Preamble
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
KAKINADA, KAKINADA
WORKSHOP
ON
VIRTUAL MASS TRANSFER
OPERATIONS LABORATORY
24 – 25 March 2012
Venue: Senate Hall, JNTUK
Information
and
Communications
Technology (ICT) has largely reconfigured
the learning panorama over the last
decade. The Internet paves for creation
and adoption of new learning and teaching
styles. It facilitates the development of
additional teaching strategies, including
new ways to use them for illustration,
simulation, demonstration, experimenta-tion, operation, communication, and so
on.
Hands-on laboratory experiments have
enormous
educational
value,
but
traditional laboratories are expensive and
have complex logistics regarding space,
staff, scheduling and safety. Virtual
laboratories (virtual labs) may overcome
these limitations allowing the insertion of
experiments in teaching at any time and
experiments can be performed from any
place with internet access. Even though
virtual labs cannot substitute hands-on
laboratories completely in the engineering
curriculums, it has several advantages as a
complementary educational tool.
Virtual Mass Transfer Laboratory
Mass transfer operations are one of the
most important subjects in chemical
engineering education and practice. A
sound and thorough knowledge in mass
transfer is mandatory for successful
design, costing, profitability analysis and
entrepreneurship. Being a central theme
in chemical engineering, mass transfer
operations require both theoretical and
practical knowledge.
The theoretical
knowledge
enables
learning
the
performance characteristics of various
mass transfer operations and the practical
knowledge will further confirm upon the
possible variations in these operations.
A traditional way of learning mass transfer
operations is by attending classes and
carrying out laboratory scale experiments.
This practice may lead to mismatch
between the students learning experience
and later employer expectations. The
equipment used in the virtual labs can be
comparable with the industrial pilot scale
units. It is expected that with an increase
in the authenticity and reliability of
teaching through virtual labs, student
learning will be enhanced.
Therefore, the Ministry of Human
Resource Development (MHRD) has come
up with a novel idea. The concept is with
respect to the Virtual Labs for
Undergraduate
and
Postgraduate
Education. The project was awarded to
many IITs and Amrita University developed
the user friendly interface for the entire
virtual lab project.
The virtual lab project has been also
presented in many other subjects such as
reaction engineering, fluid mechanics etc.
In addition, virtual labs have been
developed in major engineering disciplines
and have been officially released on 23rd
Feb 2012. The URL for virtual lab is
http://vlab.co.in. As on date, Virtual Labs
are available free of cost to serve the
chemical engineering student and
academic community across the country.
Workshop Content
The two day workshop involves the
following subject matter:
a) Introduction to Virtual Labs
b) Virtual Mass Transfer Laboratory
Modules
a. Binary Vapor Liquid Equilibrium
b. Design of Binary Distillation
Column
c. Column Tray Efficiency
d. Flow through Porous Media
e. Vapor in Air Diffusion
f. Forced Draft Tray Dryer
g. Mass transfer with Chemical
Reaction
h. Water Cooling Tower
c) Field Trails on the above Modules to
gather Feedback and Identify Critical
Gaps for furthering the knowledge
transmission.
The advantage of virtual labs is that one
can access through online through
internet. Using the internet, presently,
only one lab can be run at a time.
However, upon successful demonstration,
the project can be extended to multiple
servers and mirror websites. Further,
faculty and student interaction in chemical
engineering community can pave the way
to add more virtual labs that are of
prominent to chemical engineering
education and academia.
Each laboratory module
information such as
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)
consists
Theory
Experimental Procedure
Sample Calculation
Virtual Calculator
Videos
Virtual Lab Simulator
Download portal
of
h) Quiz both Pre-Experiment and
Post-Experiment
Advantages of Virtual Lab
Environment
- To carry out virtually experiments
when equipments are not available
and understand their basic operation
and performance characteristics.
- To carry out experiments on setups
that are costly to fabricate and that
are not existent in the regular
chemical engineering practice.
- To master the fundamentals and
applied knowledge in mass transfer
operations
- To develop analytical and creative
capabilities in the student community
for the analysis of real-time systems in
engineering practice.
- To inculcate and develop analytical
and creative capabilities in the student
community.
- To catalyze the student community
towards the further development of
virtual labs in other important mass
transfer lab modules.
Participants:
Faculty of Chemical & Petrochemical
Engineering from the State & Private
Universities & Private Engineering colleges
sponsored by the Universities/Managements.
Participation Fee
Rs.2000/candidate. The candidates from the
sponsoring institutions of the workshop need
not pay the participation fee.
Registration:
The interested Faculty members may
register themselves by sending the filled-in
registration form along with a DD drawn in
favor of the Registrar, JNTUK, Kakinada to
the address given below:
Prof.K.V.Rao
Programme Director
Department of Petroleum &
Petrochemical Engineering
University College of Engineering
JNTUK, Kakinada- 533003
Mobile: 093489 86669; 07702591555
e-mail: profkvrao@gmail.com
The last date for registration: 23-3-2012.
Lunches & Tea will be provided.
Outstation candidates should arrange
their own accommodation
Resource Person:
Registration Form
Dr. Ramgopal Uppaluri
Name:
Associate Professor, Chemical Engg.
IIT Guwahati; ramgopalu@iitg.ernet.in
Designation:
With a Ph.D. in process optimization from
University of Manchester, U. K. (2002), Dr.
Ramagopal Uppaluri holds M.Tech. in
Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of
Technology Kanpur (1999) and B.Tech. degree
(Chemical Engineering), Andhra University,
Visakhapatnam (1997). After a brief postdoctoral research at Robert Gordon University
at Aberdeen, Scotland (2002 – 2004), Dr.
Uppaluri joined IIT Guwahati in August 2004,
where he is stationed for the past 7 years. His
research interests are in several inter
disciplinary topics. He published 47
international journal publications and holds an
Indian patent in the field of surfactant
enhanced oil recovery.
So far, he has
supervised 04 Ph.D. students and he has been
awarded 06 research projects funded by CSIR,
DST, DBT, DRDL, OIL and MHRD. Further, he is
a Consultant to several projects financed by
IOCL, OIL and Amrit Bio-energy & Industries.
In addition, he also served in various
administrative positions at IIT Guwahati. His
contribution to the chemical engineering
education and practice in this workshop is
through the Virtual Mass Transfer Laboratory,
under the Project entitled “Virtual Lab”
sponsored by MHRD, Government of India.
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Mass Transfer Lab Experience (years):
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