Equilibrium Staged Operations detailed syllabus for Petrochemical Engineering (PCE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the PCE 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 Petrochemical Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit PCE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of equilibrium staged operations is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
Distillation: Basic fundamentals of distillation, Pressure-composition, Temperature concentration, Enthalpy- concentration diagrams for ideal and non-ideal solutions, Raoult’s law and its application, Maximum and minimum boiling mixtures, concept of relative volatility, Single Stage Distillation Differential distillation, Flash vaporization, Vacuum, molecular and steam distillation.
Unit II
Continuous Distillation of Binary Mixtures : Multistage contact operations, Characteristics of multistage tower, McCabe Thiele method, Ponchon Savarit method, Reflux, maximum, minimum and optimum reflux, Use of open steam, Tray efficiency, Determination of height and column diameter, Multistage batch distillation; Principles of azeotropic and extractive distillation, Introduction & Design of multicomponent distillation system.
Unit III
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Unit IV
Liquid-Liquid Extraction: Ternary liquid equilibria, Triangular graphical representation concept of theoretical or ideal stage, Equipment used for single stage and multistage continuous operation; Analytical and graphical solution of single and multistage operation Super critical fluid extraction.
Unit V
Adsorption: Description of adsorption processes and their application, Types of adsorption, Nature of adsorbents adsorption equilibria and adsorption hysteresis, Stage wise and continuous contact adsorption operations, Determination of number of stages.
Course Outcomes:
- Apply mass transfer principles to various phase equilibrium based separation processes viz. perform graphical calculations for binary distillation
- Analyze and solve problems related to various Mass transfer Operations Understand the basics of distillation process and its application.
- Understand concept and determine the theoretical stages, number of transfer units and height requirements for a gas absorption process.
- Apply the ternary equilibrium diagram concepts to determine the number of stages required for separation of liquid-liquid extraction process.
- Understand the concept of adsorption techniques, various isotherms, membrane separation techniques and ion exchange process
- Design the mass transfer equipments to meet the specified needs of the process industries.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Seader, J.D. and E.J. Henley, “Separation Process Principles”, 2nd Ed., John Wiley,2006.
- McCabe, W.L., Smith, J.C., and Harriot, P., “Unit Operations in Chemical Engineering”, 7th Edn., McGraw-Hill, 2005.
- King, C. J., “Separation Processes “, 2nd Edn., Tata McGraw-Hill 1980.
For detailed syllabus of all other subjects of Petrochemical Engineering, 2021 regulation curriculum do visit PCE 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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