Petroleum Refining and Petroleum Technology
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The official GTU curriculum for Petroleum Refining and Petroleum Technology (subject code DI04005071) as prescribed for MECHANICAL · Semester 4 divides the course into 5 units, covering 25 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 (DI04005071)Unit 1 Basics of Petroleum and Refinery
- 1.1. Occurrence of petroleum
- 1.2. Composition of Petroleum
- 1.3. Classification of Petroleum
- 1.4. Types of Refineries
- 1.5. Refinery processes
- 1.5.1. Physical Changes
- 1.5.2. Chemical Changes
- 1.6. Refinery Products
Unit 2 Fractionation of Petroleum
- 2.1. Primary treatment of crude (a) Dehydration and Desalting of crude oil (b) Pipe still heaters
- 2.2. Atmospheric distillation of crude
- 2.3. Vacuum distillation of crude residue
- 2.4. Physical properties of petroleum products and its measurements: (a) Petrol (b) Diesel (c) Kerosene (d) Lubricant oil (e) CNG and LPG (f) Grease
Unit 3 Refinery Processes
- 3.1. Cracking (a) Purpose of cracking (b) Effect of temperature and pressure on Cracking (c) Cracking methods i. Thermal Cracking: Visbreaking, Delayed Coking and Fluid Coking ii. Catalytic Cracking iii. Fluidized Bed Catalytic Cracking iv. Hydrocracking (d) Compare thermal and catalytic cracking
- 3.2. Reforming (a) Purpose of reforming (b) Platforming
Unit 4 Treatment
- 4.1. Purposes and methods of sulfur removal
- 4.2. Methods of sulfur removal 11 24 GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Program Name: Diploma Engineering Level: Diploma Branch: Chemical Engineering Subject Code: DI04005071 Subject Name: Petroleum Refining and Petroleum Technology w.e.f. 2025-26 http://syllabus.gtu.ac.in/ Page 3 of 5 Techniques (a) Doctor's sweetening (b) Catalytic desulfurization (c) MEROX treatment
- 4.3. Treatment of Kerosene by liquid SO2 extraction
- 4.4. Solvent extraction processes (a) Furfural extraction method (b) Phenol extraction method
- 4.5. Purpose of dewaxing
- 4.6. Dewaxing Techniques (a) Dewaxing without solvent (b) Dewaxing with solvent i. Ketone dewaxing
Unit 5 Petrochemicals
- 5.1. Basics of petrochemicals: Definition, Classification and feedstocks for petrochemicals
- 5.2. Manufacturing of important C1 compounds (a) Methanol (b) Formaldehyde
- 5.3. Manufacturing of important C2 compounds (a) Vinyl chloride (b) Ethylene oxide
- 5.4. Manufacturing of important C3 compounds (a) Propylene oxide
- 5.5. Chemicals from aromatics (a) Manufacture of LAB
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