Advanced Analytical Techniques
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The official GTU curriculum for Advanced Analytical Techniques (subject code ME02030111) as prescribed for CE · Semester 2 divides the course into 6 units, covering 29 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 (ME02030111)Unit 1 Theory of errors
- Sources and classification of errors.True value
- mean and median
- standard deviation
- coefficient of variation
- variance Statistical treatment of analytical data & presentation of result
- Sampling of solids
- liquids and gases
- Evaluation and validation of analytical methods
- Good laboratory practices
Unit 2 Chromatographic methods
- Introduction & classification of chromatography
- instrumentation & applications of the following chromatographic techniques: (i) Column chromatography (ii) TLC (iii) Paper chromatography (iv) GC (v) HPLC
Unit 3 UV-Visible Spectroscopy
- Theory of UV-Visible Spectroscopy & colourimetry
- Beer-Lambert law, Deviation from Beer-Lambert law
- Infrared Spectroscopy: Introduction
- Infrared radiation & its interaction with organic molecules
- vibrational mode of bonds
- instrumentation & applications
- interpretation of IR spectra
- Mass spectrometry: Basic principles & brief outline of instrumentation
- Ion formation
- molecular ion, metastable ion, fragmentation process in relation to molecular structure & functional groups
Unit 4 Thermo-gravimetric analysis
- principles and applications
- Differential scanning calorimetry: principles and applications
Unit 5 Analytical Techniques
- ion selective electrodes
- Voltametric methods
- Conductometry and conductometric titration, and Coulometric methods applied to industrial analysis and air pollution observation
Unit 6 X-ray Diffraction studies
- Principles and applications Microscopic analysis: SEM, TEM and AFM
- Working principles
- applications and sample preparations