INDUSTRIAL INORGANIC MATERIALS
•Course
code: CHE 3201
•Credits: 2
(30 Lectures)
•Type
of course:
Optional
•Pre-requisites: CHE
1302 and CHE 2201
ILOs:
Upon
completion of this course students should be able to
• describe
the chemistry and manufacturing processes of industrial based materials such as
glass, ceramics, cement, gem
minerals, graphite and fertilizers and their
applications.
Contents:
•Glass Industry: (3-4 h)
•Ceramics
Industry: (3-4
h)
•Cement Industry: (3-4 h)
•Gem
minerals:
(3-4 h)
•Graphite: (3-4 h)
•Fertilizers:
(3-4 h)
•Industrial pollutants and industrial safety (3-4 h)
Glass
Industry:
•Raw
materials and manufacture of glass; Chemistry involved in the production of
glass; Types of glass; Glassy state phenomena and annealing of glass;
Production of safety glasses, thermodynamics of glass formation, kinetics of
crystallization and glass formation; Heat treatment of glasses, general
properties and their applications.
•Ceramics
Industry:
•Raw
materials used in the ceramic industry; Chemistry involved in the production of
ceramic articles and wares; Types and classification of ceramic products;
Manufacture of ceramic products, purpose and methods of glazing.
Cement
Industry:
•Raw
materials used for cement production; Chemistry involved in the production of
cement; Manufacture of cement by wet and dry processes; Types of cement and
composition of clinker. Chemistry involved in the setting and hardening of
cement and quality control in cement.
Gem
minerals:
•Optical
properties: polarization, refraction, chemical characteristics, colour in
gemstones. Dispersion, ‘fire’ and diffraction, colouring elements; allochromatic and idiochromatic
materials. Origin of colour in gem materials; luminescence; Pleochroism; the
dichroscope, Absorption spectra: alexandrite, emerald, enstatite, peridotite, Sin
halite, ruby, blue sapphire; analytical techniques for gem testing; Artificial
and synthetic gems and different treatment methods of gems. Ilmenite and
extraction of TiO2.
Graphite:
•Characteristic
properties of graphite, chemical composition, structure, flake graphite, vein
graphite and amorphous graphite, world market of natural graphite.
Spectroscopic techniques for identification, Applications: pencil, crucible,
batteries, lubricants, paints etc. Synthetic graphite, Value addition to
graphite in Sri Lanka: graphene
technology.
Fertilizers:
•Raw
materials, types of fertilizers, nitrogenous, phosphates, potassium and mixed
complex fertilizers, manufacturing processes - phosphate rocks as raw material
for manufacturing P-fertiliser, super-phosphates, rhenania-phosphates,
ammonia, urea.
•Industrial
pollutants and industrial safety.
Teaching methods
•Lectures,
•
assignments and
•tutorials/quizzes
•Course evaluation
|
Assessment |
Contribution to Course Grade % |
|
Continuous assessments |
10% |
|
Mid semester examination |
20% |
|
End semester examination theory |
70% |
•K
Nassau, (1984) Gemstone Enhancement., Butterworth & Co., London
•B
K Sharma (2011) Industrial Chemistry, Goel publishing house
•S
L Nelson, W L Beaton, and J D Macmillian (1990) Soil Fertility and Fertilizers.
Tisdale, Publishing Company, New York
•