Unit 1 Dimensions and units

4 lecture hours

• Dimensions and system of units
• fundamental and derived units
• dimensional homogeneity in equations
• dimensionless numbers and their significance
• methods of dimensional analysis

Unit 2 Basic chemical calculations

• Calculations for mole
• molecular weight
• equivalent weight
• Composition of gaseous mixtures
• liquid mixtures
• solid mixtures
• Dalton’s law, Raoult’s law, Henry’s law

Unit 3 Material balance  without chemical reactions

8 lecture hours

• Law of conservation of mass
• setting up a process flowsheet
• material balances with recycle
• by-pass and purge streams
• material balance around equipments related to unit operations like absorber and stripper
• distillation towers
• evaporators.  Material balance involving chemical reactions: Concept of limiting and excess reactants
• percentage conversion yield
• Material balance with chemical reactions - single and multiple reactions

Unit 4 Energy balances

• Heat capacity of gases and gaseous mixtures
• liquids & solids
• sensible heat change in liquids & gases
• enthalpy changes without and with chemical reactions
• heat of solution
• mixing and adiabatic reactions

Unit 5 PART-B Fluid Flow Operation

5 lecture hours

• Fluid Statics and basic Concepts of fluid dynamics Principle of hydrostatic equilibrium
• Newton’s law of viscosity and concept of viscosity
• rheological classification of fluids
• boundary layer theory
• Reynolds number

Unit 6 Flow of Incompressible fluids

• Equations of continuity
• Bernoulli’s equation and correction factors
• Skin friction
• Friction factor
• kinetic and momentum correction factors

Unit 7 Subject Code

2 lecture hours

• 3140411 equation and pressure loss. 7
• Flow Past Solid Bodies: Drag Force
• drag co-efficient

Unit 8 Transportation and Metering of Fluids

• Pipe fittings
• Pumps and Pumping Problems
• Orifice meter
• pitot tube
• viscometers 06 PART-C Process Heat Transfer

Unit 9 Modes of Heat Transfer

3 lecture hours

• Introduction to three modes of heat transfer: Conduction
• Convection & Radiation
• General laws of heat transfer

Unit 10 Conduction

6 lecture hours

• Fourier’s law of conduction
• Application of Fourier’s law for plane wall
• composite wall
• Heat transfer in case of simultaneous conduction & convection for plane wall & cylinder
• unsteady state heat conduction
• Concept of critical thickness of insulation

Unit 11 Convection

4 lecture hours

• Natural convection & forced convection
• Empirical equation for individual coefficients
• significance of Prandtl No, Grashoff no, Nusselt no, peclet no

Unit 12 Radiation

3 lecture hours

• Wave and Quantum theory of radiation heat transfer
• Black body
• Gray body
• Stefan Boltzmann law, Wien’s law, Kirchhoff’s law

Unit 13 Heat Exchangers

4 lecture hours

• Types of heat exchangers
• Double pipe heat exchanger
• shell and tube heat exchanger and plat type heat exchanger
• Heat transfer area requirement
• Overall heat transfer coefficient