May 09, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

CHEN 400 - Mass Transfer Operations


When Offered: F, S, SS

3 Credit(s)
2 Lecture Hour(s)
2 Lab Hour(s)

The course is a study of diffusion, diffusional operations and stagewise separation principles. Topics include the quantitative treatment and design of mass transfer equipment involving equilibrium stage contacting. Operations included are distillation, absorption, and extraction. Additional operations, such as, ion exchange, drying, humidification, chromatography and membrane separation may be included at the instructor’s discretion.

Prerequisite(s): CHEN 320  (with a grade of “C” or higher), CHEN 220 , CHEN 312 .