Course Syllabus

Catalog Description :
14:155:423. DESIGN OF SEPARATION PROCESSES (3)
Prerequisites: 14:155:304, 308.
The application of mass transfer theory to the design and analysis of chemical engineering separation processes. Distillation, liquid extraction, gas absorption, and other separation processes. Computer software for the design and analysis of various separation processes.
Most Recent Professor :
Dr. Marianthi Ierapetritou, Office: C-137, Phone: 445-2971, Email: marianth@sol.rutgers.edu, Website: sol.rutgers.edu/~marianth
Textbook(s) Used :
Separations in Chemical Engineering: Equilibrium-Staged Operations , By P.C, Wankat, Published by Prentice Hall, 1988.

Additional Books:
Separation Process Principles By J.D. Seader and E.J. Henley. Published by John Wiley & Sons, 1998.

Software:
CHEMCAD: This is a steady-state process simulator for chemical engineering design. It performs mass and energy balances, equipment sizing and costing and draws flow diagrams. It has an extensive thermodynamic property database. It is installed on all PC in the Microcomputer Lab (room C233). Login and run it by using the command CHEMCAD.
Objectives :
  • Educate students to structure and solve the problems arising in all chemical engineering industry related to design of separation processes.
  • Learn basics of chemical engineering separation processes.
  • Learn the use of computer software used for the design of separation processes.
    • Weekly Syllabus :
    Week Topic Chapter
    1 Course Organization-Introduction to Separation Processes
    (Dr. Allen Hatfield)
    General Discussion of Separation processes
    Review of Vapor-Liquid Equilibria
    Bubble-point and Dew-point Calculations    		 1, 2
    2 Flash Distillation 3
    Flash Distillation
    3 Multi-stage Distillation (introduction) 4
    Multi-stage Distillation
    4 Introduction to CHEMCAD (Dr. A. Constantinides) 5
    Binary Systems - McCabe-Thiele method
    5 Binary Systems - Enthalpy Concentration Diagram Method 6
    Binary Systems - Enthalpy Concentration Diagram Method
    6 First Exam
    CHEMCAD (Dr. A. Constantinides)
    Design Project assignment
    7 Multi-component Systems Exact methods 8
    Multi-component Systems Exact methods 8
    8 Multi-component Systems Shortcut methods 9
    Multi-component Systems Shortcut methods 9
    9 Complex Distillation Methods 10
    Complex Distillation Methods 10
    10 Staged Column Design 12
    Packed Column Design (Dr. Mark Andrekovich from BOC Gases) 13
    11 Economics of Distillation 14
    Second Exam
    12 Absorption and Stripping 15
    Happy Thanksgiving
    13 Absorption and Stripping 15
    Liquid-Liquid Extraction 16
    14 Liquid-Liquid Extraction (Dr. Akshay Bellare from Union Carbide-Dow) 16
    Mass Transfer Analysis 19
    15 Mass Transfer Analysis 19
    Design Project Due
    Grading :
    Admission Tickets:

    To improve class participation, there will be an "admission ticket" due at the start of each class for both those enrolled and for those auditing. The ticket is the solution (or attempt at a solution) of a short problem. It will be not be graded but failure to hand it in will be considered in the assessment of "class participation". For our guest auditors, failure to hand in the ticket will be considered bad form and punishable by not more than a slap on the wrist. These problems will be available on the web site at least two days ahead of the class. In many cases the problem will be worked during the lecture.

    Assessment: Homework and Admission Tickets: 30%, Exams: 40%, Design Project: 30%

    Teaching Assistant :
    Available