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~ ~ 2 8 6 Building Materials 2
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: assignment and examination
Subject aims and description
A second year subject designed to extend students' knowledge
of material behaviour relevant to building construction.
Detailed treatment of behaviour of selected materials used in
building: steels, high strength weldable steels, aluminium
alloys, plastics and rubbers used for cladding and pipe systems.
Joining methods: principles of behaviour of the different joining
systems including welding, adhesive bonding, soldering,
brazing, mechanical fasteners, comparative costs of various
jointing methods.
For textbooks and references see MP183.
MP~I 1 Mass Transfer
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: laboratory work, assignment and
examination
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to provide the student with an insight into
the theory, and physical reality of diffusional mass transfer.
Mass transfer theory: Fick's Law of diffusion; steady state
diffusion in single-phase systems; multicomponent and
transient diffusion; determination of diffusion coefficients.
Convective mass transfer; mass transfer coefficients;
interphase mass transfer. Theory and design of continuous
differential contactors; mass transfer with chemical reactions;
mass, heat and momentum transfer analogies. Gas
absorption, liquidlliquid extraction.
Textbook
Treybal, R.E. Mass Transfer Operations. 3rd edn, New York, McGraw-
Hill, 1980
Reference
Perry, R.H. and Green, D. Perry's Chemical Engineering Handbook. 6th
edn, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1984
MP~I 2 Unit Operations
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: practical work and examination
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to impart understanding of physical
phenomena involving particles, and the importance of these in
chemical manufacturing.
Fluid/particle systems: hydraulic classification, hindered settling,
thickening. Flow through packed beds, sand filters, fluidisation,
pneumatic and hydraulic conveying, filtration and centrifuging.
Handling and transport of powders, powder mixing, crushing,
grinding and screening.
Textbook
Coulson, J.M., Richardson, J.F. and Backhurst, J.R. Chemical
Engineering, Vol. 2. 3rd edn, Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1991
~ ~ 7 1 3 Chemical Engineering Design 1
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: assignments an examination
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to instruct students in the fundamentals o f
chemical engineering thermodynamic and the basic principles
of mass and energy balances as a basis for further study in
chemical process technology.
Basic design techniques: mass and energy balance
calculations; flowsheets; stoichiometry calculations involving
bypass, recycle and purge; combustion and heat engine
calculations.
Chemical engineering thermodynamics: physical equilibrium,
bubble and dewpoint relations, phase diagrams, activity and
activity coefficients, Gibbs Duhem equation, chemical reacti~n
equilibria, heats of reaction and mixing.
Textbooks
Felder, R.M. and Rousseau, R.W. Elementary Principles of Chemical
Processes. 2nd edn, New York, Wiley, 1986
Smith, J.M. and Van Ness, H.C. Introduction to Chemical Engineering
Thermodynamics. 4th edn, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1987
~ ~ 7 1 4 Stagewise Processes
No. of hours per week: five hours
Assessment: practical work and examination
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to give students a general understanding of
industrial mass transfer o~erations. and of staoewise - methods
for the design of mass transfer equipment.
Applications of mass transfer operations such as distillation,
gas absorption, liquid-liquid extraction and leaching in
chemical manufacturing; descriptions of the equipment in
which these operations are carried out.
Behaviour of plate and packed columns; characteristics of
packings; bubble cap and sieve trays, weirs and downcorners;
flooding, hold-up and pressure drop; selection of optimum
column diameter.
The concept of the equilibrium stage as applied to distillation,
liquid-liquid extraction, leaching and other mass transfer
operations. Graphical and computer-based design techniques
employing this concept: McCabe-Thiele, Sorel and Ponchon-
Savrit methods.
Textbook
Treybal, R.E. Mass Transfer Operations. 3rd edn. McGraw-Hill, 1980
Reference
Ludwig, E.E. Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical
Plants. 2nd ed, Houston, Texas, Gulf Pub. Co., 1977
MP~I 5 Heat Transfer
No. of hours per week: five hours
Assessment: practical work and examination
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to provide the student with a sound approach
to the design and selection of heat transfer equipment.
Description and characteristics of shell and tube exchangers,
and alternative geometries; boilers, condensers, etc. with
examples of their use.