Courses Handbook 2008 - [ Archived ]

302290 (v.3) ChE 475 Petroleum Processing


Area: Department of Chemical Engineering
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 3.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s): 302209 (v.2) ChE 553 Petroleum Processing or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 302240 (v.3) ChE 227 Process Principles or any previous version
AND
308807 (v.1) Fluid Mechanics 230 or any previous version
Other Requisite(s): Appropriate Skills: Average mark of greater than or equal to 65% in ChE 325 Reaction Engineering 302263 and ChE 223 Thermodynamics 302249
Syllabus: Requirements of the hydrocarbon age: products and specifications, chemistry of crude oil, hydrocarbon types, crude oil types and crude characterisation. Distillation: refining topography, distillation, atmospheric, vacuum and pressurised. Reforming andcracking: reforming, catalytic cracking. Gas production: hydrocracking and hydroprocessing. Light end: light end processing, alkylation, catalytic polymerisation and isomerisation. Heavy end: heavy end strategies (lube production, bitumen, coking), sulphur and sulphur treating (sulphur removal and sweetening, sulphur recovery, amine systems) and miscellaneous processes (drying, desalting). Logistics and economics: refining and logistics, economics and optimisation.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 030301 Chemical Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2008 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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