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Syllabus (for ISM JRF(Ph.D. Programme) Written Examination)

Fuel Engineering (Code: FLE)
Origin and Classification of coal.
Coal Characterisation: Chemical, Physical, Plastic and Petrographic composition
Coal Carbonisation: Fundamental of coal carbonisation, Low Temperature, High Temperature Carbonisation, Design of coke oven, By-product , Formed coke and Briquetting.
Cole Combustion: Fundamental of coal combustion, Stoichiomentry, Design of Furnaces and Boiler, Atmospheric Fluidized bed Combustion (AFBC), Circulating Fluidized bed Combustion (CFBC), Pressurised Fluidized bed Combustion (PFBC).
Coal Gasification: Fundamental of coal gasification, Kinetics of Coal Gasification and Different types of gasifiers, Different Gaseous Fuels
Clean Coal Technology: Pre-combustion cleaning, Integrated Coal Gasification Combined cycle etc. Modelling and Simulation of some energy systems like, Integrated Coal Gasification Combined Cycle, AFBC, CFBC, and PFBC.
Liquid Fuels: Characteristics of liquid fuels like gasoline, diesel and kerosene etc
Non-conventional Energy sources: Wind, Solar, Biomass, Hydroelectricity etc.
Heat Transfer: Fundamentals of heat transfer and its application in energy related systems.
Mechanical Operation: Types of Mechanical Operations, Characteristics of particulate solids: sampling techniques, specification and screen analysis, and particle size distribution. Principles of size reduction: Specific properties of solids for size reduction. Energy required for size reduction. Crushing and grinding efficiency. Laws of crushing, pulverization and ultrafine grinding.

Chemical Engineering (Code: CHE)
Fluid Mechanics: Fundamental concepts of fluid flow, mechanism of compressible and non compressible fluid flow. Transportation of fluids, reciprocating and centrifugal pumps, pump characteristics. Fluidization, aggregate and particulate fluidization, incipient fluidization, minimum fluidization velocity, entrainment in fluidization, operating characteristics of gas – solid, liquid – solid and liquid – gas and gas – solid – liquid (three phase) fluidized beds.
Chemical Process Calculation: Steady-state and dynamic processes; lumped and distributed processes; single and multi-phase systems; intensive and extensive variables; equilibrium relations; rate laws; correlations for physical and transport properties; behavior of ideal gases and gaseous mixtures; vapor pressure; humidity and saturation; phase equilibrium; non-reacting single-phase systems; systems with recycle, bypass and purge; processes involving vaporization and condensation; enthalpy; heat of reaction; thermochemistry; fuel calculations;
Heat transfer: Basic modes of heat transfer and its application.
Mechanical Operation: Types of Mechanical Operations, Characteristics of particulate solids: sampling techniques, specification and screen analysis, particle size distribution. Principles of size reduction: Specific properties of solids for size reduction. Energy required for size reduction. Crushing and grinding efficiency. Laws of crushing, pulverization and ultrafine grinding. . Filtration: classification of filters, theory of filtration.
Material Science and Technology: Classification of engineering materials, Elastic deformation, Plastic deformation, Creep, Visco-elastic deformation, Different types of fracture. Annealing, Normalizing, Hardening, Martempering, Austempering, Hardenability, Quenching, Tempering, Carburising, Cyaniding, Nitriding, Flame hardening. Ferrous metals, Non ferrous metals and alloys, Ceramic materials, Polymorphism, Smart materials, biomaterials, nanomaterials, polymers and composites.
Thermodynamics: Basic concepts: work, energy, heat, internal energy, extensive and intensive properties, state and path functions, First law of thermodynamics, energy balance for closed systems, equilibrium, the reversible process, constant-v and constant-p processes, enthalpy, heat capacity, energy balances for steady-state flow processes. Thermodynamic Properties of Fluids. Energy: Coal analysis, Coal classification, Coal preparation, Coal washing and coal blending, Coal carbonization, Coal gasification, liquid fuel synthesis from coal, coke oven gas, blast Furnace gas, CBM. Petroleum crude, Types of crude, emergence of petroleum products as energy, Gaseous Fuels: Natural gas, Water gas, producer gas, L.P.G., LNG, CNG, GTL Technology (gas to liquid). Fuel cell , Bio energy etc. Mass
Transfer: Fundamentals of Mass Transfer: Molecular diffusion, mass transfer coefficient and interface mass transfer, steady and unsteady state theories of mass transfer. Single Stage Distillation, Differential distillation, Flash vaporization, Vacuum, molecular and steam distillation, Multistage contact operations, Absorption and Stripping, Humidification and Dehumidification, Drying, Crystallization, Membrane separation process.
Chemical Reaction Engineering: Chemical equilibria - Free energy and chemical reactions, feasibility of chemical reaction, calculation of free energy of homogeneous reactions, equilibrium constants and evaluation from thermodynamic data, effect of different variables on reaction equilibria, calculation of equilibrium composition for single and multiple reactions, equilibria of heterogeneous reactions. Kinetics of homogeneous reactions, Design of single homogeneous reactors, Multiple reactor systems, Multiple reaction systems.
Transport Phenomena: Development of mass, momentum and energy balance equations Application of momentum, heat and mass transfer in transport systems

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