B Tech 4th Sem
B Tech 4th Sem
Academic Semester IV
Course Description:
This course ‘Iron making’ is principally aimed to introduce the students about
concepts related to iron making process from beneficiation of burden material
to the production of solid and molten iron through Blast Furnace and other
alternatives methods.
Course Objectives:
1. The students will become familiar with iron making Process.
2. To become conversant with the role of thermodynamics and kinetics in
iron making.
3. To get the idea of producing Iron through different route.
4. To acquire idea what is happening in iron and steel industries.
Syllabus:
UNIT 1:
Raw Materials for iron making: iron ore, evaluation of iron ore, preparation of
ores; Agglomeration processes: Sintering, Pelletisation, Briquetting and
Nodulation; Testing of ores, sinters and pellets; Blast Furnace Fuels:
Specification of Metallurgical coal; Preparation of Coke; physical and chemical
properties of coke; other solid fuels; Fluxes; Air supply; Problems of Indian
raw materials; Numericals.
UNIT 2:
Blast Furnace design and constructional features; Blast Furnace cooling
systems; Blast Furnace refractories; charging system of Blast Furnace;
Operation of Blast Furnace; Burden Calculation and Mass Balances.
UNIT 3:
Modern concept of Blast Furnace process; Temperature profile in Blast
furnace; Aerodynamics; Blast Furnace reactions; Injection of Coal, Oil and
Gas; Numericals.
UNIT 4:
Modern trends of Blast Furnace Practice; Hot metal and Slag; Cast house
operations; Furnace Auxiliaries; Operational Problems of Blast Furnace; Blast
Furnace Productivity and efficiency.
OP JINDAL UNIVERSITY
OP Jindal Knowledge Park, Raigarh-496109
Department of Metallurgical Engineering
UNIT 5:
Alternate Methods of Iron Making: Raw material for DR process; Sponge iron
process; Coal based process: Rotary kiln and Rotary Hearth process; Gas
based processes; characteristics of sponge iron; Use of sponge iron;
Environmental benefits of sponge iron; Smelting Reduction Processes:
Classification of SR Processes; Major Smelting Reduction (SR) Processes;
Advantages and Limitations of SR process; Alternate Ironmaking; Numericals.
Text Books:
Reference Books:
1. Iron making and steel making; theory and practice- Ahindra Ghosh and
Amit Chatterjee.
2. Basic Concepts of Iron and Steel Making- Sujay Kumar Dutta, Yakshil B.
Chokshi.
3. A First Course in Iron and Steel Making- Dipak Mazumdar.
Course Outcomes:
Course Description:
Fuels are basic necessities of metallurgical furnaces for extraction of metals
and this subject deals with the optimum utilization of fuels, in-situ
fundamentals of furnaces and above all, refractories, the important material
for construction of furnaces and its utilization related to metallurgical process.
Thus study of this subject has a consequence of its own.
Course Objectives:
1. To familiarize the students with solid, liquid and gaseous fuels for
industrial practices;
2. To understand the basic concept of manufacture and testing of
metallurgical coke;
3. To understand the principles, working processes and applications of
various furnaces including various parts and their applications;
4. To study various types of refractories, their properties, manufacturing
process, and their industrial practises;
5. To implement the knowledge as effective engineers/scientists in the
related fields.
Syllabus:
UNIT 1:
Classification of fuels and their importance, conventional and newer sources
of energy, concept of the terms like flash point, fire point, compression ratio,
cetane no and octane no, rank of coals, beneficiation of coal, coal
characterizations, coal to coke formation process, testing and properties of
coke, principle of coal washing, washability curve, various indexing process
and application of coke.
UNIT 2:
Proximate and ultimate analysis of fuels, various carbonization processes and
their importance, principle and determination of calorific value and related
equipment, fuel combustion mechanism and related factors, principles
production of liquid from crude and their utilizations; manufacture, properties
and uses of producer gas. water gas and their properties, uses of blast furnace
gas and coke oven gas, natural gas and LPG; combustion calculations and
numerical,
OP JINDAL UNIVERSITY
OP Jindal Knowledge Park, Raigarh-496109
Department of Metallurgical Engineering
UNIT 3:
Classification of furnace following selective parameters, difference between
furnace and kiln, various heat losses in furnace and minimization, concept of
flame, various drafting systems and their significances, concept of waste heat
recovery, chimney height, construction and working principles of cupola,
induction furnace, arc furnace, resistance furnace, pit furnace, rotary
furnace, muffle furnace and plasma heating furnace, uses of Laser.
