Course Details

1	Title of the course (L-T-P-C)	Mass transfer (3-0-0-6)
2	Pre-requisite courses(s)
3	Course content	Principles of Mass transfer: Constitutive laws of diffusion; unsteady state diffusion; Convective mass transfer. Interphase mass transfer and mass transfer coefficients; Mass transfer theories/models; Equilibrium stages and transfer units: number and height of transfer units; stage efficiency. Gas absorption: plate and packed column design. Distillation: batch distillation, continuous fractionation, other types of distillation (e.g., azeotropic), solvent extraction, drying, cooling towers.
4	Texts/References	1R.E.Treybal, Mass Transfer Operations, 3rd Edition, McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 1983. E.D. Cussler, Di usion - Mass Transfer in Fluid Systems, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1984. A. S. Foust, Principles of Unit Operations, 2nd Edition, Wiley, New York, 1980. C.J. Geankoplis, Transport Processes and Unit Operations, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall, India, 1993.

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