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This course on Fundamentals of Industrial Processes, prepares students to formulate and resolve mass and energy balances in systems of chemical processes. This course is a complement to the course "Introduction to Chemical and Thermodynamics En- gineering". This course provides the fundamentals for other courses: Reaction Engineering, Unit Operations, Control and Process Design and Optimization. This course introduces an ap- proach to the kind of Engineering used to solve problems, by establishing relations between balance equations, unknown process variables and available relations. The student must direct all the information in order to find unknown variables and solve the process by properly using calculation procedures and/or available computational methods.

This is a fundamental course of Engineering. The course intends to make students understand the laws of Thermodynamics applied to pure substances as well as to establish bonds between Thermodynamics, other chemical phenomena and all sciences that are part of Chemical Engineering fundamentals.

The course seeks to apply thermodynamic concepts and fundamentals of mathematics. This concepts and fundamentals are basic for describing a system that reaches phase equilibrium or chemical equilibrium. This knowledge is the base for future courses being able to integrate kinetic aspects and mass transfer in order to design separation units and chemical reactors.

Practical complement of the thermodynamics course concepts.

Practical complement of the phase and chemical balance course concepts.

This course provides students with opportunities to integrate knowledge, skills and basic attitudes in order to correctly complete a task, an action or an intellectual pro- cess according to their professional area. Students must act in a defined context of teamwork.

Momentum transfer, heat and mass are phenomena ruling a lot of chemi- cal processes. They also save strong physics and mathematical analogies. From the basic sci- ences students will understand importance of the momentum transfer phenomenon and its applicability to Chemical Engineering.

This course introduces phenomena associated to mass and energy trans- fer in steady state systems. This course introduces and solves problems related to molecular transfer and convenction, heat and mass transfer.

The course will allow students to effectively suggest, execute and analyze experiments that provide significant conclusions to the lab, industry or organization in which they are executed, from a statistical standpoint, and within the actual context of engineering problems. This course covers the following topics: Population comparison (samples), unfactorial designl, pby blocks, latin, graeco-latin and factorial square, response surface analysis and correlation analysis.

This course shows the importance of experimental design and experi- mental data analysis. The course provides the fundamentals and concepts of experimental designs such as: basic experimental design (uni variate and factorial), fundamentals of block- ing, error reduction and development of basic regression models.

The main course objective is to provide conceptual and mathematical tools that will allow students to become familiar with the reactive systems analysis and design. Students must be capable of applying chemistry, kinetics, thermodynamic and matter and energy balance in the design of reactors, identifying the different reactive systems, selecting a reactor for a specific application, evaluating velocity expressions and mathematically modeling the behavior of a reactive system.