The course is designed to deepen the understanding of separation processes and provide an introduction into current research topics in separation science and technology. Although some effort will be spent on review of fundamental aspects of thermodynamics and transport phenomena, a solid understanding or individual review is expected from the students.

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. Complementary topics deploy mathematical programming and statistical methods for issues in the area process synthesis and equilibrium data analysis.

The objective of the course is to attain an advanced theoretical knowledge for state-of-the-art multi-component separations and the skills for their systematic design and analysis.
 

Lecture/Recitations:	Room CEB 214 as follows Monday, Wednesday: 04.00 – 05.00 p.m. Friday: 04.00 - 05.15 p.m.
Instructor:	Prof. Andreas A. Linninger  Room 211, Email: linninge@uic.edu.
Prerequisites:	Che 410
Tools:	Familiarity with mathematical tools for non-linear algebra and process dynamics for projects assignments, e.g.. Matlab, Maple or numerical recipes in C, Pascal, Fortran,.

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 the performance individual assignments, whose solution may have to be presented in class.

1. Written Project Reports: 40 Points
2. Oral Presentation of Project Reports: 20 Points
3. Homework (typically revised project reports): 20 Points
4. Class participation: 10 Points
5. Midterm: 10 Points
6. Final Exam: 20 Points

• Recommended Texts:

"Separation Process Principles", Seader, J. D. and Henley, E. J., Wiley, 1998.
"Systematic Methods of Chemical Process Design", L. Biegler, I. E. Grossman, A. Westerberg, Prentice Hall, 1997.

• Complementary reading:

"Separation Processes", by J. King, McGrawHill- Book Co. (1981) is an essential complementary text.

• Additional material will be handed out in class

1. Introduction and Thermodynamics foundations
2. Single Stage Equilibrium Processes
3. Multi-stage Separations (1 week)
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 Chromotography