Teaching scheme: 3 hours lecture and 1 hour tutorial per week Credits: 7
Course Description
This course presents a comprehensive introduction to petroleum refining technology and calculations. The focus is on transportation fuels refineries is also discussed. The program includes an overview of crude oil supply and petroleum product demand. This is followed with a description of refinery process technology. Major refining technologies are described such as crude oil distillation, heavy oil conversion options, hydrotreating, and catalytic reforming.
Objectives
•To impart the basic concepts of petroleum processing and manufacture of Petrochemicals
•To develop understanding about refining and post refining operations
Specific learning Outcomes
Understanding of oil refining and associated downstream processing technologies, operations and calculations; process safety, oil products – properties and Specifications, operations integrity; and methods for oil productions with their calculations.
No. / Topic / Hours1 / Classification of Crude Oils, Composition of Crude Oils / 4
2 / Physical and Chemical Properties of Crude oil and Oil Products / 10
3 / Evaluation of Crude Oil / 4
4 / Crude Oil Pre-treatment, Fractionation of Crude Oil (Atmospheric and Vacuum Distillation, Light End Fractionation, Process Description) / 8
5 / Thermal Cracking and Coking Processes / 6
6 / Catalytic Operations (Processes and calculations) - (Fluid Catalytic Cracking, Hydrocracking, Hydrotreating, Catalytic Reforming, Isomerization, Alkylation, Catalytic Dewaxing) / 26
7 / Chemical Treatment of Oil Products / 4
8 / Lubricating Oils (Specifications, Production Process, Calculations) / 4
9 / Solvent Refining (Solvent Deasphalting, Solvent Extraction, Solvent Dewaxing, Wax Deoiling) / 6
10 / Oil Products – Properties and Specifications, Description of Process Flow and Calculations- (Oil Gases, Gasoline, Kerosene, Jet Fuel, Gas Oil, Diesel Oil, Fuel Oil, Asphalt, Greases and Wax) / 12
11 / Safety and Environmental Aspects in Refining (Air Quality, Sulfur Recovery, Wastes in Refinery Units, Fugitive Emissions) / 6
Percentage of change 14%
Text Book
Nelson, W.L., Petroleum Refinery Engineering,
References
1-Hsu, Ch.s. and Robinson, P.R., Practical Advances in Petroleum Processing, Springer.
2-Fahim, M.A.; Al-Shahhaf, T.A. and Elkilani, A.S., Fundamentals of Petroleum Refining, Elsevier.
3-Riazi, M. R., Characterization and Properties of Petroleum Fractions, ASTM International.
Grading
No. / Assessment / Number / % each / % total / DatesTheoretical
1 / Homework (HW), Quizzes(Q) / 10
2 / TEST 1 / 1 / 7.5 % / 7.5
3 / TEST 2 / 1 / 7.5 % / 7.5
4 / TEST 3 / 1 / 7.5 % / 7.5
5 / TEST 4 / 1 / 7.5 % / 7.5
6 / Final Exam (F) / 1 / 50 % / 50
Theoretical Total / 90
Practical
1 / Report for all Experiences / 5 % / 5
2 / TEST 1 / 2.5 % / 2.5
3 / Final Exam / 2.5 % / 2.5
Practical Total / 10
Overall Total ( Theoretical + Practical) / 100
1-For Laboratory
Internal Continuous Assessment (Maximum Marks-5)
60%-Laboratory practical and record
30%- Test/s
10%- Regularity in the class
End Semester Examination (Maximum Marks-5)
Procedure, conducting tutorials, results, tabulation, and inference
2- For Theory Subjects
Internal Continuous Assessment (Maximum Marks-40)
75 % - Tests (minimum 4)
20 % - Assignments (minimum 2) such as homework, problem solving, group discussions, quiz, seminar, term-project, software exercises, etc.
5 % - Regularity in the class
TU Examination Pattern (Maximum Marks-50)
PART A: Short answer questions (one/two sentences) 5 x 2 marks= 10 marks
All questions are compulsory. There should be at least one question from each module and not more thantwo questions from any module.
PART B: Analytical/Problem solving questions 4 x 5 marks= 20 marks
Candidates have to answer four questions out of six. There should be at least one question from eachmodule and not more than two questions from any module.
PART C: Descriptive/Analytical/Problem solving questions 2 x 10 marks= 20 marks
Two questions from each module with choice to answer one question.