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ORGANIC AND INORGANIC INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES

[Italiano] AF: 63965 AR: 38386
Official course title PROCESSI INDUSTRIALI ORGANICI ED INORGANICI
Academic Year 2011/2012
Course code CT0112
University credits 5
Degree level First Cycle Degree M.D.270
Educational sector code CHIM/04
Semester/trimester II Semestre
Course year 3

Professor

Degree Programmes and curricula

Contents

Educational Goals

To provide knowledge about petroleum, metals and some industrial processes.

Requirements

It is necessary that the students attended the courses General Chemistry and stoichiometry, Organic Chemistry and Physical Chemistry.

Contents

1-module. Oil origin, formation and extraction. Oil reserves, production and consumption. Oil composition, classification and evaluation. Property of the oil-products. Refineries. Topping. Vacuum distillation. Desulphurization. Refinery gas. Isomerization. Alkylation.
2-module. Metals: physical properties; chemical bond; crystal lattices; allotropic transformations; structures of real crystals; solidification; phases formed in metal alloys; equilibrium diagrams; diffusion; carburizing of carbon steel; nitriding of carbon steel; chemical properties of the metals: electrochemical corrosion; Nernst equation; galvanic cells; passivity.

Recommended Reading List

1) K. WEISSERMEL, H. J. ARPE, Industrial organic chemistry, Verlag Chemie ed. 1978.
2) Y. LAKHTIN, Engineering Physical Metallurgy and Heat-Treatment, Mir Publishers Moscow, 1974.
3)Teaching equipment given by the teacher.

Assessment

oral

Teaching Methods

The course consists of a series of front lessons in classroom.

Teaching Language

Italian.

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Last update: 12/07/2011