Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Technical and Vocational Education
EXPERIMENTAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM
Specialty: Chemical Engineering Technology
Qualification: Oil and Gas Processing Technologist
Astana 2012
CONTENTS
EXPERIMENTAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM STRUCTURE 4
COLLECTION OF EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAMS BY TAUGHT SUBJECTS 28
STUDY CURRICULUM 296
METHODOLOGYCAL GUIDELINES 298
EXPERIMENTAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM STRUCTURE
For the middle level specialists on the following study course: Chemical Engineering Technology
Qualification: Oil and Gas Processing Technologist
Study form: full-time
Standard duration of study: 2 years and 10 months
On the base of: general secondary education
№ / Study cycles of subjects and knowledge, skills and competency requirements / Hours and credits / Name of subjects and units1. / General humanitarian subjects / 640 / 16.0
Learning outcome:
- Participate in a group discussion on a basic topic;
- Communicate clearly;
- Articulate opinions on a given topic;
- Produce a basic formal presentation;
- Use basic pronunciation rules;
- Write notes on a presentation or meeting;
- Give simple directions;
- Apply norms of academic, cultural and social practices;
- Use current and emerging technology within the academic environment;
- Use effective life skills;
- Apply correct usage of English grammar;
- Solve moderately complex problems of a technical and non-technical nature through group discussion;
- Express opinions, reasons, agreement and disagreement
- Use academic and subject-specific vocabulary in context;
- Dissect the structures of academic lectures;
- Derive meaning from moderately complex academic lectures;
- Synthesize information from electronic sources;
- Deliver presentations detailing moderately complex sequences of instructions or events;
- Implement single-word pronunciation patterns;
- Point out meaning from written text;
- Apply correct usage of English grammar;
- Parse parts of a paragraph;
- Write a simple sentence;
- Write a compound sentence;
- Write a complex sentence;
- Write a simple set of instructions;
- Establish the details of a simple situation;
- Write the steps of a simple process;
- Apply basic punctuation conventions (periods, commas and apostrophes);
- Deduce the meaning of vocabulary in context;
- Demonstrate good control of simple sentence structures;
- Demonstrate adequate control of complex sentence structures;
- Apply rules of punctuation, spelling and capitalization;
- Use academic and subject-specific vocabulary in context;
- Dissect the structures of academic texts;
- Write a variety of academic paragraphs. / 320 / 8.0 / English
Unit 1. Expressing oneself
Unit 2. Communication
Unit 3. Expressing Opinions
Unit 4. Presentations
Unit 5. Pronunciation
Unit 6. Note taking
Unit 7. Giving directions
Unit 8. Professionalism
Unit 9. Using Current Technology
Unit 10. Life skills
Unit 11. Grammar
Unit 12. Problem solving
Unit 13. Expressing oneself
Unit 14. Vocabulary in context
Unit 15. Outlining
Unit 16. Lecture comprehension
Unit 17. Electronic sources
Unit 18. Presentations
Unit 19. Pronunciation II
Unit 20. Comprehension and Comprehensibility
Unit 21. Reading Comprehension
Unit 22. Grammar Usage
Unit 23. Using forms
Unit 24. Outlining
Unit 25. Basic Writing
Unit 26. Basic Writing
Unit 27. Basic Writing
Unit 28. Writing instructions
Unit 29. Describing a simple situation
Unit 30. Describing a process
Unit 31. Using Basic Punctuation
Unit 32. Use Effective Life Skills
Unit 33. Use Effective Computer Skills
Unit 34. Reading Comprehension
Unit 35. Defining vocabulary in context
Unit 36. Simple Sentence Structures
Unit 37. Complex Sentence Structures
Unit 38. Punctuation, Spelling and Capitalization
Unit 39. Using Vocabulary in Context
Unit 40. Academic Text Structure
Unit 41. Academic Paragraph Writing
Learning outcome:
- Offer apologies, requests, regrets and excuses in a calm, controlled manner;
- Respond verbally to apologies, requests, regrets and excuses in a calm, controlled manner;
- Make an appointment or arrangement through direct verbal contact;
- Apply techniques to manage a conversation in the amount of detail appropriate for the time frame;
- Express a set of instructions in a verbal form;
- Support one’s point of view through persuasive language and logical reasoning;
- Use reasons and consequences to relate sequence of events;
- Contribute to a small group discussion or meeting
- Apply verbal and non-verbal skills while speaking;
- Separate specific factual details from video or audio presentations;
- Assess the role of nonverbal cues in your own communication;
- Adapt your listening habits to listen more effectively for understanding and to respond empathetically and nonjudgmentally;
