Erciyes University - Info Package

Course unit title	Level of course unit	Course unit code	Type of course unit	Semester of course unit	Local credit	ECTS credit	Syllabus
APPLIED KINETICS	Second cycle	GDM 606		2	7.50	7.50	Print

Description of course unit

Prerequisites and course requisities	Prerequisite course not required
Language of instruction	Turkish
Coordinator	PROF. DR. KEMAL SARIOĞLU
Lecturer(s)	PROF. DR. KEMAL SARIOĞLU
Teaching assitant(s)	Absent
Mode of delivery	Face to Face
Course objective	Determination of the relationship between chemical reaction kinetics problems and food processing operations and introcution of the required knowledge on reaction-kinetics for designing food processing operations
Course description	Identification of the chemical reaction kinetics, the importance of activation energy, and temperature dependence, mathematical methods in data analysis and classification of batch reaction systems, reactor design and optimization

Course contents

1	Introduction
2	Chemical reaction kinetics
3	Activation energy of the reactions and their temperature dependance
4	Classification of reactions
5	Classification of reactions
6	Classification of reactions Optimization of reactor designing
7	Mid-term
8	Data analysis in batch systems
9	Data analysis in batch systems
10	Reactor analysis and design
11	Reactor analysis and design
12	Optimization of reactor designing
13	Optimization of reactor designing
14	Reactors connected in series
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Learning outcomes of the course unit

1	Ability to identify, analyze reaction kinetics problems and to relate to food processes
2	Ability to learn basic knowledge related to reactor design and operation ı
3	Understands the chemical reactions occurring during food processing and storage
4	Learn to the applications in food reaction kinetics
5	Learn to the mechanism of chemical reactions and factors affecting the chemical reactions
6	Calculate the degree of formation and degradation reactions occurring in foods
7	Analysing of affecting factors of chemical reactions based on data from the reaction kinetics
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Number of stars refer to level of contribution from 1 (the least) to 5 (the most)

Planned learning activities, teaching methods and ECTS work load

	Quantity	Time (hour)	Quantity*Time (hour)
Lectures (face to face teaching)	10	18	180
Study hours out of classroom (study before and after the class)	0	0	0
Homework	0	0	0
Presentation / seminar	0	0	0
Quiz	0	0	0
Preparation for midterm exams	0	0	0
Midterm exams	1	1	1
Project (term paper)	0	0	0
Laboratuar	0	0	0
Field study	0	0	0
Preparation for final exam	2	2	4
Final exam	0	0	0
Research	0	0	0
Total work load			185
ECTS			7.50

Assessment methods and criteria

Evaluation during semester	Quantity	Percentage
Midterm exam	1	40
Quiz	0	0
Homework	0	0
Semester total		40
Contribution ratio of evaluation during semester to success		40
Contribution ratio of final exam to success		60
General total		100

Recommended and required reading

Textbook	Levenspiel, O. 1998. Chemical Reaction Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY.
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