CHE 318 Mass Transfer

Course Information

  • Course Number: CHE 318
  • Instructor: Dr. Tian Tian
  • Semester: Winter 2026
  • Office: DICE 12-245
  • Office Hour: Wednesday 11:15 - 12: 15

Course Description

Mass transfer fundamentals with emphasis on diffusion, convection, theories of molecular diffusion coefficients, phase equilibria, and applications to separations and reactor/transport problems.

Topics include:

  1. molecular diffusion and convection
  2. theoretical background of mass transfer coefficients
  3. interphase mass transfer, boundary layers
  4. analogies with heat/momentum transfer
  5. introductory design calculations for separation processes.

Textbook

The concepts, symbols and examples in this course are adapted from:

  • C. J. Geankoplis Transport Processes and Separation Process Principles 4th Ed, Prentice Hall PTR

Geankoplis textbook cover

  • 📘 Free online access: link (requires UofA login)
  • All chapter, figure and table numbers in lecture notes refer to the 4th ed of the Geankoplis book.

Lecture Notes

Thanks to recent developments in scientific typesetting and interactive computing enabled by tools such as Quarto and Marimo, the course materials are presented in different ways. You can view the course notes in the following ways:

  • Directly browsing the webpage of individual lectures
  • Open the slide presentations for lectures (powered by reveal.js)

In either way we have included interactive demonstrations of some numerical solution to a few key problems, and we hope you enjoy reading and interacting with the course materials!

📙Access all lectures here:
Lecture notes and slides

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