IIT Hyderabad Junior Technician- Chemical Engineering Exam Pattern

IIT Hyderabad Junior Technician- Chemical Engineering Exam Pattern 2026

Syllabus for Preliminary and Main Written Test.
Written Test-

1. 10 % Arithmetic
2. 10 % General English
3. 80 % for work-related topics.
   Syllabus for Written Test work related topics –
4. Fluid Mechanics- Properties of fluids, Flow through pipeline systems, Flow meters, pumps and
   compressors, Frictional loss, Weirs
5. Mechanical Operations- Size reduction, Bonds law, Rittingers law and Kicks Law, Size analysis,
   Free and hindered settling, cyclones, centrifuge, filtration
6. Heat transfer- Steady and unsteady conduction, convection, radiation. Evaporation,
   condensation, heat exchangers
7. Mass transfer- Fick’s law, Distillation, Adsorption, Absorption, Extraction
8. Process control- Response of first order and second order systems, Block diagrams, Open loop
   and closed loop transfer function, P, PI, and PID controllers, tuning of controllers using Cohen
   and Coon, and Ziegler Nichols
9. Reaction Engineering- Theories of reaction rates, single and multiple reactions in Ideal reactors;
   Non ideal reactors, RTD studies
   Syllabus for Skill Test
10. Communication skills
11. Practical handling of laboratory equipment and facilities