Course Objectives: For students in Chemical Engineering to:

1. Understand the physical and chemical basis for distillation and similar staged separations.
2. Understand the use and limitations of mathematical and computer-aided design model models for the design and analysis of separations.
3. Understand the economics of the separation technologies studied especially the costs and decisions involved in process design.
4. Be able to design a separation process to meet a desired objective, such as product purity or production rate.
5. Be able to use phase diagrams for the design of separation equipment such as crystallizers.
6. Have an improved understanding of and ability to apply results from physical chemistry, thermodynamics, material and energy balances, mathematics and some economics to real chemical engineering problems.
7. Understand the general approach to the design and analysis of separation processes.
8. Be prepared to use the principles and tools learned in this course to solve problems not covered in detail as part of this course and to continue learning related materials as needed in the future.