Questions basically asked from following Topics
- Heat Transfer operation (HTO)
- Modes: Conduction, convection, radiation.
- Equations: Fourier’s law, Newton’s law of cooling, Stefan-Boltzmann law.
- Applications: Heat exchangers, heat transfer coefficients, and thermal insulation.
- Heat Exchangers (its types and design steps)
- Mass Transfer operation (MTO)
- Concepts: Diffusion, mass transfer coefficients.
- Processes: Distillation(its type, parts and difference and advantages disadvantages), absorption, extraction, drying, humidity, packed vs tray tower.
Equipment: Packed columns, trays, and membrane systems. - Cooling tower types(design steps, dew point explanations)
- Fluid Flow Operation (FFO)
- Fundamentals: Types of fluids, Pumps (centrifugal pump is important)and Valves and viscosity, laminar and turbulent flow
- Equations: Bernoulli’s equation(its importance and ideal situation assumption), Navier-Stokes equations, and continuity equation.(its importance )
- NPSH , cavitation, fluid allocation and pump characteristics curve, scaling vs fouling, different type of dimensionless no.
- Applications: Pipe flow, pump selection, flow measurement techniques
- Chemical Reaction Engineering (CRE-I )
- Kinetics: Reaction rates, rate laws, reaction order.
- Reactors: Batch, CSTR (Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor), PFR (Plug Flow Reactor).
- Design: Reactor design equations, conversion, and yield optimization.
- Themodynamics
- Basic Concepts: Laws of thermodynamics, energy, enthalpy, entropy.
- Applications: Refrigeration cycles, Carnot cycle,phase equilibrium, thermodynamic cycles, and chemical potential.