MSc Advanced Chemical Engineering / Course details

The course starts by examining crude oil and natural gas properties. Refinery product properties are then examined. Petroleum refining requires special techniques for the representation of physical properties and process calculations. These will be developed before turning attention to refinery processes. For each process, the physical principles, chemistry and process flowsheets will be studied. Refineries need various supporting processes that will be reviewed. Systematic methods for hydrogen integration will be introduced. Then the integration of these processes to achieve different refining objectives is addressed.

For natural gas processing, the exploitation of the gas requires the gas to be transported to the market by pipelines or liquefaction. Alternatively, the gas can be transformed chemically to liquid fuels or converted to power. The module will give particular emphasis to the exploitation by liquefaction.

Course Contents

Introduction

Lecture 1         Crude Oil and Natural Gas

Petroleum Refinery Processes

Lecture 2         Bulk Properties of Refinery Streams

Lecture 3         Modelling Physical Properties of Refinery Streams

Lecture 4         Refinery Liquid Fuel Products

Lecture 5         Crude Oil Distillation

Lecture 6         Heat Integration of Crude Oil Distillation

Lecture 7         Catalytic Cracking

Lecture 8          Residue Reduction

Lecture 9          Octane Processes

Lecture 10       Hydroprocessing

Lecture 11       Hydrogen Supply

Petroleum Refinery Integration

Lecture 12       Hydrogen Integration

Lecture 13       Sulphur Recovery

Lecture 14       Refinery Integration

Gas Processing

Lecture 15       Compression and Expansion of Gases

Lecture 16       Refrigeration Processes

Lecture 17       Liquefied Natural Gas Cycles

Conclusions

Lecture 18       The Future of Oil and Gas Processing

On successful completion of CHEN60202, a student will be able to… (1) Apply techniques for the representation of physical properties of petroleum streams and their application to process calculations in petroleum refining. (2) Analyse and evaluate oil and gas processes and operations using relevant metrics. (3) Appraise how for the effective integration of refinery processes can be exploited to achieve different production objectives. (4) Demonstrate skills for defining, analysing and solving problems that are special to oil and gas processing.

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Core Reading

1.Gary JH and Handwerk GE (2001) “Petroleum Refining: Technology and Economics”, Marcel Dekker.

Essential Reading

2. Riazi MR (2005) “Characterization and Properties of Petroleum Fractions”, American Society of Testing Material

3. Meyer RA (2003) “Handbook of Petroleum Refinery Processes, 3rd Ed”, McGraw Hill.  

Recommended Reading

4. Chang A-F, Pashikanti K and Liu YA (2012) “Refinery Engineering”, Wiley-VCH.

5. Hydrocarbon Processing (2017), “2017 Refining Processes Handbook ”, Gulf