Course: Diffusion Processes

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Course title Diffusion Processes
Course code UECHI/C036
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 11
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Palatý Zdeněk, doc. Ing. CSc.
Course content
Liquid-vapour equilibrium, partition coefficients, fugacity and activity coefficients. Continuous distillation of binary mixtures with side streams. Azeotropic distillation, homogeneous and heterogeneous azeotrop. Batch distillation of binary mixtures. Flash distillation of multicomponent mixtures. Dew point temperature, boiling point temperature. Continuous distillation of multicomponent mixtures, short-cut and rigorous methods. Diffusion in binary mixtures. Diffusion in gases and liquids, methods for the estimation of diffusion coefficients. Mass transfer coefficients. Non-isothermal absorption. Multicomponent absorption. Mass exchangers, their basic characteristics.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the subject is to create a complex student idea on the solution to complicated diffusion processes with the transport of one conponent, and in the case of the selected diffusion processes, with the multicomponent transport.
After this course, the student is able to orient in short-cut and rigorous methods used for the selected diffusion processes. He is also able to judge conditions, which lead to simplified solutions.
Prerequisites
Chemical engineering I, Chemical Engineering II

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Written examination

There is an oral examination. The primary form is a debate about selected themes. The level of acquired knowledge, conceptions and application acquirements is examined. Knowledge is examined by a test during the semestr and its result is included into the total classification.
Recommended literature
  • Coulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering. Chemical Engineering Design (Coulson and Richardson's Chemical Engineering Series), 3rd Ed.. Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999.
  • CRANK J. The Mathematics of Diffusion, 2nd Ed.. Oxford University Press, New York, 1975.
  • CUSSLER E.L. Diffusion. Mass Transfer in Fluid Systems, 2nd Ed.. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • HOLLAND Ch.D. Fundamentals and Modelling Separation Processes. Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1975.
  • PERRY R.H., GREEN D.W. Perry´s Chemical Engineers' Handbook. 7th Ed.. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1997.
  • SAWISTOWSKI H., SMITH W. Výpočty procesů převodu hmoty. SNTL Praha, 1969.
  • SMITH B.D. Design of Equilibrium Stage Processes. Mc Graw-Hill, New York, 1963.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Chemical Technology Study plan (Version): Chemical Engineering (2013) Category: Engineering chemistry and chemistry of silicates 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Chemical Technology Study plan (Version): Chemical Engineering (2015) Category: Engineering chemistry and chemistry of silicates 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Chemical Technology Study plan (Version): Chemical Engineering (2016) Category: Engineering chemistry and chemistry of silicates 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer