Mass Transfer Course1: Basic Concepts, Modeling and Simulation-14 Lectures x 90 min, 7 Weeks.

Mass Transfer is an essential topic for all engineering and fundamental fields, besides energy and momentum transport. However, mass transfer is less trained as fluid dynamics and heat transfer and is considered regularly a specific course for chemical engineers and related. While many experts from mechanical engineering to material science, biomedical, pharmaceutical, environmental and nanotechnology fields need to be involved in formulations of mass transfer phenomena.

This comprehensive course on mass transfer is an opportunity for students and experts, to start learning mass transfer from basic concepts, starting from high school physics, chemistry and math to the university level of mass transfer mechanisms towards advanced mass transfer modeling and simulations via following 12 lectures.  

Organizer: World-Academies, Knowledge-Management Startup of Technical University of Dresden (Germany).

Registration Fee: Regular 120 Euro, Discounts: Early Registration 30%, Students 50%, World Academies (WAC) Members* 50 % , WAC-Students 60 %, WAC Group Leaders** & Selected RTR Applicants*** 70% (can be up to 100 % free via RTR Applications). Contact: workshop@world-academies.com *

Course Content

Lecture 1: Mass Conservation Principal Law

• Basic concepts of material & energy balance
• Mass transfer mechanisms in natural phenomena and technology processes
• Steps of mass transfer modeling
• Steady-state and transient systems

Lecture 2: Mass conservation in multi-component systems

• General mass conservation vs. physicochemical spices conservation
• Mass conservation with phase change and chemical reactions

Lecture 3: Molecular Diffusion Mechanisms

• Brownian Motion
• Viscosity and diffusion relationships
• Fick’s laws of diffusion
• Diffusion in gas, liquid, and solid
• Mass, energy, and momentum diffusion analogies
• Transient diffusion in a finite and semi-infinite medium

Lecture 4: Convection Mechanisms

• Continuity equation
• Derivation and significance of convective transfer coefficients
• Forced and natural convection

Lecture 5: Navier-Stokes Equation

• Fundamentals of fluid dynamics
• Derivation of Navier-Stokes equations

Lecture 6: Boundary Layer

• Concentration boundary layer
• Momentum boundary layer
• Exact analysis and approximation solutions

Lecture 7: Combined Material and Energy Balances

• Energy balance in reactive systems
• Energy balance during phase exchange mass transfer (evaporation, condensation, etc)
• Simultaneous Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer

Lecture 8: Mass Transfer with Chemical Reactions

• Reactive mass transfer systems
• Bulk and interface reactions
• Homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions
• Catalytic reactions
• Basic concepts in reactor design

Lecture 9: Empirical Modeling of Mass Transfer

• Mass transfer and momentum boundary layers
• Film and penetration theories
• Convective Mass-Transfer Correlations (Sherwood, Sc and Re Numbers)
• Practical Examples

Lecture 10: Multiphase Mass Transfer

• Multiphase transport phenomena and thermodynamic combinations
• Mass transfer in two-phase systems
• Two-Resistance Theory
• Overall mass transfer coefficient across interface
• Interfacial transport phenomena
• Applications in liquid-liquid, gas-liquid and fluid-solid systems (distillation, absorption, and extraction)

Lecture 11: Practical Examples and Equipment

• Mass Transfer to Plates, Spheres, and Cylinders
• Mass Transfer Involving Flow Through Pipes
• Wetted-Wall Columns
• Packed and Fluidized Beds
• Gas-Liquid in Mixed Tanks
• Continuous Contact Towers

Lecture 12: Transport Phenomena in Porous Media

• Darcy’s Law, basic concept and applications
• Multiphase mass balance and continuity equation in porous media mechanisms
• Complex bulk and boundary mass exchange in porous media
• Practical applications in catalytic process and petrochemical processes

Lecture 13: Mass Transfer in Biotechnology and Biomedical Applications

• Mass transfer in biological systems
• Drug delivery and biomedical devices
• Bioreactor design and operation

Lecture 14: CFD Simulations for Mass Transport Phenomena

• Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulations
• Finite Difference vs. Finite Volume Approaches
• Diffusion & Convection CFD Simulations: Equations, Discretization & Boundary Conditions