Industrial processes and scale-up

The objective of the course is to emphasize the importance of scale-up methodology for the unit operations in chemical plants (reaction and separation processes), to give the theoretical basis for a correct approach to a scaling-up and to introduce the simulation science and the process simulation. The correct theoretical and experimental approaches of this kind of study will be presented and discussed; different industrial examples will be considered.

At the end of the course the students will be able to use simulation plant software for the project and optimization of a chemical plant, to analyze a chemical process (reaction or separation) from a laboratory scale experiment to a possible industrial process layout; to apply kinetic and thermodynamic models for scale up development of new technologies.