COURSE OUTLINE

Department & Faculty: Chemical Engineering Dept, FKKKSA Subject & Code: Separation Process I (SKF 3323) Total Lecture Hours: 3 x 14 weeks Page Semester: 1 Academic Session: 2008/2009

Week #
1-2

Topic
Gas-Liquid Separation Processes (Humidification) Types of separation processes and methods Equilibrium relations between phases Continuous humidification processes Gas-Liquid Separation Processes (Absorption) Absorption in plate and packed towers dilute and concentrated mixtures Estimation of mass-transfer coefficients for packed towers Vapour-liquid separation processes Equilibrium relationship Simple distillation methods Binary fractional distillation using McCabe-Thiele method Multi-component distillation Liquid-liquid Extraction Types of equipment Phase equilibrium relationship Single-stage liquid-liquid extraction Continuous multistage countercurrent liquid-liquid extraction Liquid-solid Extraction (leaching) Equipments for liquid-solid leaching Single-stage leaching Counter-current multistage leaching :

Topic Outcomes
It is expected that students will be able to: identify and use equilibrium relationship design packed cooling towers using mass-transfer coefficient and HTU methods

3-5

It is expected that students will be able to: design plate and packed absorption towers using mass-transfer coefficient and HTU methods for dilute and concentrated mixtures determine mass-transfer coefficients

6 - 11

12-13

It is expected that students will be able to: describe batch distillation and continuous fractional distillation design simple batch distillation design plate distillation column using McCabe-Thiele design multi-component column using FenskeUnderwood-Gilliland correlation . It is expected that students will be able to: identify the most common types of equipment used for liquid-liquid extraction plot extraction equilibrium data on right-triangular diagrams determine equilibrium-stage requirements for single and multistage counter-current liquid-liquid extraction It is expected that students will be able to: identify the most common types of equipment used for leaching determine equilibrium-stage requirements for single and multistage counter-current solid-liquid extraction

14

References

1) Transport Processes and Separation Process Principles 4th Ed. by Geankoplis

2) Separation Process Principles by Seader and Henley. 3) Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering 5th Ed. by McCabe, Smith and Harriott.