Chemical Technology

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TOPIC 1: CHEMICAL PROCESSING, UNIT OPERATION & UNIT PROCESS

Chemical Process Selection, Design and Operation

Adequate and flexible initial design is essential for the promotion of a chemical plant organic product or
inorganic product.

In older days it was classified as inorganic chemical technology and organic chemical technology.
Subsequently the oxford university made it as chemical works organization and management.

Some factors that must be considered in planning a plant are discussed in this section. The Process
Engineer is an expert in the current aspects of chemical process design. Practical experience is a must if
the senior design engineer is able to foresee and solve the problems of production, such as maintenance,
safety and obeying the government, environmental by loss and control.

Experience consultants either individuals or professional consulting firms are able to advise, design and for

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erection of chemical plants.

Chemical Process Control and Instrumentation

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Automatic and Instrument control chemical processes are common and essential. Instruments should not
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be chosen simply to record a variables, of the process. But their function is to assure consistent quality by
sensing controls, recording and maintaining desired operating conditions. Instruments are the essential
tool for modern processes. They are classified as
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1. Indicating Instruments 2. Recording Instruments 3. Controlling Instruments

Two types of Instruments are currently used as analogue and digital.

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Analogue Instruments such as pressure spring thermometers and Bourden Gauges shows results by
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mechanical moments of some type of device which is directly proportional to the quantity measured.
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On the other hand, digital devices are converts the quantity measured into a signal and electric circuits
converts the signal to read the numerical values forward by control. Now the computers can monitor and
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regulate outputs from both the analogue and digital devices according to a prearranged program, also
general conventional digital inputs are required. Chemical analytical control has been used in day to day
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factory procedures for analysis of incoming raw material or outgoing products. Thus quality chemicals are
produced more in these days reliably their when human analysed control were used.
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The latest advancement are the chromatography system, many spectroscopy have been automated an
install of on-line basis for the process to run continuously without the problems encountered manually
before.

Role of Chemical Engineers

Chemical Engineers are trained primarily to work in chemical industries. some of the vital role of the
chemical engineers are as follows;

Chemical Process Economics

Engineer are totally different from Scientist by their customers of cost of production and profit generator.
Therefore the objective of engineer should be to deliver safely the best product or most efficient service at
lower cost to the employer and the public who consumes the product.

Material Balance

Yield and conversion are the chemical prospects from the basis for the material balances which is useful for
cost determination.

Materials and their quantities from the standard practices are tabulated in the flow charts, energy given
are observed for the chemical reactions and energy is frequently a major cost in chemical plants but it
often possible by altering the process procedures by using modern separation technologies like RO and
Advanced Separation Processes to produce high quality chemicals with low energy consumption.
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Plant Location

The location of the chemical plant is decided ourselves by the availability of raw materials, transportation,
market and power. Now the environmental constituents, water supply, availability of efficient labor, cost of
land and waste disposal facilities form the criteria for the plant location.

Construction of Plant

For small and large companies construction engineering organizations are available that will built a plant
and participate in its design. Some large chemical companies have their own civil construction department
and starts their own plants.

The advancement of this is the worker who is going to operate the equipment can be more intimately
corrected to the constructions and be familiar themselves for the future alternatives, expansion or
modifications.

In built-in plants the top engineers are chartered engineers qualified for the development activities. They
have been trained and suitably examined to guarantee technical competency and owe personal
responsibility. They are now called as functional consultants and registered firm for dealing with legal
aspects with proper training.

Research and Development

adequate and skilled research with patent protection is necessary for future profits. In the chemical
process industries one of the outstanding tactics is rapidly changing processes, new raw materials and new
markets. Research creates these changes and the factory will have a competitive progress. This research

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brings about development and the adoption of ideas, concepts, methodologies form the production of the
industry. The results and benefits of research establishes the developing coutry on the road of progress
and raise the level of life of common man.

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Chemical Engineer in coming years

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Resources particularly energy and feed back for the Fertilizers and Heavy Chemical Industries.
2. Infrastructure for Transportation and Telecommunications.
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3. Protection of the Environment.
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4. Development of Agro Industries where utilization of waste from Agro industries and exploitation of
value added products from wastes.
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5. Transformation of Rural Economy, Industrialization and Privatization where the profits are less and
consumption is more.
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6. Problems of less Technical context are,

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The latest research and development have classified the following new industries;
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1. Cryogenics in Chemical Technology

2. Chemicals from Sea
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3. Air as a Chemical Raw Material

4. NUPLEXES ( Nuclear Power Agro Industrial Complexes )
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5. Proteins from Petroleum Fermentation and Single Cell Proteins from Animal horns.
6. Food Industries
7. Coal Chemicals
8. Newer Petrochemicals
9. Pesticides
10. Pharmaceuticals Industries
11. Metallurgical Industries
12. Water treatment & Air Pollution Control

The chemical process industry had its growth from pre scientific chemical industries followed by scientific
chemical industry. The growth with restrains, green challenge to chemical industry and the modern
separations process involved in the indian chemical industry seen today.

We define Chemical Engineering as a synthesis of chemistry and engineering. A Chemical Engineering

therefore carries out on a large scale reactions developed in the laboratory by the chemist.

The Major Areas of Work within Chemical Engineering are,

Research
Process Development

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 Process Design
Evaluation of Design
Plant Design
Construction
Production Supervision
Plant Technical Services
Sales of the Product

The Research is divided into three categories like Fundamental Research, Exploratory Research and
Process Research.

S.No. Industry Typical Products End User

1 Inorganic Chemicals H2SO4 Fertilizers, Chemicals,

Petroleum Refining, Paints,
Pigments, Metal Processing
and Explosives

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HNO3 Explosives & Fertilizers

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NaOH Rayon, Film Processing,
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Paper Industry, Lye, Cleaners,
Soap & Detergents, Metal
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2 Organic Chemicals Acetic Anhydride Resins, Plastics & Nylon

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Ethyl Alcohol Antifreeze agents,

Cellophane, Dynamite & Syn.
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Fibres
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Formaldehyde Plastics
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Methanol Mfr. Of Formaldehyde,

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IMS(Industrial Methylated
Solvent) & Antifreeze agent

3 Petroleum& Gasoline Motor Fuels

Petrochemicals

Kerosene Fuel

Oil Lubrication & Heading

purposes

Ammonia Fertilizer & Chemicals

Ethanol Acetaldehyde solvents &

other miscellaneous chemicals

Alkyl Aryl Sulfonate Detergents

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 Styrene Syn. Rubber, Polymers &
Plastics

4 Pulp & Paper Paper Books, Records & Newspaper

Cardboard Boxes for packing

Fiber Board Building materials

5 Pigments & Paints Zinc Oxide (ZnO) Pigments for paints, inks,
plastic, rubber, ceramics and
linoleum
TiO2

Carbon Blade Drying Oil

Lead Chromate

Linseed Oil

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Phenolic Resins Basic kequer warmish &
enamels
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Alkyl Resins Ion exchange resins and
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constituents of enamel
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6 Rubber Natural Rubber(Isoprene) Automobile tyres, moulds,

sheets, footwear and
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insulation
Syn. Rubber (Neoprene)
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Butyl Rubber
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7 Plastics Phenol Formaldehyde Various users in all areas of

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everyday life

Poly Styrene
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Polymethyl methacrylate

PVC

Polyethylene

Polyster

8 Synthetic Fibers Rayon Clothing

Nylon

Acrylics

Polyster

9 Minerals Glass & Ceramics Windows, containers, bricks &

pipe tubes
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 Cement Concrete for construction of
buildings, highways, etc.

Coal Fuels, coke and its

by-products

10 Cleansing Agents Soaps & Detergents House hold cleaning &

Industrial cleaning. Sodium
alkyl aryl sulfonate is also
used as wetting agent.

11 Bio Chemicals Pharmaceuticals & Drugs Health & Medicine

applications

Fermentation product like Medical use

penicillin

Ethyl Alcohol Solvent and Beverages

Food Products Human sustance

12 Metals Steel, Cu, Al & Zirconium All the Building materials,

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machinery etc.

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Uranium Nuclear fuel
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The largest tonnage inorganic chemicals is H2SO4. It is consumed by industry in the manufacture of other
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products. Thereby it reaches the public knowledge vary scarely. Large quantities are consumed by
petroleum and metal industries. The important organic chemical include alcohols, dyes, dye intermediates
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used to produce other chemicals. Ethyl alcohol was initially produced by bio chemical fermentation before
the second world war.
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But now it is produced primarily from petroleum on the latest discovery of natural gas. The important
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petroleum products are gasoline, lubricants, petrochemicals, other fuels and miscellaneous chemicals.
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Since the second world war petrochemicals have assumed a commander role in the economy. The largest
petrochemical ammonia is produced by reaction of H2 from natural gas or petroleum with N2 available in
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the Air.

This Ammonia reacts with CO2 to produce Urea in a fertilizer plant. Normally there are five different units
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in the fertilizer manufacture from coal based mines.

1. Oil & Gasification plant

2. Benfield De-sulphurization plant
3. Ammonia plant
4. CO2 plant
5. Urea plant

The tendency of Urea is to form BIURETS which are used as regenerator salts in the metallurgical
applications. Many plastics and synthetic detergents are produced with the help of oil refineries.

Unit Operation

The basic physical operations of chemical engineering in a chemical process plant, that is distillation, fluid
transportation, heat and mass transfer, evaporation, extraction, drying, crystallization, filtration, mixing,
size separation, crushing and grinding, and conveying. In simple terms, the operation which involves
physical changes are known as Unit Operation.

1. Distillation is a unit operation is used to purify or separate alcohol in the brewery industry.

2. The same distillation separates the hydrocarbon in a petroleum industries.

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 3. Dry grapes and other food products or similar drying of filter precipitate like rayon industry where
yarn is produced.

4. Absorption of oxygen from air in a fermentation process of a sewage treatment plant and half
hydrogen gas in a process fr liquid hydrogenation of oil.

5. Evaporation of salts solutions similar to evaporation of sugar solution in the industry.

6. Settling and sedimentation of suspend solids similar to minimizing and sewage treatment plant.

7. Flow of liquid hydrocarbon in a petroleum refinery and flow of milk in a daily plant for the
solidification in spray dryer.

