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Water 2018
Water 2018
UNIT II
Chemistry of Fuels and Lubricants:
Fuels: Origin, Classification and properties of Solid, Liquid, Gaseous Fules, Characteristics of
good fuel, Merits & demerits of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels, Proximate and Ultimate
analysis, Octane number (RON, MON) and Cetane number, Petrol and Diesel Engine, Fuel
Cell and Fuel Cell technology
Lubricants - General characteristics of lubricants, mechanism of lubrication, Classification
of lubricants, chemistry of lube oil and greases, Cutting fluids, Selection of lubricants,
Properties of lubricants, Biolubricant
UNIT III
Chemistry of Advanced Materials : Nanomaterial (Fullerenes, Carbon nanotube,
Nanowires, Graphene), Polymers & Resins including Geopolymer, Modern-age Catalysts
(Emission-control catalyst), Cement and cementing materials
UNIT IV
Instrumental Methods of Chemical Analysis
Principle, Instrumentation and Applications of FT-IR, UV-Vis, Chromatographic Techniques
(GC, etc), Thermal Analysis (TG-DTA-DSC); Electroanalytical techniques (pH-metry,
conductometry, potentiometry), Polarimeter
SOURCES OF WATER
1. Physical States:
a. Solid: glaciers & ice caps
b. Liquid: oceans, rivers, lakes,
underground, clouds, & rain
c. Gas: water vapor in the atmosphere
2. Physical Location:
a. Surface water:: water located on the
surface of the Earth
b. Ground water:: water located beneath
the Earth’s surface
CONTAMINATIONS OF WATER
Color
Acidity Algae
Turbidity
Gases Fungi
Taste
Minerals Pathogens
Odor
CONTAMINATIONS OF WATER
There is no pure water in nature, as it can contain
up to 90 possible unacceptable contaminants
Contaminant groups:
1. Inorganic compounds - magnesium carbonate,
calcium carbonate and sodium chloride
2. Organic compounds - detergent residues, solvents
etc.
3. Solids - clays, sols, and soils
4. Gases - nitrogen, carbon dioxide and oxygen
5. Micro-organisms – Algae, Bacteria, Protozoa
CONTAMINATIONS OF WATER
Micro-organisms
1. Algae
2. Protozoa
– Cryptosporidium
– Giardia
3. Bacteria
– Pseudomonas
– non-fermenting bacteria
– Escherichia coli and coli forms
HARDNESS
Hardness is the characteristics that prevents lathering of soap.
Soap is a sodium or potassium salt of higher fatty acids like
palmitic, oleic or stearic acid.
When soap is applied in presence of hard water, it forms white
precipitate instead of lather, due to the formation of insoluble
salts of Calcium or Magnesium
Mg(HCO3)2=7.3 mg/L
Ca(HCO3)2=16.2 mg/L
MgCl2=9.5 mg/L
CaSO4=13.6 mg/L
Industrial
(1)Textile Industry
(2)Sugar Industry
(3)Dyeing Industry
(4)Paper Industry
(5)Laundry
(6)Concrete
(7)Pharma Industry
(8)Steam Generation in Boiler
SALTS IN
FEED WATER
HARDNESS OR
NONE HARDNESS,
SOLUBLE SALTS SCALE FORMING
SALTS
SODIUM SALTS
CALCIUM AND
MAGNESIUM
SALTS
ALKALINE OR NON ALKALINE
SOLUBLE UNLESS TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT
VERY HIGH HARDNESS SALTS HARDNESS SALTS
CONCENTRATIONS
BI-CARBONATES
CHLORIDES,
CARBONATES,
SULPHATES
METHODS OF DETERMINATION
1. Complete Cation Analysis
• Most accurate
1) Colloidal conditioning
Addition of organic matters (tannin, agar-agar) get coated over scale-forming ppt,
yielding non-sticky, loose deposits, which can be removed
2) Phosphate conditioning
Addition of phosphates of sodium (NaH2PO4, Na2HPO4, Na3PO4) helps forming
easily removable Ca & Mg phosphates
3CaCl2 + 2Na3PO4 Ca(PO4)2 ↓ + NaCl [requires >9.5 pH)
3) Carbonate conditioning
Addition of sodium carbonate helps forming easily removable CaCO3
CaSO4 + Na2CO3 ⇔ CaCO3 ↓ + Na2SO4
SCALES – PREVENTION WITH INTERNAL TREATMENT
4) Calgon conditioning
Addition of calgon (sodium hexa meta phosphate) prevents scale and sludge
formation by forming soluble complex with CaSO4
Na2[Na4(PO3)6] ⇔ 2Na+ + [Na4P6O18]2-
2CaSO4 + [Na4P6O18]2- [Ca2P6O18]2- + 2Na2SO4
6) Electrical conditioning
Mercury containing sealed glass tubes are connected to battery and rotated
inside the boiler. When water boils, Hg bulb emits electrical discharge, thereby
preventing scale forming particles adhering together
7)Radioactive conditioning
Tablets containing radioactive salts are kept inside the boiler water, and the
radiation emission prevents scale formation
8) Complexometric method
Addition of alkaline EDTA solution helps EDTA binding with the scale-forming
cations yielding stable, soluble complex. Also, it prevents deposition of Fe-
oxide formation inside the boiler
CAUSTIC EMBRITTLEMENT
• Caustic embrittlement is a type of boiler corrosions caused by
using highly alkaline water in the boiler and also due to stress.
Water softened by lime soda process may contain NaOH which is
formed by the hydrolysis of Na2CO3.
Causes of Priming
(1) the presence of large amount of dissolved solids
(2) high steam velocities.
(3) sudden boiling
(4) improper boiler design
(5) sudden increase in steam-production rate.
Prevention of Priming
(1) By improving boiler design.
(2) By fitting mechanical steam purifiers.
(3) By maintaining low water level in boilers
(4) By using soft water.
PRIMING & FOAMING
Foaming
It is the production of foam or bubbles in boiler which do not break easily.
Causes of Foaming :
It is due to the presence of oily substances in water.
Prevention of Foaming :
(1) By the addition of anti-foaming chemicals like castor oil, Gallic acid, tannic
acid etc.
(2) removing oil from boiler water by adding compounds like sodium aluminate.
Advantages
Almost complete removal of hardness
It is compact
Requires only less time for softening
Disadvantages
More sodium salt concentration in softened water.
Causing caustic embrittlement
ION EXCHANGE METHOD
• Ion exchange resins are insoluble cross linked long chain organic polymers having
a micro porous structure where acidic or basic functional groups attached to the
chain are responsible for the ion exchange capacity. Cation exchange resins
contain acidic functional groups like –COOH, -SO3H etc. while anion exchange
resins contain basic functional groups like –OH, -NH2 etc.
• The hard water is allowed to pass through a cation exchange column to remove
all the cations like Ca2+, Mg2+ etc.
• 2RH+ + Ca2+ → R2Ca2+ + 2H+
• 2RH+ + Mg2+ → R2 Mg2+ + 2H+
• Afterwards the water is allowed to pass through an anion exchange resin column
to remove anions like SO42-, Cl- etc.
• ROH- + Cl- → RCl- + OH-
• The H+ and OH- ions so produced from the cation and anion exchange resins
combine to become water
• H+ + OH- → H2O
• Water thus coming out of the ion exchanger will be free from both cations and
anions and hence called demineralised water.
DEMINERALISATION PROCESS BY ION-EXCHANGE
Advantage
Produce water of very low hardness (2 ppm)
Disadvantage
The equipment and chemicals are very costly
REVERSE OSMOSIS
Reverse osmosis is a technique used for the
purification of sea water in to drinking water.