Petroleum Refining and Petrochemicals 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 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit PE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-II scheme and its subjects refer to PE Professional Elective-II syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of petroleum refining and petrochemicals is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
Origin, Formation and Evaluation of Crude Oil. Testing of Petroleum Products. Refining of Petroleum – Atmospheric and Vaccum Distillation.
Unit II
Cracking, Thermal Cracking, Vis-breaking, Catalytic Cracking (FCC), Hydro Cracking, Coking and Air Blowing of Bitumen.
Unit III
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Unit IV
Cracking of Naphtha and Feed stock gas for the production of Ethylene, Propylene, Isobutylene and Butadiene. Production of Acetylene from Methane, Catalytic Reforming of Petroleum Feed Stocks and Extraction of Aromatics.
Unit V
Production of Petrochemicals like Dimethyl Terephathalate (DMT), Ethylene Glycol, Synthetic Glycerine, Linear Alkyl Benzene (LAB), Acrylonitrile, Methyl Methacrylate (MMA), Vinyl Acetate Monomer, Phthalic Anhydride, Maleic Anhydride, Phenol and Acetone, Methanol, Formaldehyde, Acetaldehyde, Pentaerythritol and Production of Carbon Black.
Course Outcomes:
- Understand the classification, composition and testing methods of crude petroleum / product
- Underestand to develop innovative refining process
- Apply the knowledge of treatment processes to develop the manufacture of petroleum products.
- Know about the different reaction mechanism for the manufacture of petroleum products.
- Acquiring to develop quality control and assurance techniques in petroleum refining.
Text Books:
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For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Petroleum Engineering 5th Sem, visit PE 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Petroleum Engineering results, visit Anna University PE all semester results direct link.