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This document provides an overview of the Introduction to Chemical Engineering course offered at the National Institute of Technology Srinagar. The course aims to acquaint students with chemical engineering fundamentals and principles. It covers topics like chemical process industries, unit operations, material and energy balances, and the various fields where chemical engineers play a role. The evaluation includes a mid-term exam, internal assessments, assignments, and a final exam. The course intends to help students gain knowledge of chemical processes and their applications in industries as well as computer modeling and simulation tools.

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Lecture 2

This document provides an overview of the Introduction to Chemical Engineering course offered at the National Institute of Technology Srinagar. The course aims to acquaint students with chemical engineering fundamentals and principles. It covers topics like chemical process industries, unit operations, material and energy balances, and the various fields where chemical engineers play a role. The evaluation includes a mid-term exam, internal assessments, assignments, and a final exam. The course intends to help students gain knowledge of chemical processes and their applications in industries as well as computer modeling and simulation tools.

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Lecture-2

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING


NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SRINAGAR

Course Objective: To acquaint the students with the fundamentals of Chemical Engineering
principles, their application and to build their broader perspective in a wholesome manner.

Subject: Introduction to Chemical Year & Semester: B.Tech. Chemical Total Course Credit: 4
Engineering Engineering 2nd year & 3rd Semester L T P
(CET-201) 3 1 0
Mid-Term Internal Assessment Final-Term
Evaluation Policy
(26 Marks) 8(Q) +8 (CF) +8(A) (50 Marks)
Q: Quiz, CF:Class Performance (attendance + behavior), A: Assignment

Course Outcomes (COs):


CO1. Introduction to Chemical Engineering: Origin, Growth, and Relation to other sciences
CO2. Knowledge of unit operations and unit processes and its application to chemical process
industries
CO3. Gain an insight into involvement of chemical engineering in areas of energy,
environment, materials, health, bioengineering and safety etc.
CO4. Implementation of chemical engineering basics to simple systems.
CO5 Role of computer softwares, modeling, simulation etc. in chemical engineering
education.

Details of Syllabus:
Chemical Engineering and Chemical technology.
Chemical engineering: origin, growth and role.
Unit-I Chemical Process Industry: Definition, origin, growth and the present scenario.
Overview of chemical engineering through discussion and engineering analysis of
physical and chemical processes. Concepts of unit processes and unit operations.
Process flow sheeting and symbols. Process calculations. Basic concepts of material
Unit-II
and energy balances, energy and mass transport, and kinetics of chemical reactions.
Introduction of following fields and Role of Chemical Engineers in these (case
studies if any);
Biochemical engineering and biotechnology, catalysis, computational fluid dynamics,
energy and environment , petroleum engineering, electrochemistry, pharmaceutical
Unit-III
engineering, safety engineering, membrane processes, textile engineering, ceramics ,
chemical weapons , cost estimation , fischer tropsch synthesis, food engineering, fuel
cell, microfluidics, nanotechnology, nuclear processing, pharmaceutical engineering,
polymers, paper engineering, safety engineering.

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Dimensional analysis. Different system of units. Basic and derived units, dimensional
Unit-IV and empirical equation. Buckingham Pi theorem. Different ways of expressing units
of physical constants. Concepts of scale-up, modeling and simulation.
Computers in chemical engineering: Introduction, use and utility of various chemical
Unit-V
engineering software.

Books Recommended
1. Anderson, L.B., Wenzel, L.A., “Introduction to Chemical Engineering",
McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York (1961).
2. Ghosal, S.K., Sanyal, S.K., Datta, S., “Introduction to Chemical
Engineering”, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Ltd., New Delhi
Text Books (1997).
3. Pushpavanam, S., "Introduction to Chemical Engineering", PHI Learning
Pvt. Ltd. (2012).
4. Nekolaos A Peppas (ed.), “ One Hundred Years of Chemical Engineering”
From Lewis M. Norton (M.I.T. 1888) to Present, Springer (1989).
1. Rao, M.G., Sittig, M., “Dryden’s Outlines of Chemical Technology”, East-
West Press (1997).
2. Perry, R.H., Green, D.W., “Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook”,
McGraw-Hill Book Company (2008).
Reference 3. Himmelblau, D.M., “Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical
Books Engineering", 8th Edn., Prentice-Hall of India Ltd. (2012).
4. Hougen, D.A., Watson, K.M., Ragatz, R.A., “Chemical Process Principles,
Part-I ", 2ndEdn., John Wiley & Sons (1995).
5. McCabe, W.L., Smith, J.C., “Unit Operation of Chemical Engineering”,
7th Edn.,

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