B.Tech.
Chemical Engineering Scheme &Syllabi - 2023
VII Semester:
Course
S.No. Course Title Category Type Credit L T P
Code
1. 22CHS403 Training Seminar PC Theory 2 0 0 4
2. 22CHW404 Minor Project Project Theory 3 0 0 6
4. Program Elective-I PE Theory 3 3 0 0
5. Program Elective-II PE Theory 4 3 1 0
Program Elective-III PE Theory 3 3 0 0
6. Open Elective-I OE Theory 3 3 0 0
Total 18 12 1 10
Program Elective-I Program Elective-II
22CHT925 Operation Research 22CHT922 CFD in Chemical Engineering
22CHT929 Solid & Hazard Waste 22CHT923 Mechanical Design of Process
Management Equipment
22CHT924 Nano-materials & Characterization 22CHT921 Advanced Process Control
Program Elective-III
22CHT927 Polymer Science and Technology
22CHT928 Process Integration
22CHT926 Optimization of Chemical
Processes
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Program Elective – I
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1. Subject Code: 22CHT925 Course Title: Operation Research
2. Contact Hours: L: 3 T: 0 P: 0
3. Credits: 3 Semester: VII
4. Pre-requisite: Nil.
5. Objective: The Objective of the paper is to introduce the basic concepts of Operational
Research and linear programming to the students.
6. Course Outcomes: Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to:
i. Be able to understand the characteristics of different types of decision-making
environments and the appropriate decision making approaches and tools to be used in
each type.
ii. Be able to build and solve Transportation Models and Assignment Models.
iii. Be able to design new simple models, like: CPM, to improve decision-making and
develop critical thinking and objective analysis of decision problems.
7. Details of Course:
Unit Contents Contact
No. Hours
1. Introduction & Linear Programming Problem: Nature and meaning of 8
operations research, general methods for solving operations research
problems, main characteristics of operations research in decision making,
Role of computers in operations research. Formulation of LP problem,
graphical solution of LP problem, general formulation of LP problem,
slack and surplus problem, standard form of LP problem, matrix form of
LP problem, some important definitions, assumptions in LPP, limitations
of LP, Applications of LP.
2. Simplex Method: Definition and notations, computational procedure, 12
artificial variable technique- two phase method, Big-M method,
disadvantages of Big M method over two phase method, degeneracy
problem, method to resolve degeneracy, special cases- alternative
solution, unbounded solutions, non-existing solution, solution of
simultaneous equations by simplex method, flow chart of simplex
method.
Duality in Linear Programming: Concept of duality, primal-dual
problems, rules for converting any primal problem into its dual, duality
theorems, primal and dual correspondence, duality and simplex method,
shadow prices in LP, advantages of duality.
Dual Simplex Method: Computational procedure of dual simplex
method, advantages of dual simplex over simplex method, different
between simplex and dual simplex methods.
3. Assignment Problem: Introduction, mathematical formulation of 6
assignment problem, fundamental theorems, Hungarian method,
unbalanced assignment problem, variations of assignment problem-
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maximal assignment problem, restriction on assignment, traveling
salesman problem- formulation and solution procedure.
4. Transportation Models: Introduction, mathematical formulation, 6
feasible, basic feasible and optimum solutions, tubular representation,
loops in table, IBFS to transportation problem, moving towards optimum
solution, degeneracy in transportation problem, unbalanced transportation
problem, time minimizing transportation problem, transshipment
problem.
5. Network Scheduling by PERT/CPM: Introduction, Networks and basic 8
components, Rules of network construction, Time calculations in
networks, Critical Path Method (CPM), PERT, PERT calculations,
Negative float and negative slack, Advantages of network.
8. Books:
(A) Text Books
S. Authors / Name of Book / Publisher Year of
No. Publication
1 Operations Research, P K Gupta and D S Hira, S. Chand and Company 2007
LTD. Publications, New Delhi.
2 Operations Research, An Introduction, Seventh Edition, Hamdy A. Taha, 2006
PHI Private
Limited.
(B) Reference Books
S. Authors / Name of Book / Publisher Year of
No. Publication
1 Operations Research, Theory and Applications, Sixth Edition, J K 2016
Sharma, Trinity Press, Laxmi Publications Pvt. Ltd.
2 Taha, H.A., “Operations Research, an introduction", 8th th edition, 2011
Prentice Hall.
3 Rao, S.S., “Engineering Optimization: Theory and Practice,” 4th ed., 2000
New Age International, New Delhi.
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1. Subject Code: 22CHT929 Course Title: Solid and Hazard Waste Management
2. Contact Hours: L: 3 T: 0 P: 0
3. Credits: 3 Semester: VII
4. Pre-requisite: Nil.
5. Objective: Understanding the problems of municipal, biomedical, hazardous, electronic,
and industrial wastes.
6. Course Outcomes: Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to:
i. Carry out sampling and characterization of solid waste; analysis of hazardous
waste constituents including QA/QC issues.
ii. Understand health and environmental issues related to solid waste management.
iii. Apply steps in solid waste management-waste reduction at source, collection
techniques, materials and resource recovery/recycling, transport, optimization of
solid waste transport, treatment and disposal techniques.
iv. Economics of the onsite vs. offsite waste management options.
7. Details of Course:
Unit Contents Contact
No. Hours
1. Introduction of solid wastes including municipal, hospital, industrial, 7
battery, electronics, and agro solid waste; legal issues and requirements
for solid waste management and health and environmental issues related
to solid waste management. Sampling and characterization of solid waste.
Analysis of hazardous constituents in solid waste including QA/QC
issues.
2. Health and environmental issues related to solid waste management, 8
Waste reduction at source - municipal and industrial wastes, Material and
resource recovery/recycling from solid wastes.
3. Methods of waste collection, collection techniques, waste container 15
compatibility, waste storage requirements, transportation of solid wastes.
Processing of solid waste: segregation, particle size reduction,
autoclaving, microwaving, incineration, non-incineration thermal
techniques, composting, bio-remediation, use of refuse derived fuels, land
fill. Leachate treatment.
4. Economics of on-site vs. off-site waste treatment and disposal (individual 10
vs. common disposal). Waste minimization and concept of industrial
ecology and industrial symbiosis, Integrated waste management practices.
8. Books:
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(A) Text Books
S. Authors / Name of Book / Publisher Year of
No. Publication
1 Batstone R., Smith J.E. (Jr.) and Wilson D. The Safe Disposal of 1989
Hazardous Wastes-the Special Needs and Problems of Developing
Countries, The World Bank Technical Paper No. 93, Vol. I, II and III,
Washington, DC, The World Bank.
2 Central Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organization 2000
(CPHEEO), Manual on Municipal Solid Waste Management, New Delhi,
Controller of Publications.
3 Freeman H.M. Standard Handbook of Hazardous Waste Treatment and 1988
Disposal, New York, McGraw-Hill.
(B) Reference Books
S. Authors / Name of Book / Publisher Year of
No. Publication
1 Tchobanoglous G., Theisen H. and Vigil S. Integrated Solid Waste 1993
Management: Engineering Principles and Management Issues, New
York, McGraw-Hill.
2 Vesilind P.A., Worrell W.A. and Reinhart D.R. Solid Waste 2001
Engineering, Australia, CL Engineering.
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1. Subject Code: 22CHT924 Course Title: Nano-materials & Characterization
2. Contact Hours: L: 3 T: 0 P:0
3. Credits: 3 Semester: VII
4. Pre-requisite: Nil.
5. Objective: To study the concept of nanotechnology, and understand the fabrication,
characterization, and applications of nano-materials
6. Course Outcomes: Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to:
i. Understand the concept of nano-material synthesis.
ii. Understand the various characterization techniques for the characterization of nano-
materials.
