Green and Industrial Chemistry

Owner	Bachelor Scheikunde (joint degree)
Coordinator	dr. Shiju Raveendran Shiju
Part of	Minor Physics and Astronomy: Energy and Sustainability, year 1Exchange Programme Faculty of Science, specialisation BSc Chemistry, year 1Bachelor Chemistry (Joint Degree), year 3

Course manual 2019/2020

Course content

This course contains important principles of industrial chemistry and green 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, mass and energy balance, application of mass balance to the design of reactors, various type of reactors and their design and economic aspects.

 The principles of green chemistry 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 needed for industrial chemistry

• 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 of chemical processes

• Definition and twelve principles of Green 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

• Industrial Case Studies

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

Study materials

Literature

• Mike Lancaster, 'Green Chemistry: An Introductory Text', RSC Publishing, Cambridge, UK.
• 'Green Chemistry and Engineering: A Practical Design Approach', concepción Jiménez-González, David J.C. Constable, Wiley, 2011.

• Chemical reaction engineering by Octave Levenspiel

Syllabus

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 needed for industrial chemistry
• Describe the formulation of mass and heat balance applied to industrial reactors
• Apply the mass balance for the design of industrial reactors
• Use design equations to real industrial cases
• Describe basic economics of chemical processes
• Define the principles of green chemistry and identify the grand challenges of green chemistry.
• Critically analyse the cost/benefit/impact of traditional industrial chemical processes on society and appreciate the role of green chemistry for efficient yet sustainable processes/materials.
• Work in a team, collect and analyse existing data, prepare and deliver information in an oral/verbal way (report/oral presentation).

Teaching methods

• Lecture
• Seminar
• Presentation/symposium
• Self-study
• Fieldwork/excursion

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

Academic skills

Critical evaluation of existing industrial processes and their green, sustainable aspects,
Material and Energy balances, Design of chemical reactors, Academic presentation skills, academic writing skills,
observation and interpretation skills. 

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:

Attendance at all aspects of the course such as lectures, presentations are highly
recommended. 75% Attendance in lectures is necessary; otherwise it will be difficult to
keep the continuity of the course. The industrial visit (if arranged) gives the students a
chance to see the real application of concepts taught in lecture rooms, which should
greatly help in broadening the knowledge, and also highly recommended.

Assessment

Item and weight	Details
Final grade
0.65 (65%) Tentamen	Must be ≥ 5.5
0.25 (25%) Presentation+report
0.1 (10%) Attendance+active participation

Assignments

Individual assignments

Fraud and plagiarism

The 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' applies to this course. This will be monitored carefully. Upon suspicion of fraud or plagiarism the Examinations Board of the programme will be informed. For the 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' see: www.student.uva.nl

Course structure

Timetable

The schedule for this course is published on DataNose.

Additional information

Aanbevolen voorkennis: Van studenten wordt verwacht dat zij basiskennis hebben van de algemene chemie.

Processed course evaluations

Below you will find the adjustments in the course design in response to the course evaluations.

Contact information

Coordinator

• dr. Shiju Raveendran Shiju