Biofuels detailed syllabus for Petroleum Engineering (PE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the PE 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 Petroleum Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit PE 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-V scheme and its subjects refer to PE Professional Elective-V syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of biofuels is as follows.
Unit I
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Unit II
BIODIESEL 9
Biodiesel – Microorganisms and raw materials used for microbial Oil production – Treatment of the feedstocks prior to production of the Biodiesel – Current technologies of biodiesel production -Purification of biodiesel; Industrial production of biodiesel – Biodiesel production from single cell oil.
Unit III
BIOETHANOL 9
Bioethanol – Properties – Feedstocks – Process technology – Pilot plant for ethanol production from lignocellulosic feedstock – Environmental aspects of ethanol as a biofuel.
Unit IV
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Unit V
OTHER BIOFUELS 9
Biobutanol production – Principles, materials and feedstocks – Process technologies -Biopropanol – Bioglycerol – Production of bio-oils via catalytic pyrolysis – Life-Cycle environmental impacts of biofuels and Co-products.
Course Outcomes:
- Gain the knowledge on the various types of bio-fuel and its overview.
- Apply the concepts involved in production techniques of biodiesel
- Understanding the skill in manufacture the bioethanol
- Understand the principle mechanism and production of biomethane and biohydrogen
- Evaluating the various other fuels like biopropanol – bioglycerol and pyrolysis oil
Text Books:
- Luque, R., Campelo, J.and Clark, J. Handbook of biofuels production, Woodhead Publishing Limited 2011
- Gupta, V, K. and Tuohy, M, G. Biofuel Technologies, Springer, 2013
- Moheimani, N. R., Boer, M, P, M, K, Parisa A. and Bahri, Biofuel and Biorefinery Technologies, Volume 2, Springer, 2015
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