CHE421 : MASS TRANSFER I

Department

Department of Chemical Engineering

Academic Program

Bachelor in Chemical Engineering

Type

Compulsory

Credits

03

Prerequisite

ChE312GS203

Overview

Introduction to mass transfer and its operation; principles of diffusion; Fick's law of molecular diffusion; diffusion in gases; liquids and solids; diffusion coefficient in gases and liquids; shell mass balance with and without chemical reactions; unsteady state diffusion; mass transfer coefficients; theories of mass transfer; determination of mass transfer coefficients; interphase mass transfer; the principles of equilibrium stage processes; mass transfer operations; binary distillation; flash and differential vaporizations; batch and continuous rectificatiorls; McCabe and Theile method; Panchan Savarite method; analytical methods; special cases of distillation.