Instrumentation in Petrochemical Industry detailed syllabus for Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering (EIE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the EIE 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 Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit EIE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-IV scheme and its subjects refer to EIE Professional Elective-IV syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of instrumentation in petrochemical industry is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
OIL EXTRACTION AND OIL GAS PRODUCTION
Techniques used for oil discovery – Oil recovery methods – oil rig system – Overview of oil gas production – oil gas separation – Gas treatment and compression – Control and safety systems.
Unit II
IMPORTANT UNIT OPERATIONS IN REFINERY
Distillation Column – Thermal cracking – Catalytic Cracking – Catalytic reforming -mathematical Modelling and selection of appropriate control strategy – Alkylation -Isomerization.
Unit III
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Unit IV
IMPORTANT PETROLEUM PRODUCTS & MEASUREMENTS
BTX from Reformate – Styrene – Ethylene oxide/Ethylene glycol – polyethylene -Polypropylene – PVC production.Parameters to be measured in refinery and petrochemical industry – Selection and maintenance of measuring instruments.
Unit V
SAFETY IN INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEMS
Hazardous zone classification – Electrical and Intrinsic safety – Explosion suppression and Deluge systems – Flame, fire and smoke detectors – leak detectors – Guidelines and standards – General SIS Design Configurations – Hazard and Risk Assessment – Failure modes – Operation and Maintenance.
Skill Development Activities
(Group Seminar/Mini Project/Assignment/Content Preparation / Quiz/ Surprise Test / Solving GATE questions/ etc)
- A Seminar on Role of Instrumentation in petrochemical industry.
- Selection of petroleum products for applications.
- Familiarization of any one relevant software tool (MATLAB/ SCILAB/ LABVIEW/ Proteus/ Equivalent open source software)
- Quiz on derivatives, refinery and other petroleum products.
- Introduction to other advanced detectors not covered in the above syllabus
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Waddams, A.L., �Chemicals from Petroleum�, Wiley, 1978. (digitized in 2007).
- Balchen, J.G., and Mumme K.I., �Process Control Structures and Applications�, Von Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, 1988.
Reference Books:
- Liptak, B.G., �Instrumentation in Process Industries�, Chilton Book Company, 2005. (Digitized in 2008).
- Austin, G.T. and Shreeves, A.G.T., �Chemical Process industries�, McGraw-Hill, 5th edition 2017.
- Havard Devold, �Oil and Gas Production Handbook�, ABB, edtion 3.0, 2013.
- Paul Gruhn and Harry Cheddie, �Safety Instrumented Systems: Design, Analysis, and Justification�, 2nd Edition, ISA Press, 2006. (Digitized in 2009).
List of Open Source Software/ Learning Website:
- https://whatispiping.com/safety-instrumented-systems-sis/
- https://www.britannica.com/technology/petroleum-refining/Petroleum-products-and-their-uses
- https://uma.ac.ir/files/site1Zm ghorbanpour 6ffe535/refinery 3.pdf
- https://www.omicsonline.org/conferences-list/petroleum-derivatives-synthesis-and-application
- https://folk.ntnu.no/onshus/0il%20and%20gas%20production%20handbook%20ed1x3a5%20comp.pdf
- https://nptel.ac.in/courses/114106039
- https://library.e.abb.com/public/34d5b70e18f7d6c8c1257be500438ac3/Oil%20and%20gas%20production%20handbook%20ed3x0_web.pdf
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering 5th Sem, visit EIE 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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