Chemical Reaction Engineering-I

By Prof. Bishnupada Mandal | IIT Guwahati

Learners enrolled: 1388

This course will provide an overview of chemical kinetics and reactor design at basic to an intermediate level. Coverage will be relatively broad. This course applies the concepts of reaction rate, stoichiometry and equilibrium to the analysis of chemical and biological reacting systems such as derivation of rate expressions from reaction mechanisms and equilibrium or steady state assumptions and design of chemical and biochemical reactors via synthesis of chemical kinetics, and mass and energy balances. The goal is to provide students with the theoretical/analytical background to understand chemical kinetics and reactor design and to tackle the short of complex problems.

INTENDED AUDIENCE : B.Tech in Chemical Engineering and allied disciplines

PREREQUISITES : Nil

INDUSTRY SUPPORT : Almost all chemical industries including IOCL., OIL, ONGC, etc

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Core
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Chemical Engineering
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	29 Jul 2019
End Date :	18 Oct 2019
Exam Date :	17 Nov 2019 IST

Note: This exam date is subjected to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Kinetics of Homogeneous Reactions

Week 2: Stoichiometry

Week 3: Interpretation of Batch Reactor Data

Week 4: Ideal Reactor Design

Week 5: Design for single reactions

Week 6: Design for parallel reactions

Week 7: Design for parallel reactions

Week 8: Temperature and Pressure Effects

Week 9: Temperature and Pressure Effects

Week 10: Residence Time Distribution

Week 11: Reactor modeling with RTD

Week 12: Reactor modeling with RTD

Books and references

1. O. Levenspiel, Chemical Reaction Engineering, John Wiley, 1991.

2. H. S. Fogler, Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, Prentice-Hall lndia,2003.

3. J. M. Smith, Chemical Engineering Kinetics, McGraw-HiIl,1981

Instructor bio

Dr. Bishnupada Mandal is currently a Professor and Head in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. Dr. Mandal has over 15 years of teaching and research experience at IIT Guwahati. He has received B.Sc. in Chemistry (Honours) and B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from University of Calcutta, Kolkata, M.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and Ph.D. in Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He was Visiting Research Professor in The Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at The Ohio State Engineering, Columbus, Ohio, USA during May-July 2017. He has served as Vice Chairman, IIT-JEE 2011 as well as Chairman, IIT-JEE 2012 for IIT Guwahati Zone. He had been a recipient of the prestigious BOYSCAST fellow award of Department of Science and Technology (DST) Govt. of India and spent one year (2006-2007) as a visiting scientist at the Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 17th November 2019 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100
Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75.

If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.
Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Guwahati. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies are being discontinued from July 2019 semester and will not be dispatched

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