Chemische Technik 1

Please refer to the LSF for the most recent in­for­mation.

• Chemical industry (chemical economics)
• Chemical process development
  • Viewpoints of process selection
  • Chemical/biochemical processes
  • Experimental facilities
  • Experimental design and optimization
  • Scale-up
  • Material and energy balancing
  • Chemical process synthesis
• Chemical composite economy
  • Raw material basis
  • Aspects of economy and sustainability
  • Production of important basic chemicals
  • Intermediates and final products

Students will be able to:

• Name the raw materials of industrial chemistry and classify the important subtypes
• Describe the extraction of the raw materials and their processing routes
• Describe the processes used and their characteristics
• List the important refinery processes
• Name and describe the conversion processes to basic chemicals
• List and describe the processing routes and downstream products of important basic chemicals
• Name the building blocks (monomers) of the most important polymers and describe the polymer production routes
• Name the important types of surfactants and describe their production routes
• Discuss the interconnectedness of different material flows in the chemical industry
• Explain the composite structure in the chemical industry
• Differentiate and evaluate advantages and disadvantages of alternative processes
• Analyze and interpret the selection of a particular process in terms of raw material and location
• Assign preferred reactor types to particular processes
• Classify manufacturing processes in terms of scale.