UNIT 4:
Definition, properties and testing of refractories, production of different types
of refractories, selection of refractories for metallurgical applications, special
refractories, selection of refractory for coke oven, iron blast furnace, copper
convertor, electric arc furnace, concept of castable refractories and their types
and significances.
UNIT 5:
Basic concept of temperature measurement and control, optical and radiation
pyrometers - principle, construction, working process and advantages, field
study on industrial furnace related software.
Course Outcomes:
Course Description:
This course Deformation behaviour and Testing of material is principally
aimed to introduce the students about mechanical properties, deformation
behaviour and testing of materials. This course comprises the concept of
destructive as well as non-destructive testing processes. The destructive
testing processes will comprise Tensile test, Torsion test, Fracture test,
Fatigue and Creep test. The destructive testing processes will comprise Dye
penetrant, Radiography, Magnetic particle and Ultrasonic testing. The
importance, scope advantages and disadvantages will be discussed.
Course Objectives:
1. At some point of time an engineering problem involves issues related to
material selection. The objective of this course to understanding the
behavior of materials, particularly Mechanical properties correlation, will
help selecting suitable materials for a particular application.
2. To provide a basic understanding of the underlying principles that
determines the evolution of structures in metals and alloys during their
processing and its relation with their properties & performance in service.
3. The students will get basic concept of different destructive and non-
destructive testing.
4. This course provides a smooth link between the basic knowledge of
science and engineering courses.
Syllabus:
UNIT 1:
Mechanical properties of materils; Stress and strain; Elastic, Anelastic and
Viscoelastic properties of materials; Tensile Test; Yield stress; Ultimate tensile
stress; Necking phenomenon and conditions of necking; Universal testing
machine; Numerical problems on test data; Flow curve; Proof stress;
Engineering and true stress-true strain curve.
UNIT 2:
Dislocation theory: Types of dislocations; Observation of dislocations;
Significance of burger vector; Multiplication and dissociation of dislocation;
Force on dislocation; Force between dislocations; Torsion test; Determination
of strength of a solid and hollow shaft under torsion; Hardness test: Principles
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OP Jindal Knowledge Park, Raigarh-496109
Department of Metallurgical Engineering
and machines used – Brinell, Vickers, Rockwell, Scleroscope and micro
hardness testing.
UNIT 3:
Fracture: Types of fracture, Fracture mechanism, theoretical cohesive
strength of meterials, Griffith theory of Brittle fracture, Impact Test, Notched
bar impact tests, DTBT; Metallurgical factors affecting ductile to brittle
transition.
UNIT 4:
Fatigue and Creep Testing – Basics of fatigue phenomenon; S – N curve and
corrosion fatigue; Fatigue testing; Signification of Creep; Testing procedure;
Creep curve and its interpretation; Metallurgical and mechanical factors
affecting creep and fatigue failures.
UNIT 5:
Non-destructive testing: Importance, scope, advantages and limitations – Dye
penetrant; Radiography; Magnetic particle; Ultrasonic and electrical methods
of testing and their application.
Text Books:
Reference Books:
Course Outcomes:
Course Description:
Composites are widely used in modern engineering applications. This course
will provide fundamental knowledge of constituents of various composites and
their structures-properties relationship commonly used in manufacturing
process. This course will help student the concepts better, and gain deeper
insights to composites.
Course Objectives:
1. Basics of composite materials.
2. Manufacturing of composite materials.
3. Effect of different parameters on properties of composite materials.
4. Properties and performance study through mechanical analysis.
Syllabus:
UNIT 1:
Introduction: Definitions, Classifications, limitations and advantages of
composites, concept of reinforcements and matrices, type of reinforcements,
types of matrix, rule of mixture, properties of composite in comparison with
standard materials, applications of metal, ceramic and polymer matrix
composites.
UNIT 2:
Fabrication of composites, hand and spray layup, injection molding, resin
injection, filament winding, pultrusion, centrifugal casting and prepress,
fibre/matrix interface, mechanical measurement of interface strength,
characterization of composite materials.
UNIT 3:
Transverse modulus, stress-strain diagram of composites, concept of
discontinuous and aligned fiber composites, related numerical, mechanical
behavior of composites materials related numerical, application of composites.
