PDERPQ001 - ECTS

To acquire competences in analyse of the performance of heterogeneous catalysts, based on: (i) results of physicochemical characterization; (ii) results obtained with model reactions; (iii) data regarding deactivation phenomena. Development of the capability of designing laboratory tests that allow correctly inferring those performances and making it possible to model, kinetically, the results obtained.

To know the methodology for the analysis of the competition between transport phenomena and chemical reaction in heterogeneous catalytic reactors with a view to design, simulation and optimization of the operating conditions. To know methods of selecting, analysing, designing and operating real chemical reactors with emphasis on the hydrodynamics characterization and micromixture (theory of the distribution of residence times), energy balances and complex reactions.

PDERPQ003 - ECTS

The objective of this curricular unit is to provide to PhD student the indispensable tools to plan and carry out advanced scientific research, and to present, discuss and defend the results in a consistent and effective way. It is also intended to stimulate his/her capacity to innovate, undertake and question, as well as to systematize, interconnect and integrate knowledge, with a critical spirit and with an attitude of scientific, ethical and social responsibility in the exercise of research activity.

It is inside this curricular unit that the students acquire the necessary competences of integration in the teams of the academic supervision and companies that will support their PhD projects.

PDERPQ002 - ECTS 1) Students should complete the unit course knowing the meaning and being able to write and use:
a) material balances, energy balances, momentum balances and kinetic equations;
b) thermodynamics of equilibrium and interfaces;
c) mathematical models and the correct use of available simulators.
2) Students should acquire the basic skills necessary to simulate separation processes using available simulators.
3) Students must finish the unit course, understanding the specificities and potentialities of each of the processes raised.
4) It is intended that students are aware of the current technologies corresponding to each process.
5) Students should have learned skills that allow them to conceptualize sequences of integrated processes.

PDERPQ004 - ECTS

Ability to select and apply systematic methodologies of analysis and synthesis in a significant set of problems in the field of Process Systems Engineering.

Ability to integrate knowledge in the fields of transfer, transformation, separation processes, analysis of industrial and laboratorial data, to solve the problems dealt with.

Ability for solving problems of management of operations and logistics.

Ability to manipulate efficiently mathematical models, with a view to producing practical solutions.

Ability to solve problems related to optimization and multivariate methods and models, using computer applications.

Ability to develop teamwork.

PDERPQ005 - ECTS

It is intended to review and deepen the concepts related to environmental management in particular at the methodologies of life analysis and treatment of liquid and gaseous effluents.

It also intends at the energy management level, make an analysis of alternative energy sources and resume the concepts of process integration with a focus on the industrial practice.

It is intended to give a vision of the conceptual and software tools available to carry out an efficient energy and environmental management.

Students will have the opportunity to know to work with software tools, such as the FIE2PI and others.

Development of capacity for analysis and synthesis.

Development of the ability of critical reasoning.

PDERPQ006 - ECTS

The Thesis Project, chosen for the subsequent Thesis in a research topic, is in the form of a written document, including, among other elements: i) the state of the art, ii) the objectives, iii) the description of the problem(s), which is intended to solve, iv) the techniques, v) the methodologies and computational tools and tools to be used, vi) the plan od activities and, vii) the expected results and the expected indicators, including the ethical and social implications.

The student should demonstrate competences for bibliographic research, critical reasoning, creativity and innovation, a deep knowledge of the subject chosen, ability to delineate and program the work, ability to write a document that clearly and succinctly reflects the state of knowledge and ability to present and discuss it.

PDERPQ009 - ECTS

Acquisition of technical knowledge in the areas of maintenance engineering, industrial safety, industrial automation, process instrumentation and engineering ethics.

Ability to integrate knowledge from multiple domains.

Capacity for analysis and synthesis.

PDERPQ013 - ECTS

The Thesis Project, chosen for the subsequent Thesis in a research topic, is in the form of a written document, including, among other elements: i) the state of the art, ii) the objectives, iii) the description of the problem(s), which is intended to solve, iv) the techniques, v) the methodologies and computational tools and tools to be used, vi) the plan od activities and, vii) the expected results and the expected indicators, including the ethical and social implications.

The student should demonstrate competences for bibliographic research, critical reasoning, creativity and innovation, a deep knowledge of the subject chosen, ability to delineate and program the work, ability to write a document that clearly and succinctly reflects the state of knowledge and ability to present and discuss it.

PDERPQ008 - ECTS It is intended to provide adequate information and training to enable the understanding of the integration of a particular unit into a refinery scheme and the differences between the refineries, depending on the type of processed raw materials and the expected products, according to the specifications. Emphasis should be given to processes involving the conversion of heavier fractions into medium distillates. Particular problems of security and environment related to the processes will be analysed as well as the strategies to follow for diagnosis and solution of problems occurred in the refinery units. It should also be the object of this unit course the knowledge of the main alternative sources to petroleum and its refining processes. In this context, the processes’ of synthesis of renewable fuels from several sources should be also presented.