Mass Transfer and Chemical Kinetics
Course Name:
Mass Transfer and Chemical Kinetics (MT901)
Programme:
Ph.D
Semester:
First
Category:
Programme Core (PC)
Credits (L-T-P):
(3-0-0) 3
Course modules and teaching hours:
Review of various rate theories, Gibbs and Langmiuir isotherms, diffusion in solids, liquids and gases. Mass Transfer: interfacial phenomenon-significance, interfacial turbulence, electrocapillary effects, enhanced vaporization electrochemical theory of smelting and refining. Process analysis, impinging jets and submerged jets. Continuous flow systems. Analysis of single particle reactions - correlation with packed beds and fluidised beds.
References:
N. J. Thumelis, Transport and Chemical Rate Phenomena, Gordon Breach, New York, 1995.
Department:
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering