University of Engineering and Technology Lahore

Section Course Outline Report

Department: Polymer and Process Engineering Printed Date: 08-Nov-2020

Section Course Detail

Semester FALL 2020

Department Polymer and Process Engineering

Section A

Subject Title PPE-307 Transport Phenomena

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M easureable Student Learning Outcomes

CLOs Description PLOs Level

CLO1 The student should be able to formulate and analyze momentum, heat and PLO02 High
mass transport problems - along with its appropriate boundary conditions -
occurring in a process.

CLO2 The student should be able to establish solution for steady and/or transient PLO03 High
transport problems using equations of change.

Grading Policy

Quiz 1 10.0% , Mid Term 30.0% , Quiz 2 10.0% , End Term 40.0% , Assignments 10.0%

Class Timings

Section Content

Week Topics
(Lec)

week1 - Generalized Newton’s law of viscosity

- Viscosity of liquids, suspensions and emulsions
- Convective momentum transport
- Shell momentum balance and boundary conditions

week2 - Flow of a falling film

- Flow through a circular tube
- Flow through an annulus

week3 - Flow through adjacent immiscible fluids

- Creeping flow around a sphere

week4 - The equations of change (continuity, motion, mechanical energy and angular momentum)
- The equations of change in terms of substantial derivative

week5 - Use of the equations of change to solve flow problems

week6 - Laminar Flow of an incompressible Power law fluid in a circular tube
- Flow of a Power law fluid in a narrow slit
- Tangential annular flow of a Power law fluid

week7 - Fourier’s law of heat conduction

- Temperature and pressure dependence of heat conductivity
- Thermal conductivity of gases, liquids, solids and composite solids
- Convective transport of energy
- Shell energy balance and boundary conditions

week8 - Heat conduction with an electrical heat source

- Heat conduction with a nuclear heat source

week9 Mid Term Exam

week10 - Heat conduction with a viscous heat source

- Heat conduction with a chemical heat source

week11 - Heat conduction through a composite wall

- Heat conduction in a cooling fin
- Forced convection

week12 - Special forms of the energy equation

- Use of the equations of change to solve steady-state problems
- Steady-state forced-convection heat transfer in laminar flow in a circular tube
- Tangential flow in an annulus with viscous heat generation
- Steady flow in a non-isothermal film
- Transpiration cooling

week13 - Fick’s law of binary diffusion

- Temperature and pressure dependence of diffusivities
- Diffusivity of gases, binary liquids, colloidal suspensions and polymers
- Mass and molar transport by convection
- The Maxwell-Stefan equations for multicomponent diffusion in gases at low density
- Shell mass balances and boundary conditions

week14 - Diffusion through a stagnant gas film

- Diffusion with a heterogeneous chemical reaction

week15 - Diffusion with a homogeneous chemical reaction

- Diffusion into a falling liquid film (gas absorption)

week16 - Diffusion into a falling liquid film (solid dissolution)

- Diffusion and chemical reaction inside a porous catalyst
- Diffusion in a three-component gas system

week17 FINAL EXAMINATION

week18 FINAL EXAMINATION

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