Detailed Topic-wise Lecture Plan
Applied Chemistry
Diploma Engineering (Ist Year)
✅Unit 2: Water (Completed in 16 Lectures: 19 Aug – 15 Sept) Completed
Lecture Distribution:
1. Classification of soft & hard water – soap test, salts causing hardness
2. Unit & types of hardness, simple numerical problems
3. Problems due to hard water in industries (boilers – scale, sludge)
4. Boiler troubles – foaming, priming, corrosion
5. Total dissolved solids (TDS), significance
6. Soda lime process – principle & working
7. Zeolite process – principle & working
8. Ion exchange process – principle & working
9. Comparison of softening techniques
10. Municipal water treatment – sedimentation
11. Coagulation & filtration methods
12. Sterilization methods (chlorination, ozonation)
13. Numerical problems on hardness & TDS
14. Mixed problems & practice session
15. Recap of water treatment processes
16. Revision / discussion session/ Class Test
✅Unit 3: Engineering Materials (16 Sept – 6 Oct, 12 Lectures)
Lecture Distribution 8 Lecture completed 4 Required (In progress)
1. Natural occurrence of metals – ores of Fe, Al, Cu
2. Gangue, flux, slag, general metallurgy principles
3. Extraction of aluminium from bauxite ore
4. Ferrous alloys – types & applications
5. Non-ferrous alloys – types & applications
6. Purposes of alloying, properties
7. General chemical composition, cement types (Portland, etc.)
8. Cement – hardening & setting process
9. Composite materials – Wood, Glass fiber reinforced composites
10. Polymers – monomer, homo & co-polymers, polymerization
11. Thermoplastics & thermosetting plastics (PVC, PS, PTFE, Nylon, Bakelite)
12. Rubber & vulcanization of rubber + Revision / Q&A
📘 Unit 4: Chemistry of Fuels & Lubricants (7 Oct – 25 Oct, 10 Lectures)
Lecture Distribution:
1. Definition & classification of fuels, calorific values (HCV, LCV)
2. Dulong’s formula – HCV & LCV calculations
3. Fuel rating – octane & cetane numbers
4. Chemical composition & calorific values of LPG, CNG, water gas, coal gas
5. Producer gas & biogas, applications
6. Lubrication – functions & properties of good lubricants
7. Classification of lubricants with examples
8. Physical properties of lubricants – viscosity, index, oiliness, flash point, fire point
9. Chemical properties of lubricants – coke number, acid number, saponification value
10. Revision & problem practice
📘 Unit 5: Electrochemistry (27 Oct – 5 Nov, 8 Lectures)
Lecture Distribution:
1. Oxidation, reduction, redox reactions
2. Electrolytes & non-electrolytes, examples
3. Faraday’s laws of electrolysis & numericals
4. Applications of electrolysis – Electro Metallurgy
5. Applications of electrolysis – Electroplating
6. Applications of electrolysis – Electrolytic refining
7. Electrochemical cells: Primary (dry cell), Secondary (lead battery, fuel cell, solar cell)
8. Revision + Corrosion (definition, types, prevention methods)
📘 Unit 1: Atomic Structure, Chemical Bonding & Solutions (6 Nov – 15 Nov, 8 Lectures)
Lecture Distribution:
1. Rutherford & Bohr’s model, quantum numbers, uncertainty principle
2. Shapes of s, p, d orbitals, Pauli’s principle, Hund’s rule, Aufbau rule, electronic configuration
3. Types of chemical bonds – ionic & covalent
4. Coordination bonds (NH₄⁺), hydrogen bonding, metallic bonding
5. Hybridization (BeCl₂, BF₃, CH₄, NH₃, H₂O) & anomalous properties of NH₃, H₂O
6. Solution terms – solute, solvent, concentration, molarity, normality
7. Mass percentage, volume percentage, mole fraction, ppm numericals
8. Revision & numerical practice