UNIT 4:
Types of Laminates, Symmetric Laminates, Antisymmetric Laminate,
Balanced Laminate, concept of particulate reinforced composites, fiber
reinforced composites, polymer matrix composites, ceramic matrix composites
and metal matrix composites, strengthening mechanism.
OP JINDAL UNIVERSITY
OP Jindal Knowledge Park, Raigarh-496109
Department of Metallurgical Engineering
UNIT 5:
Joining Methods and Failure Theories: Advantages and disadvantages,
Mechanical behavior of composites materials related numerical, application of
Composites, nano- composites materials.
Text Books:
Reference Books:
Course Outcomes:
Course Description:
This course Heat Treatment of Materials is principally aimed to introduce the
students about basic concept of the theory and practice of heat treatment of
metals and alloys. It provides a comprehensive understanding of the various
transformation reactions associated with the changes in microstructure and
property that occur due to controlled heat treatment. The course introduces
different heat treatments process and its uses to improve the mechanical
properties etc. The students also will get idea to use the Iron-cementite
diagram, TTT & CCT for different purposes.
Course Objectives:
1. To understand the role of Heat treatment in the metal processing
techniques which can play a significant role to tailor material properties.
2. To provide a basic understanding of principles that determines the
evolution of structures in metals and alloys during heat treatment and
phase transformation which enhances the performance of materials
during entire service condition.
Syllabus:
UNIT 1:
Purpose of heat treatment, heat treatment parameters, Classification of Heat
treatment methods, Iron-Carbon equilibrium diagram, Mechanism of
formation of Austenite, Pearlite, Bainite, Martensite. Recovery,
recrystallization and grain growth.
UNIT 2:
Introduction to TTT diagrams, TTT diagram of eutectoid, hypo and hyper
eutectoid steels, Development of phases under isothermal transformation,
effect of Carbon and alloying elements on Iron-Carbon and TTT diagrams, CCT
curves, Applications of TTT diagram: Austempering and Martempering.
UNIT 3:
Annealing, Normalizing and Hardening, Quenching types, Severity of Quench,
Tempering process and metallurgical effects, Concept of hardenability;
measurement of hardenability, Introduction to Precipitation /age hardening,
thermo mechanical treatment, intercritical heat treatment, polymer
quenching, sub-zero treatment – cryogenic quenching, patenting.
OP JINDAL UNIVERSITY
OP Jindal Knowledge Park, Raigarh-496109
Department of Metallurgical Engineering
UNIT 4:
Surface Hardening methods, Thermal – flame hardening, induction
hardening, and advanced techniques like plasma, electron beam etc. Thermo-
chemical processes – carburizing, nitriding, carbonitriding.
UNIT 5:
Heat treatment furnaces, atmospheres and defects, Heat treatment of special
steels: spring, stainless, tool steels, Rail steels, Heat treatment of Non-ferrous
alloys.
Text Books:
Reference Books:
Course Outcomes:
Course Objectives:
1. To understand a knowledge over practical phenomenon of solid, liquid
and gaseous fuels.
2. To acquire practical fundamental ideas about Refractories and
metallurgical furnaces.
3. Able to operate as effective engineers/scientists in metallurgical and
materials domain.
List of Experiments:
Equipment Required:
Reference Books:
Course Outcomes:
Course Objectives:
1. To understand mechanical behavior of materials under different loading
conditions
2. To provide basic understanding of different hardness testing.
3. The students will get basic concept of different destructive and non-
destructive testing.
4. This course provides a smooth link between the basic knowledge of
science and engineering courses.
List of Experiments:
Reference Books:
Course Outcomes:
Course Objectives:
This Laboratory course is designed to make the student understand and
demonstrate the various types of heat treatment processes, process variables
used for heat treatment of ferrous and non-ferrous alloys.
List of Experiments:
1. To anneal and normalize the plain carbon steel and observe its hardness
and microstructure.
2. To apply hardening treatment to plain carbon steels and study the effect
of various quenchants on hardness and microstructure.
3. To study of tempering characteristics of hardened steel.
4. To study of Microstructure of a Thermo-mechanically Treated (TMT)
steel bar.
5. To study of Microstructure of a heat treated Rail steel.
6. To study the effect of cooling parameters on hardness of Rail steels.
7. Determination of hardenability of a steel using Jominy End Quench
Test.
8. To study the microstructural changes in Aluminum alloys during aging
treatment.
Equipment Required:
1. Muffle Furnace
2. Hardness Tester
3. Optical Microscope with Image Analyzer
4. Hardenability Apparatus
Course Outcomes: