Process Intensification
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Process Intensification Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Process Intensification (subject code 3170510) as prescribed for Chem. Green · Semester 7 divides the course into 7 units, covering 65 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3170510)Unit 1 Introduction to process Intensification
- History of Process Intensification
- Definitions and Interpretations of Process Intensification
- Fundamentals of Process Intensification – Principles
- Domains, and Scales
- Techniques of Process Intensification (PI) Applications
- The philosophy and opportunities of Process Intensification
- Main benefits from process intensification
- Process Intensifying Equipment
- Process intensification toolbox
- Techniques for PI application
Unit 2 Novel Reactors
- Introduction to spinning disc reactor
- Rotor stator reactors: the STT reactor
- Taylor– Couette reactor
- Rotating packed-bed reactors
- Oscillatory baffled reactors (OBRs)
- Micro-reactors ( The catalytic plate reactor (CPR)
- Hydrodynamic Cavitation Reactors
Unit 3 Intensive mixers
- Introduction to special types of mixers
- Ultrasound mixers
- Mixing in intensified equipment
- Chemical Processing in High-Gravity Fields Atomizer
- Ultrasound Atomization
- High intensity inline mixers reactors
- Static mixers
- Tee mixers
- Impinging jets
- Rotor stator mixers
Unit 4 Structured Catalysts and Reactors
- Introduction to catalyst
- Overview of structured reactors
- Monolithic Catalysts and Reactors
- Structured Packings
- Three-Levels-of-Porosity (TLP) Reactors
- Membrane- Enclosed Catalytic Reactor (MECR)
- Environmental Catalysis
- Hydrodynamics and Mass Transfer in Monoliths
Unit 5 Hybrid Separation
- Distillation – dividing wall columns
- Short path distillation
- Membrane distillation
- Extractive distillation
- Adsorptive distillation
- Membrane absorption/stripping
- Adsorptive membranes (membrane chromatography)
- Membrane extraction
- Supercritical separation
- Barriers and future prospects
Unit 6 Integration of reaction and separation
- Heat Integrated Distillation Trains
- Reactive distillation
- Reactive extraction
- Reactive absorption
- Fundamentals of process modeling in integrated systems
- Case studied such as Absorption of NOx, Coke Gas Purification
- Methyl Acetate Synthesis
- Synthesis Bachelor/Master of Engineering Syllabus Subject Code : 3170510 Subject Name : Process Intensification of Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether
Unit 7 New Heat Exchangers
- Plate heat exchangers
- Graphite plate heat exchangers
- Spiral heat exchangers
- Printed circuit heat exchangers
- The Chart-flow heat exchanger
- Flat tube-and-fin heat exchangers
- Micro-channel heat exchangers
- Polymer film heat exchanger
- Foam heat exchangers
- Mesh heat exchangers
- Selection of heat exchanger technology
- Integrated heat exchangers in separation processes