CH5260: Concepts of Biorefinery (2 credit)
Course type: Elective and interdisciplinary
Targeted students: BTech, MTech, and PhD
Contents. Overview of petroleum refinery and petrochemical industry, energy and chemical scenario, needs for renewable feedstock, biorefinery - analogy with petroleum refinery and petrochemical industry, types and chemistry of biomass, types of biorefinery and their opportunities and challenges, platform chemicals, fuels and chemicals from vegetable oils, bioethanol and biobutanol - production and application as biofuels and chemicals, thermochemical conversion processes – gasification, liquefaction and pyrolysis, hydrocarbon biorefinery.
References
Sunil K. Maity, Kalyan Gayen, Tridib Kumar Bhowmick, Hydrocarbon Biorefinery: Sustainable Processing of Biomass for Hydrocarbon Biofuels. Elsevier 2021, 1st edition.
SK Maity, Opportunities, recent trends and challenges of integrated biorefinery: Part I. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2015, 43, 1427-1445.
SK Maity, Opportunities, recent trends and challenges of integrated biorefinery: Part II. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2015, 43, 1446–1466.
James H. Gary, Glenn E. Handwerk, Mark J. Kaiser, Petroleum Refining: Technology and Economics. CRC Press, 5th edition, 2007.
CH5091: Process Engineering Lab (2 credit)
Course type: Core Lab
Targeted students: MTech
Contents. Introduction to Aspen Plus, property methods, and equipment models, such as reactor, distillation column, and heat exchange. Example problem on process integration using pinch technology. Course project on process integration.
References
Relevant research papers
CH6140: Petroleum Refinery (2 credit)
Course type: Elective
Targeted students: BTech and MTech in Chemical Engineering
Contents. Overview of petroleum refinery, chemistry of petroleum, properties of crude oil, desalting of crude oil, atmospheric and vacuum distillation of crude oil, properties, specification and testing methods of petroleum products, secondary processing of petroleum, such as hydrotreatment, catalytic reforming for high-octane gasoline and aromatic feedstock, coking, visbreaking, fluid catalytic cracking, hydrocracking, and lube oil base stock.
References
James H. Gary, Glenn E. Handwerk, Mark J. Kaiser, Petroleum Refining: Technology and Economics. CRC Press, 5th edition, 2007.
W.L. Nelson, Petroleum Refinery Engineering. McGraw-Hill, 1968.