Refinery Advancements and Environmental Regulations detailed syllabus for Chemical Engineering (CE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the CE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Chemical Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit CE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-I scheme and its subjects refer to CE Professional Elective-I syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of refinery advancements and environmental regulations is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION AND GOVERNMENT POLICIES 9
Classes of petroleum based on flash point- storage tank design- GAS/LIQUID/SOLID wastes form refinery units-environmental standards on air and water pollution and control-Solid waste management- Sludge conditioning and treatment and disposal- Effluent treatment plant-TTP-greenhouse gases-Bharat stages and its regulations- Recent modification for BS-6- Policies on biofuel-EBP-Bio-diesel
Unit II
CORROSION AND SAFETY 9
Corrosion- reaction and types- refinery corrosion tests- controlling parameters- corrosion control in equipment and pipelines-Types of fire- Safety triangle- Firefighting equipment-PPE- HAZOP studies- Petroleum disasters case study- process safety protocol- pressure relief systems- flare systems- CBD/OWS- MSDS for units- oil spilling and skimming
Unit III
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Unit IV
REFINERY UNIT INTEGRATION AND RECENT TRENDS 9
Overall modern refinery flow sheet- products routing- naphtha utilization route up and integration- Diesel/gasoline/ATF/kerosene route up to blending header- Blending processes-line blending- Blending of diesel and MS calculation- LP model for blending operation- Recent trends in ADU with pre flash- RFCC-OHCU-Prime G+-catalytic dewaxing- PSA technology-DWC technology- Blue H2 process-Pre reforming- moving bed in CRU and isom-Advanced lube processing
Unit V
ENERGY SAVING AND REFINERY ECONOMICS 9
Furnace efficiency calculation-steam utilization- plume length- insulation of pipelines- heat tracing-steam traps-Standard Refinery Fuel Tonnage- Fuel and loss- operational cost- margin cost- refining capacity-complexity factor- crude oil evaluation and procurement-monthly production planning- cracks-Gross Refinery Margin-operation optimization by Linear Programming model-shutdown planning- Refinery Transfer Price-taxation-pricing
Course Outcomes:
On completion of the course, the students will be able to
- understanding the regulations and government policies in refining industries.
- acquire some knowledge on advanced techniques, automation and instrumentation techniques.
- understand the different controllers and automated control systems in refineries.
- gathers knowledge on unit integrations in refineries.
- understand the basis on energy saving techniques and refinery economics
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Luyben, W. L., Tyreus, B. D., &Luyben, M. L. (1998). Plant wide process control (Vol. 43). New York: McGraw-Hill.
- Stephanopoulos, G. (1984). Chemical process control (Vol. 2). New Jersey: Prentice hall.
- Instrumentation and Control Systems, K.Padmaraju, Y.J. Reddy, McGraw Hill Education, 2016.
- Gilbert M. Masters, Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science, Prentice -Hall India , 2000
- Petroleum Economics, Jean Masseron, Technip; 4threvised Edition, 2000. (ISBN-10: 2710805979; ISBN-13: 978-2710805977)
- Cheremisinoff N.P. and Graffia M.L., “Environmental Health and Safety Management. A Guide to Compliance”, (Pressure safety de-sign practices for refinery and chemical operations”, Jaico Publica-tion. 2003
- Fontana, M.G., “Corrosion Engineering”, Edn 3, McGraw Hill, 1989
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