- Measure the emotions of others before expressing opinions ;
- Express professional responses to situations that require positive or critical feedback;
- Organise your ideas for one-on-one workplace meeting;
- Formulate strategies for participating in small group discussion/meetings;
- Combine communication principles to create and deliver presentations;
- Write a sequence of events
- Analyse a given location subjectively and objectively;
- Write a process in multi-paragraph form;
- Write formal e-mail messages;
- Complete a moderately complex job application form;
- Create a point-form summary of an oral message;
- Extract factual information from a company policy document;
- Organise selected pieces of information from a moderately complex reading passage into a point-form list;
- Assess facts in diagrams, charts, or graphs;
- Apply language to all writing tasks. / 320 / 8.0 / Professional English
Unit 1. Apologizing
Unit 2. Responding clearly
Unit 3. Making Appointments
Unit 4. Managing a Conversation
Unit 5. Giving Instructions
Unit 6. Persuading
Unit 7. Relating a Sequence of events
Unit 8. Having a Meeting
Unit 9. Presenting Orally
Unit 10. Note Taking
Unit 11. Comprehension and comprehensibility
Unit 12. Nonverbal Communication
Unit 13. Effective listening
Unit 14. Measuring emotions
Unit 15. Giving feedback
Unit 16. Preparing and structuring your message
Unit 17. Meeting strategies
Unit 18. Effective Presentations
Unit 19. Listening and note taking
Unit 20. Sequencing
Unit 21. Location Descriptions
Unit 22. Processes
Unit 23. E-mailing
Unit 24. Forms
Unit 25. Extracting information
Unit 26. Point-form Organization
Unit 27. Locating information
Unit 28. Functional language
Unit 29. Professionalism
2. / General Professional Subjects / 640 / 16.0
Learning outcome:
- Demonstrate an understanding of fundamental mathematical operations and their proper order;
- Demonstrate an understanding of factors of whole numbers by determining the prime factors, greatest common factor, least common multiple, square root and cube root;
- Solve problems that involve linear measurement, using SI and imperial units of measure, estimation strategies and measurement strategies;
- interpret and explain the relationships among data, graphs and situations;
- Demonstrate an understanding of the absolute value of real numbers;
- Demonstrate an understanding of angles in standard position [0C to 360°];
- Demonstrate an understanding of factoring polynomials of degree greater than 2 (limited to polynomials of degree < 5 with integral coefficients);
- Demonstrate an understanding of logarithms;
- Demonstrate an understanding of operations on and compositions of functions;
- Demonstrate an understanding of angles in standard position expressed in degrees and radians. / 240 / 6.0 / Mathematics.
Unit 1. Number Skills (Review)
Unit 2. Algebra and Numbers
Unit 3. Measurement
Unit 4. Relations and Functions
Unit 5. Algebra and Numbers
Unit 6.Trigonometry
Unit 7. Relations and Functions
Unit 8. Polynomials and Transformations
Unit 9. Exponents and Logarithms
Unit 10. Functions
Unit 11. Trigonometric Functions, Equations and Identities
Learning outcome:
- Describe motion in terms of displacement, velocity, acceleration and time;
- Explain the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on velocity;
- Explain circular motion, using Newton s laws of motion;
- Describe the conditions that produce oscillatory motion;
- explain how momentum is conserved when objects interact in an isolated system;
- Explain the behavior of electric charges, using the laws that govern electrical interactions;
- Explain the nature and behavior of EMR using the wave model;
- Describe the electrical nature of the atom. / 160 / 4.0 / Physics.
Unit 1. Kinematics
Unit 2. Dynamics
Unit 3. Circular Motion, Work and Energy
Unit 4. Oscillatory Motion and Mechanical Waves
Unit 5. Momentum and Impulse Learning
Unit 6. Forces and Fields
Unit 7. Electromagnetic Radiation
Unit 8. Atomic Physics
Learning outcome:
- Explain the basic components of chemistry;
- Describe the role of modeling, evidence and theory m explaining and understanding the structure, chemical bonding and properties of molecular substances;
- Explain molecular behavior, using models of gaseous state of matter;
- Investigate solutions, describing their physical and chemical properties;
- Explain how balanced chemical equations indicate die quantitative relationships between reactants and products involved in chemical changes;
- Determine and interpret energy changes in chemical reactions;
- Explain the nature of oxidation-reduction reactions;
- Explore organic compounds as a common form of matter;
- Explain that there is a balance of opposing reactions in chemical equilibrium systems;
- Determine quantitative relationships in simple equilibrium systems. / 160 / 4.0 / Chemistry.
