Advance Separation Techniques
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The official GTU curriculum for Advance Separation Techniques (subject code 2160507) as prescribed for Chemical · Semester 6 divides the course into 12 units, covering 41 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 (2160507)Unit 1 Super Critical Extraction
- Working Principal
- Advantage & Disadvantages of supercritical solvents over conventional liquid solvents
- Advantage & Disadvantages of supercritical extraction over liquid- liquid extraction
- ROSE process
- Commercial applications of supercritical extraction
Unit 2 Short path Distillation
- Concept & working of short path Distillation Unit (SPDU)
- Difference between short path Distillation & molecular distillation
- applications of SPDU
Unit 3 Reactive & Catalytic Distillation
- Advantage & Disadvantages
- BALE & KATMAX packingManufacturing of MTBE and ETBE and it’s comparision with conventional techniques
Unit 4 Pressure Swing Distillation
- Concept & Working
- Advantage & Disadvantages of PSD over azeotropic and Extractive Distillation
Unit 5 Membrane separation technique
- cross flow
- membrane materials and various membrane modules used in membrane separation processes
- application & advantages of membrane separation processes
Unit 6 Pressure Swing Adsorption
- Concept & Working
- Advantages & Disadvantages of PSA over cryogenic distillation
- four step PSA, six step PSA, Purification of hydrogen
- Nitrogen & other commercial applications of PSA
Unit 7 Melt crystallization
- phase equilibrium
- different techniques
- commercial applications
Unit 8 Reverse Osmosis
- Concept of osmosis and reverse osmosis
- different types of membrane modules and membrane material for R.O.
- Advantages and commercial applications of R.O
Unit 9 Ultrafiltration and nano filtration
- Concept & working principal ultrafiltration Vs Conventional filtration
- Ultrafiltration membranes and modules
- Commercial applications of ultrafiltration and nano filtration
Unit 10 Pervaporization
- Working principal
- Production of absolute alcohol and other commercial applications
Unit 11 Membrane Reactor
- Concept & working
- Various modules of membrane used for membrane reactor
- Advantages & Disadvantages
- applications under research
Unit 12 Membrane or Osmotic Distillation
- Working Principal
- Various applications, etc
- Text Books: 1. “Membrane separation Processes” by Kaushik Nath
- PHI pvt
- 2008 2. “Introduction to process Engineering & Design” by S.B
- Thakore & B.I Bhatt
- Tata McGraw-Hill Ltd.
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