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Factors affecting choice of catalytic reactors. Pressure drop in packed bed reactors.

An introduction to liquid and gas chromatography, partition chromatography, gas chromatography apparatus, plate and rate theory of chromatography, resolution and efficiency, capillary column, temperature programming, high performance liquid chromatography.

Analysis of the separation processes in chemical engineering. Analysis of equilibrium conditions, vapor-liquid equilibrium in ideal and non-ideal systems. Distillation (flash, batch, steam and multi-component), solid-liquid and liquid-liquid extractions, absorption, adsorption, humidification, drying and membrane processes.

A laboratory course in mass transfer operations covering experiments on: Vapor-liquid equilibria (VLE), binary system distillation (plate and packed columns), solid-liquid extraction, double-effect evaporation, spray drying. Some reaction kinetics experiments such as tubular reactions are also included.

Characterization of solid particles and their classification, solid-liquid systems consisting of flow past a cylinder and sphere and flow of fluids through porous media, detailed study of sedimentation and fluidization phenomenon and their applications in the industry, filtration theory and practice, and filtration equipment, gas cleaning equipment, and centrifugal separations.

The course covers topics related to thin-film depositions and deposition processes including evaporation processes, Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD), and Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD). Course will also cover some thin-film characterization methods.

Equilibrium and flash calculations for multi-component systems, selection of separation processes, approximate methods for multi component multistage separations, exact methods for computation of multistage separations, energy requirements evolutionary and heuristic techniques for distillation columns synthesis, heat integrated columns, extractive distillation.

This course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the principles and techniques involved in troubleshooting chemical engineering process operations. Emphasis will be placed on identifying, analyzing, and solving problems encountered in industrial settings. Case studies and practical examples will be used to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Introduction to simulation techniques in chemical engineering, development and solution of mathematical models for a variety of processes through the application of chemical engineering fundamentals, analytical and numerical solutions, computer simulation, principles of simulator structure, data banks, use of industrial simulator.

Introduction to problem structure and decomposition, functions and regions, single variable functions, multivariable functions, linear programming, geometric programming, dynamic programming.

The course covers the basic concept of water desalination and combines water chemistry, scaling, corrosion, heat transfer principles, material behavior, and design principles as applied to desalination processes. Attention is given to the thermal (flash, vapor compression) and non-thermal (reverse-osmosis, electro-dialysis) desalination techniques, water properties and quality criteria and standards as well as corrosion behavior and its control in desalination plants will be discussed.

Basics of enzyme kinetics and immobilization, basics of cell kinetics and cultivation, design of a simple enzyme reactor and a fermenter, methods of sterilization, downstream processes including purification and recovery.

Characterization of industrial wastes, petroleum refinery wastes, treatment processes, solid-liquid separation, ion exchange, adsorption, biological treatments, reverse osmosis, economics, regulations, moral, legal and social implications.

Sources, measurements and equipment design for removal of air pollutants, effects of air pollutants, dispersion of pollutants in the atmosphere, particulate matter and its control equipment, atmospheric photochemical reactions, instrumentation and emission testing equipment.

Characterization of natural gas systems, properties of natural gas systems, product specification, qualitative phase behavior, retrograde condensation, calculation of vapor-liquid equilibria and applications, design of multistage separation, water-hydrocarbon system-dehydration, overview of sweetening, gas preparation and liquefaction.