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Separation Processes: CHE 4M3

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Course outline Course videos from 2012 Copyright and other legal stuff Comments, questions, feedback? Don't wait for official course evaluations. Announcements (previous ones) As announced in class, assignment 5 will be optional. The grades for the assignment portion of the course will be best 4 assignments submitted, so each assignment counts 5%. Now I will make the deal even better for you: if you submitted 5 assignments over the semester, then the assignment that was not used in the best 4, will be a bonus grade, weighing 5%. Example: you submit 5 assignments and got: 50%, 60%, 70%, 80% and 90% respectively the assignment portion of your course grade will be (60+70+80+90)/4 x 0.20 = 15% you get a bonus grade of 50 * 0.05 = 2.5% If you hand in 4 or fewer assignments, then there is no bonus grade. This is one way you can boost your grade if you didn't do so well in the midterm. Due time for presentations is now 7pm the day before: no exceptions after that. Future groups, please make sure your names appear on one of the slides. Thanks. Here are presentations for Tuesday. Please print and bring to class. Important announcement regarding the take-home midterm and assignment 5. From speaking with your class members, I've realized this term is just too crazy with final projects and hand-ins in your other courses. The value you will get from a take-home midterm is about that from a large assignment. Rather than having your do the take-home midterm and assignment 5, I'd rather you do one thing well. So I'd rather you do assignment 5 (which will be posted soon), so you have seen an equal number of questions from all topics in the course. The take-home would cover the entire course and be more computer-based questions, while assignment 5 would focus only on recent material and be more hand-written questions. If I cancel the take-home, this leaves 10% of your grade unaccounted. Here's what I propose (note, it is not confirmed yet). Drop the take-home midterm and transfer its 10% overall course grade to: the final exam, OR spread it out equally over the entire course (i.e. divide your final percentage by 90 instead of 100) But, I will pick whichever option gives you the higher final grade, on an individual basis. I.e. some people will have option 1 and others option 2, which ever benefits your more. This obviously makes grading a bit messy for me, but I think it will work OK. How does this proposal work for you? Let me know your thoughts by Wednesday and I will make a final decision based on the class consensus. Note that assignment 5 will still be optional as described above, but of course I strongly recommend you do it.

Overview of separation processes Thickeners and clarifiers (sedimentation), screens, centrifuges and cyclones Membranes, dialysis, reverse osmosis, filters and bioseparations Liquid-liquid extraction Adsorption Evaporation, drying and overview of crystallization Course wrap up Supplementary readings Course pack for 2011

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Assignments: Assignment 1 - 2012 (with solutions) Assignment 2 - 2012 (with solutions) Assignment 3 - 2012 (with solutions) Assignment 4 - 2012 Assignment 5 - 2012 New: How to submit an assignment electronically Tests, exams and project Take-home exam Course project Written midterm (with solutions) Final exam Practice questions for tests and exams