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IC-401
Industrial Stoichiometry and Unit Operations |
| Mass Transfer |
Local and Overall
Mass transfer co-efficients, Sparged Vessels- Determination
of gas bubble diameter, gas hold up and Interfacial Area Gas
Absorption: Choice of solvent for absorption, Minimum Liquid-
Gas ratio for Absorbers, HETP in continuous contact equipments.
Distillation: Enthalpy concentration diagrams, Use of Ponchon
Savarit method in the design of multistage tray towers and
packed towers. Liquid Extraction: Choice of solvent for extraction,
Binodal solubility curves, Calculations for single stage and
multi stage cross & countercurrent extraction, Differential
Extractors. Drying: Rate of batch drying, calculations for
cross and through circulation drying, Rate of drying for continuous
driers, Hold up in rotary driers. Filtration: Theory of Filtration,
Filtration Calculations, Filtration in centrifuges.
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| Heat Transfer |
Local and Overall
heat transfer co-efficients. Introduction to thermal diffusivity.
Three Dimensional heat conduction equation in rectangular
and cylindrical co-ordinates, Effect of variable thermal conductivity,
Heat transfer from extended surfaces. Calculations for free
and forced convection in rectangular, cylindrical and spherical
surfaces. Dropwise and film condensation., Application of
Plancks distribution law,Stefan Boltzman law and Kirchoffs
law,Radiation Shields. LMTD correction factors, Design of
single and multipass exchangers, Effectiveness and number
of transfer units for heat exchangers. |
| Momentom Transfer Operations |
Boundary layer
concept, Calculations for reciprocating and centrifugal pumps,
Use of air vessels in pumps, Vapour locking and NPSH. Design
of flow meters. Pressure and Vacuum producing devices. Dimensionless
analysis using Rayleighs and Buckingham Pie method Motion
of particles through fluids: Terminal settling velocity of
particles settling under Stokes, Intermediate and Newton’s
range in free & hindered settling, Mechanism of fluidization,
Design of fluidized bed columns. |
| Stoichiometry |
Material and Energy
balance calculation for processes with and without chemical
reactions, recycle, purge and by-pass operations, batch and
continuous operations. |
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IC-402
Reaction Engineering and Membrane Technology |
| Kinetics of Homogeneous reactions |
Single and Multiple Reactions,
Elementary and Non-elementary reactions, Molecularity and order
of reactions, Kinetic models for non-elementary reactions, Temperature
dependency and reaction rate prediction from Arrhenius, transition
and collision theories.Integral and Differential analysis for constant
volume and variable volume reactors-irreversible & reversible.
Design of Ideal batch, CSTR and plug flow reactors, determination
of the best system for a given conversion, Study of recycle reactors
and optimum recycle ratio. Studies on heat effects in reactors,
residence time distribution- determination of exit age curve. |
| Kinetics of Heterogeneous reactions |
Global rate of reaction,
Effect of transport processes on selectivity in series and parallel
reactions, Rate equations for surface reactions, Rate of reaction
in Fixed and Fluidized bed reactors, Three phase reactors –
Slurry and Trickle bed reactors. micro reactors, bio reactors. Determination
of surface area , porosity, density and particle size of catalyst
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| Membrane Technology |
Classification of membranes
and membrane processes, Basic operating principles and applications
of various membrane processes – Micro filtration,Ultra filtration,
Nano Filtration, Reverse Osmosis Dialysis, Membrane Distillation
, pervaporation, gas permeation, liquid membranes. |
IC-403
Industrial Process Chemistry |
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Study of following
processes with special emphasis on chemistry & chemical
engineering principles of following processes: Halogenation,
Alkylation, Oxidation, Hydrogenation, Nitration, Sulphonation,
Hydrolysis & Esterification
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Synthesis Based On
Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen.
