1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

MP711 Mass Transfer
9 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn Assessment:
laboratory work, assignmat and examination
Objectives
To provide the student with an insight into the theory, and
physical reality of diffusional mass transfer.
Content
Mass transfer theory Fick's Law of diffusion; steady state
diffusion in single-phase systems; multicomponent and
transiennt diffusion; determination of diffusion coefficients.
Convective mass transfer; mass transfer coefficients;
interphase mass transfer. Theory and design of continuous
differential contactors; mass transfer with chemical
reactions; mass, heat and momentum transfer analogies. Gas
absorption, liquid/liquid extraction.
Recommended reading
Treybal, R.E., Mass Transfer Operations. 3rd edn, New York,
McGraw-Hill, 1980
Perry, R.H. and Green, D., Perry's Chemical Engineering
Handbook. 6th edn, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1984
MP712 Unit Operations
10 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: practical work and examination
0 biectives
To impart understanding of physical phenomena involving
particles, and the importance of these in chemical
manufacturing.
Content
Fluid/particle systems hydraulic classification, hindered
settling, thickening. Flow through packed beds, sand filters,
fluidisation, pneumatic and hydraulic conveying, filtration
and centrifuging.
Handling and transport of powders, powder mixing,
crushing, grinding and screening.
Recommended reading
Coulson, J.M., Richardson, J.F. and Backhurst, J.R., Chemical
Enginea'ng, vol. 2. 3rd edn, Oxford, Pergarnon Press, 1991
MP713 Chemical Engineering Design 1
8 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: assignments an examination
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Objectives
J To instruct students in the fundamentals of chemical
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engineering thermodynamic and the basic principles of mass
n and energy balances as a basis for further study in chemical
process technology.
Content
Basic design techniques mass and energy balance calculations;
flowsheets; stoichiometry calculations Involving bypass, recycle
and purge; combustion and heat engine calculations.
Chemical engineering thermodynamics physical
equilibrium, bubble and dewpoint relations, phase diagrams,
activity and activity coefficients, Gibbs Duhem equation,
chemical reaction equilibria, heats of reaction and mixing.
Recommended readings
Felder, R.M. and Rousseau, R.W., Elementary Principles of
Chemical Processes. 2nd edn, New York, Wiley, 1986
Smith, J.M. and Van Ness, H.C., Introduction to Chemical
Engineering 71ermodynamics. 4th edn, New York, McGraw-Hill,
1987
MP714 Stagewise Processes
12 credit D0int~ fi hours ~ eweek
r Hawthorn
Assessment: practical work and examination
Objectives
To give students a general understanding of industrial mass
transfer operations, and of stagewise methods for the design
of mass transfer equipment.
Content
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Applications of mass transfer operations such as distillation,
gasabsorption, liquid-liquid extraction and leaching in
chemical manufacturing; descriptions of the equipment in
which these operations are carried out.
Behaviour of plate and packed columns; characteristics of
packing; bubble cap and sieve trays, weirs and
downcoomers; flooding, hold-up and pressure drop;
selection of optimum column diameter.
The concept of the equilibrium stage as applied to
distillation, liquid-liquid extraction, leaching and other mass
transfer operations. Graphical and computer-based design
techniques employing this concept McCabe-Thiele, Sore1
and Ponchon-Savrit methods.
Recommended reading
Treybal, R.E., Mas Transfer Operations. 3rd edn, McGraw-Hill, 1980
Ludwig, E.E., Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical
Plants. 2nd edn, Houston, Texas, Gulf Pub. Co., 1977
MP715 Heat Transfer
12 credit points fi hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: practical work and examination
0 biectives
To provide the student with a sound approach to the design
and selection of heat transfer equipment.
Content
Description and characteristics of shell and tube exchangers,
and alternative geometries; boilers, condensers, etc. with
examples of their use.
Review of previous work in heat transfer, namely unidimensional
conduction, Newton's Law of cooling, overall
heat transfer coefficients.
Prediction of heat transfer coefficients by the mechanisms of
natural and forced convection, film and dropwise
condensation, nucleate and film boiling. LMTD, FT and E-
NTU methods to determine temperature driving forces.
Thermal rating of shell and tube exchangers; pressure drop
in heat exchangers.
Recommended readings
Coulson, J.M. and Richardson, J.F., Chemical Engineering. vol. 1,
4th edn, Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1990
Holman, J.P., Hazt Transfer. 6th edn, New York, McGraw-Hd, 1986