ENCH496-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Advanced Separations

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

This course develops further the study of separation methods introduced in ENCH396. It aims to provide understanding of, and the ability to analyse, a wider range of process separation units.

The course covers:
• Packed column distillation, multicomponent distillation
• Evaporation
• Membrane separations
• Pervaporation
• Adsorption processes
• Liquid-liquid extraction
• Air quality control
• Separations in environmental engineering
• Centrifugation
• Supercritical fluid technology

Learning Outcomes

  • Develop process designs for any of the separations covered with a fundamental understanding of the physical and chemical phenomena occurring.
  • Carry out detailed design calculations for separation processes.
  • Be able to select the appropriate technology for a particular separation and thus provides knowledge and skills needed in ENCH494 (Process Design 3) and useful to chemical and process engineering graduates.

Prerequisites

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 15:00 - 16:00 F3 Lecture Theatre
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 10:00 - 11:00 A5 Lecture Theatre
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Lecture C
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 14:00 - 15:00 Rehua 003 Music
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun

Examinations, Quizzes and Formal Tests

Test A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 19:00 - 21:00 Meremere 108 Lecture Theatre
31 Mar - 6 Apr

Timetable Note

36 lectures, 1 test and 1 assignment. Physical attendance at all lectures is highly encouraged. Students who attend lectures regularly are likely to perform better in the course.

Course Coordinator

Alex Yip

Guest Lecturer

Davis, Robert (University of Colorado Boulder)

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Final Exam 50% Closed-book exam, no restriction on calculator.
Test 31 Mar 2025 20% Open-book and AI, computer is allowed
Assignment 02 May 2025 30%


Test: open-book and AI, computer is allowed.
Exam: closed-book exam, no restriction on calculator.

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Seader, Henley and Roper; Separation Process Principles: Chemical and Biochemical Operations ; 3rd; Wiley, 2011.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,268.00

International fee $6,238.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 10 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Chemical and Process Engineering .

All ENCH496 Occurrences

  • ENCH496-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025