Material and Energy Balance Computation
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The official GTU curriculum for Material and Energy Balance Computation (subject code BE03005031) as prescribed for Chemical · Semester 3 divides the course into 7 units, covering 55 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 (BE03005031)Unit 1 Units & Dimensions
- Dimensions & system of units
- Fundamental and derived units
- Unit conversion and its significance
- Dimensional consistency
- Dimensional Equations
Unit 2 Basic Chemical Calculations
- Concepts of atomic weight
- equivalent weight and mole
- Composition of solids
- liquids and solutions (weight percent
- mole percent
- normality etc.)
- other expressions for concentration
- Average molecular weight and density
- Gaseous mixtures
- Ideal gas laws and its applications
- Raoult’s law, Henry’s law, Amagat’s Law & Dalton’s law, Humidity and Saturation
Unit 3 Material Balance without Chemical Reactions
- Process flow sheet such as process flow diagram
- process block diagram
- P&ID diagram
- solving material balance problems without chemical reactions of unit operations
- Material balance of unsteady state operations
- Material balance with and without recycle
- Bypass and Purge streams
Unit 4 Material balances with Chemical reaction
- Concept of limiting and excess reactants
- percentage conversion
- selectivity and yield
- Material balance involving reactions with special reference to fertilizers
- electrochemical industries
- Complex material balances
Unit 5 Energy balances
- Heat capacity of gases and gaseous mixtures
- liquids & solids
- Sensible heat change in liquid & gases
- enthalpy changes during phase transformation
- enthalpy changes accompanied by chemical reactions
- standard heat of reaction
- Hess’s law, dissolutions of solids
- Adiabatic reactions
- heat of solution by partial molar quantities
Unit 6 Stoichiometry and Unit Operations
- Absorption & Stripping
- Extraction & Leaching
- Psychrometric operations
- Psychrometric chart for air–water system
- Evaporation etc
Unit 7 Fuel & Combustion
- Types of fuels
- calorific value of fuels
- Problems on combustion of coal (NCV
- GCV etc, ) Dulong Formula
- Calderwood Equation examples
- liquid fuels
- gaseous fuel etc
- Proximate and ultimate analysis
- combustion calculations
- theoretical flame temperature
- Air requirement and flue gases
- Boiler material and energy balance calculations
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