Separation Engineering I (Fluid Phase System)

Academic unit or major

Undergraduate major in Chemical Science and Engineering

Instructor(s)

Izumi Taniguchi

Class Format

Lecture

Media-enhanced courses

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Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

Class

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Course Code

CAP.G305

Number of credits

100

Course offered

2025

Offered quarter

3Q

Syllabus updated

Apr 2, 2025

Language

Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

「Summary]
Chemical engineering is some studies to make control chemical plants on an appropriate condition and to design a series of apparatuses (a reaction device or separation device) constituting a chemical process reasonably. In addition, separation and purification of the products obtained from a reactor is one of the most important operations in a chemical process. In this class, the separation principle, the basic design method and the basic operation of the separation technologies, distillation, liquid-liquid extraction, and gas absorption that are the representative separation technologies in the chemical process, particularly a petrochemistry process) are commented in this class.
[Scope]　　
Understanding of the separation technologies and learning how to design separation facilities

Course description and aims

Understanding of the separation principle, the basic design method and the basic operation of the separation technologies, such as distillation, liquid-liquid extraction, and gas absorption that are the representative separation technologies in the chemical process, particularly a petrochemistry process.

Keywords

Distillation, Gas absorption, Liquid-liquid extraction, Separation engineering

Competencies

• Specialist skills
• Intercultural skills
• Communication skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

At the beginning or the end of each class, solutions to exercise problems that were assigned during the previous or present class is reviewed. To prepare for class, students should read the course schedule section and check what topics will be covered. Required learning should be completed outside of the classroom for preparation and review purposes.

Course schedule/Objectives

Study advice (preparation and review)

To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.

Textbook(s)

Distribution of the documents prepared by the instructor

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Some documents are distributed at the time of a lecture start as needed and the class is performed a commentary using Power point. The Power point file to use in a lecture discloses it beforehand through OCW.

Evaluation methods and criteria

We evaluate an understanding degree of the students by the results of practice in the classes and the final exam.

Related courses

• CAP.G201 ： Chemical Engineering Basics
• CAP.G202 ： Chemical Engineering I (Phase & Interface Engineering)
• CAP.G203 ： Chemical Engineering II (Molecular Diffusion)
• CAP.G205 ： Chemical Engineering III (Transport Phenomena Basics)
• CAP.G302 ： Transport Phenomena Engineering (Fluid dynamics ･Heat Transfer)

Prerequisites

Students must have successfully completed both Chemical Engineering I (Phase & Interface Engineering) and Chemical Engineering II (Molecular Diffusion) or have equivalent knowledge.

Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).

taniguchi.i.aa[at]m.titech.ac.jp

Office hours

Contact by e-mail in advance to schedule an appointment

Other

Reference book
Written by S. Fujita, Chemical Engineering Practice, Second Edition Tokyo Kagaku Doujin