Mechanical Process Engineering
| Lecturer: | Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ronald Gebhardt |
| Contact: | MechanischeVerfahrenstechnik.SMP@avt.rwth-aachen.de |
| Lecture: | 2 hrs |
| Tutorials: | 2 hrs |
| Course schedule: | Please get them from the Course calendar RWTH Online |
| Lecture notes: | Available on Moodle |
| Quality Improvement Fund: | The lecture (exercises) is funded by Quality Improvement Funds. For more information on the use, visit the website of Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering. |
| Semester: | Summerterm |
| Language: | German |
| Exam: | written exam |
This course deals with the mechanical unit operations in chemical engineering. A specific focus lies on particle and separation technologies mainly with at least one solid phase. Main topics of the lecture are
- Basics of the principle of similarity
- Approaches and equipment of milling and grinding
- Surface tension and atomization
- Measurement and plotting of particle size distribution curves
- Sieving: Principles, equipment, fractionation curves
- Migration of solid particles in fluids
- Modelling and design of centrifuges
- Design equations for cyclones
- Flow through a fixed bed, Filtration
- Modeling of filtration equipment and filter media
- Mixing and stirring