DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

SRM UNIVERSITY
KATTANKULATHUR

LESSON PLAN
(Common to all branches of B. Tech.)
Academic Year – 2011 – 2012

Sub. : Chemistry Semester : I

Sub. Code : CY0101 Total No. of Hours : 45

Unit Lecture Topic

No.
I. TECHNOLOGY OF 1 Water Quality Parameters
WATER
-Water Quality Standards
-physical, chemical, biological standards
Hardness –introduction
-Types of hardness
-Units of hardness.
2 Disadvantages of using hard water for domestic and industrial
purposes
Estimation of hardness
-EDTA method
-Exercise on hardness
3 -O.Hehner’s method of determination of hardness
-Alkalinity determination
-Exercise on hardness and alkalinity determination
4 Disadvantages of using hard water in boilers
-Scales and Sludges, priming and foaming, caustic
embrittlement, boiler corrosion
5 Prevention and Treatment of boiler scales and sludges
-Internal Conditioning
-phosphate, calgon and carbonate conditioning
6 External Treatment
-Zeolite Method
Principle, method, advantages and disadvantages
-Ion exchange method
Principle, method, advantages and disadvantages
7 Desalination
Reverse Osmosis
Principle, method, advantages and disadvantages
-Electro dialysis
Principle, method, advantages and disadvantages
8 Domestic water treatment
-removal of suspended impurities
 Unit Lecture Topic
No.
screening, sedimentation, filtration
–removal of micro organisms
boiling, using CaOCl2,Cl2,ClNH2 & O3
9 Questions & Answers
II. CORROSION AND 10 Introduction to corrosion
ITS CONTROL
– Types,
-mechanism of chemical corrosion
-Pilling Bedworth rule
11 -mechanism of electrochemical corrosion
Forms of electrochemical corrosion
-Galvanic corrosion
Principle and examples
– Differential aeration corrosion
Principle and examples
12 -Pitting corrosion
Principle and examples
- Stress corrosion, example: caustic embrittlement
13 Factors influencing corrosion
Nature of metal
-Position in galvanic series
-Over voltage
-Area and distance effects
-Physical and mechanical properties of the metal
-Corrosion products
Nature of corroding environment
-Effect of Temperature, humidity, pH, impurities and suspended
particles in atmosphere
14 Corrosion control
-Selection of materials
-Design aspects
-Modifying the environment
Cathodic protection
- Sacrificial anodic method
-impressed current method
Corrosion inhibitors
-Anodic inhibitors
-cathodic inhibitors
15 Protective coatings:
surface preparation for metallic coatings
- solvent cleaning
-acid pickling
-alkali cleaning
-sand blasting
Electro plating
 Unit Lecture Topic
No.
-One example with explanation
16 Electroless plating
- One example with explanation
17 Chemical conversion coatings
-anodizing, phosphating and
chromate coating.
18 Questions & Answers
III. PHASE 19 Phase rule: Introduction
EQUILIBRIA
-Definition& examples of
phase, component& degrees of freedom
20 One component system (water system only)
21 Two component systems:
-Condensed phase rule,
-Thermal analysis
22 Simple eutectic,
-Pb-Ag system
-Pattinson’s process of desilverization of Pb
23 Bi-Cd system
24 Compound formation: Mg-Zn system
25 Cu-Ni system (Solid Solution)
26 -Applications, Merits and demerits of phase rule
27 Questions & Answers
IV. POLYMERS AND 28 -Introduction
REINFORCED
-Classification of polymers
PLASTICS
-Nomenclature
- Functionality-significance.
- Degree of polymerization and tacticity
29 Types of polymerization reactions
-Addition, condensation & copolymerization
30 Mechanism of addition polymerization
- free radical, cationic & anionic
31 - Ziegler – Natta mechanism Co-ordination polymerization;
32 Effect of structure on the properties of polymers
-strength
-plastic deformation
-elasticity
-physical nature
-chemical resistance
-glass transition temperature

33 Preparation, properties and uses of important resins:

- Polyethylene, PVC, PMMA
34 -Polyester, Teflon ,Bakelite, Epoxy resins
35 Compounding of plastics
 Unit Lecture Topic
No.
-functions and examples of resins, plasticizers, lubricants, fillers,
catalysts, pigments and stabilizers
Moulding methods
-Injection
-Extrusion
-Compression
-Calendering
36 Reinforced plastics
– FRP
– Carbon / Graphite, Glass
–examples & applications.
V. INSTRUMENTAL 37 Potentiometry
METHODS OF
-Introduction
ANALYSIS
potentiometric titrations:
- neutralization, redox.
- precipitation and complexation
38 Potentiometry
- Applications &Advantages
39 UV – visible spectroscopy
-Principle
-Electronic transitions
-Instrumentation
40 UV – visible spectroscopy-Applications
41 Infrared spectroscopy
-Principle
-Types of Vibrations
- Instrumentation

42 Infrared spectroscopy-Applications
43 Atomic absorption spectroscopy--Principle
- Instrumentation
-Applications
44 Flame photometry
-Principle
-Instrumentation
-Applications
45 Questions &Answers

Name & Signature of the staff HOD/Chemistry

 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
SRM UNIVERSITY
KATTANKULATHUR

LESSON PLAN
Academic Year – 2011 – 2012

Sub. : Chemistry Lab Sub. Code : CY0103

B.Tech. common to all branches
Total No. of Hours : 30

S.No. Name of the Experiment Hours

Allotted
Introduction of Experiments 1, 2
Cycle I
1. Estimation of total, permanent and temporary hardness by EDTA method. 3,4
2. Estimation of Copper in ore. 5,6
3. Determination of molecular weight of polymer by viscosity average method. 7,8
4. Conductometric titration – Determination of strength of an acid. 9,10
Repeat Class 1 11,12
Cycle II
5. Estimation of nickel in steel 13,14
6. Determination of dissolved oxygen in a water sample by Winkler’s method 15,16
7. Determination of total alkalinity and acidity of a water sample. 17,18
8. Estimation of iron by potentiometric titration. 19,20
9. Flame photometry - Demonstration class 21, 22
Repeat Class 2 23, 24
Repeat Class 3 25, 26
Repeat Class 4 27, 28
Practical Test 29,30

Name & Signature of the staff HOD/Chemistry