 points

17.3.

Activity

25 points

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Grading scale (points/mark)

<50 points

5 (five) (F)

from 51 to 60 points

6 (six) (E)

from 61 to 70 points

7 (seven) (D)

from 71 to 80 points

8 (eight) (C)

from 81 to 90 points

9 (nine) (B)

from 91 to 100 points

10 (ten) (A)

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Criteria for taking the final exam

Regular attendance at lectures and laboratory cources

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Course language

Macedonian

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Teaching quality control

Anonymous survey, conversation with students

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Literature

22.1.

Compulsory

No.

Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1.

Т. Stafilov

Индустриска хемија I

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

2005

2.

Т. Stafilov

Индустриска хемија II

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

2005

3.

W. L. McCabe, J. C. Smith, P. Harriott

Unit operations of chemical engineering

McGraw Hill, Boston

2001

22.2.

Additional

No.

Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1.

O. Levespiel 

Osnovi teorije i projektovanja hemijskih reaktora

Tehnološko-metalurški fakultet, Beograd

1979

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