CL203

INORGANIC CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY

FACULTY MEMBER:- Dr. M. PERUMALSAMY

OBJECTIVE : This course deals with the manufacturing process of inorganic chemistry in the chemical industries.

1. ALKALIES:

Chlor-alkali Industries: Manufacture of Soda ash, Manufacture of caustic soda and chlorine - common salt.

2. ACIDS:

Sulphur and Sulphuric acid: Mining of sulphur and manufacture of sulphuric acid. Manufacture of hydrochloric acid .

3. CEMENT AND GLASS

Cement: Types and Manufacture of Portland cement. Glass: Manufacture of glasses and special glasses. Ceramics: Refractories.

4. GASES, WATER AND PAINTS:

Industrial Gases: Carbon dioxide, Nitrogen, Hydrogen, Oxygen and Acetylene - Water Treatment: Industrial and Municipal water treatment-Manufacture of paints - Pigments.

5. FERTILISERS:

Nitrogen Fertilizers: Synthetic ammonia, nitric acid, Urea, Ammonium Chloride, CAN, Ammonium Sulphate - Phosphorous Fertilizers: Phosphate rock, phosphoric acid, Super phosphate and Triple Super phosphate, MAP, DAP. Potassium Fertilizers: Potassium chloride and Potassium sulphate.

TEXTBOOKS:

1.R.Gopal Rao and M.Sittig,"Dryden's Outlines of Chemical Technology", 3rd Edn.,Affiliated East-West Publishers,1997.

REFERENCES:

1.N.Shreve, "Chemical Process Industries", 5th Edn., McGraw Hill, New York, 1984.
2.S.D. Shukla and G.N. Pandey, "Text book of Chemical Technology", Vol. I, 1977.

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