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Engineering Chemistry II: Course Description

This document provides information on the Engineering Chemistry II course offered at a university. The course is 6 hours per week, including 3 hours of lecture, 1 hour of tutorial, 2 hours of lab. The course covers nonmetals and their compounds, metals and their compounds, and organic compounds. It aims to provide students with the basic concepts and ability to apply chemistry in engineering works. Topics include water treatment, preparation of ammonia and acids, allotropes of carbon, properties of various metals and alloys, organic nomenclature, hydrocarbons, and synthetic polymers. The course also includes 10 experiments in analytical chemistry techniques. Required textbooks are listed.

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Engineering Chemistry II: Course Description

This document provides information on the Engineering Chemistry II course offered at a university. The course is 6 hours per week, including 3 hours of lecture, 1 hour of tutorial, 2 hours of lab. The course covers nonmetals and their compounds, metals and their compounds, and organic compounds. It aims to provide students with the basic concepts and ability to apply chemistry in engineering works. Topics include water treatment, preparation of ammonia and acids, allotropes of carbon, properties of various metals and alloys, organic nomenclature, hydrocarbons, and synthetic polymers. The course also includes 10 experiments in analytical chemistry techniques. Required textbooks are listed.

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Engineering Chemistry II

EG 1203 SH
Total: 6 hour /week
Year: I Lecture: 3 hours/week
Semester: II Tutorial: 1 hours/week
Practical: hours/week
Lab: 2 hours/week
Course Description:
This subject consists of three units related to nonmetals and their compounds; metals and their
compounds; and organic compounds and synthetic materials necessary to develop background in
chemistry that supports for the understanding and practicing related engineering works.

Course Objectives:
After the completion of this subject, students will be able to explain the basic concepts related to
the followings and apply them in the field of related engineering works:

1. Nonmetals and their compounds


2. Metals and their compounds
3. Organic compounds and synthetic materials

Course Content:
Unit 1: Non-metals and their compounds: [20]
1.1 Water:
 Source of water
 Hard and soft water
 Removal of temporary and permanent hardness of water
 Water treatment of domestic and industrial purpose
1.2 Ammonia:
 Lab preparation
 Manufacture by Haber's process
 Properties and uses
1.3 Nitric acid:
 Manufacture by Ostwald's process
 Properties and uses.
 Nitrogen cycle
 Fixation of Nitrogen
 Chemical fertilizers
 Oxides of nitrogen as pollutant (general concept)
 Acid rain (due to oxides of nitrogen and oxide of Sulphur "Sulpher
dioxide")

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1.4 Halogens (Chlorine):
 Lab preparation
 Properties and uses
1.5 Hydrochloric acid:
 Lab preparation
 Properties and uses
1.6 Hydrogen Sulphide:
 Lab preparation
 Properties and uses
1.7 Sulphuric acid:
 Manufacture by contact process)
 Properties and uses
1.8 Carbon and its compounds:
 Allotropes of carbon (reference of diamond & graphite & their structure).
 Oxides of carbon (Ref. carbon dioxide & carbon mono oxide as
pollutants)- general idea only

Unit 2: Metals and their compounds: [15]


2.1 General study of metals and their components:
 Difference between metal and non metal
 Combined & free state of metals
 Chemistry of Metallic Carbonates, Sulphates, Chlorides and Nitrates
2.2 Alkali metals:
 General characteristics of Alkali metals
 Properties & uses of sodium
2.3 Alkaline earth metals:
 General characteristics of the Alkaline earth metals
 Properties & uses of calcium
2.4 Aluminum:
 Properties and uses
2.5 Coinage metals:
 General properties of coinage metals
 Properties and uses of cupper
2.6 Zinc:
 Properties & uses
2.7 Iron:
 Properties & uses
2.8 Lead:
 Properties & uses
2.9 Alloys:

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 Definition
 Purpose of making alloys
 Types of alloys
Unit 3: Organic compounds and synthetic materials: [10]
3.1 Organic compounds
 Organic compounds:
 Historical background, classification, and nomenclature
 Functional groups and homologous series
 Saturated hydrocarbon: Properties of Methane
 Unsaturated hydrocarbon: Properties of Ethylene and Acetylene
 Aromatic compounds:
 Definition
 Comparison of aliphatic and aromatic compounds
 Properties of Benzene
3.2 Synthetic materials:
 Polymer and polymerization
 Definition
 Types of polymer
 Rubber:
 Types (Natural and Synthetic )
 Preparation and uses.
 Polyvinyl chloride (PVC):
 Preparation and uses
 Polythene:
 Preparation and uses

Engineering Chemistry Practical II:


1. To compare the hardness of different types of water [2]
2. To prepare Bakelite (resin) in the laboratory [2]
3. To determine the condition in which corrosion takes place [2]
4. To investigate the action of acids on some metals (Zn, Mg, Fe, Al, Sn
& Cu) (acids: HCl, H2SO4(dil.)& HNO3 (dil) [2]
5. To prepare and study the properties of hydrogen gas [2]
6. To prepare and study the properties of ammonia gas [2]
7. To prepare and study the properties of hydrogen Sulphide gas. (This gas should
not be prepare individually in woulf bottle but in Kipp's apparatus commonly) [2]
8. To detect the acid radicals (Cl-, NO3--, SO4---, CO3--) by dry and wet ways (4)
9. To detect the basic radicals (Cu++, Al+++, Fe+++, Zn++, CO++, Ni++, Ca++, Ba++, Mg++)by wet
ways [6]
10. To detect the acid and basic radicals (complete salt analysis) [6]

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Textbooks:
1. Foundations of chemistry, Vol-2, M.K. Sthapit and R.R. Pradhananga
2. A text Book of chemistry, Jha & Guglani
3. A text Book of Organic Chemistry, B.S. Bahl & Arun Bahl
4. Elementary qualitative analysis, M.K.Sthapit and C.B.Tuladhar
5. Elementary practical chemistry, MK.Sthapit
6. A Text book of Engineering Chemistry, Prakash Poudel

Reference books:
1. Inorganic chemistry, Bahl & Tuli
2. Elementary Organic Chemistry, P.N. Bargava
3. Fundamentals of chemistry, K.R. Palak
4. A text Book of Inorganic Chemistry, L.M. Mitra
5. Engineering Chemistry, M.L. Sharma, K.M. Shrestha, P.N. Choudhary

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