List of Experiments / Activities
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- 1To Determine the Gas-phase mass-transfer coefficient in wetted wall column
- 2To Determine the diffusion co-efficient of an organic vapor (naphthalene) in air.
- 3To estimate the Solid liquid mass-transfer coefficient for dissolution of benzoic acid in water.
- 4To study the absorption of a gas in a packed column and calculation of NTU and HTU
- 5To study flooding and loading characteristic of Packed bed absorption column
- 6To study working and operation of the cooling tower
- 7To study the fluidized bed drying
- 8To Study drying characteristics of solids in a batch tray dryer under constant drying conditions
- 9To find out crystal yield in batch crystallizer To study crystallization operation using open pan Crystallizer
Course Objectives
- To impart knowledge about the basic fundamental principles of mass transfer by performing different experiments
- To make them correlate theory and practical processes by experimentation.
Course Outcomes (COs)
After completion of the course student will be able to:
- CO1Understand the principles of molecular diffusion and basic laws of mass transfer.
- CO2Utilize mass transfer concepts to design gas absorption systems.
- CO3Understand the basics of all types of distillation process and its application
- CO4Apply the concept and mechanism of drying operations.
- CO5Understand the concept of the crystallization process
- CO6Calculate reflux ratio, optimum reflux etc.
REFERENCE BOOKS
- S. NO. NAME OF AUTHORS/BOOKS/PUBLISHERS YEAR OF PUBLICATION/REPRINT
- Robert. E. Treybal - Mass Transfer Operations II, 4e, Mc Graw Hill, NY, 2017
- McCabe and J.M.Smith- Unit Operations in Chemical Engineering‖ , 7e, , McGraw Hill 2005
- Coulson and Richardson -Heat and Mass Transfer: Fundamentals and applications, Vol I-B, 7e, 2021
- Geankoplis, C.J. ―Transport Processes and Unit Operations‖, 5e, Prentice Hall (I), 2018
Official AKTU syllabus
This subject is on page 11, 12 of the original AKTU PDF.