Department of Chemistry

HOD's DESK

The Chemistry Department is one of the oldest departments of BMSCE and was established in the year 1946. The Department teaches Engineering Chemistry and Technical Chemistry courses for I and II year B. E. students respectively. The Department has well qualified, experienced and highly motivated faculty members. Department faculty are involved in research and consultancy activities. The Chemistry department is a Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) recognized Research center since 2011.

VISION : Preparing professionals who provide leadership and exemplary educational and related services to improve the lives of individuals in the changing and complex global society.

MISSION : To prepare outstanding educators, scholars and researchers and to advance the profession of education through research on science and art of teaching and learning.

Course Outcomes:

After the completion of the course, students will have:

Ability to test, measure and arrive at valid conclusions by applying various chemical processes on water
Ability to define, describe and solve different electrochemical problems
Ability to understand different types of chemical fuels and photovoltaics
Ability to interpret types of corrosion and its control by various methods including metal finishing techniques
Ability to differentiate different types of polymers and study their applications
Ability to conduct experiments using modern tools to obtain the hardness, sodium content of water, COD of waste water, estimate components in the acid mixture, determine ferrous ammonium sulphate content, strength of weak acids, calorific value of a solid/liquid fuel, percentage of iron in the rust, copper content in the effluent sample and obtain the molecular weight of polymers

Course Code	14CY1ICCHY / 4CY2ICCHY	Course Name	Engineering Chemistry
Credits	05	L-T-P-S	4-0-1-0

Course Objectives: The students will learn the following:

The importance of purity of water for domestic and industrial purposes and also learn the techniques of waste water treatment
The process involved in the interconversion of electrical energy and chemical energy
The three main issues while dealing with energy problems :

i) The need to restrict increase in energy consumption

ii) The need to evolve alternative energy sources as a substitute to conventional energy sources

iii) The evolution of how far these new energy sources can serve as replacement for conventional energy sources

The idea of deterioration of metal/alloy due to electrochemical interaction of metal / alloy with its environment, ill effects of corrosion, types and corrosion control by various methods
Information about better things for better living-through polymers

UNIT-1

Water Treatment

Introduction, hardness of water, units of hardness, determination of hardness by EDTA method, disadvantages of hard water – boiler scales, corrosion and caustic embrittlement, qualities of drinking water, treatment of water for municipal supply, desalination of water – reverse osmosis and electrodialysis, waste water – COD and BOD, treatment of waste water – primary, secondary and tertiary treatment methods, principle, experimental determination of COD of waste water, estimation of dissolved alkali and alkaline earth metals in water by flame photometry, applications of nanotechnology in water treatment, problems [09 hours]

UNIT – 2

Electrochemical Energy Systems

a) Electrode potential and cells – Introduction, classification of cells-primary, secondary and concentration cells, reference electrodes–calomel electrode and Ag/AgCl electrode, ion-selective electrode- glass electrode, determination of pH using glass electrode, applications of these electrodes in determining strength of acids, bases and red-ox reactions, numerical problems

b) Batteries - Basic concepts, battery characteristics, classification of batteries– primary, secondary and reserve batteries, modern batteries - construction, working and applications of zinc–air, nickel-metal hydride and Li-MnO2 batteries

c) Fuel cells - Introduction, types of fuel cells - alkaline, phosphoric acid, molten carbonate, solid polymer electrolyte and solid oxide fuel cells, construction and working of methanol-oxygen fuel cell [10 hours]

UNIT – 3

Chemical Fuels and Photovoltaic Cells

a)Chemical fuels - Definition, classification, calorific value-definition, gross and net calorific values, determination of calorific value of a solid / liquid fuel using Bomb calorimeter and problems on calorific value, petroleum cracking - fluidized bed catalytic cracking, reformation of petrol, octane number, cetane number, knocking – mechanism, prevention of knocking, anti-knocking agents, unleaded petrol, synthetic petrol – Fischer-Tropsch’s process, power alcohol , biodiesel and hydrogen as a fuel

b)Photovoltaic cells – Production of solar grade silicon, physical and chemical properties of silicon relevant to photovoltaics, doping of silicon, construction and working of a PV- cell and uses [09 hours]

UNIT – 4

Corrosion Science and Metal Finishing

a)Corrosion – Definition of chemical corrosion, electrochemical theory of corrosion, types of corrosion - differential metal, differential aeration corrosion (pitting and water line corrosion), stress corrosion, factors affecting the rate of corrosion, corrosion control: inorganic coatings – anodizing and phosphating, metal coatings – galvanization and tinning, corrosion inhibitors, cathodic protection.

b) Metal finishing - Technological importance of metal finishing, significance of polarization, decomposition potential and over-voltage in electroplating processes.

Electroplating – Process, effect of plating variables on the nature of electrodeposit, surface preparation, electroplating of Cr and Au, estimation of copper in the effluent of electroplating industries by colorimetric method. Electroless plating - Distinction between electroplating and electroless plating, advantages of electroless plating, electroless plating of copper on PCB [10 hours]

UNIT- 5

Polymer Chemistry

Polymers - Introduction, mechanism of coordination polymerization (Zeigler - Natta polymerization), methods of polymerization – bulk, solution, suspension and emulsion polymerization, glass transition temperature, structure and property relationship of polymers, number average molecular weight, weight average molecular weight and their determination

a) Plastics - Definition of resins and plastics, compounding of resins to plastics, synthesis, properties and applications of PMMA and UF

b) Elastomers - Synthesis and application of butyl rubber and nitrile rubber

c) Adhesives - Preparation and applications of epoxy resins

d) Polymer composites - Wood polymer composites(WPC), Nano composites-composition, effect of size on properties and uses

e) Conducting polymers – Definition, structure, properties, mechanism and uses of conducting polyaniline

[10 hours]

Text Books:

A Text book of Engineering Chemistry–by Jain and Jain, Dhanapatrai Publications, New Delhi, 2011
Engineering Chemistry by Gadag and Nityananda Shetty, I.K International publishing House Pvt. Ltd, 2010

Reference Books:

Puri B R, Sharma L R and Madan S Pathania, Principles of Physical Chemistry, Vishal publishing Co., Edition 2004
Kuriocose J C and Rajaram J, Engineering Chemistry, Volume I/II, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Ltd. New Delhi, 2000

e – books:

Introduction to Chemistry - Tracy Poulsen; 250 pages;

ISBN-13: 9781478298601; ISBN-10: 147829860X

Elementary Applied Chemistry * - Lewis Benajah Allyn; 152 pages;

Publisher: Ginn and Company 1912; ISBN/ASIN: 1112247610

Moocs list:

List of Experiments

1	Determination of percentage of copper in brass using standard sodium thiosulphate solution
2	Determination of total hardness of a sample of water using disodium salt of EDTA
3	Determination of chemical oxygen demand (COD) of the given industrial waste water sample
4	Estimation of sodium in water by flame photometric method
5	Conductometric estimation of HCl + CH3COOH using standard NaOH solution
6	Potentiometric estimation of FAS using standard K2Cr2O7 solution
7	Determination of pKa of a weak acid using pH meter
8	Determination of calorific value of a solid fuel using Bomb calorimeter
9	Determination of percentage of iron in the given rust solution (using potassium dichromate) by external indicator method
10	Estimation of copper from the effluent of electroplating industry by colorimetric method
11	Determination of molecular weight of a polymer using Ostwald’s viscometer

Reference Books:

Engineering Chemistry Lab Manual, written by faculty, Dept.of Chemistry, BMSCE, Bangalore.
Vogel’s Text Book of Quantitative Chemical Analysis, revised by J Bassett, R.C. Denny, G.H. Jeffery, 4thEd,.

Course Outcomes: After the completion of the course, students will have:

Ability to test, measure and arrive at valid conclusions by applying various chemical processes on water
Ability to define, describe and solve different electrochemical problems
Ability to understand different types of chemical fuels and photovoltaics
Ability to interpret types of corrosion and its control by various methods including metal finishing techniques
Ability to differentiate different types of polymers and study their applications
Ability to conduct experiments using modern tools to obtain the hardness, sodium content of water, COD of waste water, estimate components in the acid mixture, determine ferrous ammonium sulphate content, strength of weak acids, calorific value of a solid/liquid fuel, percentage of iron in the rust, copper content in the effluent sample and obtain the molecular weight of polymers

Course Objectives: The students will learn the following:

The importance of purity of water for domestic and industrial purposes and also learn the techniques of waste water treatment
The process involved in the interconversion of electrical energy and chemical energy
The three main issues while dealing with energy problems :

i) The need to restrict increase in energy consumption

ii) The need to evolve alternative energy sources as a substitute to conventional energy sources

iii) The evolution of how far these new energy sources can serve as replacement for conventional energy sources

The idea of deterioration of metal/alloy due to electrochemical interaction of metal / alloy with its environment, ill effects of corrosion, types and corrosion control by various methods
Information about better things for better living-through polymers

UNIT-1

Water Treatment

UNIT – 2

Electrochemical Energy Systems

UNIT – 3

Chemical Fuels and Photovoltaic Cells

UNIT – 4

Corrosion Science and Metal Finishing

b) Metal finishing - Technological importance of metal finishing, significance of polarization, decomposition potential and over-voltage in electroplating processes.

UNIT- 5

Polymer Chemistry

a) Plastics - Definition of resins and plastics, compounding of resins to plastics, synthesis, properties and applications of PMMA and UF

b) Elastomers - Synthesis and application of butyl rubber and nitrile rubber

c) Adhesives - Preparation and applications of epoxy resins

d) Polymer composites - Wood polymer composites(WPC), Nano composites-composition, effect of size on properties and uses

e) Conducting polymers – Definition, structure, properties, mechanism and uses of conducting polyaniline

[10 hours]

Text Books:

A Text book of Engineering Chemistry–by Jain and Jain, Dhanapatrai Publications, New Delhi, 2011
Engineering Chemistry by Gadag and Nityananda Shetty, I.K International publishing House Pvt. Ltd, 2010

Reference Books:

Puri B R, Sharma L R and Madan S Pathania, Principles of Physical Chemistry, Vishal publishing Co., Edition 2004
Kuriocose J C and Rajaram J, Engineering Chemistry, Volume I/II, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Ltd. New Delhi, 2000

e – books:

Introduction to Chemistry - Tracy Poulsen; 250 pages;

ISBN-13: 9781478298601; ISBN-10: 147829860X

Elementary Applied Chemistry * - Lewis Benajah Allyn; 152 pages;

Publisher: Ginn and Company 1912; ISBN/ASIN: 1112247610

Moocs list:

List of Experiments

1	Determination of percentage of copper in brass using standard sodium thiosulphate solution
2	Determination of total hardness of a sample of water using disodium salt of EDTA
3	Determination of chemical oxygen demand (COD) of the given industrial waste water sample
4	Estimation of sodium in water by flame photometric method
5	Conductometric estimation of HCl + CH3COOH using standard NaOH solution
6	Potentiometric estimation of FAS using standard K2Cr2O7 solution
7	Determination of pKa of a weak acid using pH meter
8	Determination of calorific value of a solid fuel using Bomb calorimeter
9	Determination of percentage of iron in the given rust solution (using potassium dichromate) by external indicator method
10	Estimation of copper from the effluent of electroplating industry by colorimetric method
11	Determination of molecular weight of a polymer using Ostwald’s viscometer

Reference Books:

Engineering Chemistry Lab Manual, written by faculty, Dept.of Chemistry, BMSCE, Bangalore.
Vogel’s Text Book of Quantitative Chemical Analysis, revised by J Bassett, R.C. Denny, G.H. Jeffery, 4thEd,.

Course Outcomes: After the completion of the course, students will have:

Ability to test, measure and arrive at valid conclusions by applying various chemical processes on water
Ability to define, describe and solve different electrochemical problems
Ability to understand different types of chemical fuels and photovoltaics
Ability to interpret types of corrosion and its control by various methods including metal finishing techniques
Ability to differentiate different types of polymers and study their applications
Ability to conduct experiments using modern tools to obtain the hardness, sodium content of water, COD of waste water, estimate components in the acid mixture, determine ferrous ammonium sulphate content, strength of weak acids, calorific value of a solid/liquid fuel, percentage of iron in the rust, copper content in the effluent sample and obtain the molecular weight of polymers