What is Chemical Engineering?
Chemical Engineering is a discipline influencing numerous areas of technology. In broad terms chemical engineers conceive and design processes to produce, transform and transport materials beginning with experimentation in the laboratories followed by implementation of the technology in full-scale production.
Basically, chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with chemical production and the manufacture of products through chemical processes for refining raw materials and for mixing compounding and processing chemicals to make valuable products.
Brief Introduction to B.Tech/BE Chemical Engineering
The B.Tech/BE Chemical Engineering course is an undergraduate course that is divided into 8-semesters. The course mainly deals with the designing, supervision, construction, installation and operation of plants and equipment for manufacturing chemical products and developing new methods of production.
The course involves the design and maintenance of chemical plants and the development of chemical processes for converting raw materials or chemicals into valuable forms including those to remove chemicals from waste materials to enable large scale manufacture. The course combines the knowledge of chemistry and engineering to produce chemicals and engineers to produce chemicals and related products. The course covers varied fields like biotechnology, nanotechnology, chemical technology, petrochemical plants, pharmaceuticals, synthetic fibres, petroleum refining technology, biotechnology, etc.
Eligibility for B.Tech/BE
The students who have passed PUC or 10+2 with a science background can join B.Tech/BE courses. The students interested in joining B.Tech/BE courses are required to qualify competitive exams like CET/COMED-K/JEE with high marks in order to get merit seats in various colleges.
Admission Procedures
The students with relevant qualifications can join B.Tech/BE courses by two modes. The first one is Merit based admission and the second one is Direct admission.
Let’s discuss in detail
Merit Admission
The students who are interested to join B.Tech/BE Chemical Engineering degree should mandatorily appear for CET/COMED-K/JEE or institutional-based entrance exams and undergo counselling to choose their desired colleges for merit seats. The engineering college allotts the merit seats to the students according to their rankings and marks obtained by them in their entrance exams and marks scored in PUC or 10+2.
There are two types of counselling for the B.Tech/BE students
