Process Systems Engineering

• Bachelor-level knowledge of mathematics, chemistry and physics

• Introduction: Aims, concepts, terms and definitions
• Balancing: General form, measures, balances for mass, concentration, energy
• Constitutive equations: Reaction kinetics, heat transfer, thermodynamics
• Classification: Process variables & parameters, state space notation of models
• Numerics: Solution of steady state and transient processes
• Stability: Properties of dynamic linear systems: solution, eigenvalues, stability
• Phase plane analysis: Classification of equilibria (of linear systems)
• Non-linear systems: State space model, linearization
• Laplace transformation: Basic idea, definition, examples
• Analysis of different systems: System response, transfer function
• Block diagrams: for different set-ups: series, parallel, recycle
• Spatially distributed systems: Mass and energy balances

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