IDeTIC: Thermal Engineering and Instrumentation Division

Affiliated Research areas

• Systems and Communication Engineering
• Mechanical engineering
• International relations, global and transnational governance
• Texts and Concepts

Scientific Areas

• Not available

Keywords

• modeling/simulation
• energy systems
• electronic instrumentation
• applied thermodynamics
• chemical engineering

Summary

- Thermodynamics and physicochemistry of fluids (experimentation, modeling, verification): The processes currently carried out, especially in the Chemical Industry, involve multicomponent fluid systems, with operations on phase equlibria in many cases. Specifically, the characteristic parameters of phase equilibria and the properties of pure substances and systems that can be formed are necessaries for the design, optimization and development of separation and purification processes. The cost of the separation process and/or purification represents an important fraction of the total cost of a specified process. The GITI research group participates actively in the different actions commented above with a relevant theoretical and experimental component. On the one hand, obtaining properties of pure substances and mixtures, adequately chosen as a part of a big international project, and all this in an important working range, with variation of variables such as pressure and temperature. On the other hand, important contributions are made in the field of modeling (with own models) trying to establish mathematical models, some of them complex, that faithfully represent the macroscopic behavior of the systems being studied. These models should then be used in the best design of engineering operations, both at small-scale experimental and those for the Chemical or Pharmaceutical Industry. In summary, the work of GITI is focused on threee actions: experimentation-modeling-simulation and design.
- Experimental balance processes between phases and properties of pure fluids and solutions (monitoring, modeling, control and simulation): The DITI team has a line of work, established since the eighties, aimed to improve the reception and storage of experimental information to obtain more precise values that help the other line mentioned, especially in the field of modeling. The continuous monitoring of some thermal and physicochemical processes constitutes a fundamental field of work to improve knowledge about the behavior of multicomponent fluids. Said observations will allow, in turn, a better control of the experimental techniques or procedures carried out.