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Industrial Chemistry
This course will enable the students to
get acquainted with the chemistry involved in different industries to develop technical and entrepreneurial skills.
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Industrial Chemistry (Practical)
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CO1: Describe the composition and analyse cement and ceramics. CO2: Determine the constituents of milk, milk products and identify adulterants. CO3: Discuss the characteristics, properties of paint and pigments and prepare inorganic pigments, poster colour. CO4: Explain different steps of paper preparation such as pulping, washing, bleaching. CO5: Describe various chemical processes involved in the textile industry. CO6: Compile and report the results efficiently, and develop communications skills. CO7: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction. |
Approach in teaching: Laboratory instructions and Demonstrations.
Learning activities for the students: Peer learning, hands-on-learning, interpretation of data, record writing and learning through virtual labs.
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Theory examination along with conduction of experiments, lab records, viva voce quiz.
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Cement: Types of cement, manufacturing process, composition and hydration of Portland cement, blended cement, admixture in cement and concrete.
Ceramics: Introduction, types, manufacturing process, refractories and their commercial applications.
Hands-on Exercises:
- Analysis of cement and building materials: Silicon dioxide, aluminium oxide, ferric oxide, calcium oxide, magnesium oxide, sulphur trioxide, sulphide- sulphur, sodium and potassium oxide, loss on ignition.
- Analysis of Ceramics: Determination of titanium dioxides and aluminium oxide from oxide ceramics.
Dairy Chemistry: Milk and milk products, composition and structure of milk, effect of heat on milk and milk processing.
Hands-on Exercises:
a) Identification of adulterants in milk and milk products.
b) Determination of titratable Acidity as Lactic acid in milk
c) Determination of calcium and magnesium by EDTA method
d) Determination of casein in milk
e) Clot on boiling test
Test for presence of skimmed milk powder in natural milk
Pigments: General characteristics and types of pigments.
Paints: General characteristics and classification of paints, their functions and function of solvent, thinner, dyes, filler, resins, drier, insecticides and additives in paint formulations.
Hands-on Exercises:
Synthesis of inorganic pigments (any three)
- Zinc oxide
- Lead chromate
- Zinc chromate
- Prussian Blue
- Malachite Green
Importance of Paper industry, characteristics and composition of different papers, various fibrous raw materials for paper manufacture. Classification of Hardwood and Softwoods. Preparation of raw materials (De-barking, chipping, screening and conveying). Pulping and different pulping processes (Mechanical pulping, alkaline pulping, acid pulping and semi chemical pulping). Washing and bleaching of pulp. Effluents from paper industry and their treatment. Stock preparation (Beating, refining, sizing and loading).
Industrial visit for demonstration for following process:
- Manufacture of paper on paper machine
- Pre hydrolysis Kraft and soda-pulping
- Alkaline Sulphite pulping.
- Pulp analysis - Kappa/Permanganate number, copper number viscosity and lignin.
- Waste paper processing/deinking and evaluation.
- Testing of different properties of pulp and paper
Various textile chemical processes such as bleaching, dyeing and printing (cotton, wool and silk). Introduction to the following reaction and their application in textile chemistry. i. Nitration ii. Sulphonation iii. Halogenation iv. Diazotization.
Hands-on Exercises:
- Synthesis of various dyes.
- Determination of colour fastener properties.
Industrial visits would be planned for the enhancement of skills for the technical processes involved in these industries.
- Pulp and paper chemistry and chemical technology, James P. Casey- Volume I, Pulp and Paper Industry Canada, 1985.
- Fundamentals of Dairy Chemistry, Second Edition, Webb Johnson and Alford, CbS Publishers, India.
- Industrial Chemistry, Sharma, B.K. & Gaur, H. Goel Publishing House, Meerut (2016).
- Basics of Paint Technology- Part- 1, V. C. Maliha, Meenal. A.Sikchi, Antar Prakash Centre for Yoga, 2004.
- Textile Chemistry, Vishu Arora, Abhishek Publications; India, 2013.
Suggested Readings:
- Hand Book of Pulp Volume I, Ed. Herbert Sixta, Wiley-VCH Verlag, Weinheim, 2006.
- Introduction To Paint Chemistry and principles of Paint Technology, Third Edition, G.P.A.Turner, Champan & Hall.
- Standard methods of analysis, F.J.Welcher, Krieger Publishing Company, Pennsylvania State University.
- Commercial methods of analysis, F.D. Snell & F.M. Biffen, D.B.Taraporavala & sons.
- Chemical analysis - A series of monographs on analytical chemistry and its applications, Inter Science- Vol I to VII., J.J. Elving and I.M. Kolthoff, John Wiley & Sons.
e-Resources:
- https://aits-tpt.edu.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/UNIT-V-Chemistry-of-engineering-materials.pdf (Unit I)
- https://www.academia.edu/28720946/FUNDAMENTALS_OF_DAIRY_CHEMISTRY_3_RD_EDITION (E-book for Unit II)
- https://egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/9633/1/Unit-7.pdf (Unit II)
- https://www.academia.edu/4876694/Chemistry_Pigments_For_Paints (Unit III)
- https://www.kngac.ac.in/elearning-portal/ec/admin/contents/2_18KP2CHELCH2_2021012801374329.pdf (Unit IV)
- https://showcase.uhi.ac.uk/atom/resources/BORAS/Textile%20chemistry/textile-chemistry/pdf/pdfVersion.pdf (Unit V)
