Master studies in “Process Engineering”

Master study program „Mechanical Engineering“, specialization „Process Engineering”

Directional subjects of Process Engineering

 

  • Processing Equipment Design – notice
    • Teacher: assoc. prof. Lukáš Krátký, Ph.D.
    • Annotation: PEs classification, their parameters and criteria of their rating. Ways of PEs design according their purpose and utilization. Materials used for PEs, welding, corrosion mechanisms and anticorrosion prevention. Dimension of shafts, beams, supports, pipes, heat exchangers and pressure vessels. Sealing and packing of fix parts (flanges) and moving parts (rotating shafts etc.). Practical examples of proper and improper designs of apparatuses. Example of heat exchanger design (heat transfer area calculation, its arrangement, head loss calculation, thermal dilatation, strength calculation, low cycle fatigue (thermal dilatation)).

 

  • Project I. – notice
    • Teacher – department´s staff
    • Annotation: Design, strength calculation and drawings of pressure equipment (heat exchanger, evaporator, mixed vessel).

 

  • Physical Chemistry – notice
    • Teacher: Assoc. prof. Radek Šulc, Ph.D.; Ing. Jaromír Štancl, Ph.D.
    • Annotation: Basic principles of physical chemistry in the field assuming real behavior especially that are demonstrated on technical applications. Volumetric properties of fluids. Thermodynamic properties of fluids. Phase equilibria. Solution Thermodynamics. Thermochemistry. Chemical reaction equilibrium.

 

  • Hydromechanical Processes – notice
    • Teacher: prof.Ing. Tomáš Jirout, Ph.D.
    • Annotation: Theory and basic calculations of the following processes and equipment: flow in pipes and pipe networks, flow in porous and packed beds, filtration, sedimentation and bubbling, separation of mixtures by centrifugal force, fluidization, liquid mixing, storage and transport of particulate materials, crushing and milling, separation and granulation, mixing of particulate solids.

 

  • Heat Processes – notice
    • Teacher: Ing. Martin Dostál, Ph.D.
    • Annotation: Fundamentals of heat processes focused on heat processes in process engineering, i.e. heat exchangers, evaporators and dryers. Small review of fundamentals of thermodynamics and heat transfer (internal energy, enthalpy, entropy, thermodynamic diagrams, heat conduction, heat convection, dimensionless criteria). Heat exchanger thermal design and rating. Thermal effectiveness method, Roetzel-Spang method.  Description of evaporators with natural and forced convection, falling and climbing film evaporators. Mass and enthalpy balance. Multistage evaporators and evaporators with mechanical and thermal recompression of vapours and with heat pump. Drying and dryers. Description of contact, convective, radiation and spray dryers. Basic properties of dried material (sorption isotherms) and drying media (humid air). Static and kinetics of drying (drying curve).

 

  • Project II. – notice
    • Teacher: Ing. Jiří Moravec, Ph.D.; Ing. Jaromír Štancl, Ph.D.
    • Annotation: Project management. Process plant design and economics. Flowsheeting. Process balances (Excel, PRO/II). Financial cost estimates in process plant designing. Design documentation. Permitting. Contracts and delivery terms conditions.

 

  • Reactor and Bioreactor Design – notice
    • Teacher: prof.Inf. Pavel Ditl, DrSc.
    • Annotation: These lectures belong to the group of unit operations and processes. Students should utilize knowledge gained in hydraulic, diffusion and heat operations, physical chemistry and transfer phenomena. Lectures enlarge knowledge to equipment design of in which components are changed by means of chemical or biochemical reactions. Basis of chemical and biochemical kinetics and equilibrium are explained for homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions as well as the basis of reactor and bioreactor design.

 

  • Computer Aided Design – notice
    • Teacher: Ing. Michal Netušil, Ph.D.; Ing. Jiří Moravec, Ph.D.
    • Annotation: Project management. Project making methodology with PC support. Flowsheeting. Mass and enthalpy balances of process lines, unique methodology for balancing in EXCEL, structure and usage of professional project making software PRO II (SimSci Co.-USA). Assumption of PRO II and solution of own project case. Basic design. Project optimization, cost engineering, choice of proper equipment type, investment and operation cost structure, cost assessment.

