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.
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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

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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