4th Sem, Petro

Technology of Intermediate Petrochemicals Petro 4th Sem Syllabus for VTU BE 2017 Scheme

Technology of Intermediate Petrochemicals detail syllabus for Petroleum Engineering (Petro), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17PC44), 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 technology of intermediate petrochemicals is as follows.

Course Objectives:

This course will enable students to expose to process industries of engineering importance

  1. Able to identify unit operations & unit process involved
  2. Able to understand lay out of material flow diagrams
  3. Terminology of equipment’s employed
  4. Identify problems associated & involved at manufacturing
  5. Identify feed stocks & by-products involved at manufacturing activities.

Module 1
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Module 2

Fertilizers – Ammonia, Urea, Ammonium chloride, Ammonium nitrate, Ammonium phosphate, Ammonium sulphate, DAP. Coal Chemicals – Classification of coals, Destructive of coal, Coking of coal, Coal tar distillation and Chemicals from coals.

Module 3

Chemicals from C1 Compounds – Manufacture of methanol, Formaldehyde, Trichloroethylene, Perchloroethylene. Chemicals from C2 Compounds – Ethylene and Acetylene via steam cracking of hydrocarbons, Ethylene dichloride production, Vinyl chloride production via acetylene – HCl reaction.

Module 4
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Module 5

Fermentation Industries – Production of alcohol, Distilled liquors, Acetic acid and Citric acid. Metallurgical Industries – Pig iron production, Flow scheme for steel manufacture, Purification of alumina from bauxite by Bayer process, Flow scheme for copper ore concentrate.

Course Outcomes:

After studying this course, students will be able to:

  • Identify raw materials, by-products operations & processes associated
  • Process parameters & Safety measures associated during manufacturing
  • Understand importance of process industry in nation building
  • Engineering problems involved at manufacturing activities

Graduate Attributes (as per NBA):

  • Engineering Knowledge
  • Problem Analysis
  • Design/development of solutions (Partly)
  • 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. Petrochemicals, B.K. Bhaskar Rao, CRC Press,1990.
  2. Chemicals from Petroleum, A.L. Waddams, 2nd Edition, ELBS, London, 1970.

Reference Books:

  1. Dryden’s Outlines of Chemical Technology, Gopal Rao M and Marshall Sittig, 3rd Edition, East-West Press, 1997.
  2. Chemical process industries, 5 edition, Shreve and Austin, McGraw Hill, 1984.
  3. Chemical Technology, G.N. Pandey, 3 Edition, Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., 1977.
  4. Chemical Technology, Mukhlyonov, Mir Publications, 1982.

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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