Principles of Process Engineering-I
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The official GTU curriculum for Principles of Process Engineering-I (subject code 2140403) as prescribed for Biotech · Semester 4 divides the course into 10 units, covering 37 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2140403)Unit 1 Modes of Heat Transfer
- Introduction to three modes of heat transfer: Conduction
- Convection & Radiation
- General laws of heat transfer, etc
Unit 2 Conduction
- 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, etc
Unit 3 Convection
- Natural convection & forced convection
- Empirical equation for individual coefficients
- significance of Prandtl No, Grashoff no, Nusselt no, peclet no, etc
Unit 4 Radiation
- Wave and Quantum theory of radiation heat transfer
- Black body
- Deriv ation of Stefan Boltsmanns law, Wiens law, Kirchoff’s law, etc
Unit 5 Heat Exchangers
- Types of heat exchanger’s
- Heat transfer area requirement
- Overall heat transfer coefficient. 04 Part [B] Fluid Flow Operations
Unit 6 Introduction to Engineering Calculation
- Units & Dimensions
- Dimensional Analysis
- Transport Properties
- Fluid dynamics
- Fluid Statics
- Reynolds’s number & its significance
- Boundary layer formation & separation, etc
Unit 7 Flow of Incompressible Fluid
- Flow between two plates and pipes
- Mass velocity
- Average velocity
- potential flow
- Streamlines etc
- Equation of Continuity
- Bernoulli’s equation 05 and its applications, etc
Unit 8 Flow Passed Bodies
- Drag Force
- Fluidization, etc
Unit 9 Transportation of Fluids
- Metering devices, etc
Unit 10 Momentum Transfer in Biotechnology
- Rheological Behaviour of fermentation broth
- three parameter models, etc