Industrial Chemistry

Course Code2877Marks: 100Credits: 4Class Hours: 60Course TitleIndustrial Chemistry1.Fundamentals in the Development of Chemical Industries: General ideas about unit processes and unit operations, raw materials, process design, commercial energy sources, catalysts, heat transfer, mass transfer, separation processes, concepts of consumption, production, and market evaluation, safety, environmental considerations, site and technology selection criteria, cost-benefit analysis. 2.Chlor-alkali Industries: Raw materials, manufacture of caustic soda, soda ash, sodium bicarbonate, chlorine, bleaching powder, environmental hazards of these chemicals.3.Fertilizer Industries: Plant nutrients, classification of fertilizers, natural inorganic fertilizers, nitrogen fixation, artificial fertilizers, manufacture of ammonia and urea, action of urea as fertilizer, potassium fertilizer, calcium phosphate and other phosphatic fertilizers, NPK fertilizer.4.Cement Industries: Portland cement,raw materials, important process parameters for manufacturing a good cement clinker, methods of manufacturing Portland cement, sequence of operations, additives for cement, properties of cement, testing of cement, setting of cement, other types of cement, manufacture of gypsum, Plaster of Paris.5.Glass Industries: Properties of glass, raw materials and fundamentals of glass industries, methods of manufacture, choice of the furnace, chemical reactions in the furnace, annealing, special glasses.6.Ceramic Industries: Ceramics, properties of ceramics, basic raw materials, manufactures of ceramics, refractories, requisites of a good refractory, classification of refractories, properties of refractories, manufacture of refractories, types of refractory products.7.Acids: Raw materials, manufacture of hydrochloric, phosphoric, sulfuric acids, concentration and purification of acids, industrial uses of mineral acids, safety and hazards.8.Iron and Steel Industry: Fundamentals of metallurgy, ores of iron, three commercial forms of iron, construction and operation of blast furnace, reactions in blast furnace, byproduct in blast furnace, classification of steel, steel manufacturing processes, effects of impurities on steel, phases in Fe-C system.9.Sugar and Starch Industries:Steps in the industrial extraction of cane sugar, and inversion of sugar, refining of sugar, production of sugar from sugar beet, byproducts of sugar industries, management of industrial waste of sugar industries, production of starch from corn, production of glucose and dextrin from starch.
10.Cellulose and Allied Industries:Natural sources of cellulose, its constituents and their estimation, different processes for the manufacturer of paper from pulp, production of paper board, viscose rayon and other modified cellulosic fiber, wood chemistry and wood chemicals.11.Fuels:Solid, liquid and gaseous fuels, coal and its constituents, different stages of coal formation, analysis and calorific value of coal and other fuels, manufacture of producer gas and water gas, refining and distillation of crude oil, thermal and catalytic cracking, hydrocarbons and petroleum, petroleum refining, petrochemicals from liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons, natural gas and its utilization.12.Natural Oils, Fats and Waxes:Extraction and refining of vegetable oils, analysis of fats and oils and their uses, hydrogenation of oils -soybean and sunflower oils and their uses.13.Paints and Varnishes:Constituents of paints, varnishes, lacquers, enamels and printing inks and their functions, paints and pigments and their manufacturer, differentiation between paints and varnishes.14.Soaps and Detergents:Methods of fat splitting, manufacturer of laundry and toilet soaps, recovery and refining of glycerin, detergents: definition, classification and their manufacture, comparison between soaps and detergent.15.Fermentation Industries:Enzymes and their application, manufacture of industrial alcohol and absolute alcohol, principal and production of acetone and acetic and citric acid, antibiotics.16.Explosives: Definition and classification, toxic chemical agents and propellants, industrial explosives -nitroglycerine, dynamite, etc., military explosives -TNT, picric acid, nitrocellulose, etc.Books recommended:1.Chemical Process Industries, R. N. Shreve and J. A. Brink, Jr., McGraw-Hill Inc.2.Industrial Chemistry, B. K. Sharma, Geol Publishing House.3.Reagel’s Hand Book of Industrial Chemistry, J. A. Kent edited, Van Nostrand.4.Chemical Process Industries, G. T. Austin edited, McGraw-Hill.5.Materials Science and Engineering –An Introduction, W. D. Callister, Jr., John Wiley & Sons, Inc.6.Inorganic Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, J. H. Block and E. B. Roche, Lea and Febiger Pub.7.Environmental Chemistry Vol. I -III, H. J. M. Bowen, The Royal Society of Chemistry.