Objectives and competences

This course aims to provide knowledge about various equipment and operations used in processes, as well as about some natural processes (human body) or those used in the biomedical field (bioprocesses). It also aims to provide tools
 
that enable the analysis of a process, namely knowledge about material and energy balances, as well as knowledge of specific equations (constraints) that characterize certain equipment/processes.
The goal is for the student to be able to analyze a process in terms of material and energy balances.

Teaching Methodologies

Lectures focused on structured presentation of concepts. Problem-solving sessions to consolidate learning.
Active learning strategies to promote autonomy and critical thinking.

Syllabus

PROCESS/BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING
Process, Processual Unit, and Unit Operation. Filtration: glomerular filtration; membrane separation.
Centrifugation, Solid-liquid extraction, Flash separation, Fractional distillation, Evaporation, Drying. Operation with reaction; fermentation and biomass production.
Heat Transfer Operations; heat exchangers.
Applications in food, biomedical, and environmental areas.

ANALYSIS OF THE PROCESS: MATERIAL BALANCES
Types of equations of material balances.
Application to: filters, centrifuges, extractors, flash-chambers, evaporators, dryers. Material balances to a system.
Material balances to a production process. Material balances to a process with recycle. Material balances with reaction.
Material balances applied to the biomass production.

ANALYSIS OF THE PROCESS: ENERGY BALANCES
Concepts of energy and heat.
Energy balances for continuous and discontinuous systems.
Energy balances to: flash-chambers, evaporators, heat exchangers, dryers. Energy balances with reaction