Classification of Unit Operations

1. Fluid Flow : Concerns the principle that determine the flow or transformation of fluids from one
point to another. The fluid can be a liquid or a gas. This unit is entirely based on Bernoulli e's
equation followed by continuity correlation.
2. Heat Transfer : Deals with principles that govern accumulation and transfer of heat and energy
from one place to another. The three concepts followed here are conduction, convection and
radiation.
3. Evaporation : A special case of heat transfer which deals with the evaporation of volatile solvent
such as waste from a non-volatile solute such as salt or any other material in the solution. The

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evaporation of trichloro-ethylene a cleaning agent in the automobile service industry and acetone in
the case of glassware in a chemical process industries follow this unit operations.
4. Drying : An operation in which volatile liquids (usually water) are removed from solid material.

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5. Distillation : An operation where a components of the liquid mixture are separated by boiling
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6. Absorption : A process whereby a component is removed from gas mixture by treatment with
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7. Liq-Liq Extraction : A process in which a solute in a liquid solution is removed by contact with
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another liquid solvent that is relatively irreversible with solution.

8. Liq-Solid Leaching: It involves treating a finely divided solid with a liquid that dissolves and
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removes a solute contain in the solid.

9. Crystallization : The removal of a solute such as a salt from solution by precipitation in the
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industries for large scale operations, electrostatic precipitation is operated for this concept.
10. Mechanical physical separation: This involves separation of solids, liquids or gases by mechanical
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means such as filtration, settling, size reduction which are classified as separate unit operations.
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The outline of unit operation defines the settling tanks for sedimentation, filter press for
separations, pressurized spheres for ammonia storage, pellatising for fertilizer compounds,
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pneumatic conveyors for cement industry, bucket wheel elevators for thermal power stations
and belt conveyors for core industries and many more in operation.
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Stacks

Gases are discharged into the ambient atmosphere by stacks (referred to as chimneys in industry) of
several types.
The chemical process steps involved the following;

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 1. Preparing the Reactors
2. React them
3. Separate the Products
4. Purify the Products

The purpose of chemical industry is to start from one and other chemical raw material arrive at a
consumer product through a group of physical and chemical products. Therefore it is called as a creative
industry rather than assembly industry.

This mainly fall into inorganic, natural products, organic chemicals and metallurgical industry.

Unit Processes

Processes that involve making chemical changes to materials, as a result of chemical reaction taking place.
For instance, in the combustion of coal, the entering and leaving materials are differ from each other
chemically. Coal and Air enters, and flue gases and residues leave the combustion chamber. Combustion is
therefore a unit process. Unit processes are also referred to as chemical conversions. In simple terms, the
process which involves chemical changes are known as Unit Processes.

Together with unit operations (physical conversions), unit processes (chemical conversions) form the basic
building blocks of a chemical manufacturing process. Most chemical processes consist of a combination of
various unit operations and unit processes.

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1. Alkylation:

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Addition of alkyl radical (CH3) with side chain final product. This alkylation process is widely used
in organic chemicals and petroleum industries. The reaction is given as,
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2. Amination by Ammonolysis:
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Cl-CH2CH2Cl + 4NH3 ------->NH2CH2CH2NH2

EDC Ethylene Diamine
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This reaction is used in manufacture of dye stuffs, organic chemicals and synthetic fibres.
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3. Amination by Reduction:

CH3CHNO2CH3 + 3H2 ------> CH3CHNH2CH3

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2 Nitro Paraffin Iso Propylamine

This unit process is also used in the manufacture of dye stuffs and organic chemicals.

4. Amino Oxidation:

CH3CH2CH3 + NH3 + 1.5 O2 -----> CH2:CHCN + H20

Propylene Acrylonitrile

This reaction is used in the manufacture of plastics and synthetic fibres.

5. Calcination:

CaCO3 ---Heat ---> CaO + CO2

Limestone Lime

This reaction is used in the cement industry.

6. Carbonylation:

CH3OH + CO -----> CH3COOH

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 Methanol Acetic Acid

This is used in the manufacture of organic chemicals.

7. Carboxylation:

This reaction is used in the organic chemical industry.

8. Combustion:

CH4 + O2 ------> CO2 + 2H2O ( Process Heating )

9. Condensation:

C6H5CHO + CH3CHO ------> C6H5CH:CHCHO + H2O

Benzaldehyde+Acetaldehyde Cinnamaldehyde

10.Cracking or Pyrolysis:

C-C-C-C-C-C-C --------> C-C-C + C=C-C-C

This reaction is used in petroleum destruction and distillation of coal.

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1. Fluid - Solid Contact:
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Represented by fixed bed reaction. It is most widely used in catalytic reactor used with precious metal
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catalyst to minimize attrition losses. The catalyst used in the form of pellets. It can represented by the
following figure.
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This is used in the packed column. The design of the column is determined by the breakthrough curve,
equilibrium line for the given system of adsorbent and adsorbate's. The volume of the reactant coming
from the top and the volume of which the product leaves the column, residence time, distribution decides
the dimensions of the column. It is contrary to the fluid bed reactor where the bed is fluidized. Once the
minimum fluidized velocity is reached the porosity of the bed is faster in a fixed bed reactor but varies
from the fluidized bed where the porosity changes according to the height of the bed.

2. Fluid - Solid Separation: (Centrifugation)

This operation separates very finely divided solids from liquid or mixture of liquid and liquid emulsion.

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3. Wet Scrubber:

It is an effective means of removing suspended particles from gas string by contact with liquid shower.

When solids are used in the place of liquid the operation is called Dry Scrubber. In the manufacture of
MEK, wet scrubber is used and in other selected process industries Dry Scrubbers are used,
Scrubber just washes away the impurities and separate the product for further purification.

4. Filter Press:

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It is the simplest type of pressure filtration. the two important parts of the filter press are plates &
frames and fabric used in between the two are made of variety of corrosion resistant materials. In the

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laboratory scales asbestos cloth are used for filtration at different pressures.
The operation decides the value of specific cake resistance, filter medium resistance and compressibility
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of the chemical namely Kieselghur a specific compound in the nature of diatomacceous earth which are
used in the application of bio-physics and cyrstallography.
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5. Fluid Storage:
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Tanks are widely used for storage of liquids of all types and atmospheric pressure when the liquid is
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highly volatile there is a floating roof which acts as lid for chemicals as and when the vapour pressure at
which signifying the boiling point of liquid the roof changes its position and deserves the liquid from going
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out to the atmosphere.

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6. Pressurized Spheres:

Pressurized spheres are used for pressurized storage of liquefied gases or high vapors. The pressure
permits safe storage with no vapor losses. This is seen in the fertilizer plant where ammonia is stored in
spheres.

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7. Gas-Liquid Contact: (Absorption)

The best example is Absorption. It is used for taking a soluble gas in a solvent liquid and producing a
solution plus an exit gas. Hydrogen Sulphide is removed from hydrocarbon by the absorption process.

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8. Adsorption:
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It is classified into physiorption and chemisorption according to the process applied. The former one is
almost a physical change or physical transformation while a later represents a chemical reaction which is a
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irreversible one. the common effluent treatment plants of varies nature lied textile effluents, sewage
treatment, ETP plants in chemical industry, removal of hazardous solid wastes, etc are dealt with
adsorption method and the adsorbent is regenerated over a period of time and used again and again.

9. Heat Exchangers:

The various cooling towers of natural draft and forced draft are example of industrially applied H.Es.
These are common facilities in the thermal power stations and in chemical industries the application of
shell & tube heat exchangers are widely used. this is an excellent application of heat transfer from one
medium to the other.

10.Membrane Separation:

Dialysis is used to separate metals in solution having widely different molecular weight. for example
caustic from sugar solution or cellulose.

11.Size Reduction:

This involves crushing, grinding, pelletizing and prilling. Pelletizing is used in pharmaceutical industries
and prilling used the manufacture of Urea.

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Modern chemical processes are offer extremely complex operations involving 100s of pieces of equipment.
without a systematic approach it would be impossible to analyses an existing process or to design
equipment process. The typical chemical process is analyzed with the following interdependent
considerations like,

-Mass & Energy Balance

-Thermo chemistry
-Unit Operations
-Plant Equipment
-Ancillary Equipment
-Process Plant Diagram
-Instrumentation Control
-Economics
which deals with net profit before taxation profit after taxation dividend paid to the public and share
holders. Once the process as been developed and completed attention can be made to access
the various liabilities, resource and assets.

Alternatives and the remaining choices can be ranked in the order of desirability. They are as follows;

- Effectiveness for reducing waste

- Technical Risk
- Extended of current views in the facility

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- Industrial Precedent
- Capital and Operating cost incurred
- Effect of the Quality of the product

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- Other aspects important in the particular situation according to the industrial
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Conservation of Energy:

dE = Q - W This is a steady state batch process.

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dH = Q - Ws Thia is for flow process.

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Q--> Heat energy transfered across system boundary.

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W-->Work energy transfered across system boundary.

Ws->Mechanical work energy transfered across system boundary.
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E--> Internal energy of the system.

dE, dH--> Changes in Internal Energy & Enthalpy during the process.
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we are already classified the various unit operations and below is a particular basic column of mass
transfer equipment.

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1. Distillation:
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a. Batch Fractionation:
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Used for intermittent operation and handling of small volume of feed and products.

b. Continuous Fractionation:

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 These are used for high volume continous seperation of complex mistures such as petroleum
fractions connected to appropriate pumps, re-boilers, condensers, scrubbers, strippers and finally
automatic controls.

2. Drying of Solids:

Spray Dryer , Rotary Dryer & Tunnel Dryer are some example of these types.

3. Evaporation:

Open pan evaporators and multiple effect evaporators as used in sugar and salt industries for example.
Among these halogen family we have technology to separate chlorine and fluride but production of

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bromine from the 'sea brine'is almost not put into practice as the bromine chemicals is highly corrosive
and necessary precaution has to be laid out for practical purpose.

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4. Extraction:

Liquid - Liquid Extraction

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Solid - Liquid Leaching are examples for this process
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5. Fluid Handling Equipments:

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Centrifugal pumps
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Jet ejectors
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6. Fluid - Solid Contacting:

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Moving Bed, etc.
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7. Fluid - Solid Separation:

Centrifugation
Settling Tank / Sedimentation
Wet Scrubber / Dry Scrubber
Crystallization
Rotary Filter
Filter Press
Cyclone Separator
Electro-static Preciptator
Bag Filter
Thickeners based on Kynch Theory

8. Fluid Storage:

Gas Holders
Tanks
Pressurized Spheres
Underground Caverns which are used for the purpose of Natural Gas Storage.

9. Gas - Liquid Contact:

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 Absorption
Stripping

10.Heat Exchangers:

Fired Heaters
Re-boilers
Condensers
Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers
Jacketed Kettle
Quenching applied in conventional Heat Transfer and Metallurgical Operations.

