Solid-fluid operations
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Solid-fluid operations Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Solid-fluid operations (subject code 2180508) as prescribed for Chemical · Semester 8 divides the course into 7 units, covering 33 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 (2180508)Unit 1 Introduction
- Solid- Fluid operations
- characterization and classification
Unit 2 Mixing and agitation
- Different types of agitators and their selection criteria
- Calculation of power required for agitation
- Scale up of agitated vessel
- static mixers
- intensive mixers
- heating and cooling mixers
Unit 3 Fluidization
- Fluid flow in porous solid beds
- Conditions for Fluidization
- Types of fluidization
- Applications of fluidization
Unit 4 Transportation
- hydraulic and pneumatic transport
Unit 5 Filtration and sedimentation
- Cake filters
- Constant rate filtration
- constant pressure filtration
- Filter press
- Shell and leaf filters
- vacuum filters
- Centrifugal filters
- Filter media
- Filter aids
- Clarifying filters
- Gravity classifiers
- Sink and float method
- Clarifiers and thickeners
- Batch sedimentation
- Rate of sedimentation
Unit 6 Solid- Fluid Mass Transfer
- Growth of crystals
Unit 7 Solid- Fluid Reactors
- Fluidized bed reactor
- moving bed reactor
- slurry bed reactor
- fixed bed reactor
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