PE3351 Process Calculations Syllabus:

PE3351 Process Calculations Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021

OBJECTIVE:

 To teach concept of degree of freedom and its application to solution of mass and energy balance equations for single and network of units and introduce to process simulators.

UNIT I

Base and derived Units – Composition of Mixture and solutions – calculations of pressure, volume and temperature using ideal gas law. Use of partial pressure and pure component volume in gas calculations, applications of real gas relationship in gas calculation.

UNIT II

Stoichiometric principles, Application of material balance to unit operations like distillation, evaporation, crystallisation, drying etc., – Material balance with chemical reaction – Limiting and excess reactants – recycle – bypass and purging – Unsteady state material balances.

UNIT III

Calculation of absolute humidity, molal humidity, relative humidity and percentage humidity – Use of humidity in condensation and drying – Humidity chart, dew point.

UNIT IV

Heat capacity of solids, liquids, gases and solutions, use of mean heat capacity in heat calculations, problems involving sensible heat and latent heats, evaluation of enthalpy.Standard heat of reaction, heats of formation, combustion, solution, mixing etc., calculation of standard heat of reaction – Effect of pressure and temperature on heat of reaction -Energy balance for systems with and without chemical reaction.

UNIT V

Determination of Composition by Orsat analysis of products of combustion of solid, liquid and gas fuels – Calculation of excess air from orsat technique, problems on sulphur and sulphur burning compounds – Application of Process simulators in energy and material balance problems.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

COURSE OUTCOMES: (COs)

On completion of the course, the students would be able to
 Understand the fundamentals of system of units, apply ideal gas law to solve problems in pure components and mixtures.
 Apply stoichiometric principles to solve problems and write material balance for different process equipments.
 Understand and apply basics of humidity to solve problems in humidification and other processes.
 Understand and apply the basics of energy balance concepts to solve to different chemical processes.
 Understand the basics of fuels and combustion, to solve problems on combustion of various fuels and also to find excess air.
 Apply the above knowledge in process flow sheeting calculations.

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Himmelblau, D.M., “Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering”, EEE Sixth Edition, Prentice Hall Inc., 2003
2. Felder, R. M. and Rousseau, R. W., “Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes”,3rd Edn., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2000.
3. Bhatt, B.L., Vora, S.M., “Stoichiometry “, 4th Edition,Tata McGraw-Hill (2004)

REFERENCES:

1. Hougen O A, Watson K M and Ragatz R A, “Chemical process principles” Part I, CBS publishers (1973).
2. Venkatramani. V, Anatharaman. N and Meera Shariffa Begam “ Process Calculations” Printice Hall of India, New Delhi,
3. K.V.Narayanan, B.Lakshmipathy,”Stochiometry and ProcessCalculation”, PHI Learning Ltd.(2013).