11.Membrane Separation:

Dialysis
Gaseous Diffusion

12.Mixing:

Agitation
Solids Blending

13.Size Reduction & Enlargement:

Crushing

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Pelletizing

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Bucket Elevators - Coal Industries
Screw Conveyors - Tooth Paste, Turbine Liquids
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Belt Conveyors
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Screening
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Froth Rotation
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Jigging
Magnetic Separation
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CHEMICAL REACTORS

The Reactor is the heart of the chemical process. The design of an industrial chemical reactor must satisfy
the requirements in four main areas.

1. Chemical Factors
2. Mass Transfer Factors
3. Heat Transfer Factors
4. Safety Factors

1. Chemical Factors:

This involve the kinetics of the reaction weather it's first order or second order and based on this chemical
reaction engineering is built on the design must provide sufficient residence time to proceed the reaction
for the required degree of reaction and conversion to product.

2. Mass Transfer Factors:

The reaction rate of homogeneous reaction may be controlled by the rate of diffusion of reactants rather
than the chemical kinetics of Langmuir isotherm and Frendlich isotherm.

3. Heat Transfer Factors:

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These describes weather the reaction is exothermic or endothermic. In Exothermic, heat is released
outside and In Endothermic, heat is absorbed by reactants. The value of heat of reaction is necessary to
operate the chemical reactor.

4. Safety Factors:

This involve the confinement of any hazardous reactant and products as well as the control of reaction and
process conditions.

Based on these factors the Reactor Types as follows;

a. Mode of Operation - Batch or Continuous
b. Phases Types - Homogeneous or Heterogeneous
c. Reactor Geometry - Flow Pattern & Process of contacting the phases.

The five major classes of Reactor;

i. Batch
ii. Stirred
iii.Tubular
iv.Packed Bed (Fixed)
v. Fludised Bed

Compounds like pigments, dye stuffs, pharmaceuticals and polymers are manufactured by Batch Processes.

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The Latest Heat Exchangers are Direct or Contact Exchangers In addition to Double Pipe Exchanger, Shell
& Tube Exchanger and Plated Frame Exchanger.

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TOPIC 2: CHLOR ALKALI INDUSTRY, INDUSTRIAL ACID, CEMENT, GLASS &

CERAMICS AND PULP & PAPER
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Sodium chloride is the basic raw material for many chemical compounds such as NaOH, Na2CO3, Na2SO4,
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HCl, Na2PO4, Sodium Chlorate, Sodium Chlorite and its source of many other products through its
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derivatives. Practically all the chlorine products in the world is manufactured by electrolysis of Sodium
Chloride (NaCl), a common salt is manufactured in three different ways;
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1. Solar evaporation of sea water

2. Mining of rock salt
3. From well brines

1. From saturated Brine by Multiple Effect Evaporator Process

Brine contains water 73.5%, sodium chloride 26.3%, calcium sulphate 0.12%, calcium chloride 0.003%,
magnesium chloride 0.007%.

The flow sheet of process is given below;

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Process:

1. The Brine is first aerated to remove most of the H2S.

2. Addition of chloride will remove H2S by displacement reaction.
3. Brine is then pumped to settling tank where it is treated with caustic soda and soda ash to remove

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calcium, magnesium and ferric ions. Caustic soda and soda ash are blended in the miser to be taken
to settling tank.

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4. In the Multiple Effect Evaporator (MEE) water is removed and salt crystals are removed as slurry.
5. The slurry is sent to washer, where the salt crystals are washed with fresh brine.

filter are dried and screened.

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6. The washed slurry is filtered, mother liquor is return to the evaporators and salt crystals from the

7. Salt thus produced from the typical brine is 99.8% purity or even greater.
8. The finest grade (some times made by grinding) is a flour salt, the next coarsest is table salt and
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finally the industrial salt.

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The Iodine salt has the following composition;

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Potassium Iodide (KI) : 0.01%

Stabilizer Na2CO3 : 0.1%
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Sodium Thio Sulphate : 0.1%

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2. From Saturated Brine by Open Pan Process

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Process:

1. Salt in the form of hopper-like crystal (grainer salt) is made by causing the salt crystal to form on
the surface of brine held in an open pan.
2. The grainer is a flat open pan 4.5 to 6.0 m width and 45 60 m long and about 60cm deep. Beneath
the pan steam coils system provided for reciprocating the flakes for salt removal.
3. The saturated brine mixed with circulating brine from the grinder is treated to 1200C at which
temperature calcium sulphate is soluble and remove at that temperature.
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 4. The precipitated calcium sulphate is removed from gravellier which consist of bed of stones.
5. The purified brine is flash cooled to remove the remaining calcium sulphate.
6. The slurry is then pumped to the grinders where evaporation takes place at 960C.
7. A wet salt crystals obtain from the grinder are centrifuged, dried and screened.
8. When the incoming brine has been treated salt of 99.98% sodium chloride can be obtained.

3. From Rock Salt Mining

About 35% of salt produced comes from mines of 8 different stages which are operated to produce rock
salt. The salt deposits varying color from light reddish brown to half grey. The purity is 98.5%. After the
rock is blasted loose they are crushed and then screened at the surface level. The remaining process is the
series of grinding, screening to obtain the salft of crystal of various sizes.

4. From Sea Water by Solar Evaporation

Annual Evaporation exceeds precipitation, the statistics of 125mm of rain corresponding to 840mm
evaporation.

By-products of Normal Salt (also called as value added products)

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Na2SO4 + 10H2O -> Na2SO4 + 2HCl

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Sulphur Di-oxide, air, steam are passed over specially prepared porous common salt. The reaction is as
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2NaCl + SO2 + 1/2O2 + H2O ---> Na2SO4 + 2HCl

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Bleaching Powder
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Formulae: (CaOCl2).H2O
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Equation: Ca(OH)2 + Cl2 ---> CaOCl2.H2O

The reaction is a low temperature reaction at 50OC in a counter current action by passing chorine through
a rotating steel cylinder with lifting blades which slower the solid through the path of the gas. When allow
to stand in air the bleaching powder absorbs CO2 liberating HOCL (Hypochlorous acid). Other organic acids
also liberates same compound. The reactions are,

2CaCl (OCl) + CO2 + H2O ---> CaCl2 + CaCO3 + 3HClO

2HClO --> 2HCl + O2

After this formation bleaching powder liberates calcium chloride and oxygen. When dissolving in water the
reaction gives ionized calcium chloride and hypo chloride. The reaction is,

2CaCl (OCl) ---> 2Ca2+ + 2Cl- + 2OCl-

The OCl- ion decomposes by liberating oxygen. However the acidity of the product is determined by the %
of chlorine in the compound, which is defined as weight of chlorine that will exerts the same action as the
chlorine compound what we choose.

In the case of Bleaching powder, average chlorine is the same as the % of chlorine in the compound. In
the case of calcium hypo chloride the % of chlorine is 47.6% if the chlorine content rises to 99.2% in the

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compound. These values are obtained as soon as the freshly prepared compound from the process is finally
taken.

Sulfuric Acid

Lead Chamber Process

Contact Process

Lead Chamber Process

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H2O + SO2 + NO2 ----> H2SO4 + NO

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The formation of NO2 is given by,

2NO + O2 ----> 2NO2

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The process consists of three stages.

The first stage takes place in the Glover tower. This tower is packed with acid resistant bricks over which a
constant stream of sulfuric acid made by mixing the output of lead chambers (65% Acid) and the
Gay-Lusaac Tower (70% Acid) combines with oxides of Nitrogen. Then the hot mixture of SO2 and Air from
the furnace is fed into the base of Glover Tower and comes into intimate contact with the descending acid
of low concentration. Acid results the gases from the burners are cooled from 500 0C to about 90 0C and
the oxides of nitrogen are extracted from the acid and carried over to the other chambers. In addition the
acid undergoes the concentration of 70% by the time it reaches the base of the Glover Tower. Some of the
spent acid after coming from the Glover Tower is also sold commercially for processed where that
concentrated acid is required.

The second stage takes place in the lead chamber from which the process derives its name. Water is
spread from the roof on to the mixture of gases are SO2 and NO2. They slowly react together under
carefully controlled conditions of humidity and temperatures producing 65% H2SO4 which is collected on
the shop floor. Lead is used in the material of construction as it is not corroded by acid. The humidity is
controlled by the variations in the dry bulb temperature and wet bulb temperature observed in the
psychometric chart available in the process plant.

The third stage takes place in the Gay-Lusaac Tower which is designed to recover as much as possible of
the Oxides of Nitrogen from the gases leaving to the chambers after thoroughly washing with cold
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concentrated acid.

The main purpose of this Tower is to minimize the problem of escape of NO2 to atmosphere. But in the
later stages the recovery was more important as the efficiency was high and cost very cheap. A small loss
of oxide of nitrogen is inevitable. However it is made good by introducing additional nitric oxide formed by
catalytic oxidation of ammonia.

This chamber process produces cheap acid of doubtful purity with concentration of 65-80% at maximum.
This was used for manufacture of fertilizers, but where more concentrated acids are required the contact
process is followed.

Contact Process

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The raw materials used to make sulfuric acid are elemental sulfur, H2SO4 and H2S.
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Till 1970, Ion Pyrites and related compounds were the predominant raw materials. The large amount of
sulfuric acid also produced as a by-product of non-ferrous metal smelting. i.e. roasting sulfide ores of
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copper, lead, molybdenum, nickel, zinc and some others. The process is dividing to the following steps;

1. Generation of sulfur dioxide gas

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2. Catalytic Oxidation of SO2 to SO3

3. Absorbing SO3 to form H2SO4

The reactions are as follows;

1. S + O2 ---> SO2
2. SO2 + O2 ---> SO3 ^H = -98KJ
3. SO3 + H2O ---> H2SO4 ^H = -132.5KJ (Highly Exothermic Reactions)

Properties of Sulfuric Acid

When a dilute solution of sulfuric acid is distilled a constant boiling point mixture is obtained contains
98.3% of H2SO4. This mixture boils at 338 0C and has a density of 1.84gm.cm-3 is the normal
concentration acid available in the laboratory. If the little SO3 is dissolved in that acid 100% takes acid is
obtained and an oily liquid which freezes to crystals of white color at 10 0C. Concentrated sulfuric acid is
highly corrosive and should always be handle with care. It causes severe bores when contacted with the
skin.

