Chemical Engineering Fundamentals III
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Chemical Engineering Fundamentals III Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Chemical Engineering Fundamentals III (subject code 3160412) as prescribed for Biotech · Semester 6 divides the course into 5 units, covering 46 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 (3160412)Unit 1 Distillation
- Introduction, VLE, Relative volatility
- Steam distillation
- Flash distillation
- simple distillation
- continuous rectification
- Binary systems
- Determination of number of stages by McCabe- Thiele method
- reflux ratio
- Feed tray location
- Azeotropic Distillation
- Extractive Distillation
- Vaccum distillation etc
Unit 2 Humidification
- VLE and Enthalpy for a pure substance
- Saturated and unsaturated vapor-gas mixtures and related terminologies such as absolute humidity
- dry bulb temperature
- dew point
- wet bulb temperature
- percentage & relative saturation
- humid heat
- humid volume etc. cooling towers
Unit 3 Adsorption
- Types of adsorption
- properties of adsorbent
- Adsorption Equilibria
- Single gases and vapors
- Adsorption hysterises
- Effect of temperature on adsorption
- Heat of adsorption
- Adsorption of solute from dilute liquid solution
- Adsorption from concentrated liquid solution
- Equipments for adsorption such as fluidized bed & Teeter beds
- steady state moving bed & unsteady state fixed -bed adsorbers
- concepts of adsorption wave
- break- through curve
- elution and chromatography etc
Unit 4 Drying
- Equilibrium relationship & hysteresis
- various types of moisture in drying
- Batch drying
- rate of batch drying
- time of drying
- Drying at low temperature
- Freeze drying etc
- Batch & continuous drying equipments-Tray dryer
- Tunnel dryer
- Rotary dryers
- Spray dryers
- Fluidized bed dryer, etc