Process Intensification
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The official GTU curriculum for Process Intensification (subject code ME02072091) as prescribed for CAPD · Semester 2 divides the course into 7 units, covering 39 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 (ME02072091)Unit 1 General Introduction to Process intensification
- Overview and brief history
- Advantages with respect to safety
- environment and energy
- Barriers to Process intensification
- mechanisms involved in process intensification
- Classification of enhancement techniques
Unit 2 Heat exchangers
- Construction and working of compact and micro heat exchangers
- plate heat exchangers
- printed circuit heat exchangers
- mesh heat exchangers
- foam heat exchangers etc. and industrial applications
Unit 3 Reactors
- Mass transfer and heat transfer in reactors
- Spinning disc reactors
- rotating packed bed reactors
- oscillatory baffled reactor
- micro reactors
- monolithic reactor
- catalytic plate reactor etc.
- multifunctional reactors like heat exchanger reactors
- Reactive distillation
- Reactive adsorption
- Reactive extraction
- membrane reactors
- sonochemical reactors
- etc. and industrial applications
Unit 4 Process intensification in separation processes
- Process intensification in Distillation
- supercritical extraction
- advanced equipments like divided wall column
- hybrid separation like membrane adsorption
- membrane distillation
Unit 5 Intensified mixing
- various in line mixers
- static mixers
- mixer heat exchanger
Unit 6 Alternative energy sources
- plasma technology
- other non-conventional energy sources and their applications
Unit 7 Introduction to Industrial Applications
- Application of PI in petrochemicals
- fine chemicals
- nuclear processing etc sectors
- Some related case studies