COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOLID-LIQUID SEPARATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MDN 3337 SOLID-LIQUID SEPARATION ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Mining Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ABDULLAH SEYRANKAYA

Offered to

Mining Engineering
Mining Engineering

Course Objective

Solid-Liquid Separation is a major unit operation that exists in almost every flowschema related to the chemical process industries, mineral processing, pharmaceutics, food or water and waste treatment. This course will review the fundamental of sedimentation, thickening, filtration and centrifugation. This course will teach theory of these processes, methods and equipment used in these processes, examples of their applications, sizing and design parameters of solid-liquid separation equipments.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   gain problem solving ability
2   gain oral and written communication ability
3   understand the basics of solid-liquid separation
4   understand the flocculation and coagulation mechanism
5   learn the sizing of thickener
6   learn filtration process and filtration equipment
7   learn the sizing and design of filtration equipments

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Importance and applications of dewatering techniques such as sedimentation, classical and advance filtration methods in mineral processing. General overview of Projects Project #1: Rheology in Mineral Processing, Project #2: Investigation of sedimentation conditions of a suspension (jar testing: effect of types and dosage of polymers and coagulants, effect of pH and mixing rate etc.) and sizing of the thickener area, Project #3: Membrane Separations
2 Motion of Particles in a Fluid: Forces on Spherical Particles, Terminal Falling Velocities; Hindered Settling, Same Settling Particles in Suspension
3 Motion of Particles in a Fluid: Forces on Non-Spherical Particles; Terminal Falling Velocities; Motions of Particles in a Centrifugal Field
4 Sedimentation (Gravitational sedimentation): Fine Suspensions, Coarse Suspensions, The Kynch Theory of Sedimentation Project 2. Experimental studies (Jar Testing, Sedimentation Tests; Centrifugal Sedimentation)
5 Sedimentation (Centrifugal Separation): Behaviour of liquid in centrifuge Basket, Liquid Pressure, Sedimentation in Centrifugal Field, Hydrocyclones, Filtering Centrifuges, Centrifugal Equipment
6 Balance in Minerals Suspension: Flocculation and Coagulation: Electrokinetic Phenomena and the Zeta Potential, Interactions Between Particles, Mechanism of Flocculation, Effect of Polymers on Stability
7 Balance in Minerals Suspension: Flocculation and Coagulation: Kinetics of Coagulation, Coagulants and Practical Applications
8 Gravity Sedimentation and Thickeners Fundamentals of Thickening, Application, Constructions and Types of Gravity Thickener, Thickener design
9 Presentation of Project #2: Discussion and evaluation
10 Midterm Exam
11 Filtration: Theory of Filtration, Relation between Thickness of Cake and Volume of Filtrate; Flow a Liquid Through the Cloth; Flow of Filtrate Through the Cloth and Cake; Flowrate-Pressure Drop Relations
12 Filtration: Basic Equations for Compressible and Incompressible Cakes, Relationship Between Specific Cake Resistance, Porosity and Specific Surface; Filter Media; Vacuum Filtration and Equipment, Pressure Filtration and Equipment; Centrifugal Filtration
13 Presentation of Project 1 and 3. Discussion and Evaluation
14 Examples from Plants

Recomended or Required Reading

-Ipekoğlu, Ü. (1990). Susuzlandırma ve yöntemleri, DEÜ Mühendislik Fakültesi, MM/MAD 90 EY 196, Izmir.
-Coulson and Richardson s Chemical Engineering. (2003). v:2 Fifth Edition, Particle technology and separation processes, Butterworth-Heinemann.
-Christie John Geankoplis. (2003). Transport processes and separation process principles (includes unit operations), Prentive Hall.
-Ladislav Svarovsky, 2000. Solid-Liquid Separation, Butterworth-Heinemann, Fourth Edition, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, 568 p.
-Barry A. Wills ve Tim Napier-Munn, 2006. Wills Mineral Processing Technology, Elsevier Science & Technology Books, 7th Edition, 450 p.
-Materials: Lecture notes

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Class presentation and discussion, Team works, laboratory applications, reports of experimental results, Project presentation

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.30 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.30 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1-5: Mid-term exam, Laboratory and Reports, Project presentation
6-7: Final exam, Laboratory and Reports, Project presentation

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Abdullah SEYRANKAYA: a.seyrankaya@deu.edu.tr Tel: +90 232 301 75 19

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparing assignments 3 3 9
Preparing presentations 3 3 9
Preparation for midterm exam 1 7 7
Preparation for final exam 1 7 7
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 75

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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