Advanced Separation Processes

CHEN60461 Advanced Separation Processes 15 Semester 1 Postgraduate Taught Level 6 Ashwin Kumar Rajagopalan Unit coordinator Maria Perez-Page Unit coordinator 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Masters/Integrated Masters P4 ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 7.5 The module will consist on 4 hours per week contact time, divided in two sessions of two hours each. Each session will consist on a one hour lecture, followed by a one hour tutorial. The module will consist of two parts, adsorption (78% of the lectures) and membranes (22% of the lectures) The topics covered will include:<ul> <li>Adsorbents </li> <li>Equilibrium adsorption, isotherms and heats of adsorption </li> <li>Adsorption of mixtures </li> <li>Liquid phase adsorption </li> <li>Kinetics and transport in adsorption </li> <li>Scaleup and separation of multicomponent streams </li> <li>Adsorption equipment and sample applications </li> <li>Gas separation using membranes </li> <li>Pervaporation </li></ul> <div style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The module will consist on 4 hours per week contact time, divided in two sessions of two hours each. Each session will consist on a one hour lecture, followed by a one hour tutorial. The module will consist of two parts, adsorption (78% of the lectures) and membranes (22% of the lectures) </div><div style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The topics covered will include:</div><ul> <li style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Adsorbents </li> <li style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Equilibrium adsorption, isotherms and heats of adsorption </li> <li style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Adsorption of mixtures </li> <li style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Liquid phase adsorption </li> <li style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Kinetics and transport in adsorption </li> <li style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Scaleup and separation of multicomponent streams </li> <li style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Adsorption equipment and sample applications </li> <li style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Gas separation using membranes </li> <li style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Pervaporation </li></ul> Instruct students on fundamentals of advanced methods for the separation focusing on adsorption and membrane separations, and their use in the chemical industry. <table> <tbody> <tr> <td> <div> ILO 1. Select and use appropriate thermodynamic and transport models to describe adsorptionILO 2. Design and scale-up adsorption processes.ILO 3. Use mathematical software to solve complex problems in adsorption separationsILO 4. Identify suitable membranes for gas separation and pervaporation applicationsILO 5. Apply theories for the design and operation of membrane gas separation systems.ILO 6. Use mathematical models to predict performance in membrane-based separations </div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table>  0 Other 100% <figure class="table"><table class="Table" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);border-collapse:collapse;border:1pt solid windowtext;color:rgb(81, 81, 81);font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;" width="0"><tbody><tr><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);padding:0cm 5.4pt;" width="368">Assessment Types</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);padding:0cm 5.4pt;" width="246">Total Weighting</td></tr><tr><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);">Test</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);">20%</td></tr><tr><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);padding:0cm 5.4pt;" width="368">Coursework</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);padding:0cm 5.4pt;" width="246">30%</td></tr><tr><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);padding:0cm 5.4pt;" width="368">Final Exam</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);padding:0cm 5.4pt;" width="246">50%</td></tr></tbody></table></figure> Feedback will be made available via the virtual learning environment following marks release. N Core ReadingHenley, Seader and Roper, Separation Process Principles with Applications Using Process Simulators,4th edition, Wiley.  Essential ReadingA.L. Myers and J.M. Prausnitz, Thermodynamics of mixed gas adsorption, AIChE J, 1965, 11,121-127.R.W. Baker, Membrane Technology and Applications, 3rd edition, John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 978-0-470-74372-0 G  Recommended Reading Cussler, Diffusion. Mass Transfer in Fluid Systems 3rd edition, Cambridge University Press.P. Wankat Separation Process Engineering: Includes Mass Transfer Analysis, Prentice Hall 2011.Encyclopedia of Membranes, Editors: Enrico Drioli & Lidietta Giorno. ISBN: 978-3-662-443231J. W. Thomas and B.D. Crittenden, Adsorption Technology and Design, Oxford Butterworth Heinemann, 1998.R. T. Yang, Gas Separation by Adsorption Processes, Imperial College Press, 1987.D. M. Ruthven, Principles of Adsorption and Adsorption Processes, 1984.D. M. Ruthven, Pressure Swing Adsorption, John Wiley & Sons, 1993.J. U. Keller and R. Staudt, Gas Adsorption Equilibria: Experimental Methods and Adsorptive Isotherms, Springer US 2005.  Lectures 36 0 114