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Course Learning 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.
Module-2
Product Properties And Test Methods: Gas. Various types of gas and LPG. Reid vapour 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-3
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Module-4
Treatment Techniques: Types of impurities present and various desulfurisation processes. Production and treatment of LPG. LNG technology. Sweetening operations for gases including merox, ethanolamine, copper chloride, stertford etc. Catalytic de sulphonisation. Treatment of kerosene, De-aromatisation and merox. Treatment of diesel, naptha: desulpurisation by hydrogen and catalysts. Treatment of lubes: sulphuric acid, clay treatment, solvent treatmentphenol, furfural. Thermal Processes: Thermal cracking reactions- theory of thermal cracking. Properties of cracked materials and factors influencing the properties of cracked materials. Visbreaking, dubbs two coil cracking process.
Module-5
Catalytic Cracking: Comparision 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. Catalystic Reforming: Theory of reforming. Factors influencing reforming, reforming catalysts, feedstock requirements. Plat-forming, isoplus hondriforming, refining forming, power forming and flexi forming etc.
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 Edition, McGraw Hill, 14th Reprint, 1982.
- Modern Petroleum Refining Processes, Bhaskara Rao, 3rd Edition, Oxford & IBH Publication, Reprint, 1999.
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