The course mission is to provide the fundamental knowledge concerning momentum, mass and energy trasport phenomena and the main chemical and physical separation methods.

Expected competences are:
- Mass, momentum and energy conservation laws, macroscopic and differential balance equations.
- Momentum transport: fluid statics and fluid dynamics.
- Heat transfer by conduction, convection and radiation.
- Mass transfer: molecular and turbolent diffusion .
- Analogy between the transport phenomena, heat and mass transfer coefficients, friction factors.
- Main physical-chemical separation processes used in the process industry.
- The concept of equilibrium stage and stage efficiency.
- Main stage apparatus.
- Graphical and numerical resolution methods to evaluate the stage number and simplifying hypotheses of the mathematical models and their application limits.
Expected skills:
- Phenomenological and analitycal analysis of transport phenomena by global and local balance equations.
- Evaluation of momentum, heat and mass transfer kinetics in ideal systems.
- To make material and energy balances of a single stage and multi-stage apparatus.
- To perform the freedom degree analysis of a separation multi-stage apparatus, to evaluate whether the problem is underspecified and in this case to saturate the degrees of freedom with suitable specifications.
- To make the calculus of the number of equilibrium and real stages of the main stage separation apparatus used in the process industry.
- To make the calculus of the packed column height necessary to obtain a specify separation.

Basic integral and differential calculus.