Unit 1 Introduction

3 lecture hours

• Indian and Global Petroleum Industries: an overview
• emerging crude oil quality and fuel norms
• natural gas, shale gas and gas hydrates
• changing scenario in crude oil and natural gas availability

Unit 2 Composition of petroleum, laboratory tests, refinery feedstocks and

3 lecture hours

• Evaluation of crude oil properties and Design of crude oil distillation column
• well testing
• exploration and

Unit 3 Evaluation of crude oil and petroleum products, Composition of crude

3 lecture hours

• TBP Assay
• ASTM distillation
• Product quality analysis and fuel norms

Unit 5 Thermal Conversion Processes

3 lecture hours

• Thermal Cracking Reactions
• Thermal Cracking
• Vis breaking
• Coking Processes
• Delayed and Flexi Coking
• Petroleum Coke

Unit 6 Catalytic Conversion Process

6 lecture hours

• Cracking Feed stocks and reactors
• Effect of process variables
• Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC)
• Catalyst coking and regeneration
• Design concepts
• New Designs for Fluidized-Bed Catalytic Cracking Units
• Catalytic Reforming
• Objective and application of catalytic reforming process
• reforming catalysts
• Reformer feed
• reforming reactor design continuous and semi regenerative process

Unit 7 Hydro treating and Hydro cracking

3 lecture hours

• Objectives & Hydro cracking Reactions
• Hydro cracking feed stocks
• Modes of Hydro cracking
• Effects of process variables
• Hydro treating process and catalysts Resid hydro processing
• Reactor design concepts

Unit 8 Isomerization, Alkylation and Polymerization

4 lecture hours

• Isomerization process
• Effects of process variables
• Alkylation process
• catalysts and effect of process variables
• Polymerization: Objectives

Unit 9 Lube oil processing

8 lecture hours

• propane deasphalting Solvent extraction
• Additives production from refinery feed stocks
• Finishing and Sweetening processes : Desulfurization and hydro desulfurisation of petroleum products.
• Sweetening Processes
• Desulphurisation of sour water
• sulphur recovery Program Name: Master of Engineering Level: PG Branch: Computer Aided Process Design Subject Code: ME02072061 Subject Name: Petroleum Technology

Unit 10 Petrochemical Technology

5 lecture hours

• Physical & Chemical Properties
• Various Routes of Production
• Manufacturing Processes
• Flow Sheets
• Thermodynamics & Kinetics Consideration of important petrochemicals like Caprolactum
• carbon black
• acetic acid etc

Unit 11 Future refining trends Bio fuel, gas to liquid technology, carbon foot prints

• in petroleum refining
• concept of Petrochemical refinery
• gas refinery and Bio refinery
• Introduction to petroleum software 4 9