Course - Advanced Dewatering and Drying Engineering - EP8207
Advanced Dewatering and Drying Engineering
About
About the course
Course content
The course will be lectured normally every second year. Next time autumn 2013.
Frame for the technical content:
Introductions to Phase Transitions
Physical State and Molecular Mobility
Water and Phase Transitions
Sorption Isotherms
Food Components and Polymers
Time-Dependent Phenomena
Mechanical Properties
Drying Kinetics
The course can be individually adjusted.
Learning outcome
Knowledge:
The course provides the student with knowledge about:
Dewatering and drying processes
Phase changes and physical conditions
Time dependent phenomena in materials during drying
Drying kinetics
The course gives the student insight about:
Physical and thermal processes for dewatering and drying
Dewatering phenomena and processes
Skills:
The course should enable the student to:
Design and dimensioning of dewatering and drying processes
Evaluation of different processes and suitability for different materials and solutions
General competence:
The course should give the student:
Basic competence within dewatering and drying processes
Knowledge about phase changes and water mobility in products during dewatering and drying
Learning methods and activities
Colloquium and obligatory calculation tasks. To pass the course a score of at least 70 percent is required.
Compulsory assignments
- Practical tasks
Recommended previous knowledge
Basic knowledge in thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer.
Course materials
Selected chapters from following books: Phase Transitions in Foods, Yrjö Roos, Guide to Industrial Drying, Arun S. Mujumdar, Selected articles and notes.
Subject areas
- Energy and Process Engineering
- Industrial Process Technology
- Food Subjects
- Technological subjects