155: 423               Design of Separation Processes                       Fall  2003

 

Web page:        http://sol.rutgers.edu/staff/marianth/CHEME_423.html

Lectures:             Mon 1:10am-2: 30pm, Wed 1:10pm-2: 30pm SEC 207

Instructor:             Marianthi G. Ierapetritou

            Engineering C-137

Busch Campus

Tel: (732) 445-2971, email: marianth@sol.rutgers.edu

 

Teaching Assistant:             Lauren A. Britton Office hours: Tue 11:30am -12:30pm, Thur 10-11 am

                                     Email: laure@soemail.rutgers.edu

                                     Tel: 732-4450083

                                     Office Rm#: C144

Course Description: The purpose of this course is to provide fundamental instruction on the mathematics and science associated with separation processes. This course will review techniques required to design the classical separation processes such as distillation, absorption and extraction. Rigorous and shortcut methods will be covered.

Course Objectives:      

  1. Educate students to structure and solve the problems arising in all chemical engineering industry related to design of separation processes.
  2. Learn basics of chemical engineering separation processes.
  3. Learn the use of computer software used for the design of separation processes.

Textbooks:                  

Separations in Chemical Engineering: Equilibrium-Staged Operations

By P.C, Wankat,          

Published by Prentice Hall, 1988.

 

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.

Admission Tickets:

To improve class participation, there will be an "admission ticket" due at the start of the class on Mondays for both those enrolled and for those auditing. The ticket is the solution (or attempt at a solution) of a short problem. It will 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. For Wednesday classes the homework will be also serve as admission tickets.

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

Topics covered:

Week

Date

Topic

Chapter

1

Sept. 3

Course Organization-Introduction to Separation Processes

1

2

Sept. 8

Review of Vapor-Liquid Equilibria

Bubble-point and Dew-point Calculations

2

 

Sept. 10

Flash Distillation

3

3

Sept. 15

Flash Distillation

 

 

Sept. 17

Multi-stage Distillation

4

4

Sept. 22

Introduction to CHEMCAD (Dr. A. Constantinides)

 

 

Sept. 24

Binary Systems – McCabe-Thiele method

5

5

Sept. 29

Binary Systems – McCabe-Thiele method

5

 

Oct. 1

Advanced Binary Distillation

6

6

Oct. 6

Advanced Binary Distillation

6

 

Oct. 8

First Exam

 

7

Oct. 13

Multi-component Systems Exact methods (Dr. A. Constantinides or Lauren)

7

 

Oct. 15

Multi-component Systems Exact methods

8

8

Oct. 20

Multi-component Systems Shortcut methods

9

 

Oct. 22

Multi-component Systems Shortcut methods

Design Project assignment

9

9

Oct. 27

Complex Distillation Methods

10

 

Oct. 29

Complex Distillation Methods

10

10

Nov. 3

Staged/Packed Column Design Dr Avinash Sirdeshpande (BOC GASES)

12/13

 

Nov. 5

Staged/Packed Column Design

12/13

11

Nov. 10

Absorption and Stripping

15

 

Nov. 12

Absorption and Stripping

15

12

Nov. 17

Second Exam

 

 

Nov. 19

Liquid-Liquid Extraction

16

13

Nov. 24

Liquid-Liquid Extraction

16

 

Nov. 26

Happy Thanksgiving!!!! 

 

14

Dec. 1

Dr Randall D. Partridge (ExxonMobil)

 

 

Dec. 3

Membrane Separations

Additional Copies

14 (Seader/Henley)

15

Dec. 8

Adsorption

15 (Seader/Henley)

 

Dec. 10

Adsorption

15 (Seader/Henley)

16

Dec. 15

Design Project Due