🔴 3rd Sem Pharmaceutical Engineering Syllabus

  UNIT-I  (View PDF) (PDF will be Uploaded Soon)

Flow of fluids: Types of manometers, Reynolds number and its significance, Bernoulli’s theorem and its applications, Energy losses, Orifice meter,

Venturimeter, Pitot tube and Rotometer. 

Size Reduction: Objectives, Mechanisms & Laws governing size reduction,

factors affecting size reduction, principles, construction, working, uses, merits and

demerits of Hammer mill, ball mill, fluid energy mill, Edge runner mill & end

runner mill. 

Size Separation: Objectives, applications & mechanism of size separation,

official standards of powders, sieves, size separation Principles, construction,

working, uses, merits and demerits of Sieve shaker, cyclone separator, Air

separator, Bag filter & elutriation tank.

UNIT-II  (View PDF) (PDF will be Uploaded Soon)

Heat Transfer: Objectives, applications & Heat transfer mechanisms. Fourier’s

law, Heat transfer by conduction, convection & radiation. Heat interchangers &

heat exchangers.

Evaporation: Objectives, applications and factors influencing evaporation,

differences between evaporation and other heat process. principles, construction,

working, uses, merits and demerits of Steam jacketed kettle, horizontal tube

evaporator, climbing film evaporator, forced circulation evaporator, multiple

effect evaporator& Economy of multiple effect evaporator. 

Distillation: Basic Principles and methodology of simple distillation,flash

distillation, fractional distillation, distillation under reduced pressure, steam

distillation & molecular distillation

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 Drying: Objectives, applications & mechanism of drying process, measurements

& applications of Equilibrium Moisture content, rate of drying curve. principles,

construction, working, uses, merits and demerits of Tray dryer, drum dryer spray

dryer, fluidized bed dryer, vacuum dryer, freeze dryer.

Mixing: Objectives, applications & factors affecting mixing, Difference between

solid and liquid mixing, mechanism of solid mixing, liquids mixing and

semisolids mixing. Principles, Construction, Working, uses, Merits and Demerits

of Double cone blender, twin shell blender, ribbon blender, Sigma blade mixer,

planetary mixers, Propellers, Turbines, Paddles & Silverson Emulsifier, 

UNIT-IV  (View PDF) (PDF will be Uploaded Soon)

 Filtration: Objectives, applications, Theories & Factors influencing filtration,

filter aids, filter medias. Principle, Construction, Working, Uses, Merits and

demerits of plate & frame filter, filter leaf, rotary drum filter, Meta filter &

Cartridge filter, membrane filters and Seidtz filter. 

 Centrifugation: Objectives, principle & applications of Centrifugation,

principles, construction, working, uses, merits and demerits of Perforated basket

centrifuge, Non-perforated basket centrifuge, semi continuous centrifuge & super

centrifuge. 

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Materials of pharmaceutical plant construction, Corrosion and its

prevention: Factors affecting during materials selected for Pharmaceutical plant

construction, Theories of corrosion, types of corrosion and there prevention.

Ferrous and nonferrous metals, inorganic and organic non metals, basic of

material handling systems.