Friday, April 25, 2008

My BTP - a big MESS!!


My BTP: (B.Tech Project) is seemed to be big MESS!! We are putting ourselves hard (not really) on final year B.Tech project. Our project is on - "Study of various variables in cementation of copper on iron". First few days we tried to come to common analysis method for determination of copper in sulfate solution. After a lot discussion we come a method that I'm stating below:

Take copper sulfate powder and dissolve in a water completely. Add about 2 grams of KI in it. Solution will become brown. Titrate it against N/10 sodium thiosulfate. When solution become faint in yellow color add freshly prepared Starch in it, solution will become blue. Continue the titration till solution become white. Calculate the amount of sodium thiosulfate consumed.

% Cu= N/10 sodium thiosulfate consumed * 0.6345 / amount of copper sulfate ( in grams)

Cementation reaction: Cuso4+ Fe = Feso4 + Cu (On iron)



We perfomed this experiment many times. Prerna help me through her presence and cold water. Chandak & Shiv tried to be there in lab and that is enough for me. They are also putting efforts to complete the stuff, afterall it is their project too. Prachi, Nandu and Parul are also doing some experiments in same lab so sometimes we feel happy that we are not the only one who are suffering.

After doing many analysis test on different samples every time we got the result which was absurd. Even in samples we are not getting any results. Our project guides Narang sir and SKG sir everyday instruct us to do different what we have done in that day. So it is becoming a complete messsss now. I dont know how we will going to complete it. God save us we have to write the report too.

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