7. Details of Course:
Unit Contents Contact
No. Hours
1. Introduction of the course with course handout; Definitions and Concepts: 4
Nanoscience, Nanotechnology, Nanoparticles, Technology that enables
science. Nano in nature, Current themes in nanoscale science and
technology. Commercial applications of nanotechnology, Nano-based
products, The social dimensions of nanotechnology. Introduction to
physics of solid state, Size dependence of properties, Energy bands of
insulators, conductor and semiconductor
2. Non-traditional nano-fabrication: Top-down approach, Bottom-up 7
approach, Classification of synthesis methods, Physical methods-
Mechanical milling, Laser Ablation method. Physical vapour deposition-
inert gas condensation, Evaporation (Thermal, e-beam), Sputtering,
Plasma Arcing, chemical vapour deposition (RF-plasma enhanced CVD
and Microwave plasma enhanced CVD).Liquid Phase synthesis, Co-
precipitation, Chemical reduction method, Nucleation and growth, Role of
capping/stabilizing agent and surfactant. Hydrothermal/solvothermal
method, Crystal growth process, Factors affecting the growth, Apparatus,
Synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles. Sol-Gel method,
Mechanism of sol and gel formation, Synthesis of Xerogel and Aerogel. Si
processing fabrication, Nanodevices, CMOS, MOSFET devices,
Lithography techniques. Optical lithography, Electron lithography, X-ray
lithography
3. Crystalline and amorphous solid, Types of Crystalline solids, Lattice, Unit 5
cell, Crystal system. Atomic arrangements in unit cells, crystal planes, X-
ray diffract from crystal planes, Miller indices of crystal planes, Basics of
diffraction. X-ray diffraction, Bragg’s law, Diffraction pattern study,
Application of XRD. Methods of measuring properties, Surface area
analysis, BET method, Pore size study
4. Quantum confinement, Quantum dots, Difference between bulk 7
semiconductor, Thin film semiconductor, Quantum wire and quantum
dots; Discrete energy levels. Fabrication of quantum dots, Patterned
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growth, Self-organized growth, Applications of quantum dots. Process of
self-assembly , Semiconductor island, Monolayer formation. Carbon
nanostructures, Nature of carbon bond, New carbon structures, Discovery
of C60. Structure of C60 and its crystal, Superconductivity of C60,
Fullerenes. Carbon nanotubes, Fabrication, Structure. Properties of carbon
nanotubes, Electrical, vibrational and mechanical properties; Applications
of carbon nanotubes.
5. Optical spectroscopy of nanostructures, Fundamentals of Raman 6
Spectroscopy, Light scattering phenomenon, Types of scattering, Stokes
Scattering, Anti-stokes Scattering, Raman vs. Rayleigh scattering,
Mechanism of Raman and Rayleigh scattering, Raman vs. IR, Raman
scattering spectrum and infrared absorption spectrum, Energy level
diagrams, Polarizability, Dipole moment, Raman-active and Non-Raman-
active Vibrations (III), Raman Depolarization Ratios, Raman ative and IR
active, Study of Raman spectra, Infrared spectroscopy for nanostructures,
FTIR, Asymmetric and non-asymmetric stretchings, Bending vibration
mode, Library of FTIR spectra, Components of IR instruments, Data
interpretation from IR spectrum
6. Scanning probe microscopy, Fundamental of electron microscopy, 6
Magnification and resolution, Light microscope, Wave-particle duality for
electrons. Electron sources, source characteristics, source types, source
characteristics, Physics of electron emission, operation of electron gun.
Mechanism of electron-solid interaction, Transmission electron
microscope, Components of TEM, TEM imaging, Sample preparation for
TEM, Scanning electron microscopy, SEM vs TEM, Components of
SEM. FE-SEM vs SEM, SEM imaging, Sample preparation, EDAX
analysis, Interpretation of data from SEM and TEM images. Selected area
electron diffraction, Indexing of diffraction pattern, Bravais-lattice and cell
parameters, Revision of scanning probe microscopy
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8. Books:
(A) Text Books
S. Authors / Name of Book / Publisher Year of
No. Publication
1 C. P. Jr. Poole and F. J. Owens, Introduction to Nanotechnology, John 2003
Wiley.
