302290 (v.3) ChE 475 Petroleum Processing

Area:

Department of Chemical Engineering

Credits:

12.5

Contact Hours:

2.5

** 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 2 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

2 x 1 Hours Monthly

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
302246 (v.2) ChE 221 Fluid Mechanics 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 to be achieved.

Syllabus:

Requirements of the hydrocarbon age - products and specifications, chemistry of crude oil, hydrocarbon types, crude oil types, crude characterisation. Distillation - refining topography, distillation, atmospheric, vacuum, pressurised. Reforming and cracking - reforming, catalytic cracking. Gas production - hydrocracking, hydroprocessing. Light end - light end processing, alkylation, catalytic polymerisation, isomerisation. Heavy end - heavy end strategies (lube production, bitumen, coking), sulphur and sulphur treating (sulphur removal and sweetening, sulphur recovery, amine systems), 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

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

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
2005	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2005	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