| Course Name | Petroleum Refinery Engineering |
| Course Code | 15MEC254 |
| Program | B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering |
| Year Taught | 2019 |
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.
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.
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.
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