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Reagents in organic
synthesis and selected name and rearrangement reactions
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Design of organic
synthesis by Disconnection approach
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IC-404
Industrial Management and Utility Engineering |
| Basic concepts of Industrial Management |
Evolution of management
thought- Planning process- decision making- organizational structure-
managing organizational change- motivation – performance –
satisfaction- inter personal and organizational communication- use
of management information system. |
| Manufacturing Management |
Production planning &
control, dynamics of material flow-inventory-bottlenecks and process
variability, planning levels and time scales, forecasting-aggregate
planning, synchronized manufacturing and theory of constraints-just
in time production-shop floor performance monitoring. |
| Resource Management |
Development of skills
for the management of people and their work places- recognition
of people as the basic unit of engg. productivity and operations-
negotiating theory and practices- management of group action –
work delegation across organizational boundaries-conflict management-learning
curves-motivation.Management of non-human resource such as equipment,
plant, materials, infrastructure and assets including maintenance
management. Resource acquisition-maintenance & repair policies-resource
planning and disposal. |
| Quality Management |
Meaning & definition
of Quality-Quality control systems-quality assurance-planning for
quality- total quality management (TQM) philosophy-implementation
of of TQM in service and manufacturing industries-national &
international standards. |
| Marketing in Technology and engineering |
The interface of technology
& engineering with marketing-marketing of professional consultant
services- promoting- advertising-pricing of services-client management-
marketing for contractors-competition-competitive bidding-tendering
& proposals,- winning and securing work commission-distribution
strategies. |
| Utility Engineering |
Industrial Safety-MSDS-GLP-GMP,
, Introduction to non- conventional energy sources, LPG ,CNG and
Hydrogen as fuels ,Heat transfer media , Environmental audit scheme
, Indian standards and legislations for environmental protection. |
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IC-405
Chemical Engineering Practicals |
Experiments on Heat transfer,
Mass Transfer, Momentum transfer, Chemical reaction engineering
and process control. |
IC-406
Industrial Analysis |
Experiments based on
analysis of various Industrial products with special emphasis on
analytical technique and instrumentation involved. |
M.Sc
Final |
IC-501
Material Science Process Control |
Property Spectrum of
materials, Bravice Lattices, Atomic packing factor, planes and directions
in crystals, solid solutions, cooling curves and phase diagrams.
Study of mechanical properties - resilience, toughness, creep, fatigue,
hardness, effect of microstructure on properties. Kinetics of nucleation,
growth, sintering and precipitation reactions. Properties and applications
of Iron carbon alloys and high temperature alloys, failure of materials
at high temperatures, properties and applications of composites
with special emphasis on its use as material of construction in
chemical industries, structures and packaging material. Heat treatment
of materials, Non- destructive testing of materials, XRD and scanning
electron microscope for analysis of selected metallic, ceramic and
composite materials. Introduction to Laplace transform, transfer
function. Process dynamics and responses of open loop and closed
loop systems, linearisation, Transportation lag, Control system,
Development of block diagrams, stability of control systems, tuning
of controller for closed and open loop systems, Transient response
of control systems, Advanced Control Strategies- Cascade, Feed forward,
Internal Model and Ratio Control, Control of distillation column
and heat exchangers. Control Valves- Sizing, Sensitivity, Rangeability
of Linear and Non- linear valves. Microprocessor based controllers
and Distributed Control. |
IC-502
Polymer Technology |
Manufacturing process,
properties and applications of important polymers such as polyolefins,
vinyls, acrylics, polyamides, polyesters, polyurethanes and poly
carbonates. Manufacture, curing and applications of synthetic resins
like alkyds, phenolics, amino and epoxy. Inorganic polymers and
speciality polymers - Introduction to elastomeric, fibre forming
and plastic materials, polymer additives, polymer rheology, fundamental
principles and applications of major polymer processing techniques.
Study of polymer degradation and stabilization Bio organic chemistry:
- elementary structure and function of biopolymers. Bio Inorganic
chemistry- metal chelates in biological systems- metal sequestration
and its industrial application. |
IC-503
Advanced Organic Chemistry & Instrumental Analysis |
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Chiral chemistry
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Pericyclic reactions
and organometallic reactions
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Chemistry of natural
products.
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Elementary principles,
Instrumentation, sampling methods and application of IR, NMR
and Mass Spectroscopy for the structural elucidation of organic
compounds.
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Theory, Instrumentation
and applications of thermal methods for chemical analysis, HPLC,
HPTLC and Atomic spectroscopy.
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IC-504
Chemical Technology |
Chemical Industries in
Gujarat- An Overview
Study of following group of Industries with respect to their classification,
raw materials, manufacturing process of at least one product with
special emphasis on chemistry and engineering principles, structural
features and product analysis:
1. Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
2. Fertilizers and Agrochemicals
3. Food and Fermentation Industry
4. Dyes and Intermediates
5. Cosmetics and Toiletries
6. Surface active agents
7. Organic and inorganic pigments
8. Surface Coatings
9. Adhesives
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IC-505
Synthesis Planning |
Experiments based on
synthesis of organic compounds with special emphasis on unit processes
involved, selected name reactions, heterocyclic synthesis and polymers. |
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A project report based
on literature survey and laboratory work conducted on topics related
to chemical engineering and/or chemistry is to be submitted and
presented as a seminar by each student. |
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