Unit Operations

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Unit operations are a major topic within Chemical Engineering and one that students often find challenging. If you are one of those students, you have come to the right place.

We have produced an exceptional course on unit operations, that provides you with the practical and theoretical skills and knowledge needed to understand the important mechanisms involved in Chemical Engineering.

Become more confident from day one, with everything you need to succeed in unit operations. Invest in yourself, invest in your future, become more confident in unit operations, and grow your skills today, with lifetime access to all content.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Understand the fundamental design principles of unit operations
• Understand the concept of Mass transfer from a mathematic and physics perspective.
• Apply Mass transfer principles to diffusivity problems.
• understand the concept of two-phase systems and the interactions and separation techniques involved in the operation.
• Know how to fully design a cooling tower.
• Understand and apply the concepts of boiling point rises and particle analysis during evaporation.
• Design Evaporators, Crystallizers, Distillation columns and Dryers.
• Packed Column design and analysis.
• Model dilute and concentrated solution systems.
• Understand Distillation modelling for several techniques.
• Solve VLE and Non-VLE systems.
• Understand the concept of equilibrium extraction.
• Analyse Liquid-Liquid extraction systems including three-liquid systems.
• Understand and model single and multi-stage extraction systems.
• Consider and understand the concepts of particle size analysis and distribution technologies.

FINISHING THE COURSE

The course will be split into a mixture of video lessons and video exercises, along with a set of downloadable PDFs with additional questions and solutions. To complete the course a minimum of 80% must be covered, and a certificate will be awarded on completion.