Anna University Engineering Chemistry Syllabus for all B.E/B.Tech

Anna University Engineering Chemistry Syllabus for all B.E/B.Tech

CY8151                 ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY                    L    T    P    C

                     (Common to all branches of B.E. / B. Tech. Programmes)               3     0    0    3

UNIT I                     CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS                                              9

Second law:  Entropy - entropy change for an ideal gas, reversible and irreversible processes; 

entropy of phase transitions; Clausius inequality.  Free energy and work function: Helmholtz and 

Gibbs free energy functions; Criteria of spontaneity; Gibbs-Helmholtz equation; ClausiusClapeyron equation; Maxwell relations – Van‟t Hoff isotherm and isochore.  Chemical potential; 

Gibbs-Duhem equation – variation of chemical potential with temperature and pressure.

UNIT II                   POLYMER CHEMISTRY                                                                9

Introduction: Classification of polymers  – Natural and Synthetic; Thermoplastic and 

Thermosetting. Functionality  – Degree of polymerisation. Types and mechanism of 

polymerisation: Addition (Free Radical, cationic, anionic and living); condensation and 

copolymerisation.  Properties of polymers: Tg, Tacticity, Molecular weight  – weight average, 

number average and polydispersity index.  Techniques of polymerisation: Bulk, emulsion, 

solution and suspension. 

UNIT III               KINETICS AND CATALYSIS                                                           9

Introduction  – reaction velocity, factors affecting reaction velocity, rate constant, order of 

reaction, molecularity, pseudo molecular reactions, zero, first, second and third order reactions, 

reactions of fractional orders, determination of order of reactions. Catalysis:  Auto catalysis -

Enzyme Catalysis: Michaelis-Menton equation; factors affecting enzyme catalysis.  

Heterogeneous Catalysis:   Types of adsorption isotherms: Langmuir–Hinselwood and Rideal–

Eley Mechanism.

UNIT  IV         PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND SPECTROSCOPY                                    9

Photochemistry: Laws of photochemistry  - Grotthuss–Draper law, Stark–Einstein law and 

Lambert-Beer Law. Photoprocesses - Internal Conversion, Inter-system crossing, Fluorescence, 

Phosphorescence, Chemiluminescence and Photo-sensitisation. Spectroscopy: 

Electromagnetic spectrum  - Absorption of radiation  – Electronic, Vibrational and rotational 

transitions. Width and intensities of spectral lines. Spectrophotometric estimation of iron. UVvisible and IR spectroscopy – principles, instrumentation (Block diagram) and applications. 7

UNIT  V                 NANOCHEMISTRY                                                                        9

Basics  - distinction between molecules, nanoparticles and bulk materials; size-dependent 

properties.  Nanoparticles:  Nanocluster, nanorod, nanotube and nanowire.  Synthesis: 

Precipitation, thermolysis, hydrothermal, solvothermal, electrodeposition, chemical vapour 

deposition, laser ablation; Properties and Applications.  Risk discussion and Future 

perspectives.

                                                                                                                    TOTAL : 45 PERIODS

TEXT BOOKS:

1. P. Kannan and A. Ravikrishnan, “Engineering Chemistry”, Sri Krishna Hitech Publishing 

Company Pvt. Ltd. Chennai, 2009.

2. S. Vairam, P. Kalyani and Suba Ramesh, “Engineering Chemistry”, Wiley India, 2011

REFERENCE BOOKS:

1. P.W. Atkins and de Paula Julio, “Physical Chemistry”, Oxford University Press, 8

th

Ed., 

(Indian Student Edition) (2009).

2. K. K. Rohatgi-Mukherjee, “Fundamental of Photochemistry” New Age International (P) Ltd., 

New Delhi, 1986. 

3. G.A. Ozin and A.C. Arsenault, “Nanochemistry: A Chemical Approach to Nanomaterials”, 

RSC Publishing, 2005.

4. V.R.Gowariker, N.V.Viswanathan and Jayadev Sreedhar, “Polymer Science”, New Age  

International P (Ltd.,), Chennai, 2006