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CH 802 Advance Separation Processes

Sr. No.	Subject	Teaching Scheme (Hrs.)			Exam Scheme (Marks)
		Lect	Tut	Pract	Theory 3 Hrs.	Sessional	T/W	Prac / Oral	Total
CH-802	Advance Separation Processes	3	-	-	100	50	-	-	150

A. Super Critical Extraction:-

Working Principal, Advantage & Disadvantages of supercritical solvents over conventional liquid solvent, Advantage & Disadvantages of supercritical extraction over liquid- liquid extraction, Decaffeination, ROSE process, extraction of aromatic from spice and other commercial application of supercritical extraction, Application under research

B. Short path Distillation:-

Concept & working of short path Distillation Unit (SPDU), Difference between short part Distillation & molecular distillation, commercial application of SPDU, application research, Economics of short path distillation.

C. Reactive & Catalytic Distillation:-

Concept & and History, Advantage & Disadvantages, Various methods of applications, Mfg.of MTBE, Mfg, of ETBE and other commercial application, BALE & KATMAX packing, etc.

D. Pressure swing Adsorption:-

Concept & Working, Advantage & Disadvantages of PSA over cryogenic distillation, four step PSA, six step PSA, Purification of hydrogen, oxygen, Nitrogen & other commercial applications of PSA.

E. Melt Crystallization:-

Concept, Different types of crustallization, phase equilibrium, different techniques used commercial applications.

F. Membrane Separation Techniques:-

i) Reverse Osmosis(R.O.)

Concept of Osmosis & Reverse Osmosis , Different types of Membrane modules and membrane material used for R.O., Advantages & Disadvantages, and Commercial application of R.O.

ii) Ultra filtration:-

Concept & working principal, commercial application.

iii) Pervaporization:-

Working principal, Advantages & Disadvantages, Production of absolute alcohol and other commercial applications.

G. Membrane Reactor:-

Concept & working, various modules of membrane used for membrane reactor, Advantage & Disadvantages, application under research.

H. Membrane of Osmotic Distillation :-

Working Principal, Various application, etc.

Text and Reference books:-

i) “Natural Extracts using supercritical carbon dioxide” M.Mukhopadhyay.

ii) “Introduction to Process Engineering & Design” by S.B.Thakore & B.I.Bhatt.

iii) ‘Perry Chemical Engineers Handbook’ 7^thEdition by R.H.Perry and D.Green.

iv) Ullman’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry.

v) “Encyclopedia of Chemical Engineering “ by Kirk & Othmer.