Petroleum Refinery Engineering

Unit 1

Origin, Extraction and Testing of petroleum.

Petroleum - Origin, nature, composition, classification, exploration, drilling, transportation and storage. Petroleum processing - Nature of crude from India, Indonesia, Burma and Middle East countries, classification of crude, evaluation of petroleum - Important properties and test methods T.B.P. and ASTM distillation.

Refining of Petroleum - Dewatering and desalting - Primary Oil refining - Treatments of crude - Topping, vacuum distillation.

Unit 2

Thermal cracking, visbreaking and coking, catalytic cracking, fluid bed and hydro cracking, reforming, chemical reforming and catalytic reforming, polymerization, alkylation, hydrogenation isomerisation, cyclization.

Treatment processes: Sweatening, desalting, hydrogen treatment, hydrodesulfurisation process, solvent extraction of kerosene, stabilization of gasoline. Lube oil manufacture - solvent dewaxing, solvent extraction, propane deasphalting, and treatment, clay treatment, hydro finishing, hydrotreatment, lube oil, additives and asphalt boiling.

Unit 3

Petroleum products: LPG Motor spirit, aviation gasoline, kerosene, aviation turbine fuel, white spirit, and solvents, diesel fuel, gas oil, fuel oil, petroleum coke, petroleum waxes, lubricating oil and bitumen. Petrochemicals - Olefines, acetylene, propylene, butadiene, isoprene, aromatics, benzene, xylene etc. Methanol, formaldehyde, chloromethane, ethylene oxide, ethanol amine, acetone, cumene, phenol, styrene, phthalicanhyride.