Overview

The department has a number of facilities in the laboratories. The laboratories, its equipment and the contributions that these laboratories have made are listed below.

• SCEO LAB

  This laboratory is an associated with the course 'SELECTED CHEMICAL ENGINEERING OPERATIONS'. This laboratory provides an opportunity for the students to actually conduct experiments relating to various chemical engineering operations. This laboratory contains state of the art equipments. Some of which are as follows:

  Name of the Experiment	Objectives
  ROTARY DRUM FILTER	To study its operations and to determine the specific cake resistance and filter-medium resistance in case of filtering CaCO3 slurry for different vacuum conditions
  PLATE AND FRAME FILTER PRESS	To study its operations and to determine the specific cake resistance and filter-medium resistance in case of filtering CaCO3 slurry
  CROSS CIRCULATION DRYER	To study the characteristics of a porous and non porous solid under forced draft condition with cross flow of air. To determine critical moisture content. To calculate the total drying time
  JAW CRUSHER, SMOOTH ROLL CRUSHER, BALL MILL	To study their operations and to analyze the properties of particles before and after combination
  FROTH FLOATATION	To study the separation performance of froth floatation using Denver floatation cell
  BASKET CENTRIFUGE	To study the characteristics of basket centrifuge
  CENTRIFUGAL DOUBLE CONE CLASSIFIER	To study its characteristics
  SEDIMENTATION	To study the characteristics of CaCO3
  CENTRIFUGAL PUMP CHARACTERISTICS	To study the characteristics of two centrifugal pumps operated in series and parallel
  DOUBLE ACTING AND RECIPROCATING PUMP CHARACTERISTICS	To study its characteristics

• COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN LABORATORY

  EXISTING FACILITIES

  • ASPEN
  • HYSYS
  • FLUENT
  • GPROM

  HYSYS

  Commercially available integrated simulation environment designed for complete user customization

  Features in HYSYS:

  • Steady state simulation of chemical process and equipments
  • Dynamic simulation of chemical process and equipments
  • Thermodynamic foundation
  • Flow sheeting
  • Column operation
  • Optimization
  • Controllers tuning
  • Evaluation of different control scheme

  CONTRIBUTIONS

  M.E. Dissertation Completed	2
  Projects completed by M.E Students	18
  Current Ph.D. Student	1
  Current M.E. Student	1

  FLUENT:

  Fluentoffers flow and heat transfer software suited to wide range of application

  Applications:

  • Chemical Process
  • Combustion
  • Drying
  • Filtration
  • Heat and mass transfer ·Reaction
  • Separation and etc.
  • Environmental
  • Polymer processing
  • Pumps
  • Bio-medical etc.

• TP LAB

  This laboratory is an associated with the course 'Heat Transfer Operations'. this laboratory provides an opportunity for the students to actually conduct experiments relating to various heat and mass transfer operations. this laboratory contains state of the art equipments. some of which are as follows:

  Name of the Experiment	Objectives
  PACKED ABSORPTION COLUMN	To determine the overall gas transfer coefficient for the case of absorption of CO2 in NaOH
  SHELL AND TUBE HEAT EXCHANGER	To determine the individual  and overall heat transfer coefficients for a 1,1 shell and tube horizontal heat exchange using water as hot and cold water
  DOUBLE PIPE HEAT EXCHANGER	To compare the heat transfer characteristics for counter current and co-current flows in a double pipe heat exchanger
  BOILING KETTLE	To observe the heat transfer in a boiling kettle and establish  various regimes of boiling curve
  MASS TRANSFER WITH CHEMICAL REACTION	To study the dissolution with instantaneous reaction in mixing a vessel and to find the specific rate of  dissolution, mass transfer coefficient and the enhancement factor
  FRICTION IN PIPELINE AND FITTINGS	To determine the roughness for various pipes from the plot of fanning friction and Reynolds number. To determine the equivalent lengths of given pipe fittings
  FLOW THROUGH PACKED BEDS	To determine the pressure drop variation with superficial fluid velocity for the flow of water through two different types of packed beds
  FLOW THROUGH FLUIDIZED BEDS	To determine the minimum fluidization velocity. To study the bed expansion characteristics of the fluidized bed
  HELICAL COIL HEAT EXCHANGER	To verify the colburn's analogy

