RANDOM VARIABLES INTRODUCTION AND CHLORO- ALKALI INDUSTRIES
The role of a chemical engineers in process industries, Introduction to common devices used in manufacturing processes, block diagrams, flow charts and standard symbols used for devices, industrial safety and pollution, outline of plant and equipment design. Manufacture of Soda ash and sodium bicarbonate, chlorine and caustic soda; bleaching powder and related bleaching agents, Sodium chloride, By-products of common salt industry
SULPHUR AND SULPHURIC ACID INDUSTRIES
Mining and manufacture of sulphur, recovery of sulphur from polluting gases, sulphur trioxide and sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, sodium sulphate, sodium thiosulphate.
SILICATE INDUSTRIES
Types and manufacture of Portland cement, Manufacture of glasses and special glasses, Ceramics and refractories
NITROGEN AND PHOSPORUS INDUSTRIES
Synthetic ammonia, Nitric acid, Urea, Phosphate rock beneficiation and phosphoric acid
FERTILIZER INDUSTRIES
Growth elements, functions, ammonium sulphate, ammonium nitrate, ammonium phosphate, potassium chloride, potassium sulphate, single, triple super phosphate introduction to pesticides, herbicides and bio-fertilizers.
REFERENCE
Text Books
1. Austin, G.T.,Shreve’s Chemical Process Industries, Fifth Edition, McGraw-Hill International Book Co, Singapore, 1984
2. Dryden, C.E., Outlines of Chemicals Technology, Edited and Revised by Gopala Rao, M. and M.Sittig, Second Edition, Affiliated East-West press, 1993.
Reference Books
1. Shukla and G.N. Pandey “Text book on Chemical Technology”, Vikas publishing company 1997
2. Kirk and othmer ,”Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology”, III Edition.