Process Calculation
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Process Calculation Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Process Calculation (subject code 2130504) as prescribed for Chemical · Semester 3 divides the course into 7 units, covering 51 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 (2130504)Unit 1 Dimensions and units
- Dimensions and system of units
- Fundamental and derived units
- Dimensional consistency
- Dimensional equations
- Different ways of expressing units of quantities and physical constant
- Unit conversion and its significance
Unit 2 Basic chemical calculations
- Calculations for mole
- molecular weight
- equivalent weight
- Composition of gaseous mixtures
- liquid mixtures
- solid mixtures
- Ideal gas law & other equations of state and their applications
- Dalton law, Raoult’s law, Henry’s law, Solutions and their properties
Unit 3 Material balance without chemical reactions
- Process flowsheet
- Degree of freedom
- Material balance with and without recycle
- Bypass and purge streams
- Material balance around equipments related to unit operations like absorber and stripper
- distillation towers
- evaporators, etc
- Material balance of unsteady state operations
Unit 4 Material balance involving chemical reactions
- Concept of limiting and excess reactants
- percentage conversion
- M aterial balance with chemical reactions - single and multiple reactions
- Material balance involving reactions with special reference to fertilizers
- electrochemical industries
- metallurgical industries, etc
Unit 5 Energy balances
- Thermochemistry and 1st law of thermodynamics
- Heat capacity of gases and gaseous mixtures
- liquids & solids
- Sensible heat change in liquids & gases
- Enthalpy changes during phase transformation
- Enthalpy changes accompanied by chemical reactions
- Standard heat of reaction
- Adiabatic reactions
- Thermo-chemistry of mixing processes
- Dissolution of solids, etc
Unit 6 Stoichiometry and Unit operations
- Absorption and stripping
- Extraction & leaching
- Psychrometric Operations
- Evaporation etc
Unit 7 Fuels and combustion
- Types of fuels
- Calorific value of fuels
- Problems on combustion of coal
- liquid fuels
- gaseous fuels
- Proximate and ultimate analysis
- Combustion calculations
- theoretical flame temperature
- Air requirement and flue gases
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