Syllabus

Polymer Science and Technology Syllabus for VTU BE 2017 Scheme (Open Elective-1)

Polymer Science and Technology detail syllabus for various departments, 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17PC564), 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 open elective-1 syllabus for vtu be 2017 scheme you can visit Open Elective-1 syllabus for VTU BE 2017 Scheme Subjects. The detail syllabus for polymer science and technology is as follows.

Course Objectives:

This course enables students to study the basic polymeric science about polymeric structure, chemical bonding and chemical reactions.

Module 1
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Module 2

Chemical Bonding and Polymer Structure: Introduction, Chemical Bonding, Primary Structure, Secondary Structure, Tertiary Structure, Crystallinity and Polymer Properties. Spectrometric Characterization of Polymers: NMR, Infrared Spectroscopy, Raman Spectroscopy, X-Ray Spectroscopy and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Module 3

Polymer Reaction Engineering: Bulk, Solution, Suspension, Emulsion and Precipitation Polymerization. Viscoelastic Properties of polymers. Hooke’s and Newton’s equation. Maxwell, Voiget and Burger Model. Glass transition temperature, Heat distortion temperature. Polymerization Reactors: Batch, Tubular (Plug flow) and Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor.

Module 4
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Module 5

Unit Operations in Polymer Processing: ExtrusionSingle Screw and Twin Screw Extruders. Injection molding and variations – The injection unit, Hot runners, Insert molding, Gas assisted injection molding, Sher controlled injection molding, Reaction injection molding, Compression molding, Transfer Molding. Blow molding – Extrusion blow molding, Injection Blow molding. Rotational molding, Thermoforming.

Course Outcomes:

At the end of the course students are able to understand the basic polymeric science and technology and unit operations involved in polymer processing.

Graduate Attributes (as per NBA):

  • Critical Thinking
  • Problem solving
  • Use of modern tools
  • Research Skill
  • Life-long learning

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.

Text Books:

  1. Charles E. Carraher. Polymer Chemistry 7 Edition, CRC Press 2008
  2. V R Gowriker, N V Vishwanath and JayadevSreedhar, Polymer Science, New age International(P) Ltd 1986

Reference Books:

Nil

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