Reactions of Sulfuric Acid

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It is a strong di basic acid reacting to bases to give a series of salts, like sulphates and bisulphates. It is
represented by,

H2SO4 <---> H+ + HSO4- <---> 2H+ + SO4 2-

The dilute acid reacts with many metals forming sulphates and hydrogen. But it does not react with lead,
copper, mercury and silver. Iron reacts to give,

Fe + H2SO4 ----> FeSO4 + H2^

When the acid highly concentrated attacks any metals forming sulphates and therefore silicon steel is used
for construction of distillation column where sulfuric acid is involved. Gold or Platinum have no reaction
with H2SO4 whereas copper forms copper sulfate with H2SO4 liberating SO2.

Uses

Manufacture of Phosphate, Ammonium Sulphate and production of these fertilizers consume about 40% of
total sulfuric acid manufacture. Other large scale users are manufacture of pigments, light barium sulfate,
titanium dioxides and manufacture of viscose rayon for artificial silk, detergents, dye-stuffs, drugs,
explosives, plastics, for dissolving unsaturated hydrocarbon during refining of petroleum, for pickling for
iron steel (removing oxide layer before galvanizing) tinning, plating & painting and finally for killing weeds
for the agricultural production.

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Cement

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relatively insoluble water bonded aggregation of high strength and dimensional stability. In the last
century it has been found that iron in combination with cement has proved substantially the useful
concrete for very high-rise buildings and massive constructions. Hydraulic cements also manufactured by
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processing and proportionate raw materials burning (clinkering) at a particular temperature and grinding
the resultant product to obtain the cement.
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The cement consist mainly tri-calcium silicate and di-calcium silicates. The raw material are lime stone rich
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in calcium and silica such as clay or shale.

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Clinker Formation
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Portland cements are manufactured from raw mixes including components such as calcium carbonate, clay
or shale and sand. When the temperature of materials increases during the passage in the rotary kiln the
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following reactions occur;

1. Evaporation of free water

2. Release of combined water from the clay
3. Decomposition of magnesium carbonate
4. Decomposition of calcium carbonate
5. Combination of lime and clay oxides

Finally cooling is done to maintain the phase equilibrium.

Manufacturing Processes

Wet process and Dry process plants produced Portland cement. It consist of quarrying and crushing the
rock, including control of the clinker composition by systematic core drillings and selective quarrying.

The next process is grinding the proportioned materials to high fineness. Ball Mills are used for the both
the process to grind the material although roll crushers are used for dry process.

The high temperature of operation vaporizes the alkalies, sulphur and halides (rotary kilns for Wet
process, Dry process , suspension free heaters or precalciners). The grinding is done by open circuit
grinding or closed circuit grinding depending on the fine powder of cement required.

Manufacturing procedures (Wet & Dry processes)

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The Wet Process is the original one is being displaced by Dry Process for few factories because of saving
energy, accurate control and proper mixing of the raw material. The dry process plants account for 58% of
the total amount manufactured with full production capacity. It is illustrated in the following flow chart.

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In the wet process the solid materials after dry crushing is reduced to fine powder in wet tube or ball mills
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and passes as slurry through bowl classifiers or screens. The slurry is pumped to connecting tanks where
rotating arms takes the mixture homogeneous and allow the final adjustment in composition. For this
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purpose some of the cement plant the slurry is filtered in a continuous rotary filter and fed into the kiln.
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The dry process is especially applicable to natural amount rock and to mixtures of limestone, clay, shaves
as slate. In this process the materials are crushed roughly are passed through gyratory or hammer mills,
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dried, sized, finally grounded followed by air separation or the pneumatic process.

Before entering the rotary kiln thorough mixing and blending takes place. The rotary kiln where the
powder material is fed the chemical reactions takes place. Heat is provided by burning of oil, gas or
pulverized coal using preheated air obtained from cooling of the clinker from the high temperature to
lower temperature. And the length of the rotary kiln is increased the thermal efficiency very high. Due to
this process of heat transfer vaporization efficiency also increases because of evaporation of moisture and
water in the mix. Normally the vaporization efficiency is twice the thermal efficiency for the process of
conduction into material.

Dry process kilns are 150 ft long but the wet process over 500 ft kilns is quite common. The internal
diameter is around 20 ft. The RPM is to 2 depends on the size. The kilns are inclined so that materials
fed at the upper end travel slowly to the lower firing end (by blower) and taking 3 hours to reach he
bottom end.

To improve the economy of kiln heat water is removed from the wet slurry before charging into kiln. Some
of the equipments are employed slurry filters and Dorr Thickeners. Efficient air pollution control
equipment such as bag houses or electrostatic precipitators are required for the process. Waste heat
boilers are sometimes used to conserve heat and particularly economical for dry process cement. A
refractory lining is given inside wall to protect the heat form escaping outside and maintain a temperature
of 800 OC. In the recent days computers are used to improve kiln control. The sketch of rotary kiln is
given below;

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The final product form consists of hard granular masses of of the inch in size called clinker. It is
discharged form the rotating kiln into air-quenching coolers which brings the temperature to 100 0C. The
cooling also preheat the combustion air pulverizing followed by grinding in the tube or ball mills and
automatic packaging complete the process.

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There are many types of compounds in cements according to the composition numbering 102 types of
cements according to the applications. Special cements also manufactured for corrosive conditions and the
various types of sulphur cements, silicate cements, adhesive cements to have a few. The industrial

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Glass & Ceramics

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Glass
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Glass was formed naturally from common elements in the earth dust long before anyone ever thought of
experimentally with this composition, moulding its shape of putting it to the myriad of used that it enjoys
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the world today.

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Glass technology evolved around 6000 years back and sum of the todays principles followed the old times.
This includes what is today known about the structure of glass, its composition, properties, method of
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manufacture and uses.

The term glass follows the definition of MOREY, GLASS is an inorganic substance in a condition that is
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continuous and analogous to the liquid state of the substance. But which as a result of a reversible change
in viscosity during cooling, has obtain so high a degree of viscosity has to be for all practical rigid.

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Most glass particles are manufactured by a process in which raw material are converted at high
temperature to a homogenous melt that is then formed into various articles or glass wares employed in
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laboratories.

The above flow diagram summarizes the details of conventional glass manufacturing. The vapor deposition
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of SiO2 from a flame fed with silicon chloride (SiCl4) and oxygen is basis for manufacturing high purity
glass used for blanks that are redrawn into optical-wave guide fibers. Fused silica items that cannot be
formed from viscous melts of SiO2 or Quartz are prepared by vapor deposition. Raw materials are selected
according to purity, supply, pollution, potential, ease of melting and cost.

Sand is the most common ingredient. Limestone is the source of calcium and magnesium. The reducing
agent is powdered anthracite and common colorness for glass includes Iron, chromium, cerium, cobalt and
nickel.

Melting and fining depend on the batch materials interactive with each other at proper time and on the
proper order. Thus the stream must be taken to obtain materials of optimum grain size, to weigh them
carefully and mix intimately. The efficiency of the melting operation and the uniformity and quality of the
glass product are determined in the mixing house.

Batch handling systems are widely used in the industry from manual to fully automatic small furnaces for
annual production to large continuous tank for rapid machine forming. The two important equipments are
screw feeder and reciprocating pusher. Control devices have advanced computer assistant operations.
Radiation pyrometer with thermocouples monitor furnace temperature. Natural gas, oil, electricity are the
primary source of energy and propane is used as a backup reserve for emergency. Molten glass is molded,
drawn, rolled and quenched depending on the desired shape and use. Bottles, dishes, optical lenses, helix
picture tubes are formed by blowing, pressing, casting and filling the glass against mould and cool it to get
the desired shape.
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Art glass is made manually and an glass called FRIT is obtained by powdered glass and quench between
water cooled rollers, poured into water and then dried. Glass optical formed as high temperature must be
cooled in order to reduce its strain and associated stress caused by temperature gradient.

The following are the types of glasses;

1. Flint Glass
2. Bottle Glass
3. Pyrex Glass
4. Photosensitive Glass
5. Froast Glass
6. Ground Glass
7. Insulating Glass
8. Vitreosil Glass (99.9% Silica)
9. Fused Silica Glass
10. Optical Glass
11. Lead Glass
12. Colored Glass
13. Opal Glass
14. Fiber Glass
15. Safety Glass and
16. Glass Wool

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White Waxes
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White wax is a generic term for ceramic products which are usually white and of fine texture. These are
based on selective grades of clay bonded together with varying mount of fluxes and heated to a
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moderately high temperature in kiln of 1200-1500 0C. Because of the different amounts and kinds of
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waxes there is a variation in the degree of vitrification. Among white wax, from earthenware to vitrified
china the degree of vitrification is the progressive reduction in porosity provides the basis for the useful
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classification of ceramic products as follows;

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1. Earthen ware some times called as semi vitreous thinner ware is porous, non translucent with a
soft glaze.
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2. China ware a vitrified translucent ware with a medium glaze which resist abrasion to degree
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which is used for non-technical purposes.

3. Porcelain a vitrified translucent ware with a hot glaze which resist abrasion at maximum degree.
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It includes chemical, insulating and dental porcelain.

4. Stone ware one of the oldest ceramic products developed and rewarded as throughout porcelain.
5. Sanitary ware formed from clay is porous and preferred for vitreous application with a tri-axial
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composition.
6. White ware white ware tiles available in number of times, classified as floor tiles, resistant to
abrasion and impervious to stain penetration and used as wall tiles of a variety of colors and is
formed small surface.

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To represent a typical manufacturing procedure in the ceramic group, porcelain is chosen below. There are

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Wet process porcelain used for production of fine grained, highly glazed insulators for high voltage
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Description of Process
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Raw material of proper proportions and properties to furnish porcelain of the desired quality are weighed
from overhead into the weighing car. Feldspar clays and flint are mixed with water in the blender
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(clay-water mixture) and then passed over a magnetic separator, screen and store. Most of the water is
removed by filtration. All the air is removed by the mill with the help of vacuum operation. This produces
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stronger or hard porcelain. The prepared clay is formed into blanks and hot pressed suitably. They are
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then dried, trimmed and finally completely dried all under carefully controlled conditions. The hydro
separator removes the water and moisture containing impurities. The vitrification is carried out in tunnel
kilns at a particular temperature and then porcelain articles are protected by Saggers fitted in the final
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stage of the process. The glazing and firing are simultaneously done to obtain lustre or shiny nature of the
porcelain. They are immediately tested for electrical insulation after storage for sale.

The table-ware is manufactured by more complicated procedure then illustrated by the porcelain process.
Some objects are obtained by the porcelain process. Some objects are obtained by the potters wheel in
the conventional cottage industry employed in rural areas. For separate application, complex shapes for
chemical laboratories are manufactured by different mould for the required applications.

