CH3141

Advanced Unit Opera4ons

Tuesdays, 9.30-11.30 am, CBE LT!
Wednesdays, 2.30-3.30pm, CBE LT!

Part 1 (Aug 11 Sep 22): Fluidiza4on

Chew, Jia Wei (JChew@ntu.edu.sg, N1.2-B2-25)!

Part 2 (Sep 23 Nov 11): Drying, Filtra4on, Separa4ons

Bae, Tae-Hyun (THBae@ntu.edu.sg, N1.2-B1-19)

Overview: Part 1 (Fluidiza>on)

Please bring Clickers to class

What is Fluidiza>on?
Par>cle Proper>es
Fluidiza>on Regimes
Components of a Fluidized Bed
Bubbling Fluidized Bed (Gas-Solid)
Circula>ng Fluidized Bed (Gas-Solid)
Liquid-Solid, Gas-Liquid-Solid Fluidized Bed
Design of a Fluidized Bed
Pressure Balance / Loops
PiPalls
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Textbooks: Part 1 (Fluidiza>on)

Principles of Gas-Solid Flows, Liang-Shih Fan and Chao Zhu,

Cambridge University Press, 1998. > E-book"

Fluidization Engineering, Daizo Kunii and Octave Levenspiel,

Butterworth-Heinemann, 1991"

Introduction to Particle Technology, Martin Rhodes, 2nd

Edition, Wiley, 2008 > E-book"

Handbook of Fluidization and Fluid-Particle Systems, Wen

Ching Yang, CRC Press, 2003 > E-book"

Course Outline: Part 2

1. Drying"
1.1 Introduction"
1.2 Equipment"
1.3 Principles and operations "
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2. Filtrations"
2.1 Introduction"
2.2 Cake-filtration"
2.3 Membrane filtration"
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3. Fixed-Bed Separations"
3.1 Introduction"
3.2 Sorbents"
3.3 Principles and operations"
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Textbooks: Part 2
J.D.

Seader and Ernest J. Henley, Separation process

principles, 3rd ed., Wiley, 2011"

Warren

L.McCabe, Julian C Smith, Peter Harriott, Unit

operations of chemical engineering, 7th ed. McGraw-Hill,
2004"

Christie

J. Geankoplis, Transport processes and separation

process principles, 4th Ed., Prentice Hall, 2003 (E-source)"

Richard

W. Baker, Membrane technology and applications,

3rd ed., Wiley, 2012 (E-source)"

Assessment
Reality check(s) Part 1 (20 %)
Reality check(s) Part 2 (20 %)
1 Final Exam Parts 1 & 2 (60 %)