Department of Instrumentation and Control

Teaching Scheme

Examination Scheme

Lectures : 3 hrs/week

Mid-Sem – 30, Assignments, Quiz -20

End-Sem Exam- 50.

Unit 1:

[08 Hrs]

Introduction to Chemical instrumental analysis, advantages over classical methods, classification: Spectral, electro analytical and separative methods, Laws of photometry (Beer and Lambert's law), Basic Components of analytical instruments

Unit 2:

 [08 Hrs]

Colourimeters, spectrophotometers (UV-Visible), monochromators, filters, grating, prism, dual wavelength and double monochromator systems, rapid scanning spectrophotometers, IR spectrophotometers

Unit 3: 

[08 Hrs]

Flame Photometry: Principle, constructional details, flue gases, atomizer, burner, optical system, recording system. Atomic absorption spectrophotometers: Theoretical concepts, instrumentation: hollow cathode lamps, burners and flames, plasma excitation sources, optical and electronic system

Unit 4: 

[08 Hrs]

Industrial Gas analyzers, pH, conductivity, particle counting, detection on the basis of scattering- Nephalomete, Laboratory Instruments: Centrifuge, oven, waterbath, Incubators, stirrers, Densitometer

Unit 5: 

[08 Hrs]

Mass Spectrometer (MS): Principle, ionization methods, mass analyzer types - magnetic deflection type, time of flight, quadruple, double focusing, detectors for MS, applications X-ray spectrometry: Instrumentation for X-ray spectrometry, X-ray diffractometer

Unit 6: 

[08 Hrs]

Chromatography: Classification, Gas chromatography: principle, constructional details, GC detectors, Liquid Chromatography, High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC): principle, constructional details, HPLC

Textbooks:

• Instrumental Methods of Analysis, Willard, Merritt, Dean, Settle, CBS Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi, Seventh edition.
• Handbook of Analytical Instruments, R. S. Khandpur, Tata McGraw–Hill Publications, 3^rd edition
• Principles of Instrumental Analysis, Skoog, Holler, Nieman, Thomson books-cole publications, 5^th edition. 

Reference books:

• Instrumental Methods of Chemical Analysis, Galen W. Ewing, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Fifth edition.
• Introduction to Instrumental Analysis, Robert D. Braun, McGraw-Hill Book Company