1. Water and its Treatment:
Introduction, Hardness, Determination of
hardness by complexometric (EDTA method),
Degree of Hardness.
Municipal Water Supply: Requisites of drinking water,
Purification of
water, Sedimentation, Filtration, Sterilization,
Break point chlorination.
Water for Steam Making: Sludge and scale formation
and Caustic
embrittlement.
Methods of boiler water treatment Lime-Soda process
(hot and cold lime
soda process), Permutit or Zeolite process,
Deionization or
Demineralization. Desalination of Brackish Water.
2. Corrosion: Definition and its significance, theories
of corrosion, Galvanic
Cell and Concentration cell.
Methods of protection against corrosion viz Proper
designing. Using pure
metal Using metal alloys and Cathodic protection.
3. Chemical Kinetics: Order and molecularity of
reaction, First and Second
order reactions, Derivation of equations for first
order second order
reactions. Determination of order of reaction.
4. Lubricants: Types of lubrication, Uses, Viscosity &
Viscosity index, Flash &
Fire point, Cloud and Pour point, Iodine Value,
Acid Value, Saponification
Value and R. M. Value.
5. Fuels and combustion: Origin and Classification of
fuels.
Solid Fuels: Coal, Proximate and Ultimate analysis
of coal. Gross and Net
Calorific Value, Determination of calorific value by
Bomb Calorimeter
Carbonization process, Low and High
Temperature Carbonization.
Liquid fuels: Cracking, Thermal and Catalytic
Cracking, Synthetic petrol,
Knocking, Antiknocking, Octane number, Cetane
Number. Antiknocking
agents.
Gaseous fuels: Biogas, LPG and CNG.
Determination of calorific value by
Junker’s Calorimeter. Flue gas analysis by Orsat's
apparatus. Fuel cells.
6. Phase Rule: Statement –Definitions and meaning
of the terms involved,
Application to one component system; Water
system, Study of two
component system. Ag –Pb system.
7. Explosive: Introduction, Classification, Requisites
of explosives, Plastic
explosives, Blasting fuses, Application of
explosives.
8. New Engineering Materials: Brief idea of following:
Super conductors,
Organic electronic materials, Fullerenes and
Optical fibers.
Numerical problems based on Water Treatment,
Fuels and Combustion and
Chemical Kinetics.
Text/Reference Books:
1. Engineering Chemistry. A text book by S. K.
Jain and K. D. Gupta, Jaipur
Publishing House.
2. Engineering Chemistry. A text book by P.C.
Jain, Dhanpat Rai & Sons
3. Engineering Chemistry. A text book by S. S.
Dara, S. Chand & Co.
4. Industrial chemistry, A Textbook by B.K.
Sharma, Krishna Prakashan Media
(P) Ltd.