2 J. D. Plummer, M. D. Deal and P. B. Griffin, Silicon VLSI Technology, 2000
Prentice Hall.
3 C. Kittel, Introduction to Solid State Physics-A Chapter about 2004
Nanotechnology, John Wiley.
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SEMESTER – VII
Program Elective – II
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1. Subject Code: 22CHT922 Course Title: CFD in Chemical Engineering
2. Contact Hours: L: 3 T: 1 P: 0
3. Credits: 4 Semester: VII
4. Pre-requisite: Nil.
5. Course Objective: To provide brief introduction of Computational Fluid Dynamics along
with chemical engineering application specifically, analysis of fluid mechanics and heat
transfer related problems.
6. Course Outcomes:Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to:
i. Solve PDE
ii. Use Finite Difference and Finite Volume methods in CFD modelling
iii. Generate and optimize the numerical mesh
iv. Simulate simple CFD models and analyze its results
7. Details of Course:
Unit Contents Contact
No. Hours
1. Introduction: Illustration of the CFD approach, CFD as an engineering 6
analysis tool, Review of governing equations, Modeling in engineering,
Partial differential equations- Parabolic, Hyperbolic and Elliptic
equation, CFD application in Chemical Engineering, CFD software
packages and tools.
2. Principles of Solution of the Governing Equations: Finite difference 12
and Finite volume Methods, Convergence, Consistency, Error and
Stability, Accuracy, Boundary conditions, CFD model formulation.
Mesh Generation: Overview of mesh generation, Structured and
Unstructured mesh, Guideline on mesh quality and design, Mesh
refinement and adaptation.
3. Solution Algorithms: Discretization schemes for pressure, momentum 12
and energy equations - Explicit and implicit Schemes, First order upwind
scheme, second order upwind scheme, pressure-velocity coupling
algorithms, velocity-stream function approach, solution of Navier-Stokes
equations.
CFD Solution Procedure: Problem setup – creation of geometry, mesh
generation, selection of physics and fluid properties, initialization,
solution control and convergence monitoring, results reports and
visualization.
4. Case Studies: Benchmarking, validation, Simulation of CFD problems 10
by use of general CFD software, Simulation of coupled heat, mass and
momentum transfer problem.
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8. Books:
(A) Text Books
S. Authors / Name of Book / Publisher Year of
No. Publication
1 Niyogi, P. Chakrabarty, S.K. and Laha, M.K., “Introduction to 2006
computational fluid dynamics’, Pearson education.
2 Ranade, V.V., “Computational flow modeling for chemical reactor 2002
engineering”, Academic Press.
3 Muralidhar, K.,andSundararajan,T. “Computational Fluid Flow and 2003
Heat Transfer”, Narosa Publishing. House
(B) Reference Books
S. Authors / Name of Book / Publisher Year of
No. Publication
1 P.S. Ghosdastidar, “Computer Simulation of Flow and Heat 1998
Transfer”, Tata McGraw-Hill.
2 Suhas V. Patankar. “Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid 2018
Flow”, Taylor and Francis.
3 LI J., G. H. Yeoh, C Liu. “A Computational Fluid Dynamics”, 2008
ELSEVER.
4 Anderson J.D. “Computational Fluid Dynamics”, Mc-Graw 1995
Hills.
5 J H Ferziger and M Peric, “Computational Methods for Fluid 2002
Dynamics”, Springer.
6 ANSYS Manual.
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1. Subject Code: 22CHT923 Course Title: Mechanical Design of Process Equipment
2. Contact Hours: L:3 T:1 P:0
3. Credits: 4 Semester: VII
4. Pre-requisite: Nil.
5. Objective: To understand the mechanical design methods for various process equipment.
6. Course Outcomes: Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to:
i. Determine the parameters of equipment design and important steps involved in
design.
ii. Students demonstrated ability to design various components of process equipment as
heads, shell, flanges and fittings and supports and complete design of a chemical ·
iii. Design pressure vessels
iv. Students understood design of storage vessel, mechanical design of various process
equipment such as heat exchanger, distillation column, piping, reactors, etc.
