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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
promotion.
IC 402

ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT Project management. Introduction. Concept of a project,

project management concepts, project formulation, cost of
project and means of financing, economic evaluation criteria of
Group A the project, project implementation, project planning, scheduling
Management and Organisations and monitoring, project control (PERT, CPM techniques
Management process : Definition, planning, organising, including crashing), project evaluation.
directing, controlling, coordinating, types of management. Information technology and management. Role of
Organisation: Definition, planning, design and information, management information system and decision
development, types of organisations. support system. Information technology—introduction to e-
business, e-commerce and integration tools like enterprise
Management planning and control: Classical, new classical
resource planning (ERP).
and modern principles. General management, scientific
management, engineering management, systems management. Recommended Books
Planning: Procedures, resources and constraints, objectives, .. A K Gupta. Engineering Management. S. Chand & Co.
goals, policies and procedures. Ltd., New Delhi.
Control : Setting of reference or standards, appraisal or .. S Dalela and Mansoor Ali. Industrial Engineering and
evaluation, monitoring and controlling, types of control. Management Systems. Standard Publishers & Distributors,
Delhi.
Human resource planning and management. Selection,
recruitment, training, retraining, skill development, competence .. G Dieter. Engineering Design. McGraw-Hill International.
development, promotion and career development, participative .. E S Buffa. Modern Production/Operations Management.
management, trade unions, and collective bargaining. New Age International (P) Ltd., New Delhi.
Management of Physical Resources
CH 403

Plant: Site selection procedures, factors affecting selection. CHEMICAL REACTION

Layout—types and relative merits and demerits. Maintenance— ENGINEERING
objectives, different types of associated decisions, strategies for
effective maintenance, computer applications.
Group A
Material : Functions, objectives, planning and control
including inventory models with or without storage costs, price Classification of reactors and reactions. Definition of reaction
break (excluding dynamic and probabilistic considerations). rate, variables affecting the rate. Rate theories—the Arrehenius
Different classes of inventory. Material Requirement Planning relationship. Collision theory and activated complex theory.
(MRP). Order of reaction and its determination. Interpretation of
Group B kinetic data for batch and flow systems. Integral and differential
methods of analysis.
Financial management: Introduction to standard forms of
financial statements, i.e., balance-sheet, profit and loss, and Design of batch, semi-batch and flow reactors for ideal single
income statement. Fixed and current asset items. Fixed and reactions, reaction in series and in parallel and mixed reactions—
current liability items. Linkage of two successive balance-sheets all under isothermal conditions.
through income or profit and loss statement. Funds flow Group B
statement. Financial ratios and their implications. Comparison of performance of CSTR with PFR. The effect
Managerial economics: Concepts, theory of production, of volume change during the reaction. Re-active distillation.
marginal productivity and cost. Introduction to theory of firm. Membrane reactors. Introduction to design of adiabatic and
Quality management: Quality definition, quality planning, non-isothermal reactors. Kinetics and typical examples of
quality control and quality management. Total quality uncatalyzed heterogeneous reactions.
management, ISO 9000 systems, simple quality control Properties of catalysts and their determination. Classification
techniques like control charts and acceptance sampling. of catalysts. General procedure for manufacture of catalysts.
Marketing management. Consumer behaviour, market Promoters, inhibitors and poisons. Mechanism of catalyzed
research, product design and development, pricing and reactions. Design of fixed bed and fluidized bed catalytic reactors
under isothermal conditions.

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Introduction to non-ideal reactors. Residence time corresponding state. Residual volume, compressibility factor.
distribution, dispersion model and its solution for different Equations of state. Heat effects. Clausius-Clapeyron equation.
boundary conditions. Second law. Entropy. Carnot cycle, work function, free energy.
Recommended Books Phase rule—its use in study of multicomponent systems.
.. J M Smith. Chemical Engineering Kinetics. McGraw-Hill Group B
International. Refrigeration. Thermodynamic efficiency, production of
.. O Levenspiel. Chemical Reaction Engineering. McGraw-Hill work from heat. Partial molal properties. Chemical potential,
International. fugacity.
Activity and activity coefficients. Gibbs-Duhem equation.
CH 404

Determination of activity coefficients from van Laar equations.

TRANSPORT PHENOMENA Chemical reaction equilibria. Introduction to Third Law.
Recommended Books
Group A .. J M Smith and H C Van Ness. Introduction to Chemical
Momentum transport: Physical properties of fluids, forces Engineering Thermodynamics. McGraw-Hill International.
on fluids, buoyancy, hydrostatic equation for compressible fluids. .. E Balzhiser and R Samuels. Engineering Thermodynamics.
Laws of viscosity. Types of fluid motion—flow through pipes Prentice-Hall of India (P) Ltd., New Delhi.
and channels. Bernoulli’s theorem. Conservation of mass and
momentum head loss in fittings. Solution of pipe flow CH 406
problems. Differential balances in Cartesian coordinates. Navier-
Stokes equation. Solution of Navier-Stokes equation for simple
CHEMICAL PROCESS PRINCIPLES
cases. Creeping flow.
Turbulent flow: Nature and intensity of turbulence. Group A
Universal velocity distribution. Flow through rough pipes. Graphical methods of curve fittings, method of least
Boundary layer flow solution for laminar and turbulent flows. squares, solution of cubic equations by trial and error method.
Flow past immersed bodies. Application of dimensional analysis Conversion of units. Dimensional analysis. Properties of gas,
in fluid dynamics. liquid and solid. Equations of state.
Group B Vapour pressure. Vapour pressure plots, vapour pressure
Energy transport. Thermal conductivity. Steady and unsteady of immiscible liquids and vapour pressure of solutions.
state heat conduction in one-dimensional system. Convective Humidity and saturation humidity chart. Super saturation.
heat transfer coefficients. Heat transfer with laminar flow over a Distribution of a solute between immiscible and partially miscible
flat wall and through pipes. Heat transfer with turbulent flow. liquids. Solubility of gases.
Condensation and boiling heat transfer. Analogies between Group B
momentum and heat transfer.
Materials balance: Concepts of limiting and excess reactants,
Mass transport: Theories of diffusion. Component mass batch, stage-wise, continuous and recycle operations. Material
balance. Convective mass transfer coefficients. Mass transfer with balance of systems involving mixing, extraction, distillation,
laminar flow and with turbulent flow over a flat wall. Analogies crystallization, chemical reaction and recycle processes.
between momentum and mass transfer. Simultaneous
Heats of formation, combustion, reaction, solution,
momentum, heat and mass transfer.
dilution, etc. Effect of temperature on heat of reaction. Energy
Recommended Books balance of systems without and with chemical reactions. Material
.. R B Bird, W E Stewart and E N Lightfoot. Transport and energy balance calculations for simple processes like
Phenomena. Wiley International. manufacture of sulphuric acid, nitric acid and alkali.
.. C O Bennett and J E Myers. Heat and Momentum Transport. Recommended Books
McGraw-Hill International. .. O A Hougen, K M Watson and R A Ragatz. Chemical Process
Principles—Part I. Asia Publishing House, Mumbai.
CH 405

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING .. S K Ghoshal, S K Sanyal and S Dutta. Introduction to

THERMODYNAMICS Chemical Engineering. Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
Ltd., New Delhi.
Group A .. B I Bhatt and S M Vora. Stoichiometry. Tata McGraw-Hill
First law. Evaluation of P-V-T properties of fluids. Law of Publishing Co. Ltd., New Delhi.

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International.
CH 407

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING .. W L McCabe and J C Smith. Unit Operations of Chemical

EQUIPMENT DESIGN Engineering. McGraw-Hill International.

CH 412
Group A
Process equipment supports. Storage tanks and pressure HEAT TRANSFER OPERATIONS
vessels.
Heat transfer equipment. Concentric pipe, shell and tube, Group A
single-pass and multi-pass heat exchangers; Condensers. Fouriers’ laws of conduction, steady state conduction of
Group B heat through solids. Steady state heating and cooling of liquids.
Single and multiple effect evaporators. Plate and frame filter Convection-free and forced, heat transfer correlations—free and
press. forced. Heat transfer from vertical surfaces and rotating bodies.
Mass transfer equipment. Absorption and distillation Heat transfer from condensing vapours and boiling liquids—
columns; Rotary dryers. filmwise and dropwise. Boiling coefficients. Fouling factors. Heat
exchange equipment like heat exchangers, condensers and waste
Recommended Books
heat boilers. Heat transfer in stirred tanks.
.. D Q Kern. Heat Transfer. McGraw-Hill International.
Group B
.. R E Treybal. Mass Transfer Operations. McGraw-Hill
Heat transfer by radiation—black body and grey body
International.
radiation, laws of radiation. Shape factor. Combined heat transfer
.. R K Sinnett. An Introduction to Chemical Engineering coefficients with convection and radiation.
Design in Chemical Engineering: Vol 6. Coulson and
Evaporation: Various types of evaporators and their
Richardson Series, Pergamon Press, Oxford.
attachments, performance of evaporators, boiling point rise.
Single and multiple effects. Forward feed, backward feed and
CH 411

MASS TRANSFER OPERATIONS mixed feed. Vapour compression evaporation. Barometric

condensers.
Group A Recommended Books
Principles and theories of mass transfer. Mass transfer .. D Q Kern. Process Heat Transfer. McGraw-Hill International.
coefficients and their correlations. J D factor and HTU concepts. .. W L McCabe and J C Smith. Unit Operations of Chemical
Absorption, principles, packing materials. Flooding and loading Engineering. McGraw International.
points. HETP and HTU concepts. Absorption concepts and .. S P Sukhatme. A Textbook on Heat Transfer. Orient
qualitative treatment. Longman Ltd., New Delhi.
Distillation: Batch, continuous, flash, vacuum, steam,
CH 413

molecular, azeotropic, extractive and multi-component

distillation. Theory of fractional distillation of binary mixtures. MECHANICAL OPERATIONS
Calculation of number of theoretical plates. Plate efficiency.
Minimum and optimum reflux.
Group A
Group B
Classifications and performance of pumps, blowers,
Crystallization: Factors influencing nucleation and crystal compressors and turbines—their selection and specifications.
growth. Caking of ctystals. Different crystallizars and their design Mechanical and pneumatic conveying equipment and power
principles. consumption. Design of conveyor belts.
Extraction: Batch and continuous. Calculation of number Theories of filtration—constant rate and constant pressure
of ideal stages. Multistage extraction. Equipment and their filtration. Optimum cycle, compressible cakes and filter aids.
design principles. Centrifugation. Flow through packed beds. Fluidization.
Drying: Theory and mechanism of drying, drying rates, Group B
different dryers and their design principles. Wet and dry bulb
Size reduction—types of equipment and their studies.
hygrometry. Humidification and dehumidification. Air-
Closed and open circuit grinding. Laws of crushing and grinding,
conditioning. Cooling.
power requirements. Screening—equipment and efficiency.
Recommended Books Sedimentation—free and hindered setting. Cyclones and
.. R E Treybal. Mass Transfer Operations. McGraw-Hill electrostatic precipitator. Flotation. Thickners.

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Mixing equipment and characteristics, power consumption thermistor. Response of these instruments. Instrument
and efficiency. Measurements of fluid flow by weir, V-notch, performance characteristics and evaluation.
orifice meter, venturi meter, pitot tube and rotameter. Composition measuring instruments. Spectroscopic
Recommended Books method, thermal conductivity cell, carbon dioxide analyser, fuel
.. W L McCabe and J C Smith. Unit Operations of Chemical gas analysis, oxygen analysis, pH meter, refractomer,
chromatograph, colorimetry and polarograph. Response of these
Engineering. McGraw-Hill International.
instruments. Instrument performance characteristics and
.. A M Gaudin. Principles of Mineral Dressing. Tata McGraw- evaluation.
Hill Publishing Co. Ltd., New Delhi.
Measurement of pressure and volume. Manometer, pressure
spring. Mcleoid gauge. Pirani gauge, ionisation gauge and liquid
CH 414

FLUID MECHANICS seals. Response of these instruments. Viscosity measurement,

specific gravity measurement, level measuring devices, flow
measuring devices, measurement of displacement and density.
Group A Group B
Introduction. Shear stress, viscosity, kinematic viscosity, Transfer functions and input-output models. Dynamic
dependence of viscosity on temperature and pressure. Ideal fluid. response to step inputs of first and second order systems with
Fluid statics: Pressure hydrostatics. Forces on submerged or without time lags. Feedback control and effect of proportional,
surfaces and bodies. Manometers. Dimensional analysis and integral and derivative control.
similitude. Buckkingham Pi theorem, methods to determine Root-locus analysis and stability of feedback controlled
dimensionless groups. Reynold, Froude and Mach numbers. systems. Frequency response of systems. Bode diagrams. Ziegler-
General description of fluid motion. Types of flows, Nichols methods.
streamlines and stream tubes. Dynamics of fluids in steady Recommended Books
motion. Equation of continuity and momentum, momentum
.. D P Eckman. Industrial Instrumentation. New Age
correction factor. Bernoulli’s equation. Application of continuity,
International (P) Ltd., New Delhi.
momentum and Bernoulli’s equation to physical situations.
.. P Harriot. Process Control. Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing
Group B
Co. Ltd., New Delhi.
Flow in pipes, Poiseuille’s equation; kinetic energy correction
.. A Suryanarayana. Outlines of Chemical Instrumentation
factor; friction factor; hydraulic radius; D’ Arcy-Weisbach formula.
and Process Control. Khanna Publishers, Delhi.
Equivalent resistance of valves and fittings. Expansion and
contraction losses.
CH 421

Flow around immersed bodies. Boundary layers—laminar FUELS AND COMBUSTION

and turbulent. Pressure distribution. Drag and lift-form drag;
drag coefficient; drag coefficient as a function of Reynold’s Group A
number. Stoke’s law. Terminal velocity. Compressible flow:
Introduction to different energy sources—conventional and
Qualitative treatment only.
non-conventional.
Recommended Books
Coal technology: Origin of coal, its classification. Washing,
.. W L McCabe and J C Smith. Unit Operations of Chemical briquetting and carbonization.
Engineering. McGraw-Hill International.
Liquid fuels. Petroleum and prepared liquid fuels. Synthetic
.. V L Streeter and E B Wylie. Fluid Mechanics. McGraw-Hill liquid fuels. Storage, handling, utilization and testing.
International.
Group B
.. V Gupta and S K Gupta. Fluid Mechanics and Its
Gaseous fuels: Natural gas, LPG, manufactured gases such
Applications. New Age International (P) Ltd., New Delhi.
as producer gas, water gas and hydrogen. Coal gasification.
CH 415

INSTRUMENTATION AND Combustion and furnaces. Stoichiometry, combustion

thermodynamics, propagation of flame and combustion
CONTROL appliances. Fluidized bed combustion. Elementary concepts of
Group A furnace design. Regenerators and recuperators.
Temperature measuring instruments. Bimetallic, vapour Recommended Books
pressure, thermocouples, resistance thermometer, radiation .. S P Sharma and M Chander. Fuels and Combustion. Tata
pyrometer, optical pyrometer, photoelectric pyrometer, Mc-Graw-Hill Publishing Co. Ltd., New Delhi.

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.. S Sarkar. Fuels and Combustion. Orient Longman Ltd., Oils and fats: Refining, hydrogenation, fat splitting. Soaps
New Delhi. and detergents. Pulp and paper industries. Industrial
fermentation—ethyl alcohol.
CH 422

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING Recommended Books

.. R N Shreve. Chemical Process Industries. McGraw-Hill
International.
Group A
.. M Gopal Rao and M Sitting. Dryden’s Outlines of Chemical
Scope and importance of biochemical engineering and
Technology. Affiliated East-West Press (P) Ltd., New Delhi.
biotechnology. Micro-organisms: Structures, composition and
activity. Kinetics of cell growth-Monod equation. .. V Gupta and S K Gupta. Fluid Mechanics and Its
Applications. New Age International (P) Ltd., New Delhi.
Metabolic pathways and bioenergetics.
Enzymes: Biocatalysts, immobilized enzymes, enzyme

CH 425
kinetics—Michel-Menten equation. Sequential enzyme reactions, INSTRUMENTATION AND
regulation of enzyme activity. CONTROL
Group B
Transport phenomena in microbial systems. Fermentation: (See page 16, subject CH 415)
Process parameters, sterilization. Process control.
Bioreactors: Different types—design and scale up. Cellular CH 431
POLYMER MATERIALS AND
genetic, genetic manipulation, principles of recombinant. DNA
TECHNOLOGY
technolog y. Important biochemical products—their
manufacturing procedures and uses. Group A
Recommended Books Genesis of polymers, chemistry of polymerisation. Chain
.. F C Webb. Biochemical Engineering. Van Nostrand and step polymerisation, polymerisation techniques. Co-
Publishing Co. polymerisation.
.. J E Bailey and D F Ollis. Biochemical Engineering Kinetics of polymerisation, molecular weight, glass transition
Fundamentals. McGraw-Hill International. temperature. Crystallinity.
Polymer theology. Viscosity, apparent viscosity, Newtonian
CH 423

and non-Newtonian fluid, power law, vises elastic behaviours.

MECHANICAL OPERATIONS
Polymer characterisation. Polymer synthesis, molecular
weight method gpc, thermal analysis.
(See page 15, subject CH 413)
Polymer degradation. Thermal, mechanical, UV radiation,
oxidative and hydrolytic degradation.
CH 424

CHEMICAL PROCESS Group B

TECHNOLOGY Plastic material and processing technology. Polyethylene,
polypropylene, polystyrene, PVA, PVC polyurethane.
Group A
Water for industries and water treatment: Boiler feed water, Plastic processing. Mixing, molding, extrusion. Rubber
cooling tower water and process plant water. Water treatment by material and processing technology. Natural and synthetic rubber.
lime-soda process, flocculation, aeration, deaeration and ion Thermoplastic elastomers.
exchange methods. Acid industries: Sulphuric, hydrochloric, nitric Rubber processing: Compounding, vulcanisation (mixing),
and phosphoric acids. Alkali industries: Caustic soda, sodium molding, extrusion, calendering.
carbonate, chlorine and bleaching powder. Identification, testing and evaluation of plastic and rubber.
Fertilizers: Nitrogenous, phosphatic and potassic—raw Identification of common plastics and rubbers.
materials and manufacturing processes. Mixed and compound Physical testing—stress-strain tear, hardness, resiliena.
fertilizers. Superphosphates. Bio-fertilizers. Flexing, abrasion, and impact testing. Electrical properties.
Group B Resistivity dielectric constant, power factor.
Glass, ceramics, cement and refractory industries. High Recommended Books
polymers, including plastics, rubber and fibres—their chemistry .. P Ghosh. Polymer Science and Technology. Tata McGraw
and technology. Petroleum refinery and petrochemicals. Publishing Co. Ltd., New Delhi.

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.. F B Billmeyer. Textbook of Polymer Science. Wiley Control equipment for particulate emission. Solid waste
Interscience, New York. treatment and management. Pollution control with recycling.
.. J R Fried. Polymer Science and Technology. Prentice-Hall of Group B
India (P) Ltd., New Delhi. Waste water and sludge treatments. Treatment of industrial
.. V R Gowarikar, N V Viswanathan and J Sreedhar. Polymer wastes from typical chemical industries. Pollution control in
Science. New Age International (P) Ltd., New Delhi. industries like acid, alkali, fertilizer, paper and pulp, food, petro-
chemicals, leather tanning and brewery industries.
CH 432

Elementary microbiology related to pollution and pollu-

PETROCHEMICAL ENGINEERING tion control. Aerobic and anaerobic processes. Pollution control
legislation.
Group A Recommended Books
Origin, occurrence, composition and physical properties of .. G N Pandey and G C Carrey. Environmental Engineering. Tata
petroleum. Evaluation of oil stocks. Petroleum refining McGraw-Hill Publishing Co Ltd., New Delhi.
processes—topping and vacuum distillation. Thermal .. S P Mahajan. Pollution Control in Process Industries. Tata
cracking—vapour phase, liquid phase and mixed phase. McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Ltd., New Delhi.
Thermal reforming and polyforming. Catalytic cracking—fixed
bed, fluidized bed and TCC. Catalytic reforming.
CH 434
Conversion of petroleum gases into motor fuel with special FERTILIZER TECHNOLOGY
reference to alkylation, polymerization, hydrogenation and
dehydrogenation. Production of aviation gasoline, motor fuel,
gasoline, kerosene, distillates, diesel oil, tractor fuel, jet fuel and Group A
fuel oil. Octane number, cetane number, diesel index—their Soil fertilizer interaction. Importance of fertilizers. Fertilizers
determination and importance. recommended for various crops.
Group B Nitrogenous fertilizers. Feed stock for ammonia production
Lube manufacture—vacuum distillation, solvent extraction, and synthesis gas production—production procedures.
uses of lubes. Petroleum waxes. Chemical and clay treatment Manufacture of ammonia, urea and other nitrogenous fertilizers.
of petroleum products. Natural gas. Carbon black. Phosphatic fertilizers: Raw materials, single and triple
Petrochemicals—manufacture of a few important superphosphate manufacture.
petrochemicals and their uses. Elementary study of Potassic fertilizers: Raw materials and sources. Production
multicomponent distillation as applied to petroleum refineries. of important potassic fertilizers.
Specifications and testing of refinery products. Group B
Recommended Books Mixed N-P-K fertilizers, granulated fertilizers and compound
.. W L Nelson. Petroleum Refinery Engineering. McGraw- fertilizers—production procedure.
Hill International. Micronutrients: Production and applications.
.. P Belov. Fundamentals of Petroleum Chemical Technology. Organic fertilizers: Compost and biofertilizers, comparative
Mir Publishers, Moscow. study with chemical fertilizers.
.. B K Bhaskara Rao. Modern Petroleum Refining Processes. Pollutional problems in fertilizer industries and their control.
Oxford and IBH Publishing Co (P) Ltd., New Delhi.
Recommended Books
.. R N Shreve. Chemical Process Industries. McGraw-Hill
CH 433

INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION International.

AND CONTROL
.. M Gopal Rao and M Sitting. Dryden’s Outlines of Chemical
Group A Technology. Affiliated East-West Press (P) Ltd, New Delhi.
The ecosystem. Effect of polluted environment on
CH 435

ecosystem. Classification of pollutants. Sources of pollutants.

INSTRUMENTATION AND
Toxic chemicals and other industrial wastes. Methods of
estimation of pollutants. CONTROL
Approach to air pollution control. Pollution control
techniques with reference to gaseous, liquid and solid pollutants. (See page 16, subject CH 415)

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