CHE-2211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Unit Operation, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Industrial Engineering
6 May 2019
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Any process that can be designed consists of a series of physical and chemical operations that in some cases are specific to the process considered, but in others, they are common and equal operations for several processes. Generally a process can be broken down in the following sequence: Each of these operations is a unitary operation. 1915 at the massachusetts institute of technology (m. i. t. ). " any chemical process conducted on any scale can be decomposed into an ordered series of what might be called unit operations, such as spraying, drying, crystallization, filtration, evaporation, distillation, etc. The number of these basic operations is not very large , generally only a few of them intervene in a certain process. " A certain process will be, therefore, the combination of unit operations. Each unit operation aims to modify the conditions of a certain amount of material in a more useful way for our purposes. This change can be made mainly by three ways:
