Petroleum Refining and Petro Chemicals
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The official GTU curriculum for Petroleum Refining and Petro Chemicals (subject code BE05005031) as prescribed for Chemical · Semester 5 divides the course into 7 units, covering 63 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (BE05005031)Unit 1 Basics of Petroleum
- Role of Crude Oil in Global Economy
- Present Scenario of Crude Oil Refinery
- Classification and Evaluation of Crude Oil, Crude Assay Analysis
- Distillation Characteristics such as TBP, ASTM & EFV etc
Unit 2 Properties of Petroleum Products
- Types of Gases and their Composition
- Types of Gasoline & it's Important Properties and Tests such as ASTM Distillation, RVP, Octane number
- Oxidation stability
- Sulphur Content etc.
- Various types of Naphtha and their Important Properties and Application
- Important tests and Properties of Kerosene such as Flash & Fire Point
- Smoke Point
- Aniline Point etc.
- Types of Diesel & its Important Properties and Tests such as Pour Point
- Diesel Index
- Cetane Number etc.
- Heavy Fractions Like Lube Oil, Bitumen
- Asphalt etc. and their Important Properties Such as Viscosity Index
- Carbon Residue
- Penetration Index
- Softening Point etc
Unit 3 Processing of Petroleum
- Pretreatment of Crude (Dehydration & Desalting)
- Pumping of Waxy Crude
- Heating of Crude
- Distillation of Petroleum & Types of Reflux
- ADU & VDU etc
Unit 4 Treatment Techniques
- Physical Impurities Found in Crude & their Removal
- Sweetening Techniques
- Production and Treatment of LPG, Gasoline Treatment Such as Lead Doctoring
- Merox Sweetening
- Catalytic Desulphurization etc
- Various Methods of Treatment of Lubes Such as Phenol Extraction
- Furfural Extraction, etc
- Program Name: Bachelor of Engineering Level: UG Branch: Chemical Engineering Subject Code: BE05005031 Subject Name: Petroleum Refining and Petro Chemicals
Unit 5 Thermal & Catalytic Cracking
- Necessity and types of cracking
- Thermal cracking: Mechanism of Thermal Cracking
- Properties of Cracked Materials
- Dubb's Two Coil Process
- Delayed Coking
- Naphtha Cracking etc
- Catalytic cracking: Advantages & Theory of Catalytic Cracking
- Fixed Bed, Moving Bed & Fluidized Bed Technology, FCC, Hydrocracking
- Catalytic Reforming
- Continuous Catalyst Regeneration Reforming
- Catalytic Polymerization
- Catalytic Alkylation
- Catalytic Isomerization etc
Unit 6 C1 and C2 Petrochemicals
- Chloromethane etc
- Ethylene Dichloride
- Vinyl Chloride
- Ethylene Oxide
- Ethylene Glycol
- Ethanol amines etc
Unit 7 C3, C4, Aromatics and Polymers
- Butadiene, etc
- BTX Separation
- p- terephthalic acid, etc
- PVC, LDPE
- Polypropylene Co-polymers
- Polystyrene, SBR, PBR, Polyesters etc
- Sustainability alignment: This course addresses with different weightage of SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation)
- SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy )
- SDG 9 (Industry
- Innovation, and Infrastructure)
- SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) and SDG 13 (Climate Action) by applications of Petroleum Refining and Petrochemicals subject knowledge essential for industrial operations
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