Engineering Chemistry

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD
I Year B.Tech. L T/P/D C 3 -/-/- 6

ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
UNIT I:
Electrochemistry & Corrosion:
Electro Chemistry – Conductance - Specific, Equivalent and Molar conductance and their Units;
Applications of Conductance ( Conductometric titrations).
EMF: Galvanic Cells, types of Electrodes – ( Calomel, Quinhydrone and glass electrodes);
Nernst equation and its applications ; concept of concentration cells, electro chemical series,
Potentiometric titrations, determination of PH using glass electrode-Numerical problems.
Batteries: Primary cells ( dry cells) and secondary cells (lead-Acid cell, Ni-Cd cell, Lithium
cells). Applications of batteries.
Fuel cells – Hydrogen – Oxygen fuel cell; methanol – oxygen fuel cell ; Advantages and
Applications.
Corrosion and its control: Causes and effects of corrosion; Theories of corrosion – Chemical &
Electrochemical corrosion; Types of corrosion ( Galvanic, Water line, Pitting and Intergranular);
Factors affecting rate of corrosion –Nature of metal and Nature of Enviornent – Corrosion
control methods – Cathodic protection (sacrificial anodic and impressed current). Surface
coatings: Metallic coatings & methods of application of metallic coatings - hot dipping
(galvanization & tinning), Cementation, cladding, electroplating ( copper plating ) Electroless
plating ( Ni plating) -Organic coatings – Paints - constituents and their functions.
UNIT II:
Engineering Materials:
Polymers:Types of Polymerization (Chain & Step growth).
Plastics: Thermoplastic & Thermo setting resins;Compounding & fabrication of plastics
(Compression and injection moulding ).Preparation, properties, engineering applications of PVC,
Teflon and Bakelite.
Fibers- Charcterstics of fibers – preparation, properties and uses of Nylon – 6,6 and Dacron –
Fiber Reinforced Plastics (FRP) – applications.
Rubbers – Natural rubber and its vulcanization. Elastomers – Buna-s, Butyl rubber and Thiokol
rubber.
Conducting polymers: Polyacetylene, Polyaniline, Mechanism of Conduction, doping;
applications of Conducting polymers.
Bio-degradable Polymers- preparation and Applications of Poly vinyl acetate and Poly lactic
acid –
Cement: composition of Portland cement, setting & hardening of cement (reactions),
Lubricants: Classification with examples- Characterstics of a good lubricant & mechanism of
lubrication (thick film , thin film and extreme pressure)– properties of lubricants: viscosity ,
Cloud point, flash and fire points.
Refractories: Classification, charactersitcs of a good refractory and applications.
Nanomaterials: Introduction, preparation by sol-gel & chemical vapour deposition methods.
Applications of nanomaterials.
UNIT III:
Water and its Treatment:
Hardness of Water: Causes of hardness, expression of hardness – units – types of hardness,
estimation of temporary & permanent hardness of water by EDTA method - numerical problems.
Boiler troubles – Scale & sludges, Priming and foaming, caustic enbrittlement and boiler
corrosion; Treatment of boiler feed water – Internal treatment (Phosphate, Colloidal and calgon
conditioning) – External treatment – Lime Soda process, Zeolite process and ion exchange
process. Numerical Problems.
Potable Water- Its Specifications – Steps involved in trtament of potable water – Disinfection of
water by chlorination and ozonisation. Reverse osmosis & its significance.
Unit – IV :
Fuels & Combustion
Fuels – Classification – soild fuels : coal – analysis of coal - proximate and ultimate analysis and
their significance.Liquid fuels – petroleum and its refining – cracking – types – fixed bed
catalytic cracking. Knocking – octane and cetane rating, synthetic petrol, Bergius and Fischer-
Tropsch’s process: Gaseous fuels - constituents, characterstics and applications of natural gas,
LPG and CNG. Analysis of flue gas by Orsat’s apparatus – Numerical Problems.
Combustion – Definition, Calorific value of fuel – HCV , LCV; Determination of calorific value
by Junker’s gas calorimeter – theoretical calculation of Calorific value by Dulong’s formula –
Numerical problems on combustion.
UNIT V:
Phase Rule & Surface Chemistry :
Phase Rule: Definition of terms : Phase, component, degree of freedom, phase rule equation.
Phase diagrams –one component system- water system. Two component system Lead- Silver,
cooling curves, heat treatment basedon iron-carbon phase diagram - hardening, annealing and
normalization.
Surface Chemistry:
Adsorption – Types of Adsorption, Isotherms – Freundlich and Langmuir adsorption isotherm,
applications of adsorption;
Colloids: Classification of Colloids; Electrical & optical properties, micelles, applications of
colloids in industry.
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Engineering Chemistry by R.P. Mani,K.N. Mishra, B. Rama Devi /CENGAGE learning.
2. Engineering Chemistry by P.C Jain & Monica Jain, Dhanpatrai Publishing Company (2008).
REFERENCE BOOKS
1. Engineering Chemistry by B. Siva Shankar Mc.Graw Hill Publishing Company Limited, New
Delhi(2006)
2. Engineering Chemistry J.C. Kuriacase & J. Rajaram, Tata McGraw Hills Publishing Company
Limited, New Delhi (2004).
3. Text Book of Engineering Chemistry by S.S. Dara & Mukkati S. Chand & Co Publishers,
New Delhi(2006)
4. Chemistry of Engineering Materials by CV Agarwal,C.P Murthy, A.Naidu, BS
Publications.

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