BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE, Pilani

Pilani Campus
AUGS/ AGSR Division

FIRST SEMESTER 2019-20

COURSE HANDOUT
Date: 02.07.2019

In addition to part I (General Handout for all courses appended to the Time table) this portion gives further
specific details regarding the course.
Course No : CHE F 312
Course Title : Chemical Engineering Laboratory -1
Instructor-in-Charge : Krishna Etika
Practical Instructors : Amit Jain, Srinivas Appari, Pradipta Chattopadyay

1. Course Description:
The course comprises of experiments in three major areas of chemical engineering, i.e., fluid mechanics,
heat transfer and mass transfer. The course involves experiments designed to cover the areas related to the
theory of
1. Fluid flow: flow through packed and fluidized beds, major and minor losses associated with fluid
flow, flow characteristics, continuity principle, boundary layer theory and fluid moving machinery,
2. Heat transfer: conduction, convection, radiation and heat exchange equipments such as heat
exchangers (shell and tube, double pipe, plate type, finned tube) and condensers.
3. Mass transfer: Vapor liquid equilibrium (VLE), separation based on volatility, mass transfer
equipments such as distillation column, packed bed adsorber, and mass transfer with reaction and
other relevant concepts.

2. Scope and Objective of the Course:

The main objective of this course is to familiarize the students on different principles of chemical
engineering through hands on experimentation. The experiments are designed to enable students to apply the
theoretical background assimilated in the relevant chemical engineering courses to practice in a laboratory
environment. Emphasis is laid on employing scientific methodology in practice: each experiment requires
planning, data collection, calculations based on chemical engineering principles, critical analysis, discussion
and presentation of the observed result. Additionally, the students will also learn the operation of laboratory
scale scientific equipments for performing experiments.

3. Text Books:
o Lab Manual for Chemical Engineering Laboratory - I.
4. Reference Books:
o Instrument manuals provided by the vendors
5. Course Plan:
The students will perform the following twenty experiments with an emphasis on individual planning and
execution of the experiments.

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AUGS/ AGSR Division

S. No. Experiment Marks

1. Experiments on flow through Fluidized and Packed beds 5
2. Determination of losses due to pipe fittings 5

3. Determination of losses due to friction in pipes 5

4. Verification of Bernoulli’s theorem and experiment on 5

discharge through venturi, orifice and rotameter
5. Experiment on flow through a helical coil 5

6. Experiments on Pitot tube and Reynolds Apparatus 5

7. Determination of Centrifugal pump characteristics 5

8. Determination on Reciprocating pump characteristics 5

9. Determination of the thermal conductivity of solids and 5

experiment on the heat pipe.

10. Stefan-Boltzmann Apparatus and 5

Parallel flow & Counter flow heat exchanger
12. Cross-circulation drying apparatus 5

13. Vapor in air diffusion and unsteady state heat transfer 5

setup
14. Experiment on differential distillation 5

15. Experiment on plate type and finned tube heat 5

exchanger
16. Steam distillation setup 5

17. Experiments on two phase flow and heat transfer in 5

agitated vessel
18. Experiment on mass transfer with chemical reaction 5

19. Experiment on adsorption in packed bed 5

20. Humidification in wetted wall column and drop wise 5

and film wise condensation

6. Evaluation Scheme:
EC Evaluation Marks Nature of
Duration Date & Time
No. Component Component
Continuous
Regular
Evaluation 20×5 =
1. 2hrs/lab Laboratory Open book
(Experiment+ 100
Hours
Report)
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AUGS/ AGSR Division

To be 50(Experi
Mid semester
2. announced ment 30 <TEST_1> Closed Book
Examination
in lab +Viva 20
150
(Experime
To be
End Semester nt 30
3. announced <TEST_C> Closed Book
Examination +Viva 20
in lab
+ Quiz
100)

7. Chamber Consultation Hour: To be announced in the class

8. Notices: Notices will be uploaded in chemical engineering notice board and/or Nalanda only.

9. Make-up Policy: Make-up will be granted for genuine cases only. Certificate from an authenticated
doctor from the Medical Center must accompany the make-up application (only prescription or vouchers for
medicines will not be sufficient). Except for an emergency, for all other cases, prior permission of IC is
compulsory.
10. Note (if any): The material (if any) provided to the students registered in this course is for academic
purpose only and is considered the intellectual property of BITS Pilani. Such materials should not be uploaded
to any external websites/forums without the permission of the Instructor.

Krishna Etika
Instructor-in-charge
Course No. CHE F312