CHEMICAL PROCESS

TECHNOLOGY
LABORATORY MANUAL
5th Semester

Department of Chemical Engineering

School of technology
Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University
Gandhinagar
 Instructions
• Carry the following things while attending the lab session:
• Lab Coat
• Lab manual
• Calculator
• Without above 3 things you will not be allowed to enter in the lab and marked
absent for that particular day
• Shoes are mandatory
• After attendance you will directed to move to the allotted group table/Instrument
• Group movement in lab for different experiments will be told to you before lab sess10ns
• Lab report is to be submitted in next lab. You will need to finish it in that week
• Bags, books, edibles, cell phones, laptops, walkman, iPods etc are not allowed inside UG
lab. Those will be confiscated if found.
• Indiscipline of any sort will not be tolerated and will attract punitive measures

DOs and DON'Ts in the Laboratory

• Do thoroughly clean the glassware before and after use

• Do handle the glassware carefully
• Do not handle chemicals with bare hands
• Do not blow out the last drop from the pipette. When the liquid has drained out
completely, touch the tip of the pipette to the inner surface of the vessel
• Do not add water to acids. Do always add acid to water
• Do use large volumes of water, when a person is splashed with acid to prevent
serious burns
• Do weigh the articles in a balance only at room temperature
• Do use different pipette for different reagents
• Do not pipette out acids and other toxic reagents by mouth
• Do read the level of the curve (meniscus), in all volumetric glassware, with the eye at
approximately the same level as the curve of solution.
 Chemical Process Technology

Experiment No.: 4

Aim: - To prepare Anthraquinone from Anthracene.

Apparatus: - Conical flask, sand-bath, Filter papers, etc.

Chemicals: - Anthracene, Conc. HNO3, Ice, etc.

Reaction: -

Anthracene Anthraquinone

Procedure: -

1. Take about 1 gm of Anthracene in dry conical flask.

2. Add 10 to 15 ml of conc. HNO3 and heat the flask gently on sand-bath till the
brown fumes are completely removed (for about 15 min.).
3. Then pour the mixture in ice cold water, filter it and wash with water and dry it.
M.P. 286oC.
Result: -

Anthraquinone obtained = 1.5 gm .