ChE107 INTRODUCTION TO CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

UNIT-I
Definition of chemical engineering, basic concepts in chemical engineering: unit operations, basic laws, useful mathematical methods, units and dimensions.
Flow of fluids: Nature of Fluid, viscosity, flow field, flow of fluid past a solid surface, conservation of mass and energy, Friction loses in laminar flow through a circular tube, Hagen-Poiseuille equation, Friction losses in turbulent flow, Fanning equation

UNIT-II

Heat Transfer: Fundamental concepts of Conduction, Convection and Radiation.
Heat transfer equipment: double pipe, shell and tube heat exchangers and evaporators (description with diagrams)

UNIT-III

Mass Transfer: Diffusion-diffusion in different phases, role of concentration difference in diffusion, resistance to diffusion, diffusion in liquids. Inter-phase mass transfer, mass transfer coefficients, relation between mass transfer coefficients and overall mass transfer coefficients.
Distillation: Flash distillation, differential distillation, Steam distillation, Fractional distillation, McCabe-Thiele method.
Mass Transfer Equipment: Equipment for Gas-Liquid operations (Description with diagrams).

UNIT-IV

Chemical kinetics: introduction, thermodynamics of reactions, determination of the rate equation, effect of temperature on reaction rate, reactors (description with diagrams)

Text Books

1. Introduction to Chemical Engineering, S. K. Ghosal, S. K. Sanyal & S. Datta, Tata-McGraw-Hill,.

1. Introduction to Chemical Engineering, Walter L. Badger & Julius T. Banchero, Tata-McGraw-Hill, New Delhi.
2. Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering, Warren L.Mc Cabe, Julian C.Smith, Peter Harriot, 7th edition, McGraw Hill, New Delhi.
3. Mass Transfer Operations, Robert E. Treybal, 3rd edition, McGraw Hill, New Delhi.
4. Introduction to Chemical Engineering, Smith J. M., McGraw Hill, New Delhi.