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OCH1704 PROCESS TECHNOLOGY L T P C
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OBJECTIVE:
To impart knowledge on various aspects of production engineering and enable the students to
understand the practical methods of production in a chemical factory

UNIT I CHLOR ALKALI INDUSTRIES, SULPHURIC ACID MANUFACTURE 9
Flow charts and standard symbols used for devices, industrial safety and pollution, Manufacture of Soda
ash, chlorine and caustic soda, sulphur trioxide and sulphuric acid

UNIT II CEMENT AND NITROGEN INDUSTRIES 9
Types and manufacture of Portland cement, Manufacture of glasses, Synthetic ammonia, Nitric acid,
Urea

UNIT III FERTILIZER INDUSTRIES 9
Growth elements, functions, phosphoric acid, ammonium phosphate, potassium chloride, single, triple
super phosphate introduction to pesticides, herbicides and bio-fertilizers.

UNIT IV ORGANIC INDUSTRIES 9
Manufacture of paper from pulp, Manufacture of Raw and refined sugar, extraction methods of oils,
hydrogenation of oils, Petroleum refining, physical and chemical conversion products

UNIT V POLYMER INDUSTRIES 9
Manufacture of Nylon 6. 6., manufacturer of Cellulosic Fibres – Viscose Rayon, Polymerization
processes – different types -Natural rubber; Synthetic rubber such as SBR, manufacture of films -
cellulose Acetate, PVC.
TOTAL : 45 PERIODS

OUTCOME:
Student to integrate various courses and to give the young engineers some comprehension on various
fields of production into which he will enter or with which he will be affiliated during the course of
study or after completion of the study

TEXTBOOKS:
1. ―Shreve's Chemical Process Industries Handbook‖, Fifth Edition, McGraw-Hill 1998.
2. Dryden, C.E., ―Outlines of Chemical Technology‖, Edited and Revised by Gopala Rao. M. and M.
Sitting, Second edition, Affiliated East-West press,52, 1993.

REFERENCES
1. Shukla and G.N. Pandey ―Text book on Chemical Technology‖, Vikas publishing company 1997.
2. Srikumar Koyikkal,‖Chemical Process Technology and Simulation‖, PHI Learning Ltd (2013).

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