Desenvolvimento de um aplicativo híbrido para projetar equipamentos de separação sólido-fluido no campo gravitacional e no campo centrífugo

Abstract

Recently, there has been growing discussion about the inclusion of new technologies in the education, especially of the mobile devices. This technology, when included in teachinglearning process allows access to knowledge regardless of the physical educational environment and makes it na interesting tool for understanding disciplinary contents. In the context of the unit operations of solid-fluid separations, engenieering students have dificulties in mathematical concepts and assimilation of the equipament design methods preventing the development of the critical capacity of profissional. In the search for alternatives, a mobile aplication is proposed to design dust chambers, tubular centrifuges, cyclones, elutriators, hydrocyclones and settlers. The metods and equations of these devices were based on the most used literatures in the teaching of unit operations. To validate the application, we considered 17 case obtaining an average error of around 1.3%. It’s concluded that the inclusion of this technology would increase values to the school environment and enables students to build more individual knowledge, while besides allowing area profissionals to use the tool to assist in the execution of their job.