SF3611 Unit Operations Laboratory Syllabus:

SF3611 Unit Operations Laboratory Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021

OBJECTIVE:

1. To understand the practical aspects of the various unit operations employed in chemical industry.
2. To Know the Heat transfer principles in chemical industry.
3. To verify the various techniques and chemical processes.

LIST OF EXPERIMENTS

1. Sieve Analysis – To analyse a given sample using a set of standard sieves and thus to determine the specific surface area, the volume surface mean diameter and the mass mean diameter by differential analysis and cumulativeanalysis.
2. Verification of the laws of crushing in a Ball mill and calculation of criticalspeed.
3. Study of the working of Plate and frame filterpress.
4. Free settling – To find out the drag coefficient of a falling sphere in a Fluid and verification of Stoke¥slaw.
5. Sedimentation – To study batch sedimentation of slurry and to determine the area of the continuous thickener.
6. Heat transfer from steam to air – Determination of overall heat transfercoefficient.
7. Verification of material balance equation and Rayleigh¥s equation for simpledistillation.
8. Steamdistillation.
9. Leaching – leaching a mixture of salt andsand.
10. Study of the kinetics of chemical reaction in a batchreactor.
11. Adsorptionisotherms.
12. Frequency response of first and second ordersystems.

TOTAL: 60 PERIODS

OUTCOMES:

On completion of this course the student will be able to:
CO1: Determine the surface characteristics of solidparticles and the energy requirements for size reduction equipments.
CO2: Calculate the area required for a continuousthickener
CO3: Compare the efficiency of different types ofdistillation