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CET 221 Principles of Unit Operations II

ND2 levelEngineering & Technology19 topics

CET 221 covers 19 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Leaching and extraction processes
  2. Gas absorption operations
  3. Evaporation
  4. Humidification
  5. Drying
  6. Crystallization
  7. Leaching processes
  8. Extraction processes
  9. Liquid-liquid and liquid-solid equilibria
  10. Feed pre-treatment
  11. Solvent recovery
  12. Batch and continuous operations
  13. Counter-current contacting systems
  14. Extraction equipment
  15. Gas absorption and stripping
  16. Packed towers and absorption towers
  17. Single and multiple-effect evaporation
  18. Humidification and drying
  19. Cooling towers and psychrometry

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Leaching and extraction processes

Leaching and extraction are the primary unit operations used to separate valuable metals from ores and to isolate organic compounds from aqueous solutions. Mastery of the driving forces, mass transfer regimes, and design equations for these processes is essential for the NUC CCMAS, NBTE, and NCCE exams because they directly test the ability to predict recovery, design equipment, and troubleshoot operational problems.

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