COURSE LAYOUT
Week 1: Humidification and air conditioning:
1. Basic concepts, Adiabatic saturation temperature
2. Humidification and dehumidification operations and design calculations of cooling tower
3. Mechanical Draft Towers: forced draft towers and induced draft towers
Week 2: Humidification and air conditioning:
1. Key points in the design of cooling tower and Step-by-step design procedure of cooling tower
2. Air conditioning, Example problems on dehumidification
Week 3: Drying Operations:
1. Mechanism of drying and drying equilibria; Drying rate curve
2. Drying: rate of drying for batch dryers
Week 4: Drying Operations:
1. Drying: rate of drying for continuous dryers
2. Drying time calculation from drying rate curve
3. Through circulation and cross circulation drying
Week 5: Liquid Extraction:
1. Introduction to liquid-liquid extraction, Liquid-liquid equilibria
2. Effect of temperature on liquid-liquid equilibria
3. Design calculation of single stage extraction
Week 6: Liquid Extraction:
1. Design calculation of single stage extraction
2. Design calculation of multistage extraction
3. Selection of extractors
Week 7: Leaching:
1. Leaching: single stage operation
2. Leaching: multistage operation
3. Supercritical fluid extraction, Equipment for leaching
Week 8: Membrane Separation Technology:
1. Fundamentals of membrane separation processes
2. Limitation of membrane separation processes
Week 9: Membrane Separation Technology:
1. Various models and application: design aspect
2. Electric field enhanced membrane separation processes
3. Micellar-enhanced ultrafiltration
Week 10: Adsorption and Ion-exchange:
1. Adsorption: types and nature of adsorption, Adsorption isotherm
2. Stage wise and continuous adsorption
Week 11: Adsorption and Ion-exchange:
1. Fluidized bed and teeter bed, steady state moving bed adsorber
2. Unsteady state fixed bed adsorbers, Ion-exchange
Week 12:
Crystallization: 1. Crystallization, types of crystal geometries
2. Solid-liquid phase equilibrium, Theory of crystallization
3. Design of crystallizer, Crystallization equipment
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