Historical overview of Chemical Engineering: Concepts of unit operations and unit processes, and more recent developments, Features of organized chemical processing- from chemistry to chemical engineering. The Chemical Industry-scope, features & characteristics. Principles of balancing with examples to illustrate differential and integral balances, lumped and distributed balances.Material balances in simple systems involving physical changes and chemical reactions; systems involving recycle, purge and bypass.Properties of substances: single component & multicomponent, single and multiphase systems. Use of Compressibility charts, vapour pressure correlations/charts & Psychrometric charts. Ideal liquid and gaseous mixtures.Energy balance calculations in simple systems.Introduction to Computer aided calculations-steady state material and energy balances.
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