PROCESS CALCULATIONS & THERMODYNAMICS
(CHC 331) [3-1-0]
(Offered to students of Dept. of Biotechnology)
Module - I (10 hrs)
Significance of Units and Dimensions: Conversion of Equations, Systems of Units, Dimensional
Homogeneity and Dimensionless Quantities, Buckingham Pi-theorem for Dimensional Analysis
Mathematical Requisites: Use of log-log and semi-log graph paper, Triangular Diagram.
Introduction to Chemical Engineering Calculations: Basis, Mole Fraction and Mole Percent, Mass
Fraction and Mass Percent, Concentration of different forms, Conversion from one form to
another.
Ideal gas laws and its significance, Molar concept, Concept of partial pressure & partial volume,
Dalton’s law and Amagat’s law and Numerical problems on their applications.
Fundamental concept of vapor pressure & boiling point, Clausius-Clapeyron equation, Antoine
equation and numerical problems on their applications.
Ideal & non-ideal solutions, Raoult’s law, Henry’s law and their applications in numerical
problems.
Module – II (10 hrs)
Material Balances with and without chemical reaction: Material balances in crystallizers, gas -
liquid absorbers, evaporators, distillation plant. Systems with recycle,drying, extraction.
Energy Balance: Enthalpy calculation for systems without Chemical Reaction, Estimation of Heat
Capacities of solids, liquids and gases. Heat of fusion and vaporization
Enthalpy calculation for systems with Chemical Reaction, Thermo-chemistry, Calculations of heat
of reaction, heat of combustions, heat of formation and heat of neutralization, Effect of
Temperature and Pressure on Heat of Reaction, Hess’s Law, Adiabatic Flame Temperature,
Theoretical Flame Temperature.
Module – III (10hrs)
Scope of thermodynamics, Terminology and fundamental concepts. Microscopic and macroscopic
view. State and path functions, thermodynamics processes, Zeroth and First law of
thermodynamics: Applications of first law to close and open system.Limitations of first law, Heat
pump, heat engine, Second law of thermodynamics: Reversibility and irreversibility, Carnot cycle,
concept and estimation of entropy, third law of thermodynamics, Clausius inequality, Gibb’s and
Helmholtz free energy.
Module – IV (10 hrs)
PVT behavior of pure substance, Equations of state for ideal and real gases, cubic and virial
equation of state, problems, Compressibility factor, thermodynamic properties of pure substances.
Refrigeration of gases: Refrigerator, Co-efficient of performance, capacity of refrigerator, Vapor
compression cycle, Choice of refrigerants.
Text Books:
1. Unit Operations–Chemical Process Principles – Part-I - Haugen, Wartson & Ragatz (CBS)
2. Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering – Himmelblau ((Prentice Hall of India)
3. Stoichiometry, Bhatt and Vora, Tata McGraw Hill Companies.
4. Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics – J. M. Smith & H. C. Van Ness and M. M. Abbott (Tata
McGraw Hill)
5. Chemical & Engineering Thermodynamics – S. I. Sandler (Wiley)
