On completing the course, the student should: understand the concepts and tipology of unit processes and operations in the industry; understand the organization of an industrial plant; interpret lay-outs, process and equipment diagrams of a factory; interpret and compute mass balances; understand basic concepts about energy systems, from the scale of the equipment through systems for production, transport and energy use, up to the national and international scales; compute the energy balance of a machine or equipment; interpret and use energy statistics.