Courses Handbook 2008 - [ Archived ]

302257 (v.2) ChE 321 Mass Transfer Operations


Area: Department of Chemical Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Other: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s): 302200 (v.2) ChE 516 Mass Transfer Operations or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 302249 (v.2) ChE 223 Thermodynamics or any previous version
AND
307661 (v.1) ChE 212 Process Analysis or any previous version
AND
308807 (v.1) Fluid Mechanics 230 or any previous version
Syllabus: Equilibrium and rate processes. Staged and continuous contact processes. McCabe-Thiele and Ponchon-Savarit methods of design for the unit operations of distillation. Solvent extraction. Leaching. Gas absorption and humidification. The two resistance models for mass transfer, transfer coefficients and units. Column internals, packing and their characteristics.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 030301 Chemical Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2008 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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