COURSE OUTLINE
Department & Faculty: Department of Chemical Engineering
Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering
Subject & Code: Separation Processes I (SKF 3323)
Total Lecture Hours: 3 hours x 14 Weeks
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Semester: 2
Academic Session: 2005/2006
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Synopsis
: This course introduces the various types of separation processes involved in the
chemical and other physical processing industries such as evaporation, absorption,
distillation, liquid-liquid extraction and solid-liquid extraction (leaching). It also deals
with design and simulation of separation operations using mass transfer principles. All
of the topics is illustrated by detailed examples and is accompanied by at least three
assignments.
Learning Outcomes
: By the end of the course, students should be able to:
1. Describe and differentiate the various separation processes
2. Classify the different types of separation mechanism
3. Identify basic principles of separation mechanism
4. Calculate the design parameters of separation equipments
5. Analyze the performance of the separation equipments
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COURSE OUTLINE
Department & Faculty: Department of Chemical Engineering
Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering
Subject & Code: Separation Processes I (SKF 3323)
Total Lecture Hours: 3 hours x 14 Weeks
Week
1
Topic
Introduction to Separation Process
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Industrial chemical processes
Mechanism of separation
Selection of separation processes
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Semester: 2
Academic Session: 2005/2006
Learning Outcomes
It is expected that students will be able to:
 explain the importance of separation
process
 identify and describe classical
separation methods
2&3
Evaporation
 Types of evaporation equipment and
operation methods
 Calculation methods for
- Single-effect evaporators
- Multiple-effect evaporators
It is expected that students will be able to:
 identify the different types of
evaporation equipment and operation
methods
 design single-effect and multipleeffect evaporators
4&7
Gas-Liquid Separation Processes
 Types of separation processes and
methods
 Equilibrium relations between phases
 Continous humidification processes
 Absorption in plate and packed towers
- dilute and concentrated mixtures
 Estimation of mass-transfer coefficients for
packed towers
It is expected that students will be able to:
 identify and use the relevant
equilibrium relationship
 distinguish between plate and packed
towers
 design cooling and absoption towers
 estimate the mass-transfer coefficients
for packed towers
8 & 12
Vapour-liquid separation processes
 Equilibrium relationship
 Simple distillation methods
 Binary fractional distillation using
- McCabe-Thiele method
- Enthalpy-concentration method
 Multicomponent distillation
It is expected that students will be able to:
 identify batch distillation and continous
fractional distillation
 design simple batch distillation
 apply the McCabe-Thiele and
Enthalpy-concentration graphical
methods for a given separation
 apply Fenske-Underwood-Gilliland
correlation in multicomponent column
Liquid-liquid Extraction
 Types of equipment
 Phase equilibrium relationship
 Single-stage liquid-liquid extraction
 Continous multistage countercurrent
liquid-liquid extraction
It is expected that students will be able to:
 identify the most common types of
equipment used for liquid-liquid
extraction
 plot extraction equilibrium data on
right-triangular diagrams
 compute equilibrium-stage
requirements of
- single countercurrent
extraction
- multistage countercurrent
extraction
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COURSE OUTLINE
Department & Faculty: Department of Chemical Engineering
Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering
Semester: 2
Academic Session: 2005/2006
Subject & Code: Separation Processes I (SKF 3323)
Total Lecture Hours: 3 hours x 14 Weeks
Module
14
Topic
Liquid-solid leaching
 Equipments for liquid-solid leaching
 Single-stage leaching
 Countercurrent multistage leaching
Teaching Methodology
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Learning Outcomes
It is expected that students will be able to:
 identify the most common types of
equipment used for leaching
 compute equilibrium-stage
requirements of
- single countercurrent
leaching
- multistage countercurrent
leaching
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References
: Students are required to purchase the text book and are strongly advised to refer to at least
one of the following references:
1. “Transport Processes and Separation Process Principles 4 th Ed.” by Geankoplis
2. “Separation Process Principles” by Seader and Henley.
3. “Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering 5th Ed.” by McCabe, Smith and Harriott.
Regulations
: Students are required to attend all lectures. Attendance will be taken.
Assessment
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Assignments and quizzes
Test I
Test II
Test III
Final Examination
Total
10%
10%
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50%
100%