18CH35 Chemical Technology-I syllabus for CH

Water and Air:

Water:

Introduction, impurities in water, soft water-hard water, causes of hardness, disadvantages of hard water, measurement of hardness, methods of softening of water, purification of water, treatment of boiler feed water.

Air:

Introduction, constituents, compressed air, blower air, fan air, types of compressors.

Industrial Gases and Acids:

Industrial Gases:

CO2, H2, O2, N2, SO2, SO3, Water Gas, Shift Gas.

Industrial Acids:

Sulfuric, Nitric, Hydrochloric and Phosphoric Acids.

Chlor-alkali and Cement industries:

Alkali industries:

Sodium chloride, Soda ash, Caustic soda, Chlorine.

Cement industries:

Classification, manufacture, reactions, flow diagrams, major and minor engineering problems, applications.

Inorganic Fertilizers:

Ammonia, urea, ammonium phosphate, ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulphate, DAP, phosphorous pentoxide, super phosphate and triple super phosphate.

Miscellaneous Industries:

Paints, pigments, varnishes, hydrogen peroxide, silicon carbide, glass.

Course Outcomes:

On completion of this course the students will be able to

• Get insight of sources, impurities and treatment methods of water and air.
• Explain the production of different industrial gases and acids.
• Develop flowchart for industrial scale operations and processes employed at chlor-alkali and cement industries.
• Identify various types of reactions and reactor types involved in the production of fertilizers.
• Develop flow charts and explain industrial scale operations/processes employed in inorganic chemical industries.
• Identify the major and minor engineering problems in different inorganic industries.

QUESTION PAPER PATTERN:

• The question paper will have ten questions. · Each full Question consisting of 20 marks
• There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions) from each module.
• Each full question will have sub questions covering all the topics under a module.
• The students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Shreve’s Chemical Process Industries, 4th edn, McGraw Hill.

2. Dryden – Outlines of Chemical Technology for 21st Century, Gopal Rao & Marshall Sittig, 3rd Edn., EWP.

3. Unit Processes in Organic Chemical Industries, Desikan and Sivakumar (Eds.), CEDC, IITM, 1982.

REFERENCE BOOK:

1. Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Kirk and Othmer, 27th volume, 5th Edn, Wiley, 2004.