Course manual 2025/2026

Course content

This course contains important principles of industrial chemistry and green/sustainable chemistry. The course will start with the industrial chemistry part, which describes the application of chemical principles in chemical industries. The concepts that will be introduced in this course are kinetics, thermodynamics , catalysis (just what is needed for reactor design) mass and energy balance, application of mass balance to the design of reactors, various type of reactors and their design and economic aspects, economics of chemical processes and the design of a process combining all these information.

The principles of green/sustainable chemistry and engineering serve as a conceptual framework to guide the design, manufacture, use, and recycling or disposal of chemical products in an economically, environmentally, and socially responsible way. However, to advance green chemistry, a significant change must occur in how the next generation of scientists are trained. This is the guiding objective of this course for the green chemistry part.

The specific subjects covered in more detail are

Kinetics, thermodynamics and catalysis needed for industrial chemistry
Basic terms such as conversion, selectivity, recycle.
Simulation of chemical processes, and design of chemical processes
Mass balance and heat balance and their application to chemical processes

Various types of chemical reactors and their design

Application of design equations to real cases

Brief introduction of Economics/business of chemical processes

Principles of Green/Sustainable Chemistry.

Green Chemistry Metrics. Atom economy and reduction of waste. Types of chemical reactions with atom economy.

Designing greener, safer chemical synthesis: selection of different chemistries, solvents, materials, catalysts, reaction conditions.

Renewable Resources

Emerging Greener Technologies and Alternative Energy Sources, for example-Chemical recycling

Industrial Case Studies

Students can understand the course better when they already learned the fundamental principles of inorganic, organic and physical chemistry.

Based on the above principles, the students, in groups, will design a chemical process and will present the results by a poster/oral presentation.

Study materials

Literature

'Green Chemistry and Engineering: A Practical Design Approach', concepción Jiménez-González, David J.C. Constable, Wiley, 2011.
Chemical reaction engineering by Octave Levenspiel
GREEN ENGINEERING: Environmentally Conscious Design of Chemical Processes, DAVID T.ALLEN
AND DAVID R. SHONNARD, Prentice Hall, 2002
Chemical Process Technology, JACOB A. MOULIJN, MICHIEL MAKKEE, ANNELIES E. VAN DIEPEN, Wiley
Chemical Engineering Design Project. A Case Study Approach by M.S. Ray and D.W. Johnston, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers.
Green Chemical Engineering, An Introduction to Catalysis, Kinetics, and Chemical Processes, S. Suresh and S. Sundaramoorthy, CRC Press
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN, Principles, Practice and Economics of Plant and Process Design, GAVIN TOWLER, RAY SINNOTT, Elsevier, Chapter 2
Coulson and Richardson's Chemical Engineering, J. H. Harker, J. R. Backhurst, J. F. Richardson, and J.
M. Coulson- Volume 2, Fifth edition, 2002.
Mike Lancaster, 'Green Chemistry: An Introductory Text', RSC Publishing, Cambridge, UK.
There is no single text book for this course; so, it is important to refer multiple literature (also mentioned in the canvas) and also to attend the classes. Specific chapters of each book is also mentioned in canvas. The most important ones are 'Green Chemistry and Engineering: A Practical Design Approach', concepción Jiménez-González, David J.C. Constable, Wiley, 2011 and Chemical Engineering Design Project. A Case Study Approach by M.S. Ray and D.W. Johnston, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers.
Green and Industrial Chemistry Reference book (on canvas)

Syllabus

For all the topics of the course, the primary reference is the Green and Industrial Chemistry Reference book (the summary text on canvas).

Additional reading:

1. Introduction to industrial chemistry, Flow sheets, Mass and Energy balances:
Green Chemistry and Engineering: A Practical Design Approach, Concepción Jiménez-González,
David J.C. Constable, Wiley, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-470-17087-8
Part 3 Chapter 9
2. Kinetics
Chemical Reaction Engineering, Octave Levenspiel, Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999 (4th edition is also good)
Chapters 1-2
3. Reactors
Chemical Reaction Engineering, Octave Levenspiel, Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999
Chapter 4, Chapter 5 (mainly), Chapter 6
4. Packed bed, packed columns
Coulson and Richardson's Chemical Engineering, J. H. Harker, J. R. Backhurst, J. F. Richardson, and J.
M. Coulson- Volume 2, Fifth edition, 2002. Chapter 4.
5. Fluidised beds
Coulson and Richardson's Chemical Engineering, J. H. Harker, J. R. Backhurst, J. F. Richardson, and J.
M. Coulson- Volume 2, Fifth edition, 2002. Chapter 6.
6. Green Chemistry, Green Engineering Principles, green chemistry metrics
Green Chemistry and Engineering: A Practical Design Approach, Concepción Jiménez-González,
David J.C. Constable, Wiley, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-470-17087-8
Part 1, Chapters 1-4
7. Designing greener, safer chemical synthesis processes
Green Chemistry and Engineering: A Practical Design Approach, Concepción Jiménez-González,
David J.C. Constable, Wiley, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-470-17087-8
Part 2 chapters 5-7
8. Life cycle assessment (LCA)
Green Chemistry and Engineering: A Practical Design Approach, Concepción Jiménez-González,
David J.C. Constable, Wiley, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-470-17087-8
Part 4 chapter 16
9. Pollution prevention/increasing greenness of chemical reactors
GREEN ENGINEERING: Environmentally Conscious Design of Chemical Processes, DAVID T.ALLEN
AND DAVID R. SHONNARD, Prentice Hall, 2002
Chapter 9
10. Economics of chemical processes
Lecture notes and articles.

Software

DWSim, COCO (open source process simulation softwares)

Other

Institute website 'American Chemical Society Green Chemistry': http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_TRANSITIONMAIN&node_id=830&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=13fd5435-389e-4a2e-b699-8a4b57d0269c.

Objectives

Describe basic chemical processes involved in the production of major commercial products used in society.
Describe the basic kinetics, thermodynamics and kinetics needed for industrial chemistry.
Apply the mass/heat balance and design equations for the design of industrial reactors
Analyse basic economics of chemical processes.
Define the principles of green chemistry/engineering and identify the grand challenges of green/sustainable chemistry and engineering.
Analyse the cost/benefit/impact/sustainability of traditional industrial chemical processes on society.
Evaluate the role of green/sustainable chemistry and engineering for efficient yet sustainable processes and materials.
The student is able to work in a team by co-creating/co-designing a chemical process plant by looking at various aspects including sustainability, economics, safety.
The student is able to collect and analyse existing data including discussions in the lecture sessions.
The student is able to prepare and deliver information in an oral/verbal way (report/oral presentation).

Teaching methods

Lecture
Presentation/symposium
Self-study
Working independently on e.g. a project or thesis
Computer lab session/practical training
Fieldwork/excursion
Seminar
Supervision/feedback meeting

Lezingen, opdrachten, presentaties van studenten en (eventueel) een industrieel bezoek. Studenten zullen een korte presentatie voorbereiden over een case study gerelateerd aan groene/industriële chemie. We zullen ook proberen om enkele gastcolleges door sprekers uit de industrie te regelen.

Learning activities

Activiteit	Aantal uur
Excursie	8
Hoorcollege	20
Tutorial	6
Presentatie	6
Tentamen	3
Zelfstudie (incl. assignments+simulation)	90

Attendance

Programme's requirements concerning attendance (OER-B):

Active participation is expected of each student in the course for which he is registered.
If a student cannot attend an obligatory part of a programme's component due to circumstances beyond his control, he must report in writing to the teacher in question as soon as possible. The teacher, if necessary after consulting the study adviser, may decide to issue the student a replacing assignment.
It is not allowed to miss obligatory parts of the programme's component if there is no case of circumstances beyond one's control.
In case of participating qualitatively or quantitatively insufficiently, the examiner can expel a student from further participation in the programme's component or a part of that component. Conditions for sufficient participation are fixed in advance in the study guide and/or on Canvas.

Additional requirements for this course:

There is no single text book for this course; so, it is important to refer multiple literature (mentioned in the canvas) and also to attend the classes regularly to completely understand and follow the course. There is also group work in the course, so, active participation with other students is required. Minimum 80% attendance is required and any absence should be communicated properly to the coordinator in advance.

The course objectives, especially 8 and 9 [The student is able to work in a team by co-creating/co-designing a chemical process plant by looking at various aspects including sustainability, economics, safety and The student is able to collect and analyse existing data] very much depend on the class attendance, group work, group discussions and demonstrations in the lecture sessions and study hours.

There is a group work; so, students should commit to work in team with their class mates.

Assessment

Item and weight	Details
Final grade
0.5 (50%) Tentamen	Must be ≥ 6, Mandatory
0.5 (50%) Design project	Must be ≥ 6, Mandatory

The assessment includes presentations and design project in addition to the written exam. There will be also regular exercises in the class.

The design project is a major component in this course. Presentations will be required if specified. The final mark includes every component.

Assignments

Design project

Students will select a reaction and design it into a process (group work). It will be graded.

Presentations

Part of the design project