UNIQUE SERIES AKTU Syllabus
BCH072

Fertilizer Technology

L-T-P3-0-0 Credits3 Session2025-26 TypeTheory
Appears in 1 semester

B.Tech Chemical Engineering · Sem 7 (Departmental Elective-IV)

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Syllabus

5 units · 31 lecture hours
Unit1

Unit 1: Introduction to fertilizers

7 hrs

Introduction to Plant nutrients, Fertilizer specifications, Terminology and Definitions, Classifications of Soil nutrients, Fundamentals of Soil Nitrogen, Soil Phosphorus, Soil Potassium and Soil Sulfur.

Unit2

Unit 2: Nitrogenous Fertilizers

8 hrs

Methods of production, characteristics, storage and handling specifications of Ammonium Nitrate, Calcium Ammonium Nitrate, Ammonium Chloride, Ammonium Sulphate, Urea.

Unit3

Unit 3: Phosphatic Fertilizers

8 hrs

Raw materials: Phosphate rock, Sulphur pyrites, Sulphuric acid and Phosphoric acid, Methods of production, characteristics and specifications of Single Super Phosphate, Triple Super phosphate, Ammonium Phosphates: SAP, DAP.

Unit4

Unit 4: Potassic Fertilizers

8 hrs

Methods of production, specification, characteristics of Potassium Sulphate, Potassium Chloride, Potassium Nitrate Compound Fertilizers, NPK Fertilizers, Complex Fertilizers.

Unit5

Unit 5: Fertilizers and Environment

Environmental issues related to the use of fertilizers, impact of fertilizers on the environment, Solid, Liquid and Gaseous pollution from fertilizer industries, Bio fertilizers, Green fertilizers. Total

Course Objectives1 points
  • To provide comprehensive understanding of essential ingredients of fertilizers and the production processes of different fertilizers.
Course Outcomes (COs)6 outcomes

After completion of the course student will be able to:

  1. CO1Use reactions and unit operations steps in manufacturing of various fertilizers.
  2. CO2Select the relevant manufacturing process for different fertilizers.
  3. CO3Identify engineering problems in fertilizer manufacturing.
  4. CO4Select appropriate fertilizer on the basis of properties.
  5. CO5Understand the different forms of fertilizer
  6. CO6Understand environment need to maintain in fertilizer industry

REFERENCE BOOKS

  1. SN Name of Authors/Books/Publisher Year of Publication/ Reprints
  2. M. Gopala Rao & Marshall Sittig, Dryden's Outlines of Chemical Technology, East-West Press, 3rd Edition, New Delhi. 2015
  3. Austin G. T, Shreve’s Chemical Process Industries, 6th edition, Mc. Graw Hill Publications. 2023
  4. Pandey & Shukla, Chemical Technology, Volume I & II, 2nd Edition, Vani Books Company. 2018
  5. John J. Mortvedt, Roy H. Follett, Larry S. Murphy, Fertilizer Technology and Application, Meister Publishing Company. 1999
  6. Deepak Rajan Biswas, A textbook of fertilizer technology, New India Age Publishing, New Delhi 2021

Official AKTU syllabus

This subject is on page 8, 9 of the original AKTU PDF.

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