4th Sem, Petro

Petroleum Refinery Engineering Petro 4th Sem Syllabus for VTU BE 2017 Scheme

Petroleum Refinery Engineering detail syllabus for Petroleum Engineering (Petro), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17PC42), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.

For all other petro 4th sem syllabus for be 2017 scheme vtu you can visit Petro 4th Sem syllabus for BE 2017 Scheme VTU Subjects. The detail syllabus for petroleum refinery engineering is as follows.

Course Objectives:

This course will enable students to

  • Fundamental and methodologies in the petroleum refining processes
  • Concepts of petrochemicals, Testing methods and Crude treatment methods.

Module 1
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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

Crude Pretreatment: Pumping of crude oils. Dehydration of crude by chemical, gravity, centrifugal, electrical de-salter and comparision 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 4
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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:

At the end of the course students are able understand the unit process involved in the petroleum refining process.

Graduate Attributes (as per NBA):

  1. Engineering Knowledge
  2. Problem Analysis
  3. Design/development of solutions (Partly)
  4. Interpretation of data.

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:

  1. Petroleum Refinery Engineering, Nelson, 4th Edition, McGraw Hill, 14th Reprint, 1982.
  2. Modern Petroleum Refining Processes, Bhaskara Rao, 3rd Edition, Oxford & IBH Publication, Reprint, 1999.

Reference Books:

  1. Petroleum Refining Technology, Ram Prasad, I Edition, Khanna Publishers, 2000.
  2. Challenges in Crude Oil Evaluation, Nagnal J.M., Gate, McGraw Hill, 1996.
  3. Petroleum Processing, Bland W.F. and Davidson R.L. McGraw Hill, 1967.

For detail syllabus of all other subjects of BE Petro, 2017 scheme do visit Petro 4th Sem syllabus for 2017 scheme.

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