Unit 1. Fundamentals of Chemistry and Matter
Unit 2. The diversity of Matter and Chemical Bonding
Unit 3. Forms of Matter: Gases
Unit 4. Matter as Solutions, Acids and Bases
Unit 5. Quantitative Relationships in Chemical Changes
Unit 6. Thermochemical changes
Unit 7. Electrochemical changes
Unit 8. Chemical Changes of Organic Compounds
Unit 9. Chemical Changes Focusing on Acid-Base Systems
o Learning outcome:
- Explain the basic physical and chemical properties of oil, natural gas and stratal water and apply this knowledge in the design of drilling fields;
- Understand the basics of the origins of oil and gas, explain the nature of the deposits formation;
- Understand and apply different methods of field searching and exploration, to describe the main stages of exploration of deposits;
- Recognize the main stages of oil and gas, refinery processing, and understand their differences, classify the types of oil and gas refineries, evaluate the current state of oil and gas;
- Choose and apply the modern petroleum applications software, used in the process of oil and gas production;
- Understand the world oil and gas market conditions, the peculiarities of the international trade, the role of OPEC in the process of oil pricing. / 80 / 2.0 / Introduction to Oil and Gas Business
Unit 1. Physical-chemical properties of the oil, natural gas and stratal water
Unit 2. Basic information on oil, gas and gas liquids deposits
Unit 3. Basics of oil field development and operation of wells
Unit 4. Basics of Oil and Gas Refining Process
Unit 5. Computer Technologies in Oil and Gas Production
Unit 6. The World Oil Market
3. / Special Sybjects / 2610 / 151.5
Learning outcome:
- Interpret simple phase diagrams and relate them to steam tables;
- Discuss the use of two-component diagrams and interpret the distillation curves of multi-component mixtures such as petroleum refinery feeds;
- Describe the important organic compounds used in power and processing industries, using their basic structures, and physical and chemical properties;
- Solve steady-state material balance problems for processes that do not involve chemical reactions;
- Calculate theoretical and excess air required for combustion and the composition of stack gas for a given fuel and conditions;
- Describe the purpose and methods of fuel analysis;
- Describe the conditions required for combustion, discuss the analysis of fuels and describe how the products of combustion are analyzed;
- Use oxidation and reduction concepts when discussing electrochemical changes occurring during corrosion reactions;
- Describe the most common types of corrosion that affect industrial equipment;
- Describe the more common methods used by industry to control corrosion;
- Describe the more common methods used by industry to monitor corrosion;
- Describe water sources, impurities, and treatment facilities;
- Calculate subsidence rates for particles in water and discuss methods for chemical clarification and subsequent sand filtering of turbid water;
- Explain the system used for potable water purification;
- Discuss the causes and treatment of hard water scaling and corrosion and the common methods used to soften water. / 65 / 3.0 / Engineering Chemistry
Unit 1. Phase Behavior of Pure Substances
Unit 2. Phase Behavior of Mixtures
Unit 3. Introduction to Organic Chemistry
Unit 4. Elementary Material Balance Calculations
Unit 5. Combustion Fundamentals
Unit 6. Fuel Analysis and Heating Values
Unit 7. Measurements and Applications of Hydrocarbon
Combustion
Unit 8. Basic Oxidation-Reduction Chemistry
Unit 9. Corrosion Mechanisms
Unit 10. Corrosion Control
Unit 11. Corrosion Monitoring
Unit 12. Introduction to Water Impurities and Treatment
Unit 13. Water Treatment: Subsidence, Coagulation and
Sand Filtration
Unit 14. Potable Water Purification
Unit 15. Water Treatment: Scale Formation and Water Softening
Learning outcome:
- Explain the Chemical processes important in Pulp Paper Industry;
- Explain the chemistry of the lime softening process;
- Explain the chemistry of and processes to produce cement;
- Understand the overall refining process and the associated unit operations;
- Explain how the distillation process is used to produce specific intermediate and final products;
- Explain the significant of these processes in the refining process;
- Analyze an industrial process stream and produce a written report, and give an oral presentation, based on a group analysis;
- Seven labs will be conducted by each individual in two-hour sessions every second week. These labs will enable the student to synthesize products manufactured on a large scale in a number of industrial processes. Lab reports will be submitted at the beginning of the next lab period. A lab exam will be administered in the theory hours. / 80 / 3.0 / Process Chemistry.
Unit 1. Pulp and Paper
Unit 2. Lime Softening
Unit 3. Cement Production
Unit 4. The Refining Process
Unit 5. The Refinery Distillation Process
Unit 6. The Refinery Coking and Catalytic Reforming Processes
Unit 7. Industrial Process Stream Analysis
Unit 8. Laboratory Experiments
Learning outcome:
- Apply the concepts of stoichiometry in engineering calculations;
- Understand the concepts and applications advanced of mass balances;
- Solve gas problems involving gas mixtures and real gas relationships;
- Discuss terminology and perform calculation related to the concentration of vapour in gas-vapour mixtures with special emphasis on air water mixtures;