Desenvolvimento de kits experimentais de operação automática e baixo custo para reatores químicos

Abstract

This work aimed to develop experimental kits for chemical engineering laboratories in order to operate stirred tank, tubular and batch reactors automatically by using low cost and free hardware and software. LabVIEW Student Software Suite application (free for six months) was used to develop graphic interfaces of the kits and the electronic prototyping platform Arduino (open source) was used to develop the hardware of the experimental setups and perform acquisition/control of experimental data. In addition to addressing the theoretical and conceptual issues of Arduino, the present work presents descriptions of the setups with a focus on the automatic operation of the experimental units. The kits will be used in undergraduate and graduate courses at Faculty of Chemical Engineering at the Federal University of Uberlândia for teaching and research on topics such as kinetics, reactors, mathematical modeling of engineering systems, process dynamics, instrumentation, control and automation of processes and others.