Brief course description
This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of transport phenomena and unit operations for graduate students with a non-chemical engineering undergraduate background. It is divided into two parts. The first part takes 9 weeks to cover physical properties (viscosity, conductivity, diffusivity) and (momentum, energy, mass) transport mechanisms, and shell balance techniques for solving physical quantity (velocity, temperature, concentration) distributions in simple transport problems. The second part focuses on several key unit operations such as fluid delivery, mixing, separation and heating and drying that are critical for students to learn so that they can apply some basic knowledge and skill in this area when they start to work in domestic plants.
Course keywords
pump, flow meters, heat exchanger, dryer, distillation, leaching, extraction, absorption, adsorption, mechanical separation
Textbook
Bird, R.B., W.E. Stewart, and E.N. Lightfoot, "Transport Phenomena," 2nd ed., Wiley (2002).
References
王茂齡, “輸送現象” 高立圖書 (1993)
Middleman, S., “An Introduction to Fluid Mechanics” and “An Introduction to Mass and Heat Transfer”, Wiley(1998)
Syllabus
Transport phenomena:
Momentum transport (3 weeks)
Energy transport (3 weeks)
Mass transport (3 weeks)
Unit operations:
Fluid delivery (2 weeks)
Mixing (2 weeks)
Separation (2 weeks)
Heating and drying (2 weeks)
