This course provides an overview of separation operations. Then basic equilibrium and design methods are presented for unit operations of distillation, absorption, extraction, adsorption, chromatography, crystallization, evaporation, humidity conditioning, drying, membrane separation for water and gas and vapor membrane separation.
The aim of this course is learning model making of each unit operation and individual design method.
Aim: Understanding of basic equilibrium and equipment or process model in each unit operations. Gaining skills on equipment design.
Theme: This course teaches equilibrium relations and kinetics of mass transfer operations by calculation examples.
Unit operation, distillation, absorption, extraction, adsorption, chromatography, crystallization, evaporation, humidity conditioning, drying, membrane separation for water and gas and vapor membrane separation
✔ Specialist skills | ✔ Intercultural skills | Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
This course uses an original printed text. Every section has Excel examples and problems.
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | Distillation(1) Vapor-liquid equilibrium | Understand vapor-liquid equilibrium |
Class 2 | Distillation (2) Simple distillation, Flush distillation | Explain the model of simple distillation |
Class 3 | Distillation(3) Design of distillation tower | Understand analysis of distillation tower |
Class 4 | Absorption(1) Gas-liquid equilibrium | Understand gas-liquid equlibrium |
Class 5 | Absorption (2) Gas absorber | Understand analysis of gas absorber |
Class 6 | Extraction | Explain extraction process |
Class 7 | Adsorption | Explain adsorption process |
Class 8 | Chromatography | Explain principle of chromatography |
Class 9 | Crystallization and evaporation | Explain plinciple of crystallization |
Class 10 | Humidity conditioning | Explain calculation of humidity conditioning |
Class 11 | Drying | Understand principle of drying |
Class 12 | Membrane separation (1), membrane filtration | Explain membrane filtration |
Class 13 | Membrane separation (2) membrane process | Explain membrane process |
Class 14 | Membrane separation (3) gas separation | Understand gas separation by membrane |
Original text
A. Ito: Basic separation engineering, Kagaku-dojin
exercises in all lectures 100%, no final examination
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