This course aims to provide the design methodology for a wide range of transport processes, using mass and energy balances. The methodology is applied in the processes of fractional distillation, absorption and humidification.

• Representative transport processes and basic design considerations.
• Integral mass and energy balances.
• Application examples in a variety of processes.
• Dynamic operation and automatic control of transport processes.
• Thermodynamics of mixtures. Vapor-liquid equilibrium: Raoult and Henry’s laws, Deviations from ideality. Simple distillations. Fractional distillation of binary mixtures.
• McCabe-Thiele calculation of tray columns. Tray efficiency. Gas absorption. Design of columns with packing.
• Humidification processes. Use of the psychrometric chart.
• Wet-bulb and adiabatic saturation temperatures.
• Design of air humidifiers.
• Rating of cooling towers.
• Introduction to adsorption processes.

Suggested Literature:

• Lecture notes (e‐book)
• Cussler “Diffusion: Mass Transfer in Fluid Systems”
• Seader, Henley, Roper “Separation Process Principles”
• McCabe, Smith, Harriott “Unit Operations In Chemical Engineering”
• Himmelblau, Riggs “Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering”

Related Academic Journals:

• Fluid‐Phase Equilibria
• International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
• Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research
• International Journal of Refrigeration Desalination

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