Principles of Engineering

11B0438

Bachelor

German

5.0

only summer term

1 semester

Bioprocess engineering is an important branch of process engineering. The basis for understanding the processes that take place here is an understanding of mass and energy balances, heat and mass transport and flow processes.  The central learning objective is the understanding of these basic process engineering operations and their implementation in concrete models in order to describe and evaluate these processes mathematically.

1 Process engineering terms and working methods
2 Properties of pure substances and mixtures of substances 2.1 Equations of state of fluids 2.2 Viscosity and flow behaviour of fluids 2.3 Properties of dilute solutions 2.4 Phase transformations and equilibria
3 Fundamentals and applications of mass balancing
4 Energy and heat balancing 4.1 Closed and open systems 4.1 Main laws of thermodynamics and their application
5 Similarity theory and dimensional analysis
6 Hydrostatics and hydrodynamics 6.1 Hydrostatics 6.2 Bernoulli equations 
7 Heat transfer 7.1 Heat radiation 7.2 Heat conduction and heat transfer 7.3 Heat transfer 7.4 Design and layout of heat exchangers
8 Mass transfer 8.1 Diffusion 8.2 Convective mass transfer 8.3 Mass transfer at phase boundaries 8.4 Design of apparatus for mass transfer

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

• Written examination or
• oral exam or
• Oral presentation, with written elaboration

Standard examination format: Written examination, 2 hours (alternative examination format to be selected by the examiner, if applicable, and announced at the beginning of the course)

Graded examination performance:

Written examination: see the applicable study regulations
Oral examination: see the general section of the examination regulations
Presentation: approx. 15–20 minutes, accompanying paper: approx. 8–12 pages

mathematical and physical fundamentals

Students understand how process engineering works and are familiar with the important fundamentals of mass balance calculations. They can solve simple mass balance problems and are confident in using dimensional equations.

Students are able to explain the basic principles of similarity theory and describe scale-up methods.

Students apply fundamental knowledge of mathematics and physics to process engineering tasks.

Students understand differential and integral balancing of process engineering systems. They can apply similarity theory with its elements of dimensional analysis and model theory.

Students analyse and evaluate basic process engineering operations. Computer-aided methods are used for this purpose. Students are able to communicate professionally with process engineers. Students can present and interpret arguments and ideas in a professional manner. Students are able to analyse and evaluate simple process engineering processes.

Graduates of the module

• design simple process models for process engineering and are able to balance these models;
• derive scientifically sound judgements;
• develop approaches to solutions and implement solutions in line with the current state of science;

is not the focus, as it is a basic module

is not the focus, as it is a basic module

is not the focus, as it is a basic module

• Schmitz, Ulrich

• Schmitz, Ulrich