Fall, 2004 Syllabus
Instructor: Paul Scovazzo, PE, Ph.D.
Office Number: 138 Anderson
E-mail address: scovazzo@olemiss.edu
Phone: 915-5354
Class Meeting Times/Dates: Monday, TUESDAY , Wednesday, and Friday; 11:00–11:50 a.m.
Office Hours: All day (Open Door Policy) plus two exclusive hours - To be determined. I will place my schedule on my office door indicating any excluded times from the Open Door Policy.

Prerequisite: ChE 317

In general the students should recover the knowledge of the following topics from previous courses:
•  Problem Solving Strategies
•  Material Balances (CHE 307)
•  Vapor/Liquid Equilibrium (CHE 307/308 and CHE 421)
•  Diffusion and diffusivity (ENGR 322)
•  Heat Transfer, Heat Transfer Coefficients, Heat Transfer Coefficient Correlations, and Transport Phenomena (ENGR 322)
It is the responsibility of the student to inform the instructor if the recovery of this knowledge is impossible.

Required Texts:
MSH: W.L. McCabe, J.C. Smith, and P. Harriott, Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering (6 th Ed.) , New York , McGraw-Hill, 2001 .
This text gives only a general overview of the course topics.
Noble: R.D. Noble and P.A. Terry, Principles of Chemical Separations with Environmental Applications , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK , 2004. (Paperback Edition, ISBN 0 521 01044)
We will use this text to give detailed information on the topics. This text also contains written discusses to augment my attempts to teach how to “think like an engineer.”

Reference Texts
While the required texts will be our tools to introduce separation science and give a foundation in the subject, neither are good reference books. So for future needs in this topic, I strongly recommend you pick up used copies of one or both of the following:
SH: J.D. Seader and E.J. Henley, Separation Process Principles , John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998.
Treybal: R. E. Treybal, Mass-Transfer Operations, 3 rd Edition , McGraw-Hill , New York , 1980.

Course Objectives & Outcomes
Objective: To provide students the basic concepts of phase-equilibrium and rate-based mass transport as applied to separations.
  Desired Outcomes:

1. Given a list of properties for components of a mixture:
1. Be able to select properties and driving forces for separating the components.
2. Be able to predict the selectivity for the process selected in 1a.
2. Use The McCabe-Thiele Method to analyze and perform preliminary designs of equilibrium-stage separations; such as, Absorbers, Strippers, and Distillation Columns
3. Be able to create binary vapor-liquid equilibrium diagrams
4. Be able to analyze and predict the outcome of Distillation Processes using a binary equilibrium relationship.
5. Using the Absorption Factor (or Stripping Factor), predict changes to the process performance (or design) due to individual or combined changes in vapor flow rate (V), liquid flow rate (L), or equilibrium conditions (m).
6. Determine mass transfer for gas-liquid systems using film theory, and determine mass transfer coefficients using appropriate methods
7. Perform preliminary design of packed bed strippers and absorbers
8. Use numerical integration to solve problems such as batch distillation
9. Use numerical methods to regress binary vapor-liquid equilibrium and gas adsorption data
10. Write expressions for adsorption beds and perform preliminary design calculations for these operations
11. Select and analyze an appropriate separations process for a given system.
12. Be able to instruct other engineers on a separation method not cover in this course through self-learning, literature research, and communications.

Overall Course Grading

20% - Homework (All assignments will count)
45% - Mid-Term Exams (3 exams approximately every 4 weeks)
10% Self Learning and Presentation
25% - Final Exam