7. Details of Course:
Unit Contents Contact
No. Hours
1. Design Preliminaries: Introduction, General design procedure, 6
Equipment classification, Design codes, Design considerations, Design
pressure, Design temperature, Design stress, Factor of safety, Design
wall thickness, Corrosion allowance, Weld joint efficiency factor,
Design loadings, Stress concentration, Thermal stress and Criteria of
failure.
2. Pressure Vessels: Classification of pressure vessels; Design of 18
cylindrical and spherical shells under internal and external pressure;
Selection and design of closures; Optimum length to diameter ratio of
pressure vessel using common types of closures; Design of jacketed
portion of vessels; Selection and design of nozzles; Elementary idea of
compensation for openings; Selection of gaskets; Selection and design
of flanges; Pipe thickness calculation under internal and external
pressure; Introduction to inspection and non-destructive testing;
Complete design calculations and shop drawing for at least one
pressure vessel using heads and flanges as per code specifications.
3. Tall Tower Design: Design of shell, skirt, bearing plate and anchor 8
bolts for tall tower used at high wind and seismic conditions.
Supports: Design of lug support and saddle support including bearing
plates and anchor bolts.
4. Storage Tanks: Filling and breathing losses; Classification of storage 8
tanks; Design of liquid and gas storage tanks.
Heat Exchange Equipment: Mechanical design and drawing of heat
exchangers.
Foundation and Supports: Foundation and supports for
equipment/vessels, tall towers.
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8. Books:
(A) Text Books
S. Authors / Name of Book / Publisher Year of
No. Publication
1 Bhattacharya, B. C., “Introduction to Chemical Equipment Design: 2017
Mechanical Aspects,” CBS Pub., Delhi.
2 Joshi, M. V. and Mahajani, V. V., “Process Equipment Design,” 5th 2016
Ed., Macmillan, Delhi.
(B) Reference Books
S. Authors / Name of Book / Publisher Year of
No. Publication
1 Sinnott, R.K., “Coulson and Richardson’s Chemical Engineering,” 2017
Vol 1A, 7thEd., Butterworth Heinmann, New Delhi.
2 Brownell, L. E. and Young, H. E., “Process Equipment Design,” John 2004
Wiley.
3 Dawande, S. D., “Process Design of Equipment,” 6th Ed., Central 2012
Techno. Pub. Nagpur,
4 IS: 2825-1969, “Code of Practice for Mechanical Design of Unfired
Pressure Vessels”.
5 IS: 803-1962, “Code of Practice for Design, Fabrication and Erection
of Mild Steel Cylindrical Welded Oil Storage Tanks”.
6 IS: 1239-1968, “Specification of Mild Steel Tubes”.
7 IS: 4503-1967, “Specifications for Shell and Tube Type Heat
Exchanger”.
8 IS Code for Pipe Line.
9 ASTM and ASME codes.
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1. Subject Code: 22CHT921 Course Title: Advanced Process Control
2. Contact Hours: L: 3 T: 1 P: 0
3. Credits: 4 Semester: VII
4. Pre-requisite: Nil.
5. Course Objective: Develop understanding about the advanced control methods such as
multivariable control, digital control, artificial intelligence techniques used in process
industries.
6. Course Outcomes: Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to:
i. Understand the multivariable control and interaction among control loops
ii. Understand and analyze the digital control systems
iii. Understand the process identification techniques and model predictive control
iv. Work in MATLAB and Simulink
7. Details of Course:
Unit Contents Contact
No. Hours
1. Review of conventional control systems. Ratio, selective and split range 8
control, cascade control
2. Design of feed-forward control systems; Adaptive and Inferential Control; 8
multivariable control; Control loop interaction and design of decouplers;
3. Discrete-time systems; Z-transforms; Stability analysis of discrete-time 8
systems;
4. Design of digital feedback controller; deadbeat and Dahlin’s controllers; 8
Ringing and placement of poles; Process Identification and Adaptive
control.
