Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week	Topic
1	Mass transfer, molecular and bulk diffusion, diffusion in multicomponent systems.
2	Determination/calculation of mass transfer coefficients. Analogy among momentum, heat and mass transfer and dimensionless numbers and correlations.
3	Mass transfer by turbulent diffusion, dimensionless numbers and mass transfer correlations and mass transfer theories
4	Equilibrium and resistance concepts by the mass transfer between phases, relations between individual and overall mass transfer coefficients and relative resistances.
5	Gas Absorption, Henry's Law, Solvent Selection Criteria, Gas absorption in tray column, operational relationship, minimum solvent amount and the number of trays.
6	Mass transfer in packed column (number of transfer units and height of transfer units) and hydrodynamics.
7	Flash and simple distillation.
8	Numerical methods in rectification.
9	Graphical methods in rectification.
10	Hydraulics and design of sieve plates.
11	Liquid-liquid extraction and phase diagrams.
12	Cross-current extraction.
13	Counter-current extraction.
14	Solving the sample problems