Glazing is an important process in the manufacture of white wax. Some times a glaze is a thin coating of
glass melted on the porcelain surface for porous application. The chemicals used are soda ash, potash,
fluorspar, borax for this type of special application. The temperatures for glazing is around 1050-1500 0C.

Refractory and colorants for ceramics

It is broadly divided into two groups; one for clay based products like tiles, sanitary wares and thinner
ware and the other based on silica as a major ingredient. In the manufacture of glasses continuous for
laboratory conditions at normal temperature and pressure color is obtained by a suspension of the coloring
medium when final stages of the product obtained.

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Pulp and Paper Industry

The transmission of thought my means symbols was practiced thousands of years back, prior to Christian
era. Primitive people used to stores clay, palm leaves, shells and bark of plants are which to inscribe
information. Egypt is the country where origin of paper took place, now there is no production in that
country of paper. On the other hand in china about 200 B.C. the paper was manufactured and now the
forerunner of the industry.

Raw Materials

The raw materials employed in the pulp and paper industry are woods, rags, straws, bagasse, sulfur,
limestone, alum, soda ash and clay. The only country to have all the above raw material within the
country is USA.

1. Wood
It is the outstanding source of cellulose in fact more than 90% of the paper consumed in the world is
made from wood fiber. Again U.S. has the abundances of wood excepting Russia. The North American
continent processes 40% of soft wood.
2. Fibrous Raw Materials
Since 1800 where wood was first employed intensively for the manufacture of pulp no other alternative
has append so for. For this purpose the reuse of waste paper become dominant and contributes 1/3 of total
production.
3. Non-Fibrous Raw Materials

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The other materials caustic soda, soda ash, rosins and bleaching components, lime is employed for sulfite

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cooking process. The mineral substances such as clay, talk, chalk, barites, zinc compounds and titanium
compounds are used for manufacture of paper as non-fibrous materials.
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Manufacture of Pulp
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1. Wood Pulp: The process is employed in the preparation of pulp from wood are mechanical
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(ground wood) and chemical (sulfite, sulfate & soda) and a combination of mechanical and chemical
known as semi-chemical. The object of the formation of pulp is to separate the wood into fibers. The
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original wood contains 50% of non-fibrous material like lignin and inorganic matter.
2. Mechanical Pulp: This mechanical or ground wood process is used largely on coniferous wood
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(having the name from coniferous forest past). Especially with low rosin content such as spruce,
balsam and hemlock, jack pine is used to produce pitchy hard wood. This mechanical pulp used for
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newsprint, wallpaper, wallboards and paper boards. It is sometimes mixed with chemical pulp.
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3. Chemical Pulp: It is a material which made after treating the wood by chemical which remove the
cementing material, for this pulp the wood is cleaned thoroughly from bark & knots. The logs of
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woods are conveyed to the chipper where they are forced at an acute angle against a disc on the
surface above which heavy knives are operated on. The chipping operation produces pieces of wood
of various sizes and then classified as saw dust.
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Sulfite Process:

H2O + SO2 -----> H2SO3

Ca(OH)2 + 2H2SO3 -----> Ca(HSO3) + 2H2O

CaCO3 + 2H2SO3 ----> Ca(HSO3)2 + H2O + CO2

Sulfur is melted and then burned into Sulfur Di-oxide (SO2) in special rotary burners where the supply of
air is regulated to prevent the formation of objectionable SO2. The gas is cooled in water immersed pipes
after which it is absorbed by;

1. Large absorbers containing milk of lime

2. Through tall towers made of concrete packed with limestone over which water trickles down.

The sulfite pulp is used for wide application in newsprints, boards, wrapping papers and certain grades of
printing papers where reasonably light color and good strength are required.

Bleach sulfite paper is used in writing, typing paper, tissues, grease proof papers and high grades of
wrapping paper.
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Sulfate Process:

It derives the name from fact that loss of alkali and sulfur is compensated by sodium sulfate (salt cake) or
its equivalent. The term KRAFT means strong and applied to pulp prepared by this process for producing
the strong pulp. The raw materials used are southern pine, spruce, jack pine, and tamarack. This is
followed by cooking the chips and then washing followed by recovery of sulfate liquor. The main reaction
is;

Na2SO4 + 4C ---> Na2S + 4CO

Analysis of solids in sulfate process;

Solids Original smelt (%) Green liquor (%) White liquor (%)

Na2CO3 61 64 11

Na2SO4 4 5 6

Na2S 27 31 22

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Apart from the above processes there are miscellaneous processes like soda process, semi chemical pulp
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process and rag pulp process.

Grades of Paper
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1. By the type of furnish process in the paper manufacture. Eg. Sulfite process
2. By the property. Eg. Grease proof paper, absorbent paper.
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3. By the use to which its applied. Eg. Newsprint paper.

Tissue: It is the lightest weight paper. Generally grade on a Yankee machine like napkins,
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light weight wrappings and toilet papers.

Wrapping: Bags, envelopes and bread wrappers
Writing: Stationary, ledger, document and type writing sheets belongs to this category
Printing: Newsprint, catalogue and bible papers
Books: Books & Magazines
Building: Papers mixed with asbestos employed in construction work, sheathing papers, felting
papers, dead ending felts for acoustic properties involves and floors the auditorium.
Boards: By far the largest production of the industry falls in this class. The subdivisions are
numerous like containers, binders, bottle caps, chips and wall boards.

Research

The application of science and engineering in pulp and paper manufacture are brought about to improve
operation and progress in the manufacture for better products and also the reduction in prices.

Consumption

Paper products and the related chemical are important to a developing nation such as India, the per capita
consumption of paper is the measure of the educational, social, cultural and industrial activities of the
country as given below;

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 Country Consumption (Kg/Person/Year)

USA 206

UK 167

Japan 57

USSR 16

India 1.5

The end use distribution of paper is given below;

End Use Distribution (%)

Paper & Paper Head 65

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TOPIC 3: OIL, SOAP & DETERGENT, PETROLEUM REFINING, PETROCHEMICALS

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Hydrogenation of Oils
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Large amount of groundnut oil, cotton seed oil, etc are hydrogenated in presence of suitable catalyst to
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obtain solid edible fat called vegetable ghee. The purpose of hydrogenation is to increase the melting point
of oil and convert in to an edible fat. In other words, hydrogenation are hardening of oil is a process in
which various unsaturated radicals are converted into completely saturated Glycerides. There fore the
hydrogen plays an important role in the process with a catalyst. The process is carried out by keeping the
oil at a temperature of 140-180 0C containing finely divided liquor in suspension by the subsequent
absorption of Hydrogen.

Optimum conditions for the Process

1. The Hydrogen needed can be manufactured by a number of methods but hydro carbon steam process
has been widely used. The hydrogen must be very pure. Traces of gaseous sulfur compound, H2S,
SO2, Arsenic and Chlorine compounds are strong catalyst poisons. These have to be removed before
the hydrogenation process.
2. The oil must be pure as well as free from fatty acids. Fatty acids react with Nickel and its oxides to
form Nickel Soap which is soluble in oil. For purification, the oil is taken in a tank fitted with steam
coil are heated to 30 0C. Then caustic soda is added and mixture is agitated for about 20 minutes by
compressed air. The moisture is removed by heating the oil in vacuum. The moisture may be
hydrolyses the oil at high temperature and pressure to form fatty acid.
3. In order to prevent the Pyrophoric Nickel from catching fire the Nickel catalyst is carefully
transferred to the oil out of the contact with air.
4. In order to keep the Nickel particles in free suspension and to bring the oil in close contact with
Hydrogen, the mixture of oil catalyst and Hydrogen is agitated.
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 5. The catalyst is Nickel Oxide or Nickel Formate which is reduced to metal by Hydrogen gas are forms
Raney Nickel. The charge is kept at maximum temperature for about one hour and then cooled.
During the cooling period the Hydrogen is passed to create the product hydrogenated oil stored in
the end of the process.

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Recent research has shown that Palladium has been found to be more effective then Nickel. i.e. 1 part in
1,000,000 parts of oil is sufficient. And the reaction takes place at lower temperature and takes less time.
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The only disadvantage is Palladium is costlier than Nickel, Raney Nickel and other catalyst.

The process of Hydrogenation is exothermic reaction. There fore it is favored by low temperature. The
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The refined oil from the storage tank is brought into a vacuum evaporator where it is heated at about 50
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C at low pressure in order to expel air moisture. By means of the pump the oil is charged into convertor
by pipe provided at the bottom of the evaporator. The convertor is a cylindrical pressure vessel provided
with Hydrogen distributor. In the bottom steam coils for heating and circulating the oil. The Hydrogen gas
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is sent at a pressure of 5.6 atm. into the convertor. The steam is turned off to accelerate exothermic
reaction and convert the oil into a hydrogenated substance for further purification process.

For the commercial value Bleaching is done for aesthetic consideration for the market value.

2. Wet Process

In wet process Nickel salt is reduced into finely divided Nickel in the oil before hydrogenation in a
continuous process. There are two wet process are employed, in one process Nickel Formate is used and
the reduction is carried out at 190 0C with Hydrogen.

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The advantage in this first method of the wet process is removal of CO as waste removed from Deodorizer
still as Co is a catalyst poison for the Nickel group.

In the second method 2% Dry Nickel Formate in powder form is mixed with 100 Kg of Oil to be
hydrogenated as a current of Hydrogen is passed at a temperature of 250 0C. The pressure is 10-12atm.

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and ascertained the completion of hydrogenation.

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There are two important advantages of this process;
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More active catalyst having high surface area is obtained because the reduction of salt is carried out at low
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Nickel does not come into contact with air at any stage and hence fire hazard is avoided.

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Hardened oils are consumed as such as in India, but in Europe and America they are converted to a butter
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called Margarine. It is prepared by emulsifying about 80% fat and 15% skimmed milk, salt, vitamin A,
vitamin D, a preservative such as sodium benzoate, a yellow dye and flavoring agents.
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Raw Materials
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1. Source of Glycerides: The main sources of slow lathering hard oils are tallow, palm oil, whale oil,
fish oil and greases, etc. Quick lathering hard oils include coconut oil, palm oil and kernel oil, etc. Soft oils
are soya bean oil, cotton seed oil and inedible olive oil, etc.

2.Rosin: A plant product contains mainly abietic acid. The colorless variety of Rosin is used in the
manufacture of laundry soaps and dark variety is used in the manufacture of colored soaps. Rosin makes
lather formation faster, increases the cleaning property of the soap and softens the hard soaps. Rosin
requirement is about 50% and the grease is 23%.

