CHE 1014

PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY
By
Dr. Bandaru Kiran
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering Department (SCHEME)
SMV-118B
VIT-Vellore
Mob: 7981343089
 Course Performance Evaluation Pattern
Exam type % of Weightage
• Digital Assignment-1 10
• Cat-1 15
• Quick quiz 10
• Digital Assignment-2 10
• Cat-2 15
• FAT 40
• Additional Learning 10
 Module-1
Petroleum 6 Lectures
• Origin, Composition,
• Classification and constituents of petroleum dehydration of crude oil
• Transportation of crude oil
• Classification of petroleum
 Module-2
Distillation 4 Lectures
• Components of crude oil
• Distillation-various crude oil distillation systems
• Uses of petroleum products
 Module-3
Cracking 6 Lectures
• Necessity of cracking-types of cracking
• Advantages and disadvantages of catalytic cracking over thermal cracking
• Houdrys fixed bed processes
• Moving bed processes
• Fluid bed catalytic cracking processes.
 Module-4
Reforming 7 Lectures
• Thermal and catalytic Reforming
• Polymerization
• Alkylation
• Isomerisation
 Module-5
Purification of petroleum products 6 Lectures
• Sweetening processes types
• Merox (Mercaptan oxidation)
• HDS (Hydro de-sulfurization)
• Dewaxing
• Deasphalt
• Lube oil treatment
 Module-6
Properties of petroleum products 6 Lectures
• Specific gravity-vapour pressure-viscosity-red wood viscometer
• Flash point-fire point-pour point-smoke point-aniline point-diesel index
• Octane number
• Performance number-cetane number
• Properties of greases
• Drop point of grease.
 Module-7
Knocking 6 Lectures
• Reasons for knocking
• Additives in petrol
• Aviation gasoline
• Aviation turbine
• Fuel (Aviation turbine fuel, ATF)
• Storage and handling of liquid fuels
 Module-8
• Industrial visit, 4 Lectures
• Guest lecture
• Seminar
 References
Text Books
• 1. Speight, J.G., Petroleum Refining Process Taylor and Francis, 2009
• 2. B.K. Bhaskar Rao, Modern Petroleum Refining Processes, 5th Edition Oxibh,
2013.
Reference Books
• 1. Petroleum Refinery Engineering, Nelson, McGraw Hill.
• 2. Modern Petroleum Technology, GD Hobson and W. Rohl, Applied Science, 1994.
• 3. Elements of fuels Furnaces and Refractories O.P. Gupta