Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sergiy Antonyuk

Process engineering is the engineering discipline that focuses on the treatment and conversion of materials into products with specific properties. The subject of mechanical process engineering (MVT) is the effects on substances that influence and change their properties, shape, microstructure and composition by mechanical means. The mechanical effects are primarily contact, adhesive and flow forces. These figures illustrate the importance of MVT for the industry:

• Approx. 60 % of products in the chemical industry alone are granular bulk goods and a further approx. 20% of products contain powdery components; in pharmaceuticals, 80% of medicines are in the form of gel capsules, tablets or particle suspensions
• The volume of bulk materials processed amounts to tens of billions of tons per year
• It consumes around 10% of the world's energy requirements and the processing of GM is the second most important human activity after the extraction of water

In the lecture Mechanical Process Engineering I, the basics of processes, basic operations, machines and plants of mechanical process engineering are considered. The lecture provides knowledge about the characteristic properties and characterization of the material systems of MVT, such as particle size, particle shape and size distributions. Furthermore, the fundamentals of basic processes such as separation, mixing, comminution and agglomeration are explained. The last topic deals with fluid-solid multiphase flows and their basic applications in mechanical process engineering. In the associated exercises, the topics covered in the lecture are deepened and linked with transfer tasks.

Contents:

Introduction in the unit operations of Mechanical Process Engineering

• Charakterization and properties of disperse systems
• Charakterization of classifcation and mixing
• Interfacial properties
• Comminution processes (Spraying, Grinding)
• Agglomeration processes
• Properties of bulk solids and powder mechanics

OLAT: https://olat.vcrp.de/url/RepositoryEntry/4548624822

Literature:

1. Matthias Stieß: Mechanische Verfahrenstechnik, Band 1 + 2, Springer-Verlag; Heidelberg, Berlin, New York, 2. Auflage 1995 + 2001
2. Handbuch der Mechanischen Verfahrenstechnik, Band 1 + 2, Heinrich Schubert (ed.) Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2002
3. Mechanische Verfahrenstechnik, Heinrich Schubert u.a. Deutscher Verlag für Grundstoffindustrie, 1990
4. Martin Zogg: Einführung in die Mechanische Verfahrenstechnik, Teubner Verlag, Stuttgart, 1987
5. Raasch, Löffler: Grundlagen der Mechanischen Verfahrenstechnik, Vieweg Verlag
6. Dialer, Onken, Leschonski: Grundzüge der Verfahrenstechnik und Reaktionstechnik, Hanser Verlag
7. Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA., 2002

Contact / Tutor:

M. Sc. Nikolai Benz

Dates:

Additional Information:  

• Number of SWS: 3 hours/1 hour
• Number of ECTS Credits: 6
• Course Number: MV-MVT-86450-V-4
• Language: German
• Precondition for Mechanical Process Engineering II, Multiphase Flow
• Mechanical Process Engineering in KIS

Course documents: 

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