JNTUK B.Tech Petrochemical Engineering-I gives you detail information of Petrochemical Engineering-I R13 syllabus It will be help full to understand you complete curriculum of the year.
(Process Engineering and Technology of production of Petrochemicals should be dealt with by the instructor).
Learning Objectives:
Basic concepts of process engineering and production technologies involved in industrial petrochemical processes will be taught to make the students to study, understand and appreciate:
- Various processes and production steps involved in the several petrochemical processes.
- Different pre-treatment processes involved in making the available and suitable feed stocks.
- Various products and by-products which can be produced in a variety of petrochemical processes.
UNIT-I: Introduction: Petrochemical industry-Structures of petrochemical complexes-Feedstock for petrochemical-Profile of petrochemical and their end products- Profile of Indian petroleum and petrochemical Industry.
UNIT-II: Olefins production: Steam cracking for production of olefins-Gas sweetening unit-C2/C3 Extraction unit-Steam cracking process engineering and technology-Emerging technologies for production of olefins- Technologies for Alpha Olefins.
UNIT-III: Processing of olefinic C4 and C5 cut from steam cracking and fluid catalytic cracking: Fluid catalytic cracking-Growth of FCC technology-Chemistry of cracking and process variables- overview of FCC feed pretreatment Description of the FCC process-FCC gases as petrochemical feedstock-Processing of C4 stream from steam cracking and FCC-oxygenates from refinery C4 and C5 stream-Upgrading of C5 cut for Recovery of C5 chemicals.
UNIT-IV: Aromatic production: Petroleum feedstock for aromatic hydrocarbons- catalytic reforming- Reactions in catalytic reforming-Reforming catalysts-Reforming process-Process variables in catalytic reforming- Pyrolysis gasoline for Aromatic separation from reformate and – Emerging technologies for the production of BTX- Aromatic conversion processes.
UNIT-V: Methane and synthesis gas derivatives: synthesis gas and ammonia manufacture from steam reforming-Synthesis gas and ammonia manufacture from partial oxidation process-Urea processes. Fischer-Tropschsyn gas techonology- Manufacture of Methanol,Formaldehyde,Acetic acid, Hexamethylenetetramine, Hexamethylene Diamine and Melamine.
UNIT-VI: Ethylene and ethylene derivatives: Ethylene-Ethylene oxide and monoethyleneglycol: Process technologies-Process hazards-storage; Processes for Vinyl chloride-Vinyl acetate-Acetaldehyde- Ethanol-Acetic anhydride-Ethyl acetate- Ethanol amines- Ethylene glycol mono ethyl ether- Ethylene glycol mono butyl ether-Ethylene carbonate. Ethylene to ethyl benzene & Styrene – Process technologies – Process Hazards – Storage.
Outcomes
After completion of the course, students will able to apply/ acquire/appreciate:
- The basic principles on which a petrochemical industry complex is to be based.
- The principle of steam cracking and fluid catalytic cracking operations.
- Knowledge on various products which can be produced from steam cracking and fluid catalytic cracking process.
- The principles involved in aromatic production.
- Knowledge in the production of derivatives which can be produced from methane, synthesis gas & ethylene.
- Basic knowledge of distinguishing various processes involved.
- The various production technologies involved.
Text Book
- Petrochemical Process Technology, ID Mall, Macmillan India Ltd., New Delhi. 2007.
Reference Books
- Chemistry of Petrochemical Processes, Sami Matar and Lewis F.Hatch, 2nd Edition, Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, 2000.
- Fundamentals of Petroleum Chemical Technology, P Belov, Mir Publishers, 1970.
- Petrochemical Processes, A. Chauvel and G.Lefebvre, Volume 1 & 2, Gulf Publishing Company, 1989.
- Handbook of Petrochemical Production Processes, Robert A. Meyers, McGraw-Hill, 2004.
- Petrochemical Production Processes, N.Naderpour, SBS Publishers, 2009.
- Petrochemicals, B. K. Bhaskara Rao, Oxford & IBH Publishing, 2002.
- Chemicals from petroleum: An Introductory Survey, Waddams A.L., 4th Edition, Gulf Publishing, 1978.
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