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19Ch303-Chemical Process Calculations

This document outlines the objectives and units of the course 19CH303-CHEMICAL PROCESS CALCULATIONS. The objectives are to acquire knowledge of chemistry laws and their application to solving mass and energy balance equations. The units cover topics like units and dimensions, material and energy balancing, humidity and saturation, and combustion. The outcomes are to understand fundamentals of units, stoichiometry, ideal gas behavior, and writing material and energy balances.

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19Ch303-Chemical Process Calculations

This document outlines the objectives and units of the course 19CH303-CHEMICAL PROCESS CALCULATIONS. The objectives are to acquire knowledge of chemistry laws and their application to solving mass and energy balance equations. The units cover topics like units and dimensions, material and energy balancing, humidity and saturation, and combustion. The outcomes are to understand fundamentals of units, stoichiometry, ideal gas behavior, and writing material and energy balances.

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19CH303-CHEMICAL PROCESS CALCULATIONS

OBJECTIVES

 To acquire knowledge on laws of chemistry


and its application to solution of mass and
energy balance equations for single and
network of units and introduce to process
simulators.
UNIT I UNITS AND DIMENSIONS
 Fundamental Concepts: Basic and derived
units, use of different system of units in
process calculations.
 Methods of expression- compositions of
mixtures and solutions. Ideal and real gas law:
Calculations of pressure, volume and
temperature using Ideal and Van der Waals
equation.
 Use of partial pressure and pure component
volume in gas mixture calculations – Raoult‘s
law and Henry‘s law.
UNIT II MATERIAL BALANCE
 Stoichiometric principles

 Application of material balance to unit operations


like distillation, evaporation, crystallization, drying
 Material balance with chemical reaction Limiting
and excess reactants
 Recycle -bypass and purging
 Unsteady state material balances.
UNIT III HUMIDITY AND SATURATION
 Calculation of absolute humidity, molal
humidity, relative humidity and percentage
humidity .

 Use of humidity in condensation and drying.

Humidity chart, dew point


UNIT IV ENERGY BALANCE
 Heat capacity of solids, liquids, gases and solutions.
Use of mean heat capacity in heat calculations,
problems involving sensible heat and latent heats,
evaluation of enthalpy.
Standard heat of reaction, heats of formation,
combustion, solution, mixing etc.,
Calculation of standard heat of reaction
Effect of pressure and temperature on heat of
reaction – Energy balance for systems with and
without chemical reaction
Unsteady state energy balance.
UNIT V COMBUSTION
 Determination of Composition by Orsat
analysis of products of combustion of solid,
liquid and gas fuels .

 Calculation of excess air from orsat


technique, problems on sulphur and sulphur
burning compounds .

 Application of Process simulators in energy


and material balance problems.
BOOKS
• TEXTBOOKS
• Bhatt, B.L., Vora, S.M., Stoichiomentry, Tata
McGraw-Hill, 2008.
• Hougen, O.A., Watson, K.M and Ragatz, R.A.,
Chemical Process Principles Part-I, John Wiley
and Asia Publishing, 2nd Edition 2004.

• REFERENCES
– Himmelblau, D.M., Basic Principles and Calculations in
Chemical Engineering, Prentice Hall Inc., 8 th Edition, 2012.
– Tyler G.Hicks, P.E., Nicholas P. Chopey, Handbook of Chemical
Engineering Calculations, Fourth Edition", McGraw-Hill, 2012.
OUTCOMES
Understand the fundamentals of units and
stoichiometric equations.

Write material balance for different chemical


process.

 Understand the fundamentals of ideal gas


behavior and phase equilbria. Write energy
balance for different chemical process.

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