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Chemical Unit Operations: Lecture - 4

This document provides an overview of chemical unit operations. It defines unit operations as parts of a process that can be analyzed individually and have a single function, such as separation, purification, mixing, and heat transfer processes. Examples of common unit operations are given, including distillation, extraction, adsorption, membranes, reactors, separators, and heat exchangers. Criteria for selecting appropriate unit operations for various separation problems are outlined. The document concludes with an announcement of an upcoming student assignment to present on individual unit operations.

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Chemical Unit Operations: Lecture - 4

This document provides an overview of chemical unit operations. It defines unit operations as parts of a process that can be analyzed individually and have a single function, such as separation, purification, mixing, and heat transfer processes. Examples of common unit operations are given, including distillation, extraction, adsorption, membranes, reactors, separators, and heat exchangers. Criteria for selecting appropriate unit operations for various separation problems are outlined. The document concludes with an announcement of an upcoming student assignment to present on individual unit operations.

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Chemical Unit

Operations
Lecture -4

Dewi Tristantini

Departemen Teknik Kimia


Universitas Indonesia

Course Content
What is unit operation
Description of unit process

Flowsheeting of Chemical Plant

What is Unit Operations (1)


Chemical

unit operations is the basics


for any newly graduated chemical
engineer, this is the first step to
understand the chemical engineering.
Basically this is consist of the Heat
transfer, Mass transfer, Momentum
transfer and reactors

What is Unit Operations (2)

A unit operation is any part of potentially multiple-step


process which can be considered to have a single
function.

Examples of unit operations include:


Separation Processes
Purification Processes
Mixing Processes
Reaction Processes
Power Generation Processes
Heat Exchangers
Transport processes

Chemical State
Rates
Phase (L,S,G, G-L, G-S, L-S, L-L, G-L-S)
T&P

Process and Equipments


Chemical Reaction
Separations/Phase
separation
Movers
Heat exchange
Mixing and splitting

Reactors
Separators
Compressors, Pumps, Turbine, Expander, Valves
Heat Exchangers, Process Heaters
Mixers, Splitters

Separations
Distillation
- Relative volatility a greater than 1.2
- Product thermally stable
- Rate greater than 5,000-10,000 lbs/day
- No corrosion, precipitation or explosion problems

Azeotropic/Extractive Distillation
-Systems normally contain azeotropes
in solvent greater than for distillation
-Solvent thermally stable and easily regenerable
-Solvent commercially available (at a
reasonable cost)

Adsorption
- Adsorbent selectivity greater than 2 for
bulk separations and greater than 10-100
for purifications
- High percentage solute removal
- Acceptable delta loadings
- Adsorbent not susceptible to rapid fouling
- Bed(s) easily regenerable
- Clean air/water projects

Extraction
- Solvent selectivity greater than for
distillation and greater than 1.5-2.0
- Solvent selective for low-concentration
component
- Energy costs high
- Easy solvent recovery

Membranes
- Membrane selectivity greater than 10 (except for
air separation)
- Bulk separation, clean air/water projects
and some trace removal
- Acceptable fluxes
- Membrane chemically stable
- Membrane not susceptible to rapid fouling
- Low to moderate feed rates

Assignment IV
Short

presentation - unit
operation/student group
Content: what is?, brief description and
photo

Thank You

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