Undergraduate Course: Chemical Engineering Unit Operations 3 (CHEE09021)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | The aim of this module is to deepen the students' knowledge of the unit operations with a focus on distillation, absorption, adsorption, and humidification and drying processes. This supports study of Chemical Engineering Design 3 in 3rd year and the Design courses in 4th year. This course draws on the concurrent course in Heat, Mass and Momentum Transfer, which gives the necessary foundations in mass transfer theory, and also on the previous material in Separation Processes 2 which should have imparted an understanding of the basic graphical methods in binary distillation and absorption as well as the foundations of mass and energy balances. The present lectures will explore efficient short cut methods for multicomponent distillation, absorption, stripping, adsorption, humidification and drying processes. Both continuous and batch wise operations will be described through appropriate mass and energy balances and relevant graphical methods. The features of the two main types of equipment for these operations, i.e. trayed and packed towers, will be described and compared. Rate-based mass transfer operations for packed columns will be introduced and employed to design equipment for a range of operations in Chemical Engineering. Finally, the analogy between all the different unit operations covered in the course will be highlighted. |
| Course description |
L1 Introduction; Basics of Vapour-Liquid Equilibria (VLE)
L2 Review of flash and binary distillation and McCabe Thiele method
L3 Multicomponent Distillation 1
L4 Multicomponent Distillation 2
L5 Residue Maps
L6 Absorption review and absorption by stages
L7 Absorption Packed columns
L8 Other separation methods
L9 Humidification
L10 Drying
L11 Revision
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 20,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 10,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Revision Session Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
64 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
100 %,
Coursework
0 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Written Exam %: 100% |
| Feedback |
Surgery hours, self study with solution guidelines, small group discussions |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 2:00 | | | Resit Exam Diet (August) | | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Apply the principles of mass, heat transfer and thermodynamics to design a range of unit operations of relevance in chemical engineering;
- Use short cut and graphical methods in design of multicomponent distillation, absorption, stripping, adsorption, humidification and drying operations;
- Analyze critically advantages and disadvantages of various design options and parameters (stage vs. packed columns).
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Reading List
Warren L. McCabe, Julian C. Smith and Peter Harriot, Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering, (Fifth Edition). McGrawHill, 1993.
Robert E. Treybal, Mass Transfer Operations (McGraw-Hill Classic Textbook Reissue Series).
J.D. Seader and Ernest J. Henley, Separation Process Principles, John Wiley & Sons, 1998. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Unit Operations,Distillation,Adsorption,Absorption,Humidification,Drying,Heat Transfer,Mass Transfer |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Grazia De Angelis
Tel: (0131 6)50 5689
Email: grazia.deangelis@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Mark Owenson
Tel: (0131 6)50 5533
Email: Mark.Owenson@ed.ac.uk |
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