PE3411: Petroleum Testing Laboratory syllabus for PE 2021 regulation

Petroleum Testing Laboratory detailed syllabus for Petroleum Engineering (PE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University 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 4th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit PE 4th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of petroleum testing laboratory is as follows.

Course Objectives:

• To make the student to be conversant with the principles and experimental procedures for quantitative estimation of petroleum products.

List of Experiments:

1. Fluid viscosity determination
2. Carbon residue determination
3. Karl-Fisher Conductometer Apparatus for water estimation
4. Fluid density
5. Aniline point
6. Corrosion testing of petroleum oils and copper
7. Freezing point of Aqueous Engine coolant solution
8. Automatic Distillation
9. Fire point- Flash point
10. Gas Colorific value determination
11. liquid or solid Colorific value determination
12. Smoke point determination
13. Cloud and pour point determination
14. Softening point determination
15. Ductility of bitumen
16. Penetration index determination

Course Outcomes:

The students can

• Perform the various physical and chemical properties of the petroleum products in a safe manner.
• Differentiate various petroleum products by performing the specific tests.
• Perform the advanced qualitative and quantitative laboratory tasks, including the operation of advanced analytical instrumentation.

List of Equipments:

1. Redwood / Saybolt / Engler viscometer – 1 No.
2. Conradson Apparatus – 1 No.
3. Muffle furnace – 1 No.
4. Hydrometer – 1 No.
5. Aniline point apparatus – 1 No.
6. Copper corrosion Apparatus – 1 No.
7. Freezing / Cloud / Pour point apparatus – 1 No.
8. Junkers Gas Calorimeter / Bomb Calorimeter – 1 No.
9. Cleveland / PenskyMartien open and closed cup Flash and fire point Apparatus-1 No.
10. API Distillation Apparatus – 1 No.
11. Abbey Refractometer – 1 No.
12. Dean and Stark apparatus – 1 No.
13. Karl -Fisher Apparatus -1 No.
14. Softening point apparatus – 1 No.
15. Ductilometer – 1 No.
16. Penetrometer – 1 No

For detailed syllabus of all other subjects of Petroleum Engineering, 2021 regulation curriculum do visit PE 4th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.

For all Petroleum Engineering results, visit Anna University PE all semester results direct link.