Impurities in water, hardness of water: Types, Units and Numericals, Determination of hardness (by EDTA method using molarity concept and  its numericals, Alkalinity its numericals, Ill effects of hard water in boiler - priming and foaming,  boiler corrosion, caustic embrittlement, scale and sludge, Water treatment:  Zeolite method  its numericals, Demineralization method. Purification of water, Reverse osmosis, Electrodialysis

Introduction: Types of reference electrode (calomel electrode), indicator electrode (glass electrode), ion selective electrode,  ion selective membranes such as solid membrane, enzyme based membrane and gas sensing membrane, Conductometry: Introduction, conductivity cell, conductometric titrations of acid versus base with titration curve, pHmetry: Introduction,  standardization of pH meter, pH metric titration of strong acid versus strong base with titration curve.

Speciality polymers: Introduction, preparation, properties and applications of the following polymers: 1. Engineering Thermoplastic: Polycarbonate, 2.Bio-degradable polymers: Poly (hydroxybutyrate-hydroxyvalanate),  3. Conducting Polymer: Polyacetylene,  4.  Electroluminescent polymer: Polyphenylenevinylene, 5. Polymer composites: Fiber reinforced plastic (FRP)- Glass reinforced and Carbon reinforced polymer composite, Nanomaterials: Introduction, classification of nanomaterials based on dimensions,   structure, properties and applications of grapheme, carbon nanotubes, quantum dots (semiconductor nanoparticles)

Introduction, interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter, statement of Beer’s law and Lambert’s law, absorption of UV radiation by organic molecule leading to different electronic transitions, terms involved in UV-visible Spectroscopy: chromophore, auxochrome, bathochromic shift, hypsochromic shift, hyperchromic shift and hypochromic shift, Instrumentation  and basic principle of single beam spectrophotometer, applications of UV-visible spectroscopy, Introduction, Principle of IR Spectroscopy, types of vibrations: Stretching (symmetric and asymmetric) and bending (scissoring, rocking, wagging and twisting), conditions of absorption of IR radiations, vibration of diatomic and polyatomic molecules, Instrumentation with block diagram. Parts of IR spectrum, fundamental group region, fingerprint region, applications of IR spectroscopy,

Introduction, Types of corrosion – Dry and Wet corrosion, mechanism of dry corrosion, nature of oxide films and Pilling-Bedworth’s rule, wet corrosion – mechanism: hydrogen evolution and oxygen absorption, galvanic cell corrosion, concentration cell corrosion, Factors influencing rate of corrosion, Methods of corrosion control and prevention: cathodic and anodic protection, metallic coatings and its types, surface preparation methods to apply metallic coatings-hot dipping.