3. Caustic Soda: It is available in the form of flakes, blocks and sticks as well as in solution of sodium
hydroxide in various concentrations. The caustic product potash is involved in the manufacture of saving
creams.

4. Sodium Chloride: Sodium Chloride is used for salting out about 12.5 parts per 100 parts of oil to be
saponify is used.

5. Binding Materials: Sodium Silicate, Soda Ash, Tri Sodium Phosphate, Borax are used as Binding
materials. They improve the soap texture and prevent the formation of precipitate in hard water.

6. Fillers: The weight of the Soap is determined by fillers such as talc, starch, glauber salt, pearl ash,
etc without affecting the detergency of the washing soaps.

7. Colouring Matter: Organic dyes and inorganic pigments are used. As a Dye the material should
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be inert to alkali used in making soap and should not separate when soap is blended in the process.
Common coloring matters are methyl violet, Bismarck brown, safframine for red, zinc oxide for white color,
chrome green for green color, cadmium for yellow color, ultra marine for blue color, eosin for pink color,
vermilon for rose shade. Intermediate colors are obtained by blending the above colors.

8. Perfumes & Perfume Fixatives: These impart fragrance for the soap. They may be natural or
synthetic. Examples are sandalwood oil, lemon grass oil, clove oil, eucalyptus oil, lavender oil and
cinnamon oil, etc. The synthetic perfumes are,

Jasmine (Benzyl Acetate)

Rose (Phenyl Ethyl Alcohol)
Lylac (Terpenol)
Musk (Benzoate)

Manufacture of Soap

Soap is either made by hot process or cold process. Usually laundry soaps and bath soaps are
manufactured by hot process. Transparent and other special types of soaps are produced by cold process.
In most of the cases soap obtained by hot process settled and separated from Glycerol solution.
Subsequently Glycerol is separated out as a by-product. The hot process is divided into tow types,

1. Batch Process
2. Continuous Process

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is supplied with steam with a mixture of melted fats, grease, oil in a proper amount for the mixture. The
amount of caustic soda is regulated to undergo the hydrolysis reaction. The boiling is continued until the
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saponification is completes. A pasting mass is formed by conversion of Tri-stearin to Di-stearin. The final
product contains soaps, water, glycerol, unused alkalis, sodium chloride, sodium carbonate, sodium sulfate
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the surface for the batch process to stop and deliver the soap product.
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In the Continuous Process the raw materials oils and fats and the catalyst usually zinc oxide are blended
and fed into a hydrolyser or splitting tower fitted with steam coils through which steam is passed for
heating the charge. The splitting of fat takes place continuously in a counter current manner and about
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250 0C and 40 atm pressure. The fat raises again the aqueous phase which also dissolves glycerol in
reaction. The fatty acids are discharged from the hydrolyser to a flash tank called decanter where excess
of water is separated. They fatty acids are the passed to a heat exchanger and then to a vacuum still and
distilled. The distillate is collected as overhead and bottoms are stored for recovery. Then the distillate
neutralized by caustic soda in a continuous neutralizer. As the result of this soap is obtained which is with
drawn hot into a agitator tank. This soap contains Water, NaOH and NaCl. This is dried in a high pressure
steam exchanger by heat and pressure, finally collected in a flash tank. The pasty mass is missed with air
and cooled to 65 0C. Here the soap is continuously extracted and collected into soap frames where it
solidifies on cooling. Then it is cut into bars as usual. The particular process delivers the product in a day
whereas the batch process operates for few more days.

Petroleum Refining

Cracking

Cracking is the process by virtue of which crude petroleum of their fractions are decomposed by heat to
produce products which have lower boiling points. The main object of cracking is mainly the production of
gasoline. The two types of cracking are,

1. Thermal Cracking
2. Catalytic Cracking

1. Thermal Cracking

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CH4 ---Decompose-->C + 2H2

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Gas and Gasoline in vapor form go out as two products. The vapor phase is condensed to obtain Diesel,
Petrol and then LPG in the bottling plant to serve energy requirements. The coke deposited in the process
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is removed periodically and the process which is a continuous one is sustaining for the various
fractionation products. The various other forms of thermal cracking are as follows;
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i. Viscosity Breaking
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ii. Vapor Pressure Cracking

iii. Thermal Reforming
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i. Viscosity Breaking: Here various oils and residues obtained after thermal cracking are to
produce various oils of different viscosity. This is called as Viscosity Breaking. The temperature is 460 0C
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and pressure is 500 psi.

ii. Vapor Pressure Cracking: Here Cracking is done in such a way there is only vapor phase obtained
after cracking. By doing so aromatic hydrocarbon and gaseous products are obtained.

iii. Thermal Reforming: Here heavy gasoline of lower octane number is cracked to get higher gasoline
of higher octane number. The temperature is 530 0C and pressure is 750 psi. The flow sheet of Thermal
Reforming is given below;

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2. Catalytic Cracking

Gasoline produced by Thermal Cracking has octane number 72. If the octane number is increased the yield
decreases which can be rectified by use of catalyst to increase the rate of decomposition of the

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hydrocarbons in the crude petroleum. Hence gasoline produced by catalytic cracking is low in oliefic and
high in paraffinic and aromatic hydrocarbon. The advantages of catalytic cracking are,

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1. No fuel from outside is required for catalytic cracking
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All the heat required is obtained by heating the coke deposition the catalyst

4. The Gasoline has a high octane number

Total yield of Gasoline is high
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1. Fixed Bed Catalytic Cracking

2. Moving Bed Catalytic Cracking
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The first one is a catalytic cracking where fixed bed of catalyst is used. The catalyst in a form of granules
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or pellets and bed of the catalyst for fixed in the catalyst covers. Oil vapors which are heated to the
cracking temperature through the catalyst are carbonized at which it is reactivated by burning the carbon.
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Oil vapors are diverted tot eh second catalyst chamber.

Second one is a catalytic cracking where moving bed of catalyst is used. The catalyst in the form of fine
powder flows down through a hopper into a reactor where cracking takes place. The carbonized particles of
the catalyst come down against a raising current of air to remove the carbon deposit of the catalyst as it is
burnt off.

1. Fixed Bed Catalytic Cracking Process

The fixed bed catalytic cracking method is described in the following diagram.

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The charge is passed through a heater where it is heated to cracking level then it is goes to catalyst
towers. These towers have catalyst tubes and around these tubes molten salt mixtures (mixture of sodium
nitrate and sodium nitrite) are circulated to distribute heat and maintain uniform temperature in the
reactor. The cracked vapors form these catalyst towers of fractionators in the fractionating column to
recover gases and gasoline vapors from the top and the heavy gas/oil is removed from the bottom of the

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stabilizer certain dissolved gases are removed and the desired boiling range and vapor pressure is
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2. Moving Bed Catalytic Cracking Process

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The moving bed catalytic cracking method is described in the following diagram.
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Heated oil vapors go up in the reactor and catalyst comes down through the hopper which is the
significance in the moving bed catalytic cracking process. After the cracking of vapors the spent catalyst is
removed from the bottom. It is regenerated and sent again to the catalyst hopper through the elevators.
The cracked vapors after the separation of dust separated go to the fractionator where gas oil is separated
from vapors of gas and gasoline. Gas oil is with drawn from the bottom. The gas and the gasoline vapors
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are condensed in the condenser and are separated.

Other methods of synthesis of gasoline are by polymerization, alkylation, Fischer-Tropsch method and
liquefaction of coal or hydrogenation of coal.

Normally the gases obtained from the cracking of petroleum are ethylene, propene, butene and saturated
hydrocarbons like methane, ethane, propane and butane. Polymerization also classified by catalysis to
obtain motor fuel.

Petrochemicals

Petroleum & Petrochemical Industries

Crude Oil Refining Petrochemical Products

Composition

1. Aliphatic Compounds are classified into n-paraffins of the formula CnH2n+2 Eg. Hexane & Heptane.
The other is iso-paraffins of the formula CnH2n+2 Eg. 2-methyl hexane, a derivative of the paraffin
indicated above.

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2. Cyclic Compounds of the formula CnH2n Eg. Napthene and Benzene series of the formula CnH2n-6
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3. Asphalts contain atoms of carbon, hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen and nitrogen. Various resins are used

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as adhesives which are semi solids in structure.
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and an intermediate base for both of the above.
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1. Gas Fraction Eg. Natural Gas, whose main composition is methane and the second one is LPG
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2. Light Distillates Eg. Petroleum & Kersosene

3. Intermediate Distillates Eg. Diesel
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The normal refinery processes for the manufacture of various products are done by physical changes like
distillation, absorption, extraction, adsorption, crystallization, heat transfer and fluid flow to name a few.
Similarly the unit processes involving chemical changes are pyrolysis, reforming, polymerization,
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alkylation, isomerisation, sulfur removal, hydrogenation, etc.

Lighter most products ----> Methane ----> Methanol, Chloromethane

Naphtha ---Steam/Cracking---> Ethylene ----> Ethyl Oxide, Acetaldehyde

Propylene ---> Iso-propanol, Cumene, Polypropylene

C4, C5 Series -----------> Butane -----> Butadiene

Hydrocarbons --Reforming--> Benzene ----> Ethyl Benzene, Maleic Anhydride

Toluene -----> Nitro Toluene, Phenol

Xylene ------> Phthalic Anhydride, Terephthalic Acid

Manufacture of Chloromethane

Methane on chlorination yields successfully the chloromethane by substitution of hydrogen atoms by

chlorine. The flow sheet of the industrial manufacture is given below;

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Reactions

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CH4+Cl2 --> CH3Cl+HCl -Cl2--> CH2Cl2+HCl -Cl2--> CHCl3+HCl ---Cl2--> CCl4+HCl

Methane Methyl Chloride Methylene Chloride Chloroform CTC

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These compounds of the chlorination reaction are used as industrial solvents and intermediates in the
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manufacture of organic compounds for dye and dyestuffs manufacturing plants. Similarly we have
production of ethylene oxide in a fluidized bed reactor to produce the product and used for manufacture of
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ethylene glycol. The reaction is exothermic and the heat generated may be used for other purposes like
heat exchangers of the type of shell & tube, etc. Acetaldehyde manufactured from ethylene by exothermic
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reaction with palladium chloride catalyst in a series of strippers and distillation columns for the
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manufacture. Isopropyl alcohol is manufactured from propylene by reaction with industrial acids to form
the product. Cumene is another petrochemical manufactured from benzene by packed bed staged reactor
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at a temperature of 250 OC in the presence of phosphoric acid. Butadiene is another compound obtained
from C4H10 to produce finally styrene and rubber for the polymer industry. Phthalic anhydride and maleic
anhydride are produced from tubular reactor by the production of isomers and dehydration reaction to
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form compound polyesters. Phenol is a very important compound obtained from Toluene by series of
distillation column and used in the manufacture of phenol-formaldehyde resins, molding products,
electrical applications and other various uses in the polymer industries.

