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Che 313 

 Spring 2004

Transport Phenomena III (Che 313)
(4 graduate course credits, 3 undergraduate course credits)
(On the web: http:\\vienna.che.uic.edu\teaching)
The course is designed to develop fundamental understanding of multistage separations processes. The main effort will be spent on fundamental aspects of thermodynamics and transport phenomena. Emphasis is placed on developing systematic approaches for design and analysis of equilibrium or rate-based separations. Applications of the knowledge discussed in class will include steady-state as well as dynamic analysis of multi-stage processes. The objective of the course is to attain theoretical and practical knowledge of state-of-the-art multi-component separation processes and the skills for their systematic design and analysis.
The course will consist of lecture and discussion section as well as student projects. There will be no traditional homework. In the students’ projects, analytical software tools and design environments, e.g. MATLAB, MAPLE, etc. will be used. Case studies will illustrate the applications of system theory in engineering.
Lecture/Recitations: Monday, Wednesday, Friday as follows: Room CEB 230: 11.00 - 12.00 a.m.
Instructor:
Prof. Andreas A. Linninger   
Room 211, Email: linninge@uic.edu.
Teaching Assistants:
 		 Justin Bender
Room 124, Email: jbbender@uic.edu, Phone: 312-996-5517
Office Hours: 8.00 - 10.00 a.m., MWF
Andres Malcolm
Room 222, Email: amalco1@uic.edu, Phone: 312-996-4863
Office Hours: 12.00 - 13.00 ., MWF
Prerequisites: Senior Standing in Chemical Engineering. Participants should be prepared to use their favorite language, e.g. C/C++, Pascal, Fortran, etc. for assignments.

Grading:   
Advanced courses should allow for a high degree of development of personal interests for future professional activity or research. Therefore emphasis will lie on independent project work consisting of a written and an oral part presented in class.
 
(a): Written Project Reports + Revisions:
 40 Points            
(b): Oral Presentation of Project Reports:
 20 Points
(c): Class participation + Quiz
 10 Points
(d): Midterm Exam
 10 Points
(e): Final Exam
 20 Points
The final exam may be waived for students with an overall A performance on all project assignments and the midterm exam.

Textbook/Notes:
  • Recommended Text: (not obligatory)
“Conceptual Design of Distillation Systems”, Doherty M and Malone M., McGraw Hill, 2001.
 
  • Complementary reading:
“Separation Process Principles”, Seader, J. D. and Henley, E. J., Wiley, 1998.
 
“Separation Processes”, by J. King, McGrawHill- Book Co. (1981) is an essential complementary text.
 
Additional material will be handed out in class.
 
 
 
Transport III Che 313
Tentative Course Topics
 
  1. Introduction and Thermodynamics foundations        
  2. Single Stage Equilibrium Processes
  3. Multi-stage Separations
  4. Approximate methods for multi-component and multistage Separations
  5. Equilibrium-based methods for Absorption-Stripping
  6. Enhanced Distillation   
  7. Advanced property prediction
  8. Non-ideal Separations   
  9. Heat Integration and energy management
  10. Rate-based models for separations
  11. Design and Synthesis of Distillation Sequences
  12. Batch Distillation
  13. Process Flexibility and Statistics
  14. Membranes
  15. Adsorption, Ion-Exchange and Chromatography