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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

302290 (v.4) Petroleum Processing 475

Area: Department of Chemical Engineering
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 6.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s): 302209 (v.3) Petroleum Processing 553 or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 302249 (v.3) Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics 223 or any previous version
AND
302263 (v.3) Reaction Engineering 325 or any previous version
Other Requisite(s): Appropriate Skills: Average mark of greater than or equal to 75% 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.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 030301 Chemical Engineering
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2012 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 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