Petrochemical Industry in India

It is still in a incipient state born much later than petroleum industry around 1966, the growth it made in
the last two years because of technology is very much encouraging. The modest beginning of
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petrochemical industry started with coming of an ethylene plant of capacity 20,000 TPA by a naphtha
cracker by Union Carbide in 1968. National Organic Chemicals Limited (NOCIL) soon followed the
development and established 60,000 TPA naphtha cracker units at Thane in Maharashtra by 1968. Indian
Petrochemical Limited (IPCL) in Baroda in the year 1971, with an investment of 1000 crores of rupees to
establish a cracker unit indigenously. Subsequently ONGC which was responsible for exploration and
production of Oil and Natural Gas made an active role in the aromatic ester plant by the side of Gujarat
Refinery.

The development of IPCL fulfills the growth of 32 complexes all over India for the expansion of petro
products. By eighth plant Rs. 5000 crores was exclusively invested by IPCL for the growth of engineering
plastics. The products like alloys, poly carbonates, carbon filaments, oil blends and other polyester
products where diversified by the various companies listed above.

Sugar Industry

Today Sugar is so plentiful and so cheap that we take it granted and overlook how much science and
industry accomplished in making refined sugar available to us. Primitive man had to depend on roots,
fruits and saps from certain trees for any sweetness for his diet. The term sugar refers the chemical
sucrose.

Sources of Sugar

1. Sugar Cane: It was first cultivated in India from where it spread eastward to China, westward to

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Arabia, Egypt, Spain and finally to the new world. The sugarcane (saccharim officinaram) is a tall
perennial grass having numerous bamboos like stems which grow to a height of 12 feet or more. The

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period of growth is normally 15-18 months, but because of the advent of the fertilizers the period
shortened and a crushing season of 6 months every year is maintained for the production of sugar.
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2. Sugar Beet: While we can guess regarding the original cultivation of sugarcane the situation is
different with reference to sugar beet. The juice of the beet contains a sugar identical with that of
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Steps in sugar manufacture

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The sugar is synthesized by the growing plant and the processing in the factory is only a succession of
separations whereby the sugar is separated from the constituents of the plant.
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1. Separation of the juice from the fiber by pressure

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2. Clarification is a removal of impurities that interfere with subsequent evaporation and crystallization
Removal of water by evaporation
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5. Separation of the crystal sugar from the mother liquor followed by molasses obtained from
centrifuge.
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Clarification

The juice extract from the cane are strained to remove dirt particles, fiber or pulp after this juice is ready
for clarification. The purpose of clarification is to free the juice as far as possible from all constituents
except sugar without altering the sugar itself. Lime is one for the first chemical to be used are universal
basis for this clarification since it is both effective and economical for the cost. The main purpose of lime is
to neutralize the acidity of juice and converts many of the organic acids into insoluble calcium salt. Thus
clarification remains an essential and integral part of the manufacture of sugar.

The flow process of liming is given below;

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Analysis of typical cane molasses

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Composition Percentage (%)

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Water 20 no
Sucrose 30
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Ash 6
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Evaporation
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The juices from the clarification must now be evaporated in order to produce crystal sugar. Today
evaporation is conducted by steam-in evaporators. In the first stage of evaporation the juice is
concentrated to 50%-60% sugar. This is made in MEE (Multiple Effect Evaporator) which are very effective
and by efficient use of steam.

Crystallization

At this stage the evaporation is continued to the point where sugar crystals formed and separate from
remaining water and impurities. There are various types of crystallizers namely horizontal, cylindrical or U
shaped kerns equipped with stirring paddles. After stirring the mixture are cooled to take advantage of the
lower solubility of sugar at lowest temperature.

Refining

The raw cane sugar is subjected to further refining operation before it is ready for consumption.
Adsorption of impurities is followed by crystallization. The refining process takes place in the following
sequence.

1. Affination
2. Melting
3. Defecation
4. Purification with Bone-char or active carbon
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 5. Filtration
6. Crystallization
7. Centrifuging
8. Finishing

In affination process the raw sugar is mixed with syrup which softens and dissolves the molasses without
eroding the sugar crystals. In the defecation process sufficient lime is added to make the solution alkaline
and the alkalinity is neutralized with calcium phosphate or phosphoric acid. The precipitate of calcium
phosphate or phosphoric adsorbs most of impurities.

Bone-char Treatment

Composition Percentage (%)

Carbon 10

Tri calcium phosphate 83

Calcium carbonate 4

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Iron, Nitrogen, Silica, Calcium Sulfide Traces

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The purpose this treatment is primarily to remove color, organic and inorganic substances from the raw
sugar solution. Active carbon is used for refining of sugar. It is generally employed from producing a
refined, granulated sugar.
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By-products
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Molasses: This is basically used for cattle feed. Although it has the limitation of providing only
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carbohydrate high protein yeast can be made from molasses and inorganic nitrogen salts, can serve as a
basis for the protein content in the cattle feed. The recent development is industrial alcohol produced from
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molasses can be used as motor fuel. Such a development can simplify the world production of molasses.
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Bagasse: The quantity is 28,000,000 Tonnes of Bagasse per year. It is right now used in sugar
factories as fuel developing co-generation plant for producing power, manufacture of plastics, paper pulp
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and wall boards.

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Conversion of sugar to other products

Sugar represents practically a chemically pure product available at low cost and it is natural to find that
serious study has given rights to development of processes to convert sugar into other products. The
various conversions for molasses can be applied for sugar but extensive development can takes place
parallel to the potential molasses, bagasse and press-mud whose original name is Filter Cake. Some
undertakings compile the manufacture of sugar with the production of ethyl alcohol, butyl alcohol, acetone
by fermentation.

Press-mud (Filter cake): Press-mud or Filter cake is the solid substance obtained after juice
clarification. It is almost brown color and it was used as manure for the sugar cane field itself. A sugar
factory crushing 2500 TPD of sugarcane generates 75 Tonnes of Filter cake. There are about 500 sugar
mills generating sugar in India with crushing capacity ranging from 2500 - 5000 TPD. The recent research
on the exploitation of press-mud or filter cake shows the presence of sugar, proteins, fiber, wax and other
mineral salts. Sugar is present a 0.5% in press-mud. The Protein content is 3%. The Fiber is 35%. The
Wax is 12%. And the remaining is moisture or water. These components can be extracted and used for the
increased use of sugar industry. The fiber part of the waste is dried and converted to carbon called as
Adsorbent Carbon as they can substitute the role of active carbon in the adsorption operations though in
the potential of press-mud it is estimated that we can have 750 crores of rupees provided to national
exchequer annually. These constituents of downstream of multi component sugar industry by-product.
They can be applied for fluoride removal to eliminate skeletal flurosis and in the Drugs & Pharma Industry
for the production of anti cancer drugs, already in commercial operation in a country like Japan.

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TOPIC 4: PHARMACEUTICAL, POLYMERS, INDUSTRIAL
GASES, PAINTS AND PIGMENTS
Last updated: Apr 15, 2009 11:00 AM

Drugs

A substance used for treatment / prevention of disease in human bodies and animals. Typical
intermediates are converted into final drugs by adding ingredients formulate chemical reactions.

Classification

S.No. Category Use Example

1 Analgesics Releases mild pain Aspirin,

Acetaminophen

2 Non-Narcotic Analgesics Releases severe pain Morphine

3 Antacids Neutralize and remove acid Sodium Bi Carbonate

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Magnesium Carbonate

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Aluminum Hydroxide

4 Anti Allergic Agents

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Chromolyn Sodium

5 Anti Anxiety Agents Relief of mild anxiety and Diazepam

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6 Anti Bacterial Agents Cure of Bacterial infection Sulphadiazine

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7 Antibiotics Chemical substances produced Penicillin

by some species of micro
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organisms that suppress the Streptomycin

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growth of harmful species

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8 Anti Convulsions Therapy of Epilepsies Phenobarbital,

Phenytrin
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9 Anti Depressants Over come mental tiredness, Doxepin

depression and fatigue
Depron

10 Anti Histamines Reduce intensity of allergic Tripeleamine

reactions

11 Anti Hyper Tension Treatment of blood pressure Reserpine

Agents

12 Anti Inflammatory Agents Treatment of arthritis Ibuprufen

Phenyl Butazone

13 Cardiovascular Drugs Treatment of heart problems Digitoxin

Nitro Glycerin

14 Central Nervous System Dealing with central nervous Amphetamine Sulfate /

Stimulants system and improve resistant Methyl Phenoate
against cholera

15 Cold Preparations To cure symptoms of cold Phenyl Propanolamine

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 16 Cough Preparations Reduce cough Codiene

Dextro Metamorphan

17 Diuretic Agents Treatment to kidneys for urine Hydro Chloro Thiozole

problems

18 Laxatives Relieves constipation Sodium Sulfate

Methyl Cellulose

19 Seductive & Hypnotics Produce to cure depressions in Phenobarbital

the central nervous system

20 Major Tranquillizers Treatment of major mental Chlorpromazine

disorders
Prothilen

21 Chemotherapy Agents Treatment of Cancer Cyclophospheamide /

Methatraxate

22 Vaccines and Immunizing Immunity against Bacterial Typhoid vaccines and small
Agents and Oral infections pox vaccines

23 Vitamins Essential for natural Vitamin C (obtained from

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24 Anesthetics Make unconcieve or Ether

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Ethyl Chloride, etc
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25 Synthetic Hormone Growth of the body Adrenaline

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Cortisone
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Aspirin (Acetyl Salicylic Acid) Carboxylation & Acetylation

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Use: Analgesic - Removes mild pain

Raw Materials

Phenol and caustic soda are mixed ito reactor followed by a precipitations tank in which sulfuric acid is
added to obtain salicylic acid. This is further centrifuged in basket centrifuge followed by a rail operation
before the treatment of acetic anhydride in a reactor. The products are filtered, crystallized, centrifuged
again and rotary dried to obtain the Aspirin which is Acetyl Salicylic Acid.

Vitamin-C
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Polymers

Introduction: substances consisting of molecules of high molecular weight in the magnitude of 103 to
107 quantitatively. They consist of basic units called monomers linked together by strong chemical bonds.
Plastics, resins, rubber and fibers are examples, where natural polymers like silk, wool, cellulose, starch
and natural proteins exists with same melting point made-up of molecules are identical molecular weight.

