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Syllabus |
1. Unit Operations in Chemical Engineering.
2. Operations with granular solids – Milling and sieving: form factor, medium and Bond diameters, sieving analysis, milling energy.
3. Solid-fluid separation – Sedimentation: basic equations for settling rate of large and small sized particles; Filtration: Filters type, filtration modes and basic equations.
4. Bleaching and Liquid-liquid extraction with immiscible solvents: Nomenclature, equilibrium equations and mass balances.
5. Humidification and drying: humidity indexes, wet and dry bulb temperatures, psychrometric charts, air conditioning.
6. Gas absorption and striping: Whitman theory, film coefficients, mass balances.
7. Distillation: liquid mixtures, activity coefficients and relative volatility, operation and equilibrium curves, placement of the feed plate, number of theoretical plates.
8. Preliminary design of a unit operation.
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Main Bibliography |
M. Fátima Costa Farelo; Ana M. Carreira Lopes, "Processos de Separação", UBI, Covilhã.
Azbel, D.S.; N. Cheremisinoff, "Fluid Mechanics and Unit Operations", Ann Arbour Science, The Butterworth Group.
Coulson, J.M.; Richardson, J.F., "Tecnologia Química", vol. II (Operações Unitárias), F. Calouste Gulbenkian ed., Lisbon.
Coulson, J. M.; Richardson, J.F., "Tecnologia Química" , vol III, F. Calouste Gulbenkian ed., Lisbon.
Foust, A.S.; Wenzel, L.A., Clump, C.W.; Maus, L.; Andersen, L.B.; "Principles of Unit Operations".
Gomide, R.; "Operações Unitárias", 1 º volume (Operações com Sólidos Granulares).
Gomide, R.; "Operações Unitárias", 3 º volume (Separações Mecânicas).
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