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Can you provide me the syllabus of 3 rd Year Bachelor of Environmental Engineering of UPTU or Uttar Pradesh Technical University Lucknow on which the question paper is based?

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The syllabus of 3 rd Year Bachelor of Environmental Engineering of UPTU or Uttar Pradesh Technical University Lucknow on which the question paper is based is as follows:

NEN 501: Fundamentals of Mass Transfer and Chemical Engineering

Unit 1
Conduction: Concepts of conduction in solids, liquids and gases, Steady state temperature fields, One dimensional conduction, Insulation materials, Critical and optimum insulation thickness. Convection: Concepts and definitions, Natural and forced convection, Hydrodynamic and thermal boundary layers, Laminar and turbulent heat transfer inside and outside tubes, Heat transfer coefficients.
Radiation: Basic laws of heat transfer by radiation, Black body and gray body concepts, Kirchoff’s law, Solar radiations, Heat transfer coefficients.

Unit 2
Heat transfer with phase change, Condensation of pure and mixed vapors, Loading in
condensers, Boiling heat transfer coefficients. Evaporation: Elementary principles, Types of evaporators, Single and multiple effect evaporators, Thermo compression.
Heat Transfer Equipment: Classification, principles and design criteria.

Unit 3
Rate of reaction, Elementary and non-elementary homogeneous reactions, Molecularity and order of reaction, Thermodynamic formulations of rates, Mechanism of reaction, Temperature dependency from thermodynamics, Arrhenius collision and activated complex theories.

Unit 4
Integral and differential methods for analyzing kinetic data, Interpretation of constant volume batch reactor, Data for zero, first, second and third order reactions, Half life period, Irreversible reaction in parallel and series, Auto catalytic reaction, Design equations for batch, plug flow, back mix flow and semi batch reactors for isothermal, adiabatic homogeneous reaction.

Unit 5
Holding time and space-time for flow system, Design of batch, plug flow and mixed flow reactors for first and second order single reactions, Optimum reactor size, Plug flow reactors in series and parallel. Temperature and pressure effects for single reaction, Optimal temperature progression for first order reactions.