They are the applied for manufacture of electrical and electronic components, adhesives, aircraft
component replacement of metals, coatings, packaged materials, medical equipments, pipes and tubings.

Polymers are classified as follows;

1. Based on Functionality

No. of reactive bonds or groups available coupling at the beginning are during the course of reaction.

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1. Uni-functional (one)
2. Bi-functional (two)

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3. Tri-functional (three)

2. Based on physical Structure

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1. Linear Polymer
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2. Cross lined Polymer
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3. Branched Chain Polymer

3. Based on Physical Properties

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1. Thermoplastic: It softens upon heating, regains original hardness upon cooling and they are
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linear or branched molecules soluble in specific solvents. Eg. Vinyl Poly Ethylene, Polypropylene, etc.
2. Thermosetting: These are insoluble and infusible materials even after heating, cross linked or
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heavily cross linked substances, insoluble in solvents, highly heat resistant. Eg. Phenol formaldehyde
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and Silicones
3. Elastomers: These are resistant solids with high flexible strength. Eg. Butadiene derivatives,
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Poly Isoprene, Iso Butylene derivatives and Polyurethane.

4. Fibers: These are thread forming solids with high tensile strength. Eg. Polyesters,
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Polyamides, Poly Vinyl derivatives.

Types of Polymerization Reactions

1. Poly Condensation Reaction

Monomer react slowly step by step fashion. Small molecules like water, ammonia, sodium chloride are split
in the reaction. The intermediate like dimer, trimer exists as stable molecule.

2. Addition Reaction

It is a fast reaction and no by-products are eliminated. The intermediates are radical or ions which are
short lived and unstable.

i. Homo Polymerization
R---R---> RR---R----> RRR------> Rn
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 ii. Co Polymerization
Random Type : RSRRSSRSRSSR
Alternate Type: RSRSR
iii. Block Polymerization
RRRSSSSRRR
iv. Graft Polymerization
SSSSS (Graft)
RRRRR (Main chain)
SSSSS (Graft)

Reaction Mechanism

The polymerization reaction consists of 4 steps;

i. Initiation nC ----energy---> C* (free radical)

ii. Propagation C* + H ---> M* + C
M* + H ---> MM*
MM* + H ---> MMM* + Mn*
iii. Chain Transfer Mn* + M ---> Mn + M*
iv. Termination 2Mn* ----> M2n

Methods of Polymerization

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1. Homogeneous Polymerization

a. Bulk Polymerization: The monomer is the only feed. It may be a gas or liquid or solid. The

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polymer is soluble in monomer. Examples;
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For gas phase - polyethylene and poly propylene.
For liquid phase Polystyrene.
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b. Solution Polymerization: A monomer dissolves in a solvent and reaction occurs in solution.

Only low molecular weight chain termination takes places more.
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2. Heterogeneous Polymerization
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a. Emulsion Polymerization: Monomer is emulsified in aqueous media using emulsified

agents. Reactions are fast and shrinkage does not form latex or polymer dispersion step takes place.
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This advantage is lot of impurities is observed from the emulsifying agent which is composite.
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b. Suspension Polymerization: Monomer, an aqueous media are large droplets in suspension

(0.5 3 mm size) using agitation apart from the emulsifying agents. Here also polymer insoluble in
monomer and irregular surface with internal porosity are obtained in the process.

Polyethylene (Low Pressure Ziegler Process)

nCH2 ---> (CH2-CH2)n

The catalyst employed in this process is titanium tetra chloride (TiCl4). The catalyst prepared and ethylene
molecules are treated in reactor with sulfur impurities after the monomers are completed reactions at a
temperature of 79 OC. The product sent to a flash drum evaporator from where the diluents are passed on
to a dryer and subsequently fractionated to separate the light ends and heavy ends. After the slurry is
washed in water takes to a filter press from which wet polymer is sent to a dryer. From the dryer the
substance is passed into a polymer processing unit from where polyethylene is obtained. Some times the
extrusion process carried out to obtain the pellets of the polymer. This polyethylene obtained by this
process is used in package industry, containers, cable insulations, pipes, toys and for packaging materials.

The other polymers are polypropylene used in the manufacture of automobile parts, medical equipments,
electronic components, fibers and coatings. PVC is also manufactured for the above purpose and reinforced
are specifically manufactured from PVC.
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Polystyrene is a polymer obtained from bulk polymerization. ABS is a polymer obtained from Acrylo Nitrile,
Butadiene and Styrene. They are used in refrigeration lines, vacuum cleaners and automobile components.
Epoxy resins are used for chemical resistant materials. Phenol formaldehyde resins are obtained for the
manufacture of vanishes and adhesives. Polyesters are obtained from polyethylene terypthalate and used
for textile fabrics, hose, bottles, coatings and aircraft components.

Industrial Gases

Hydrogen

Process of manufacture

1. Some Hydrocarbon and Steam (Steam Reforming Process)

CH3CH2CH3 + 3H2O ----> 3CO + 7H2

3CO + 3H2O ----> 3CO2 + 3H2

CH3CH2CH3 + 6H2O ----> 3CO2 + 10H2

Commercial propane obtained from natural gasoline plants are refineries contains sulfur which is removed
before processing. The propane in the form of vapor passed through a heater at a temperature of 370 OC.
The hot gases passed over a bauxite or metallic oxide catalyst which converts sulfur to H2S. After cooling
the gases are scrubbed with aqueous sodium hydroxide and water to remove soluble sulfides. Now the

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is converted to hydrogen, CO and CO2.

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The CO reacts with water vapor in a shift convertor to form hydrogen as mentioned in the second
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CO + H2O ---> CO2 + H2

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steam at elevated temperature. The CO2 is removed by scrubbing the gas and relatively pure hydrogen
remains which is the desired product. Water gas also forms flue gas obtained by steam or coke or coal at a
temperature of 1000 OC or even higher. The exit gas contained 64% H2, 31% CO2, 4% N2 and Methane,
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1% CO which are cooled in water tower and passed to purification unit. The method of purification depends
on the use of hydrogen gas. Suppose this has to be used in the high pressure liquid chromatographic units
the purity is highest. This process is obsolete as technology has observed alternate process of hydrogen.

4. Steam-Iron Process

This produces Hydrogen by the reaction of steam at high temperature are reduced iron oxide to produce
hydrogen with a reduced gas such as water gas in a cyclic operation. The flow sheet is given as;

5. Thermal Decomposition of Hydrocarbon

Hydrogen is obtained as by product in the manufacture of carbon black by the thermal decomposition of
natural gas. A brick chamber is heated to 1300 OC and natural gas is passed through, from this hydrogen

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85% is obtained and the carbon black is separated. This process makes a cheapest way to manufacture
Hydrogen of good purity and simple technology.

6. From Methanol and steam

Hydrogen of higher than 98% purity is manufactured by reaction of methanol with steam at 260 OC.

CH3OH + H2O -----> CO2 + 3H2

The ease and simplicity of fabricating this plant, handling raw materials and purified hydrogen makes the
process more practical for producing hydrogen. The cost of methanol precludes the technology that
produces on a large scale by the process.

Uses of H2

Ammonia plants, methanol plants, Refineries and other organic chemical industries find uses Hydrogen on
a large scale. It is one of the lightest substances and is useful for hydrogenation of oils; liquid hydrogen is
used as a rocket fuel and in the recent year on a large scale in the electronic industry.

Carbon Di-Oxide (CO2)

1. From Steam and Natural Gas

60% of CO2 is a by-product of the production of Ammonia which is obtained by the reaction of N2 and
H2. The reaction is; CH4 + 2H2O ---- 4H2 + CO2

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The fermentation of grains to produce Ethyl Alcohol also produces a good quantity of CO2. It is
represented by the reaction, C6H12O6 --Yeast --> 2C2H5OH + 2CO2
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In the plants manufacturing sodium phosphate by the reaction of phosphoric acid with sodium
phosphate pure CO2 is available as a by-product.
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Na2CO3 + H3PO4 -----> Na2HPO4 + CO2 + H2O

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Flow Diagram for manufacture of CO2 by Absorption

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Process

1. Coke is burnt in boiler furnace.

2. Combustion is controlled by grafts so as to flue gas contain 18% CO2.
3. Steam generated is used for a pumps and compressors followed by heat for the lye boiler section.
4. The hot (232 OC) flue gas containing O2, CO, N2, Dust, Sulfur, Organic Compounds in the addition of
CO2 are passed through a heat exchanger and economizer. This reduces the temperature to 120 OC.
5. The dilute CO2 pumps from the absorption towers where a counter current aqueous solution of
sodium carbonate develops weak lye.
6. After the absorption of CO2, the strong lye a solution of bicarbonate is pumped through the heat
exchangers and slurry is heated.
7. The absorbers operating at 30 OC remove CO2 from flue gas which is released to the atmosphere.
8. The bicarbonate solution is decomposed to weak lye, i.e. sodium carbonate.
9. The liberated gas consisting of 99.8% CO2 passes through the water coolers and collectors in gas
holders.
10. In the ternary cycle the CO2 is cooled to 4 OC at a pressure of 75 lbs/in2 after the first stage of
compressor. The compressors are run by steam from the boiler and the exhaust steam is used in the
lye boiler.
11. Long condensing gas is pumped and the 99.9% liquid CO2 is free from impurities and passed onto
flash coolers followed by storage in cylinder.
12. In two step by step flash coolers refrigerated by expanding CO2. The temperature is lowered to -7 OC
and then to -40 OC. The liquid CO2 is fed to a metering tank and then by the press it is connected to

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Uses of CO2

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From Calcium Carbide

Calcium carbide is formed when lime (essentially free of phosphates and magnesium carbonate) and coke
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(low ash content) is mixed in the ratio of 60:40 are heated to a temperature of 2100OC in a electric
furnace.
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There are two processes available namely the wet and dry processes. In the wet process, large quantity of
water is added releasing acetylene gas while calcium hydrate is discharged in the form of slurry with about
90% water. On the contrary little water is added to calcium carbide in the generator of the dry process.

WULFF Process

From paraffin hydro carbon by pyrolysis

Eg. C4H10 --steam--> CH CH + CO + H2

C2H4 ------> CH CH + H2
2CH4 -----> CH CH + 3H2

The yield in the third reaction is only 25%. Acetylene is produced from a wide variety of hydro carbon
(natural gas, LPG, naphtha, fuel oil, crude oil) by high temperature cracking reactions. The heat supplied
cracks the hydro carbon to acetylene. The yield in some cases even 95% and high.
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