'Petroleum Refinery Engineering' is a course offered in the B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering program at School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
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.
- B. K. BhaskaraRao -‘Modern Petroleum Refining Process’ - Oxford IBH Publishing Company, New Delhi.
- G. N. Sarkar - ‘Advanced Petroleum Refining’ - Khanna Publishers, Delhi - 2004
- W. L. Nelson - ‘Petroleum Refinery Engineering’ - McGraw Hill
- R. A. Meyer’s, -‘Hand Book of Petroleum Refining Process’ - McGraw Hill
- N. K. Sinha - ‘Petroleum Refining & Petrochemicals’
