Separation Technologies for Industrial Processes

Objective

Separation technologies are responsible for several important processes, such as extracting the final product from the synthesis medium; treating effluent streams before environmental discharge; recovering materials that can be reused for subsequent manufacture cycles; or isolating valuable intermediate products that can be used in a different industry or sold. This course will cover the operating mechanisms, basic design methods, thermo-economic analysis, and ecological impact evaluation of these separation techniques, in order to select and design the optimal sustainable separation solution for a given practical problem.

Syllabus

Major industrial separation methods, namely distillation, membrane separations, adsorption, absorption, and liquidliquid extraction; basic design and analytical methods for the technologies; thermodynamic analysis and second law efficiency; economic analysis; case studies on important practical separation problems; the ecological impact of proposed technology in case study