Petroleum Refinery Engineering Detailed Syllabus for B.Tech third year second sem is covered here. This gives the details about credits, number of hours and other details along with reference books for the course.
The detailed syllabus for Petroleum Refinery Engineering B.Tech 2016-2017 (R16) third year second sem is as follows.
B.Tech. III Year II Sem. L/T/P/C
Course Code: PE603PC 4/0/0/4
Prerequisites: Engineering Chemistry, Chemical Process Calculations
Course Objectives:
- To understand the various feed stocks of refinery and petroleum products.
- To get acquainted with basic separation and conversion processes used in refining of crude oil.
- To get familiarized with challenges involved in refining from viewpoint of environment.
Course Outcome: The student would be in a position to have advanced knowledge of feedstocks
used in the refinery, various conversion processes used to produce various petroleum products.
UNIT – I Introduction: Overall refinery operations & Indian scenario. Refinery feed stocks: Crude oil classification-Composition and properties-Composition of petroleum crude suitable for asphalt manufacture – Crude distillation curves.
UNIT – II Petroleum Products: Low boiling products – Gasoline – Gasoline specifications – Distillate
fuels – Jet and turbine fuels – Automotive diesel fuels; Heating oils –Residual fuel oils; wax and asphalt-Product blending. Crude distillation: Atmosphere topping unit – Vacuum distillation –Auxiliary equipment – Products of these two units.
UNIT – III Thermal & catalytic processes: Visbreaking, Hydrovisbreaking, Thermal cracking –
Catalytic cracking fluidized bed catalytic cracking and Hydrocracking – Feed stocks – Feed treating – Catalysts process variables – Yield estimation-Latest developments in cracking processes. Coking: Types of petroleum coke-Properties and uses process description of delayed coking – Flexicoking and fluid coking – Yields.
TEXT BOOK:
- Petroleum Refining: Technology and Economics, J.H. Gary and G.E.Handwerk, 4th Edition, Marcel Dekkar, Inc., New York, 2001.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
- Petroleum Refinery Engineering, W. L. Nelson, 4th Edition, McGraw Hill, New York, 1958.
- Modern Petroleum Refining processes, 5th Edition, B. K. Bhaskara Rao, Oxford and IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., 2008.
- Practical Advances in Petroleum Processing, Chang S. Hsu and Paul Robinson, Vol. 1 & 2, Springer, 2006.
For all other B.Tech 3rd Year 2nd Sem syllabus go to JNTUH B.Tech Petroleum Engineering 3rd Year 2nd Sem Course Structure for (R16) Batch.
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