Course: CHE261/CHE261A

Instructor: Animangsu Ghatak,

Office: CESE Room no. 124, Ph no. 7146

TA: Pravat Rajvanshi, Nitish Singh, Soumita Maiti, Krishnakant Kundan

Office: NLII Room no. 104, Ph no. 6045/6362

Schedule: Wednesday & Friday 11:00 AM-12:00 noon

Venue: L2

Office Hour: Send an email at aghatak@, or call me at 9984365312 and set up a meeting

Distribution of marks:
Project: 20%
Mid-Sem: 20%
End Sem: 50%
Quiz: 10%

Students having less than 75% attendance till mid-semester examination will be recommended
for deregistration from the course.

Reading materials:
Perry’s Chemical Engg. Handbook
“Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology” by Kirk and Othmer
“Chemical Process Industries” by Shreve
Various other sources available in internet

Tentative lecture wise description of topics to be covered in course

Lecture 1
Brief introduction of the course. Chemical plant at home: Mama’s kitchen

Lecture 2
Overview of Chemical Industries; what all can be called chemical industry. Typical aspects of
interest in a chemical plant.

Lecture 3
Types of processes found in a typical chemical plant and types of materials likely to be
encountered. Relevant properties of interest of these different types of materials. Examples.

Lecture 4
Typical solid, liquid and slurry handling processes in a chemical plant.

Lecture 5
Typical gas handling processes in a chemical plant. Idea of reactors: continuous stirred tank
reactor and plug flow reactor. Development of process flow diagram of a Sulfuric acid
manufacturing plant.

Lecture 6
continued ... Development of process flow diagram of a Sulfuric acid manufacturing plant.

Lecture 7
Development of process flow diagram of a Sulfur-di-oxide plant with Sulfur as the raw material
Lecture 8
Development of process flow diagram of an Ammonium Sulfate plant with coke oven gas as
the raw material

Lecture 9
Development of process flow diagram of Hydrogen generation by steam reforming of natural
gas

Lecture 10
Introduction to distillation column, Amine sweetening of sour gas, Ammonia plant

Lecture 11
Development of process flow diagram of Urea Synthesis

Lecture 12
Development of process flow diagram of Nitrogen Separation from Air

Lecture 13
process safety, fatal accident in process plants and Bhopal gas tragedy

Lecture 14
Paper and pulp industry. Raw material processing. Various processes for making of pulp from
these raw materials

Lecture 15
Pulp making process continued. Development of process flow diagram.

Lecture 16
Bleaching process for paper pulp. Black liquor recovery

Lecture 17
... discussion to continue on black liquor recovery

Lecture 18
Cement manufacturing process.

Lecture 19
… Continued cement manufacturing process. Description of cyclone system. Chlorine ring.

Lecture 20
Development of process flow diagram of desalting process, Atmospheric distillation process

Lecture 21
Development of process flow diagram of Vacuum distillation process. Hydrocracking and
hydrotreating process

Lecture 22
Fluid catalytic cracking. Octant number

Lecture 23
Delayed coking. Isomerization, Catalytic Alkylation

Lecture 24
Manufacturing process of Graphite