Number of hours
- Lectures 18.0
- Projects 0
- Tutorials 18.0
- Internship 0
- Laboratory works 0
ECTS
ECTS 2.0
Goal(s)
To introduce separation operations and their technical descriptions and to design processes
Level : advanced lecture in chemical engineering
Contact Florence DRUARTContent(s)
A. Equilibrium-Stage Separation Operations
- A.1 Design
- Equilibrium stage
- Transfer
- Unit
- A.2 Applications
- Binary or multicomponent separation : distillation
- Batch or continuous operations : liquid/liquid extraction
- Mass transfer with chemical reaction : absorption
- A.3 Technical description
B. Physicochemical separation processes fluid/particles and fluids/fluids
- B.1. Gravity and centrifugal separation
- Decantation, centrifugation, cyclone
- B.2 Porous media
- Dead-end and tangential filtration
- B.3 Scale-up, design and applications
Prerequisites
Mass and energy balance
Test
Written exam (2h)
Examen Ecrit : 100%
Bibliography
Equilibrium-stage separation operations in chemical engineering (Henley E.J., Seader J.D., John Wiley & sons 1981)
Unit operations of chemical engineering (McCabe W.L., Smith J.C., McGraw Hill 3rd Ed. 1976)