Ch E 307: Transport Operations III: Staged Operations
Catalog Description
Theory of mass transport. Mass transfer coefficients. Analysis of chemical engineering unit operations involving mass transfer and separations. Equilibrium stage concept. General design and operation of mass-transfer equipment and separation sequences. Chemical engineering majors must earn C or better in this course. Prerequisite: Ch E 306.
Meeting Time and Location
Tuesday/Thursday 11:45 AM- 1:00 PM, Jett Hall 283
Instructor
David
A. Rockstraw, Ph.D., P.E.
office: Jett Hall 157
email: drockstr@nmsu.edu
phone: 646-7705
Teaching Assistants & Recitation
- Venkata Siddhi Naga Raju Daram
dvsnraju@nmsu.edu - Homework Recitation (optional)
Tues/Thurs, 6:40 PM JH 283
Additional Information
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Announcements
- Final Exam Summary
- 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 in JH 283
- exam has four problems, each of which is worth equal credit:
- Design a distillation system to process a complex azeotropic system. This will be a noncomputational design problem that requires understanding of residue diagrams. You will be provided with clean copies (to be returned clean at the conclusion of the exam) of the publication "Navigate Phase Equilibria via Residue Curve Maps" by Waldo E. de Villiers, Raymond N. French and George J. Koplos in Chemical Engineering Progress, Nov 2002. You should also be familiar with the animation sequence we reviewed in lecture as you will be expected to draw a flow diagram to achieve a separation objective for a system based on a residue diagram.
- Evaluate the performance of a 1-stage batch distillation column. Study Sections 9.1 and 9.2. Be familiar with all aspects of Example 9-1.
- Design an absorber to remove trace gas concentrations. Study Chapter 12 through Section 5. Also study Example 12-2, noting that this example is a "rating" problem, whereas you'll be solving a "design" problem.
- Evaluate the performance of a 3-stage distillation column separating a binary mixture. Study Chapter 4, focusing on the concepts in 4.1 and 4.2.