Oil and gas

process engineering
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Name and surname of the student :

Oil and gas – process engineering

EN0004

Final exam

2016-II

A. Instructions
115 minutes. The note for the exam will be on 20 points. The exercises are
independants. You can use all documents, books, computers, laptops,... You can not
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use phone, headsets or communicate with oteher people inside or outside UTEC (e-
mail, hang out, fb…are prohibited).

Indicate the unit in case of value, results.

B. Distillation of Conchan refinery – material (8 puntos)

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1) ¿ Identify the pre heat tren on the diagram ? 1P

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2) ¿ What does represent the equipment C-2 ? what is the function of this
equipments ? 1.5P

3) Do you have packing or trays in the tower ? what are the characteristics
associated ? 1P justify your response

4) What is the tray where the kerosene is extracted ? 0.5 P

5) ¿ What is the maximum temperature you can have at the outlet of the furnace F-
1 ? 1P justify your response

6) What kind of specific material could you find usually on the for a atmospheric
tower ? and why ? 1.5P

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7) Give 3 activities of predictive maintenance you could do on the feed pump P-1?
1.5P

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C. Process control of a distillation (3 puntos)

Identify the debutanizer on the diagram and then the equipment used to control the
reflux of this tower. 1 P

¿ What is the temperature on the top of the tower T503 ? 0.5 P

¿ What is the function of the equipment E509 ? 0.5 P

¿ How could you control the vaporization and temperature on the bottom of the column
T303 ? 1 P

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D. Heat exchangers (4 puntos)

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1) ¿ What is the duty of the heat exchanger ? 0.5 P

2) ¿ What is the number of tubes and diameter ? 1 P

3) ¿ What is the material and diameter of the shell ? 1 P

4) Assuming tubes of Outside diameter of tube and the tube length, what is the
surface of exchange of all the tubes for this exchanger ? 1.5 P

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E. Furnaces (5 puntos)
On the next page you have a specification datashhet of a furnace. Read it and
answer to the questions.

1) What is the duty of the furnace ? 0.5 P

2) What is the material of the tube ? type of steel? Composition ?1 P

3) What is the outlet operating pressure for the process fluid ? 0.5 P

4) What is the outlet pressure for the process fluid ? 0.5 P

5) Give one operating parameter important for the efficiency ? It is a parameter

with huge influence on the efficiency. Justify your response. 1.5 P

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6) Give an example of safety device for a furnace ?. Justify your response. 1 P

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