Mass Transfer Fundamentals
Mass transfer together with heat transfer govern all chemical, mechanical, industrial and manufacturing processes. Mass transfer is of greatest importance in chemical reactors, mixing and separation processes and transfer operations. This course describes in detail all mass transfer principles and combines them with a significant number or examples and exercises in order to familiarize the attendant with problem solving process.
Objectives
- To understand the mechanisms of mass transfer
- To learn all principles and equations of mass transfer
- To understand dimensionless factors
- To familiarize with real life industrial cases of mass transfer
- To understand the effect of mass transfer on efficiency of a process
Contents
DAY 1
- Introduction to mass transfer
- Convection
- Diffusion
- Losses
DAY 2
- Convection
o One component flow
o Multi component flow
o Multi phase, multi component flow
o Mass, energy and momentum balances
o CFD simulation
o Flow and reaction
o Tubular reactor
DAY 3
- Diffusion
o Fick’s law
o Single component diffusion
o Multi component diffusion
o Multi phase diffusion
o CFD simulation
o Diffusion in real [non ideal] reactors
o Axial and radial diffusion
DAY 4
- Combined mass and heat transfer
- Dimensionless numbers
- Transfer around objects
- Chemical reactions
DAY 5
- Computational approaches
- CFD simulation case studies
- Examples and exercises
Who should attend?
This course is a great match for:
- Chemical engineers, electrical engineers, environmental engineers, mechanical engineers that need to understand mass transfer
- Academics and university students that need to increase their understanding of the subject