• PROCESS CONTROL LABORATORY

  PROCESS CONTROL LABORATORY

  The process control laboratory has the latest sophisticated equipments. The various experiments conducted in the laboratory as summarized as follows

  EXPERIMENTS:

  • Determination of open loop transfer function of the temperature control accessory
  • Direct digital control of level with software supplied by armfield
  • Flow control using multi process trainer
  • Microprocessor based temperature control using serial communication port for data recording
  • Direct digital control of pressure using serial communication port for data recording
  • Level control using multi process trainer
  • Microprocessor based level control using serial communication port for data recording
  • Digital control of pressure using in-house software
  • Pressure control using multi process trainer
  • Determination of the response of the flow meter under ramp input
  • Microprocessor based flow control in the pipe using differential sensor and square root extractor
  • Cascade control of temperature using multi process trainer

  ACHIEVEMENTS:

  • Published 4 research papers
  • Organized a seminar and intensive course on "Process control & simulation for chemical and metallurgical industries", April 4-7, 1997
  • Completed 1 PhD
  • Continuing 1 PhD
  • Completed several ME Dissertations, BE Theses and Student Projects

• ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY

  
  EXISTING FACILITIES

  • Respirable Dust Samplers
  • High Volume Sampler
  • Stack Sampler
  • Electronic Balance
  • Constant Temperature Bath (With shaker)
  • Temperature Swing Adsorption setup
  • Stack Sampler
  • BOD-IncubatorSshaker
  • Laminar Hood
  • Multi-Point Magnetic Stirrer
  • Remi High Speed Centrifuge

  CONTRIBUTION :

  1.	Ph.D Thesis (Completed)	4
  2.	Ph.D Thesis (About to Complete)	1
  3.	Ph.D Thesis (Continued)	5
  4.	M.E. Dissertation (Completed)	5
  5.	M.E. Dissertation (Continued)	2
  6.	B.E Prects (Completed)	7
  7.	B.E. Projects (Continued)	2
  8.	Study Oriented Projects	12
  9.	Lab Oriented Project	18
  10.	Computer Oriented Project	5
  11.	Research Publications	25

• ANALYTICAL LABORATORY

  • High-Performance Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC)
    
  • UV-VIS Spectrophotometer
  • ThermoGravimetric Analyser (TGA)
  • Auto-Titrator
  • BET-Surphase Area Analyzer
  • Ion/pH meter
  • Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS)
  • Gas Chromatograph (GC)
  • Fourier Transform INfrared Spectroscope (FTIR)
  • Nephelometer
  • Dissolved Oxygen Meter
  • Water Aanalysis Kit
  • Conductivity Meter
  • Setup for Arsenic Analysis
    

   

• PETROLEUM ENGINEERING LAB

  The aim of setting up this laboratory is to help the undergraduate and graduate students of Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Engineering to have an insight knowledge of the various testing experiments done in a refinery which are required to analyze the properties of the crude oil and various petroleum products.

   

  This laboratory contains state of the art equipments. Some of which are as follows:

   

  Name of the Experiment	Specification	Objective
  ASTM Distillation unit	ASTM-D86	To analyze of distillate fuels; it is not applicable to products containing appreciable quantities of residual material.
  Aniline Point Apparatus	ASTM-D611	To determination of the aniline point of petroleum products and hydrocarbon solvents
  Copper Strip Corrosion Bath	ASTM-D849	To determine the corrosiveness of industrial aromatic hydrocarbons to a copper strip.
  Conradsun Carbon Residue test	ASTM	To determine the residue content in the petroleum fraction
  Pensky Marten Flash point appartus	ASTM	To determine the Flash point and Fire point of the petroleum fraction using the closed cup method
  Clevand Open Cup Flash point apparatus	ASTM	To determine the Flash point and Fire point of the petroleum fractio n using the open cup method
  Hydrometers	ASTM	To determine the API gravity of the petroleum fractions
  Cloud point and Pour Point Apparatus	ASTM	To determine the cloud point(where hazziness starts to appear) and pour point(where it stops pouring) of the petroleum fraction
  Reid Vapor Pressure Apparatus	ASTM	To determine the vapor pressure of the petroleum fraction
  Saybolt Viscometer	ASTM	To determine the kinematic viscosity of the petroleum fraction
  Softening point of Bitumen	ASTM	To determine the softening point of Bitumen