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Overall and component material balances – Material balances without chemical reactions – Chemical reactions,
stoichiometry, conversion and yield – Material balance calculations with chemical reactions – Combustion
calculations – Recycle operations – Energy balances – Entropy, latent heat – Concepts of chemical thermodynamics –
Relation to VLE, solution thermodynamics and reaction thermodynamics
UNIT-III FLUID MECHANICS 9
Laminar and turbulent flow – Basic equations of fluid flow, continuity equations and Bernoulli's equation –
Shear – Stress relationships – Non-Newtonian fluids, friction factor and its calculation in laminar and turbulent
flow – Operational principles of different types of pumps, compressors and valves – Measurement of fluid flow
using venturimeters, orifice meters – Rotameters, pivot tube.
UNIT-IV HEAT TRANSFER 9
Conduction – Concept of heat conduction, Fourier's law of heat conduction: one dimensional steady state heat
conduction, equation for flat plate, hollow cylinder – Individual and overall heat transfer coefficients and
relationship between them – Convection – Concept of heat transfer by convection, natural and forced
convection, equations for forced convection – Operational principles of heat exchangers – Double pipe heat
exchangers, shell and tube heat exchangers.

UNIT-V MASS TRANSFER 9
Fick's law of diffusion – Analogy with momentum and heat transfer, diffusivities of gases and liquids, diffusion
in binary mixtures, Interphase mass transfer – Film theory of mass transfer, determination of volumetric mass
transfer coefficient – Overview of separation operations with examples, ideal stage concept – Mass transfer
equipment – Distillation, liquid extraction, gas absorption, drying.
Total Contact Hours : 45

Course Outcomes:
 Understand the conversion factors and physical properties ofgases.
 Learn the material balances for overall and component balances in anyprocess.
 Apply the knowledge in energy balance for steady and unsteadystate.
 Define the fluid statics and applications in chemicalengineering.
 Describe the types of pump and itsapplications.

Text Book(s):
Himmelblau, D.M. and Riggs, J.B., “Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering”,
1
International Edition, Prentice Hall,2003.
2 Ghasem, N. and Henda, R., “Principles of Chemical Engineering Processes”, CRC Press,2008.

Reference Books(s) / Web links:
Coulson, J.M. and Richardson, J.F., “Chemical Engineering”, Vol. I, 6 Edition, Butterworth- Heinemann
th
1
Ltd.,2007.
2 Geankoplis, C.J., “Transport Processes and Unit Operations”, Prentice Hall India,2002.
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McCabe, W.L., Smith, J.C., and Harriott, P.,“Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering” 7 Edition,
3
McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2005.

BY19P17 Category L T P C
PLANT TISSUE CULTURE AND GENEMANIPULATION
3 0 0 3

Objectives:
 To enable the students to understand details of plant cells, genome and itsfunctions
 To provide the basics of agrobacterium and applications of plantbiotechnology

UNIT-I INTRODUCTION TO PLANTMOLECULARBIOLOGY 9
Genetic material of plant cells, nucleosome structure and its biological significance; transposons,;
outline of transcription and translation, alternative and trans splicing, constitutive and differentially