Pilot Plant and Scale-Up Studies CHE 7th Sem Syllabus for VTU BE 2017 Scheme (Professional Elective-III)

Pilot Plant and Scale-Up Studies detail syllabus for Chemical Engineering (CHE), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17CH744), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.

For all other che 7th sem syllabus for be 2017 scheme vtu you can visit CHE 7th Sem syllabus for BE 2017 Scheme VTU Subjects. For all other Professional Elective-III subjects do refer to Professional Elective-III. The detail syllabus for pilot plant and scale-up studies is as follows.

Course Objectives:

To understand different scale up methods in chemical engineering and applying the knowledge to scale up the reactors for industrial scale operations.

Module 1

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Module 2

Dimensional Analysis: (Review of Rayleigh’s, Buckingham-nmethods), Differential equation for static systems, flow systems, thermal systems, mass transfer processes, chemical processes-homogeneous and heterogeneous.

Module 3

Regime Concept: Static regime. Dynamic regime. Mixed regime concepts. Criteria to decide the regimes. Equations for scale criteria of static, dynamic processes, Extrapolation. Boundary effects.

Module 4

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Module 5

Stagewise mass transfer processes. Continuous mass transfer processes. Scale up of momentum and heat transfer systems. Environmental challenges of scale up.
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Course Outcomes:

1. Differentiate between pilot plant and model.
2. Able to develop a prototype (Large scale plant) based on pilot plant studies.
3. Correlate the performance of geometrically similar paddle, propeller and turbine mixers.
4. Advantages and disadvantages of dimensional analysis technique over differential equation technique.
5. Designing a piece of equipment by successive approximation method(Extrapolation).
6. Able to eliminate boundary effects in various chemical systems.
7. Scaling up of equipment like heat exchangers, evaporator, and packed towers, agitated vessel and chemical reactors.
8. Analyze the problems involved in chemical engineering equipment.

Question paper pattern:

• The question paper will have ten questions.
• Each full Question consisting of 20 marks
• There will be 2 full questions(with a maximum of four sub questions) from each module.
• Each full question will have sub questions covering all the topics under a module.
• The students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.

Graduate Attributes (as per NBA):

1. Critical thinking
2. Problem solving
3. Use of modern tools
4. Life – long learning

Text Books:

1. Scale up of Chemical Processes, Attilio Bisio, Robert L. Kabel, John Wiley & Sons, 1985
2. Pilot Plants Models and scale up method in Chemical Engineering, John stone and Thring, McGraw Hill, 1957.

Reference Books:

1. Pilot Plants and Scale up Studies, Ibrahim and Kuloor.

For detail syllabus of all other subjects of BE Che, 2017 regulation do visit Chemical Engineering 7th Sem syllabus for 2017 Regulation.

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