B.E. (Chemical Engineering) Advanced Separation Technology Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
The University has moved this degree onto NEP 2020 one year at a time. The first, second and third years are on NEP 2020; the final year is still on the REV-2019 'C' Scheme, which is what the University sets for it this year.
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Syllabus for Advanced Separation Technology
Module 1: Adsorption Process: Adsorbent such as activated carbon, molecular
- sieves of various types, activated alumina. Their characteristics and applications. Regeneration & activation of adsorbents. Thermal & pressure swing process. Fixed bed, moving bed, Design of adsorption column for separation and purification. Industrial examples and related numerical.
Module 2: Super critical extraction Working principle, advantages and
- disadvantages of supercritical solvents over conventional liquid solvents, advantages and disadvantages of supercritical extraction over liquid- liquid extraction. Commercial applications of supercritical extraction.
Module 3: Advanced distillation techniques
- Molecular, reactive and extractive distillation techniques.
Module 4: Liquid Chromatographic Process: Basic concept of chromatography,
- phenomena and characterization. Typical chromatographic separation systems for preparative chromatography. Applications of chromatography in enzymes and other Industrial separations.
Module 5: Membranes: Introduction to the membrane process, Characterization of
- membranes: Characterization of porous membranes, characterization of ionic membranes, characterization of non-ionic membranes. Transport process in membrane driving force. Characteristic flux behavior in pressure driven membrane preparation, membrane fouling, methods to reduce fouling. Types of modules: plate and frame, spiral wound, tubular, capillary, hollow fibre modules and liquid membranes.
Module 6: Membrane processes: Introduction to reverse osmosis, nanofiltration,
- ultrafiltration, microfiltration, dialysis, membrane distillation. Numericals based on reverse osmosis and dialysis techniques
Recommended Books
- 1 Membrane Handbook - Editors W.S. Winston Ho, K.K. Sirkar, Van Nostrand Reinhold Publication.
- 2 J. D. Seader and E. J. Henely, Separation Process Principles.2 nd ed,John Wiley & Sons
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.E. (Chemical Engineering) under R-2019 'C' Scheme, in force from the academic year 2022-23. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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