JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Objectives

The course is designed to

• Impart knowledge to the students about the latest developments in petrochemical engineering.
• To understand the various feed stocks of petro-chemical and its products.
• To get acquainted with basic manufacturing processes of various petro-chemical products.

Course Outcome

The student would be in a position to have a knowledge of feed-stocks used in the

petro-chemical engineering, various techniques used to produce various petrochemical products.

UNIT - I

Introduction: Petrochemical industry -Structures of petrochemical complexes-Feedstock for petrochemicals-Profile of petrochemicals and their end products-Indian Petrochemical industries - Profile of Indian petroleum and petrochemical Industry.

UNIT - II

Petrochemical Feed stocks -Naphtha cracking -Gas cracking and Gas reforming. Chemicals from gas reforming: Methanol- Acetic acid- Ammonia and urea. Production of ethylene & propylene: Separation of cracking products- Emerging technologies.

UNIT - III

Chemicals from C2 and C3 olefins: Ethylene oxide- MEG- Ethyl benzene-styrene. Acrylonitrile– butyraldehydes and butanols, 2-ethyl hexanol. Polymers based on olefins: LDPE, HDPE & LLDPE and Polypropylene- and polystyrene. C4 based Chemicals and others: Butadiene–1-Butene–n-Butenes-Isobutylene–n-Butene–Octenes– 1,4-Butanediol–Chloroprene–Isoprene- Maleic anhydride.

UNIT - IV

Aromatic production: Petroleum feedstock for aromatic hydrocarbons-Aromatic hydrocarbon production- catalytic reforming-Reactions in catalytic reforming-Reforming catalyst -Reforming process -Process variables in catalytic reforming-Pyrolysis gasoline as aromatics feedstock-Aromatic separation from reformate and pyrolysis gasoline- Emerging technologies for the production of BTX.

UNIT - V

Production of Chemicals based on aromatics: Phthalic anhydride–Linear alkyl benzene–Phenol–– Nitrobenzene and aniline Chemicals for Fibres: Cyclohexane– Caprolactam – Adipic acid –Adiponitrile–Hexamethylene diamene and Dimethyl terephthalete, Terephthalic acid –Polyester fibre (Polyethylene terephthalate)– Nylon 66–Nylon 6– Acrylic fibres.

TEXT BOOK:

• 1. Petrochemical Process Technology, ID Mall, Macmillan India Ltd., New Delhi. 2007.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• 1. Chemistry of Petrochemical Processes, Sami Matar and Lewis F.Hatch, 2nd Edition, Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, 2000.
• 2. Fundamentals of Petroleum Chemical Technology, P Belov, Mir Publishers, 1970.
• 3. Petrochemical Processes, A. Chauvel and G.Lefebvre, Volume 1 & 2, Gulf Publishing Company, 1989.
• 4. Petrochemical Production Processes, N.Naderpour, SBS Publishers, 2009.
• 5. Petrochemicals, B. K. Bhaskara Rao, Oxford & IBH Publishing, 2002.