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Solids Notes 1 Introduction

This document provides an introduction and overview of a university course on solids processing. It outlines the course contents, which include fundamental properties of particles and particulate systems, as well as applications such as fluidization, elutriation, and solid/liquid separations. It notes that undergraduates will complete design projects applying engineering skills, while graduate students will write papers. The document acknowledges collaborators from industry and funding sources who helped develop the course. It provides a broad overview of topics within solids processing and notes the importance of the field to the chemical process industry.

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Solids Notes 1 Introduction

This document provides an introduction and overview of a university course on solids processing. It outlines the course contents, which include fundamental properties of particles and particulate systems, as well as applications such as fluidization, elutriation, and solid/liquid separations. It notes that undergraduates will complete design projects applying engineering skills, while graduate students will write papers. The document acknowledges collaborators from industry and funding sources who helped develop the course. It provides a broad overview of topics within solids processing and notes the importance of the field to the chemical process industry.

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SOLIDS PROCESSING

4200:461/561 Fall 2002

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. A CHEMICAL PROCESS INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE
3. PROPERTIES OF PARTICULATE SOLIDS
4. BULK PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS
5. FLUIDIZATION
6. ELUTRIATION
7. SOLID/LIQUID SEPARATIONS
8. PRETREATMENT OF S/L MIXTURES
9. SEGREGATION MECHANISMS
10. HOPPER DESIGN
11. GRADE EFFICIENCY
12. CYCLONES
13. CONVEYING
SOLIDS NOTES 1, George G. Chase, The University of Akron

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Organization of the Course


Chapters 1 and 2 of this course give an introduction to this course with an emphasis on
industrial applications. Chapters 3 and 4 introduce you to fundamental properties of
particles and particulate systems. The remaining chapters .
For undergraduates this is a design course, hence you are expected to apply design
methodology. You will be assigned laboratory projects to work on in which you will
apply engineering judgment with design skills to produce a final product. Graduate
students are required to write a paper concerning a particular aspect of solids processing.
There are two labs in this course. The labs are well defined and structured. A few class
periods are dedicated to the labs, though you will probably have to spend some time out
of class to complete the labs.
Depending on schedules and availablility, there may be a short field trip to tour a facility
that handles bulk solids. Also, I may invite guest engineers to teach selected topics.

1.2 Acknowledgement
I acknowledge engineer Karl Jacob, at the Dow Chemical Company at Midland
Michigan, for his enthusiastic support in helping me prepare and organize this course.
Karl introduced me to many of the topics used in pneumatic conveying and hopper design
and helped write many of the notes.
I acknowledge the National Science Foundation GOALI grant CTS 9613904 for its
financial support that made it possible for Karl Jacob and I to collaborate in developing
this course.
Finally, I acknowledge the American Filtration and Separations Society and its members’
knowledge on a number of topics including particle size characterization, surface science
and effects of surfactants, and various methods of fluid-particle separations. Many
discussions with members of AFS over the past several years have helped me to refine
my course notes and to focus on essential aspects of fluid/particle separations. The
collective knowledge is vast and one course can only attempt to introduce students to
selected topics.

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SOLIDS NOTES 1, George G. Chase, The University of Akron

1.3 Overview
Solids processing is a topic area that can cover a very wide range of processes. Processes
could include:

particle sizing & shaping crushing/grinding catalytic reactors


flocculation particle classification settling
pastes (separation by size) agglomeration
packing & compaction caking drying
absorption/desorption crystallization digestion
mixing separations floatation
Brownian motion fluidization surface phenomena
leaching filtration ion exchange
rheological applications slurry flow packed beds

These topics and many more are covered in Perry’s Handbook. Perry’s Handbook has
several chapters devoted specifically to topics in solids processing:

• Handling of Bulk Solids and Package of Solids


• Size Reduction and Size Enlargement
• Adsorption and Ion Exchange
• Gas-Solid Systems
• Solid-Solid Systems
• Solids Drying and Gas-Solid Systems
as well as many topics that are buried within other chapters.
Solids processing is an important part of industrial operations. In the chemical process
industry roughly 60% of the products are particulate in form. When you add in products
that at some intermediate step are in particulate form then 80 to 90% of all chemical
processes used in industry require application of solids processing either directly or
indirectly.
(These items are listed in HANDOUT 1).

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