PETR 409 - Refining and Petrochemical Technology

Description
This course will cover the following topics: the main oil refining processes; these will include desalting, atmospheric and vacuum tower distillation, cracking, isomerization, alkylation, hydrogenation, desulfurization, coking processes; gaseous products, gasoline and diesel fuel properties and blending, octane numbers and additives, kerosene, lubricating oil and fuel oil properties. Petrochemical production processes will be introduced by considering separation processes for basic components; polymerization processes and the production processes for materials such as polyethylene, polypropylene, PVC, ethylene oxide and ethylene glycol, ethyl and isopropyl alcohols, acetic acid, and other basic organic materials used in industry; properties of petrochemical materials, thermoplastics, resins, fibres and foams.

1.5 Credits