 

  • Diffusion Separation Processes – notice
    • Teacher: prof.Ing.Pavel Ditl, DrSc.; assoc. prof. Radek Šulc, Ph.D.
    • Annotation: Classis from Equipment for diffusion separation processes are giving a basic knowledge of processes and equipments where gas or liquid mixture is been separated due to principals of physical-chemical equilibriums or on the basis of mass transfer mechanisms. They are used for concentrating of products from dilute solutions or in turn for purification of diluted gasses or liquid solutions.

 

  • Numerical Analysis of Processes – notice
    • Teacher: Ing. Jan Skočilas, Ph.D.
    • Annotation: Aim of numerical solutions in structural analysis and computer fluid dynamics. Overview of methods(finite differences, finite volumes, finite elements, boundary elements, meshless methods). Special attention is concentrated to FEM. Model parameter identification – optimisation methods. Examples solved using MATLAB and FLUENT.

 

  • Project III. – notice
    • Teacher: department´s staff
    • Annotation: Pre-diploma project.

 

  • Modelling and Process Control – notice
    • Teacher: Ing. Karel Petera, Ph.D.
    • Annotation: Mathematical modeling, simulation and process control, specific examples of technical applications, basic principles of control, continuous and discrete system models, control elements. Computer simulation using MATLAB and SIMULINK, system responses to changes of various parameters and disturbances, system stability, analysis and optimization of model parameters with respect to the quality of control.

 

  • Fundamentals of Polymer Processing – notice
    • Teacher: prof. Ing. František Rieger DrSc.; Ing. Jiří Moravec, Ph.D.
    • Annotation: Rheology and rheometry. Basic processing unit operations: transport of viscous and granular materials, mixing of highly viscous fluids, convective heat transfer in non-Newtonian fluids, melting. Design, principles and basic calculations of following equipment and processes: extrusion, calendering, injection molding, blow molding, compression molding. Fundamentals of synthetic fiber production.

 

  • Industrial Chemistry – notice
    • Teacher – Ing. Michal Netušil, Ph.D.
    • Annotation: Thermodynamics of industrial chemistry (reaction kinetics, thermochemistry, mass and enthalpy balance, entropy and Gibbs-energy balance, chemical equilibrium). Basic inorganic and organic substances. Electrochemistry. Crude oil treatment and petrochemistry. Plastic and rubber. Glass and ceramics. Cellulose and paper. Tensides. Biotechnology.

 

  • Processing Lines – notice
    • Teacher – assoc. prof. Pavel Hoffman, CSc.; Ing. Jan Skočilas, Ph.D.
    • Annotation: Philosophy of PL design, complex lines solution in relationship with other plants, wastes, energy economy, living environment. Marketing and PL design. Practical experience from PL design and service. PL of following branches: brewery, sugar industry, dairy industry, mills, bakeries, fat industry, starch industry, cooling plants etc.

 

  • Waste Water and Gaseous Emission reduction – notice
    • Teacher – assoc. prof. Pavel Hoffman, CSc.
    • Annotation: Waste water = WW pollution, amount of sewage, determination of pollution, self-purification of surface water, principles (processes) of waste water treatment, mechanical and biological treatment (aerobic and anaerobic), sludge management, examples of typical equipments and types of various waste water treatment plants = WWTP (mechanical + aerobic + anaerobic; mechanical + anaerobic + aerobic). Renewable sources of energy, places of emissions origin, methods and equipments of emissions reduction. Mechanical waste gases cleaning (dust etc. separation) = dry and wet separators, filters, electro-filters. Processes and equipments for harmful gaseous substances collecting and treatment (SO2, volatile organic compounds …).

 

 Optional Subjects

  • CFD Application in Process Engineering – notice
    • Teacher – Ing. Karel Petera, Ph.D.
    • Annotation: Numerical modeling and simulation of fluid flow, heat and mass transport focused on practical problems in process engineering. ANSYS CFD will be used for geometry description, computational mesh and numerical solution. Several problems will be solved during the course, like fluid flow in a pipe network and pressure drop calculation, laminar or turbulent flow in a heat exchanger with total heat transfer coefficient evaluation, and fluid flow in a mixed system including chemical or biological reaction.

 

  • Computional Fluid Dynamics – notice
    • Teacher: prof.Ing. Rudolf Žitný, CSc.
    • Annotation: Lectures are oriented upon fundamentals of CFD and first of all to control volume methods (application using Fluent)