Petroleum Refining and Petrochemical Technology
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Petroleum Refining and Petrochemical Technology Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Petroleum Refining and Petrochemical Technology (subject code 4360502) as prescribed for MECHANICAL · Semester 6 divides the course into 5 units, covering 46 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 (4360502)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
- 2.1.1. Dehydration and Desalting of crude oil
- 2.1.2. 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 :
- 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 3.1.3.a Visbreaking 3.1.3.b delayed coking and Fluid coking
- 3.1.4. Catalytic cracking
- 3.1.5. Fluidized bed catalytic cracking
- 3.2.1. Purpose of Reforming
- 3.2.2. Plat forming(Pt catalyst-Reforming)
- 3.3. Green refineries
- 3.3.1. Raw materials and products of green refineries
- 3.3.2. Conversion of conventional refinery to green refinery
- 3.3.3. Manufacturing of Hydrogenated vegetable oil or green diesel
Unit 4 Treatment Techniques
- 4.1. Purposes and methods of sulfur removal
- 4.2. Doctor's sweetening
- 4.3. Catalytic desulfurization
- 4.4. MEROX treatment
- 4.5. Treatment of Kerosene by liquid SO2 extraction
- 4.6. Solvent extraction processes
- 4.6.1. Furfural extraction method
- 4.6.2. Phenol extraction method
- 4.7. Purpose of dewaxing Dewaxing Techniques
- 4.8. Dewaxing with solvent
- 4.9. Ketone dewaxing
Unit 5 Petrochemicals
- 5.2. Manufacturing of important C1 compounds
- 5.3. Manufacturing of important C2 compounds
- 5.3.1. Vinyl chloride
- 5.3.2. Ethylene Oxide
- 5.4. Manufacturing of important C3 compounds
- 5.4.1. Propylene oxide
- 5.5. Chemicals from aromatics
- 5.5.1. Manufacture of Linear Alkyl Benzene
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