Petroleum Refining & Petrochemical Technology
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Petroleum Refining & Petrochemical Technology Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Petroleum Refining & Petrochemical Technology (subject code 3350503) as prescribed for MECHANICAL · Semester 5 divides the course into 5 units, covering 50 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 (3350503)Unit 1 Basics of Petroleum and Refinery
- 1.1. Occurrence and history of Petroleum
- 1.2. Crude Petroleum oil reserves in India
- 1.3. Composition of Petroleum
- 1.4. Classification of Petroleum
- 1.5. Refineries development in Gujarat and India
- 1.6. Types of Refineries
- 1.7. Refinery processes
- 1.7.1. Physical changes
- 1.7.2. Chemical changes
- 1.8. Refinery products
Unit 2 Fractionation of Petroleum
- 2.1. Dehydration and Desalting of crude oil
- 2.2. Pipe still heater
- 2.3. Atmospheric distillation of crude
- 2.4. Vacuum distillation of crude residue
- 2.5. Physical properties of petroleum products and its measurements :
- 2.5.4. Lubricant oil
- 2.5.5. CNG and LPG
Unit 3 Refinery Processes
- 3.1.1. Purpose of cracking
- 3.1.2. Effect of temperature and pressure on Cracking Cracking methods
- 3.1.3. Thermal cracking
- 3.1.4. catalytic cracking 3.1.5Fluidised bed catalytic cracking 3b.Explain need of Reforming 3b.1 Differentiate thermal and catalytic reforming 3b.2 Identify effect of important parameters on reforming 3b.3 Explain Pt catalyst-Reforming
- 3.2.1. Purpose of Reforming
- 3.2.2. Differentiate thermal and catalytic reforming
- 3.2.3. Platforming(Pt catalyst-Reforming)
- 3.3. Other important refinery processes
- 3.3.3. Delayed coking
Unit 4 Treatment Techniques
- 4.1. Purposes and methods of sulphur removal
- 4.2. Doctor's sweetening
- 4.3. Catalytic desulfurization
- 4.4. MEROX treatment Petroleum Refining & Petrochemical Technology Course code: 3350503 GTU/NITTTR/Bhopal/14-15 Gujarat State 3 Unit Major Learning Outcomes (in cognitive domain) Topics and Sub-topics MEROX treatment
- 4.5. Treatment of Kerosene by liquid SO2 extraction
- 4.6. Solvent extraction processes
- 4.6.1. Furtural extraction method
- 4.6.2. Phenol extraction method
- 4.6.3. Duo sol extraction process
- 4.7. Purpose of dewaxing Dewaxing Techniques
- 4.8. Dewaxing without solvent
- 4.9. Dewaxing with solvent
- 4.9.1. Ketone dewaxing and propane dewaxing
Unit 5 Petrochemicals
- 5.1. Development of petrochemical industry in Gujarat and in India
- 5.2. Manufacturing of important C1 compounds
- 5.3. Manufacturing of important C2 compounds
- 5.3.1. Ethylene dichloride
- 5.3.2. Vinyl chloride
- 5.3.3. Ethylene Oxide
- 5.4. Manufacturing of important C3 compounds
- 5.4.2. Propylene oxide
- 5.5. Chemicals from aromatics
- 5.6. Manufacture of Linear Alkyl Benzene
- 5.7. Manufacture of Phenol by benzene sulfonate process
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