Petroleum Refining Engineering CHE 5th Sem Syllabus for VTU BE 2017 Scheme (Professional Elective-I)

Petroleum Refining Engineering detail syllabus for Chemical Engineering (CHE), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17CH552), 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 che 5th sem syllabus for be 2017 scheme vtu you can visit CHE 5th Sem syllabus for BE 2017 Scheme VTU Subjects. For all other Professional Elective-I subjects do refer to Professional Elective-I. The detail syllabus for petroleum refining engineering is as follows.

Course Objectives:

The students will able to

1. Understand history, classification of petroleum crudes.
2. Understand the extraction and production of oil and gas to meet energy needs, as well as refining of crude oil for a widespectrum of useful products such as petrochemicals, Chemicals, Plastics.

Module 1

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Module 2

Crude Pretreatm gravity, centrif heater, boxtype, cylindrica towers for variousty and vacuum column Atmospheric distillationt: Pumping of crude oils. Dehydration of crude bychemical, ugal, electricalde-salter and comparison of each. Heating of crude-different types of pipes till heaters including letc. Cruded istillation, arrangement of pes of reflux. Design aspects for atmospheric. Atmospheric distillation distillation unit: internals and operational.

Module 3

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, stertfordetc. Catalytic desulphonisation. Treatment of kerosene, De-aromatisation and merox. Treatment of diesel, naptha: desulpurisation by hydrogen and catalysts. Treatment of lubes: sulphuric acid, clay treatment, solvent treatment- phenol, furfural.

Module 4

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Module 5

Catalytic Cracking: Comparison of thermal and catalytic cracking. Carboniumionc hemistry. Feedback requirements. Cracking conditions. Commercial cracking analysis. Vario uscatalytic cracking processes. Fixedbed 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, flexicoking. Napthacracking, naptha cracking for ethylene as feed selection and gas yield. Hydrocracking. Theory of hydrocracking. Catalysts for hydro cracking.

Course Outcomes:

After studying this course, students will be able to:

1. Introduce the petroleum refinery sector worldwide.
2. Develop knowledge of different refining processes
3. Develop knowledge of safety and pollution control in the refining industries.
4. To find the suitable refining technology for maximizing the yield.

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.

Graduate Attributes (as per NBA):

1. Critical Thinking
2. Problem solving
3. Use of modern tools
4. Life – long Learning

Text Books:

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

Reference Books:

1. Petroleum Refining Technology, Ram Prasad, 1st edn, 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. McGrawHill, 1967.

For detail syllabus of all other subjects of BE Che, 2017 regulation do visit Chemical Engineering 5th Sem syllabus for 2017 Regulation.

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