YACHAY TECH UNIVERSITY

COURSE SYLLABUS: Petrochemical Processes Analysis. CODE: CHEMEDP30

(Based on the Regulation on Academic Regime issued by the Higher Education Council (CES in Spanish)
and the Regulation on Academic Regime of Yachay Tech)
1. General Information
A) SCHOOL School of Chemical Sciences and B) MAJOR Petrochemical engineering
Engineering
C) SEMESTER Tenth D) ACADEMIC PERIOD January -May 2019
E) CURRICULAR UNIT Professional F) MODALITY Attending mode (face to face format)
G) HOURS / CREDITS 208 hours/5 credits H) PROFESSORS Ernesto Bastardo-González
I) WEEKLY CLASS SCHEDULE Lecture: Monday 3.30-5.00 pm J) WEEKLY TUTORING CLASSES Friday 10.00-14.00
Thursday 12.30-2.00 pm
Laboratory: Monday 5.00-8.00 pm

2.
PREREQUIREMENTS CO-REQUIREMENTS
COURSES COURSE CODE COURSES COURSE CODE
Chemical Kinetic and Reactors CHEM 606
3. Course Description
Modern civilization cannot live without petroleum and petrochemical. Commodities manufactured from petrochemical, such as plastics, rubbers and
synthetics fibers derived from petroleum have become part and parcel of our daily life. Future crude oil will be heavier and contaminated with unwanted
salts and metals, which will make production and processing costlier than ever before. After the course, the students would be able to understand the
importance of petrochemical processes in gas and oil industry, as well as the chemical fundaments involved. The course will be focused in crude oil and
its composition, physical properties, exploration oil field development and oil production processes. Also, petroleum products and their uses in common
life, processing operation and instrumentation and control in a refinery will be discussed.
4. Course´s Contribution to professional training
The content of the course has been prepared to provide a holistic working knowledge for future engineers about petroleum and petrochemical
technology. Knowledge on essential preliminaries for the exploration and production of crude petroleum oil and gas, analysis of crude oil and petroleum
products, fundamentals of lubricating oil and grease and common interest to engineers in refineries and petrochemical plants are important in the
formation of engineering students.
 5. Course objectives
“To educate students to understand petrochemical processes commonly used in gas and oil industries, and the importance of the petrochemical
products and all engineering and chemical fundaments involved”.

6. Course´s learning results (according to the Learning Outcomes of the Major)

- Understand the importance of petrochemical industry and the processes involved.
- Understand processing and operations in petrochemical industry.
-Understand the definition of petrochemical compounds and their uses in common life.
- Understand the importance of instrumentation and control in refineries.

7. Competencies that students developed in the course

General Competence
- To educate students about processes in gas and oil industries and their principles, as well as the main products their uses.
Specific Competences
- Knowledge in the fundaments of oil crude oil and its components.
- Knowledge in petrochemical processes and gas and oil industries, processing operation in petroleum refinery.
- Knowledge in the obtaining of petrochemical products and their uses.
- Knowledge in the instrumentation and control in refineries and petrochemical industries.

8. Units / Content / Hours / Evaluation method for students

CURRICULAR UNITS CONTENT TEACHING HOURS OF HOURS OF EVALUATION METHODS

HOURS INTERNSHIP AND INDEPENDENT AND CRITERIA
LEARNING
EXPERIMENTAL
LEARNING
UC.1. Crude Petroleum Oil 1.1 Definition of crude petroleum oil 1.5 28 Continuous assessment
and its composition
1.2 Origin of the hydrocarbons 1.5 Continuous assessment
1.3 Physical properties of crude oil 1.5 Continuous assessment
1.4 Oil field development and 2 6 Continuous assessment
exploration techniques.
UC.2. Processing 2.1 Crude oil receiving 1.5 6 28 Continuous assessment
Operation in a 2.2 Distillation and stripping 1.5 Continuous assessment
Petroleum Refinery
2.3 Liquified gas petroleum splitter 3 Continuous assessment
2.4 Naphtha redistillation and 1.5 Continuous assessment
pretreatment
2.5 Hydrodesulfurisation of petroleum 3 3 Continuous assessment
fractions
2.6 Fluid catalytic cracking and coking 1.5 6 Seminars and
evaluations
UC.3. Petrochemical 3.1 Definition of petrochemical 1.5 28 Continuous assessment
3.2 Naphtha cracking 3 Continuous assessment
3.3 Conversion processes for selected 1.5 Continuous assessment
petrochemical
3.4 Polymers and uses 3 Continuous assessment
3.5 Processing of plastics, rubbers and 2 Continuous assessment
fibers
3.6 Polyurethane 1.5 Continuous assessment
3.7 Petrochemical complex 2 6 Continuous assessment
3.8 Presentations 1.5 3 Seminars and problems
UC.4. Instrumentation 4.1 Distributed and control system 2 28 Continuous assessment
and Control in a 4.2 Vacuum distillated control 2 6 Continuous assessment
Refinery 4.3 Fluid catalytic cracking unit control 2 Continuous assessment
4.4 Reformer unit control 2
4.5 Fire and explosion 2 6
4.6 Safety analysis 2 6
Seminars

TOTAL 48 48 112
 9. Relation between the learning results of the course and Major´s objectives.
MAJOR´S LEARNING RESULTS (ONLY THOSE THAT APPLY CONTRIBUTION OF STUDENT IS REQUIRED TO:
SPECIFICALLY TO THE COURSE) THE COURSE (HIGH- (EVIDENCE OF LEARNING)
MEDIUM-LOW) TO
THE LEARNING
OUTCOMES OF THE
MAJOR

A To know the nature of crude oil and its components

B To know the different processes in petrochemical industry
To know the definition of petrochemical products and their
C
uses A Approval of the subject at the end of the semester
To know fundaments in instrumentation and control in
D
petroleum refineries.
To know the chemical and engineering fundaments in
E
petrochemical industries

10. Methodology
THEORETICAL CLASSES
COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
PROPOSALS FOR INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE FROM COURSES (vertical and horizontal)
OTHERS

11. Information Sources (Bibliography)

11.1 Main
Author/s Title of Work Edition Year of Publication Publishing house - Availability at
Country YACHAY TECH
Library
Chaudhuri, U. R. Fundamentals of Petroleum and 1st 2011 CRC Press NO
Petrochemical Engineering

Dryden, C. E. Outlines of Chemical Technologies 1st 2008 East-West Press NO

 12.
Midterm Exam (MT) - % and Final Exam (FI) - % and method Laboratory Note Total - %
method
30% 30% 40% 100
midterm: 03/26/2019 Final: 05/20/2019

Recuperation rules:
- In case of having failed the subject, only the students who have submitted the midterm I and final exam will be able to recover the final
exam (resubmitting).
- Average score between the midterm and the final exam of 4.8
Review and approval
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