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CHE-848 Gasification Processes
Campus SCME
Programs PG
Session Fall Semester 2016
Course Title Gasification Processes
Course Code CHE-848
Credit Hours 3
Pre-Requisutes Nil
Course Objectives
  • To familiarize the graduate students with the gasification technology.
  • To understand all aspects of gasification process, gasification kinetics, thermodynamic modeling, gasification process design&related technical and environmental issues
Detail Content
  • Introduction to historical development of gasification&Thermodynamic of gasification
  • Modeling of gasification process&Optimizing process conditions
  • Kinetics of gasification and Reactor theory
  • Feedstock and feedstock characteristics&Gasification processes
  • Fluid bed gasifies, Oil gasification, Biomass gasification&Gasification of wastes
  • Gasifies design and related technical issues&Auxiliary technologies
  • Economics environmental and safety issues
  • Details of lab work, workshops practice (if applicable)
Course Outcomes
  • After doing this course, students will learn about all gasification techniques
  • Will learn, how to apply them in the energy related projects of the industry.
Text/Ref Books
  • GasificationByC. Higman and M. Vaan der Burgt
  • Reactive flows, diffusion and transport: from experiments via mathematicalByWilliJäger, Rolf Rannacher, J. Warnatz
  • Computational methods for fluid dynamics by Joel H. Ferziger, MilovanPerić
  • Control and optimization of multiscale process systems By Panagiotis D. Christofides
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