5. Model predictive control; Artificial neural network and Fuzzy logic 8
control. LTI models in MATLAB and Simulink.
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8. Books:
(A) Text Books
S.No. Authors / Name of Book / Publisher Year of
Publication
1 Stephanopoulos, G., “Chemical Process Control”, PHI, New Delhi. 2015
(B) Reference Books
S.No. Authors / Name of Book / Publisher Year of
Publication
1 Coughanowr, D. R., LeBlanc, S.E., “Process Systems Analysis and 2009
Control”, 3rdEd., McGraw Hill.
2 Bequette, B.W., “Process Control - Modeling, Design and Simulation,” 2003
Pretice Hall
3 Seborg, D.E., Edgar, T.F., Mellichamp, D.A., Doyle III, F.A., “Process 2016
Dynamics and Control,” 4thEd., Wiley.
4 Astrom, K. J. and Wittenmark, B., “Computer Controlled Systems: 2012
Theory and Design”, 3rdEd., Prentice Hall.
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SEMESTER – VII
Program Elective – III
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1. Subject Code: 22CHT927 Course Title: Polymer Science and Technology
2. Contact Hours: L: 3 T: 0 P: 0
3. Credits: 3 Semester: VII
4. Pre-requisite: Nil.
5. Objective: To understand various fundamental concepts of polymers and related
phenomena.
6. Course Outcomes: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
i. Understand the basic concept of monomer, polymer and repeating units and their
properties
ii. Understand the basic concepts of degree of polymerization
iii. Understand in detail about the chemistry of polymers and the possible chemical
modification
iv. Understand the physical and chemical characterization of raw materials
7. Details of Course:
Unit Contents Contact
No. Hours
1 Chemistry of Polymerization Reactions: Functionality, polymerization 12
reactions, polycondensation, addition free radical and chain
polymerization. Co-polymerisation, block and graft polymerizations,
stereospecific polymerization.
2 Polymerization Kinetics: Kinetics of radical, chain and ionic 10
polymerization and co-polymerization systems.
3 Molecular Weight Estimation: Average molecular weight: number 6
average and weight average. Theoretical distributions, methods for the
estimation of molecular weight.
4 Polymerization Processes: Bulk, solution, emulsion and suspension 6
polymerization.Thermoplastic composites, fibre reinforcement fillers,
surface treatment reinforced thermoset composites – Resins, Fibres,
additives, fabrication methods.
5 Rheology: Simple Rheological response, simple linear viscoelastic 6
models – Maxwell, Voigt, material response time, temperature
dependence of viscosity, Rheological studies.
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8. Books:
(A) Text Books
S. Authors / Name of Book / Publisher Year of
No. Publication
1. Billmayer, F.W., JR., “Textbook of Polymer Science”, John Wiley and 1994
Sons.
2. Fried, J. R., “Polymer Science and Technology”, PHI. 2005
(B) Reference Books
S. Authors / Name of Book / Publisher Year of
No. Publication
1. Schmidt, A. K. and Marlies, G. A., “High Polymers - Theory and 1948
Practice”, McGraw Hill.
2. McKelvey, J. M., “Polymer Processing,” John Wiley. 1962
3. Rodringuez, “Principles of Polymer Systems”, Tata McGraw Hill. 1970
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1. Subject Code: 22CHT928 Course Title: Process Integration
2. Contact Hours: L: 3 T: 0 P: 0
3. Credits: 3 Semester: VII
4. Pre-requisite: Nil.
5. Course Objective: To understand the energy and mass targets in design of processes.
6. Course Outcomes: Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to:
i. Understand of the fundamentals of process integration.
ii. Perform pinch analysis.
iii. Analyze and design heat exchanger networks.
iv. Minimize the water consumption and waste generation.
