Mass Transfer detailed syllabus for Petroleum Engineering (PE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the PE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Petroleum Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit PE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-II scheme and its subjects refer to PE Professional Elective-II syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of mass transfer is as follows.
Unit I
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Unit II
CONVECTIVE TRANSFER AND INTERPHASE MASS TRANSFER 9
Eddy diffusion, concept of mass transfer coefficients, theories of mass transfer, different transport analogies, application of correlations for mass transfer coefficients, inter phase mass transfer, relationship between individual and overall mass transfer coefficients.
Unit III
ABSORPTION 9
Gas Absorption and Stripping – Equilibrium; material balance; limiting gas-liquid ratio; tray tower absorber – calculation of number of theoretical stages, tray efficiency, tower diameter; determination of height of packing using HTU and NTU calculations.
Unit IV
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Unit V
LEACHING & EXTRACTION 9
Liquid – liquid extraction – solvent characteristics-equilibrium stage wise contact calculations for single stage extraction, multi-stage cross current extraction, multi-stage counter current operation. Solidliquid equilibria- equilibrium diagram for leaching, single stage leaching, multi stage continuous cross current and counter current leaching, stage calculations, stage efficiency.
Course Outcomes:
On completion of the course students are expected to
- Understand the fundamentals, types and mechanism of mass transfer operations
- Understand the theories of mass transfer and the concept of inter-phase mass transfer
- Understand concept and determine the theoretical stages, number of transfer units and height requirements for a gas absorption process
- Identify the suitable distillation techniques, determine the number of trays for stage wise contact and determine the height of the packed tower
- Apply the ternary equilibrium diagram concepts for separation of liquid-liquid extraction process , Describe core principles of leaching, estimate the number of ideal stages in leaching operation
Text Books:
- Robert E. Treybal, “Mass Transfer Operations” McGraw Hill Education India
- Christie John Geankoplis Transport Processes and Separation Process Principles 4th Edition PHI
- K Asokan, Mass Transfer concepts, University Press
Reference Books:
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