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Mass Transport Operations: Theory and Design Guidelines for Engineering Students

This course covers topics such as mass transfer operations, diffusion, convective mass transfer, interface mass transfer, and equipment design in separation processes. Emphasis on theory, equilibrium stages, tray towers, packed beds, absorption columns, and practical design applications. Open book exams on transport processes and unit operations.

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Mass Transport Operations: Theory and Design Guidelines for Engineering Students

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  1. CHE 318 Mass Transport Operations Fall 2019-2010 College of Engineering

  2. IMPORTANT NOTE ALL STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO ATTEND LECTURES AND LABORATORY SESSIONS AS THEIR ATTENDANCE IS ESSENTIAL TO MEET COLLEGE REQUIREMENTS

  3. • Instructor: Prof. M. Asif - Room 2B45 - Tel: 011-467-6849 Email: masif@ksu.edu.sa • Credit hours: 4 • Office Hours: see office hours schedule posted

  4. TOPICS • Concept of mass transfer operations and its role in separation processes • Molecular diffusion; general law for diffusion and convection, equimolar counter diffusion, transfer across stagnant layer, effect of changing area • Diffusion coefficient estimation in gases and liquid, diffusion in solid (permeate membrane, packed bed, catalyst & capillary) • Convective mass transfer, general equation, mass transfer coefficient concept, dimensionless analysis, mass transfer correlations, analogy between heat, mass and momentum transfer • Interface mass transfer; two resistance theory, relationship between overall and individual mass transfer coefficients • Mass transfer equipment • Theory of single and multiple equilibrium contact stages, Design of tray towers for absorption, Understanding the concept about the operating line and equilibrium lines in design of absorption column • Detailed design of packed beds, Use of equilibrium theory to compute Number of Transfer Units, Use of mass transfer theory to compute Height of Transfer Units • Detailed design of absorption column height for both dilute and concentrated solutions • Pressure drop and packing characteristics of absorber and calculation of diameter

  5. Required Text Book (Open Book Examinations) Transport processes and Unit Operation, Alyn and Bacon, Author: C.J. Geankoplis

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