7. Details of Course:
Unit Contents Contact
No. Hours
1. Introduction: Process integration, Role of thermodynamics in process 6
design, Concept of pinch technology and its application.
2. Heat Exchanger Networks: Heat exchanger networks analysis, Simple 16
design for maximum energy recovery, Loop Breaking & Path Relaxation,
Targeting of energy, area, number of units and cost, Trading off energy
against capital.
3. Network Integration: Super targeting, maximum energy recovery 8
(MER), Network for multiple utilities and multiple pinches, Grand
Composite curve (GCC).
4. Mass Integration: Distillation sequences. 10
Heat and Power Integration: Columns, Evaporators, Dryers, and
reactors.
Case studies: Waste and wastewater minimization, Flue gas emission
targeting.
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8. Books:
(A) Text Books
S. Authors / Name of Book / Publisher Year of
No. Publication
1 Linnhoff, D.W., User Guide on Process Integration for the Efficient 1994
Use of Energy, Institution of Chemical Engineers.
2 Smith, R., Chemical Process Design and Integration, John Wiley 2005
&Sons.
(B) Reference Books
S. Authors / Name of Book / Publisher Year of
No. Publication
1 Shenoy, V. U., Heat Exchanger network synthesis, Gulf Publishing. 1995
2 Kumar, A., Chemical Process Synthesis and Engineering 1982
Design, Vol. Tata McGraw Hill.
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1. Subject Code: 22CHT926 Course Title: Optimization of Chemical Processes
2. Contact Hours: L:3 T:0 P:0
3. Credits: 3 Semester: VII
4. Pre-requisite: Nil.
5. Course Objective: To study and apply optimization techniques in the chemical process
industry.
6. Course Outcomes: Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to:
i. Formulate the objective functions for constrained and unconstrained optimization
problems
ii. Use different optimization strategies
iii. Use of different optimization techniques for problem solving
iv. Solve transportation problems
7. Course Details:
Unit No Contents Contact
Hours
1. Problem formulation for the optimization, Basic concept 8
ofoptimization.
Unconstrained Single Variable Optimization: Newton, Quasi-
Newton methods, polynomial approximation methods.
2. Unconstrained Multivariable Optimization: Direct search method, 8
conjugate search method, steepest descent method, conjugate
gradient method, Newton’s method
3. Linear Programming: Formulation of LP problem, graphicalsolution 8
of LP problem, simplex method, duality in LinearProgramming, two-
phase method.
4. Non-linear Programming with Constraints: Necessary and 8
sufficiency conditions for a local extremum, Quadratic programming,
Successive linear programming, successive quadratic programming,
Penalty and Barrier method, Generalized reduced gradient (GRG)
method. Genetic Algorithm, MILP.
5. Introduction to Transportation Problems, Solving Various types 8
of Transportation Problems, Assignment Problems, Project
Management, Critical Path Analysis, PERT.
Applications of optimization in Chemical Engineering.
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8. Books:
(A) Text Books
S.No. Authors / Name of Book / Publisher Year of
Publication
1 Edgar, T.F., Himmelblau, D. M., Lasdon, L. S., “Optimization of 2001
Chemical Process”, 2nd Ed., McGraw-Hill.
2 Rao, S. S., “Optimisation Techniques”, Wiley Eastern, New Delhi. 1985
(B) Reference Books
S.No. Authors / Name of Book / Publisher Year of
Publication
1 Godfrey, C.O. and Babu, B.V., “New Optimization Techniques in 2004
Engineering”, Springer-Verlag, Germany.
2 Beveridge, G. S. and Schechter, R. S., “Optimization Theory and 1970
Practice”, McGraw- Hill, New York.
3 Reklaitis, G.V., Ravindran, A. and Ragsdell, K. M., “Engineering 1983
Optimization- Methods and Applications”, John Wiley, New York.
4 Taha, S.M., "Operations Research, an introduction", 6th Ed., 1997
Prentice Hall.
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