Standard syllabus
Industrial chemistry · Undergraduate · Chemistry
Topics
Chemical industry overview
- Major industrial chemical sectors and value chains
- Commodity vs specialty vs fine chemicals
- Feedstocks: petroleum, natural gas, biomass, minerals
- Chemical plant organization: unit operations and processes
- Economics: fixed vs variable costs, economies of scale
- Safety culture: OSHA, PSM, hazard analysis
- Environmental regulations and permitting
- Sustainability metrics: atom economy, E-factor
- Global supply chains and trade
- Career paths in chemical industry
Unit operations and reactors
- Material and energy balances
- Reaction kinetics in reactor design
- Batch, continuous stirred-tank, and plug-flow reactors
- Heat exchangers and energy integration
- Distillation, absorption, and extraction
- Filtration, centrifugation, and crystallization
- Drying and evaporation
- Mixing and agitation
- Process control: feedback loops, PID controllers (intro)
- Scale-up from laboratory to pilot plant
Key industrial processes
- Haber–Bosch ammonia synthesis
- Contact process for sulfuric acid
- Chlor-alkali process: brine electrolysis
- Steam cracking of hydrocarbons
- Catalytic reforming and alkylation in refining
- Polymerization plants: PE, PP, PVC production
- Pharmaceutical batch synthesis and GMP
- Fermentation and industrial biotechnology
- Cement, glass, and ceramics production
- Pulp and paper chemistry
Process safety and environmental management
- Hazard identification: HAZOP, FMEA
- Flammability limits and explosion prevention
- Toxic release modeling and emergency response
- Waste minimization and treatment
- Effluent standards and wastewater treatment
- Air emissions control: scrubbers, catalytic oxidizers
- Carbon footprint and life-cycle assessment
- Green chemistry principles in manufacturing
- Responsible Care and industry stewardship
- Case studies: Bhopal, Texas City, Fukushima chemical impacts
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