Petroleum Refining Engineering detailed Syllabus for Chemical Engineering (CH), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Subject Names, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information, visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
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Course Objectives:
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Module 1
Indian Petroleum Industry: Prospects & Future. Major companies. World production, Markets, Offshore and onshore, Oil well technology. Composition of Crude: Classification. Evaluation of petroleum. UOP-k factor. TBP analysis. EFV analysis. Average boiling point. ASTM curves. Thermal properties of petroleum fractions. Product Properties and Test Methods: Gas. Various types of gas and LPG. Reid vapor pressure analysis. Gasoline and naptha. Octane No. Oxidation stability. Additives for gasoline. Kerosene. Characterization for flash point or fire point, volatility, burning qualities etc, Diesel, octane testing, viscosity etc. Grades of diesels e.g. HSD, LDO. Diesel additives. Lube oils: Types, tests-carbon residue and viscosity index.
Module 2
Crude Pretreatment: Pumping of crude oils. Dehydration of crude by chemical, gravity, centrifugal, electrical de-salter and comparison of each. Heating of crude- heater, different types of pipe still heaters including box type, cylindrical etc. Crude distillation, arrangement of towers for various types of reflux. Design aspects for atmospheric and vacuum column. Atmospheric distillation distillation unit: internals and operational.
Module 3
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Module 4
Thermal Processes: Thermal cracking reactions- theory of thermal cracking. Properties of cracked materials and factors influencing the properties of cracked materials. Vis breaking, dubbs two coil cracking process. Catalytic Reforming: Theory of reforming. Factors influencing reforming, reforming catalysts, feedstock requirements. Plat-forming, hondi forming, flexi forming etc.
Module 5
Catalytic Cracking: Comparison of thermal and catalytic cracking. Carbonium ion chemistry. Feedback requirements. Cracking conditions. Commercial cracking analysis. Various catalytic cracking processes. Fixed bed crackers. Moving bed crackers. Fluid catalytic cracking-flexi cracking-ortho-flow reactor. Theory of coking: various types of coking processes. Delayed coking, fluid coking, contact coking, flexi coking. Naptha cracking, naptha cracking for ethylene as feed selection and gas yield. Hydro cracking. Theory of hydro cracking. Catalysts for hydro cracking.
Course Outcomes:
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Question paper pattern:
- The question paper will have ten questions.
- Each full Question consisting of 20 marks
- There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions) from each module.
- Each full question will have sub questions covering all the topics under a module.
- The students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
Text Books:
- Petroleum Refinery Engineering, Nelson, 4th edn McGraw Hill, 14th Reprint, 1982.
- Modern Petroleum Refining Processes, Bhaskara Rao, 3rd edn, Oxford & IBH Publication, Reprint, 1999.
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