ENCH396-12S2 (C) Semester Two 2012

Chemical Engineering Separations 1

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 9 July 2012
End Date: Sunday, 11 November 2012
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 22 July 2012
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 7 October 2012

Description

Chemical engineering separation operations including distillation, evaporation, humidification/dehumidification, drying, gas absorption, filtration, centrifugation and crystallisation.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course the students are expected to be able to:

Understand and analyse distillation, gas absorption and other specified separation process.

Select appropriate separation techniques for chemical processing.

Carry out detailed design calculations for separation processes.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

ENCH360

Timetable Note

A mixture of lectures and tutorials will make up the core of this course.
Lectures/tutorials: 34  (3 hours per week)

Course Coordinator

For further information see Chemical and Process Engineering Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Assignment 15% 4 x quizzes due 14, 21, 28 Sept and 5 October
Final exam 60%
Test 25%


The material in the course will be assessed via a series of assignments, a test and a final exam.  The final exam will cover all materials in the course.  Details of assessment will be confirmed later.

Notes

This course aims to equip undergraduate students with clear fundamental knowledge required in the selection and design of industrial separation processes.  The course will cover the following topics:
• Continuous/batch distillation    
• Evaporators and their designs
• Gas absorption processes
• Adsorption and introduction of chromatography
• Membrane separations
• Leaching
• Crystallization

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $777.00

International fee $4,375.00

* 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.

For further information see Chemical and Process Engineering .

All ENCH396 Occurrences

  • ENCH396-12S2 (C) Semester Two 2012