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Instructor
Class Location
Class Hours
Office Location
Office Hours
Phone
E-mail |
John Jechura
AH 340
Tue/Thu 5:00 - 6:15 pm
AH 349
Tue/Thu 6:15 - 7:15 pm & by appointment
303-843-2097 (URS Washington Division)
Mines
e-mail address
Syllabus |
Page
Revisions
- December 29, 2008. Reset content.
Class
notes (associated chapters in text)
Introduction
Refinery
Feedstocks & Products (Chapters 2 & 3)
Crude
Oil Distillation (Chapter 4)
Bottom
of the Barrel Processing: Coking & Thermal Processes,
Hydroprocessing,
& Solvent Deasphalting (Chapters 5 & 8)
Delayed
Coking (Chapter 5)
Corrected example
External
links
EXTERNAL: Foster-Wheeler
paper, "Shot Coke: Design & Operations"
EXTERNAL: Delayed
Coker Communications Forum
Paul
Ellis & Chris Paul, Great Lakes Carbon, "Tutorial: Delayed
Coking Fundamentals"
EXTERNAL: Foster-Wheeler presentation, "Cost Effective Residue Upgrading"
Catalytic
Cracking (Chapter 6)
Hydrocracking
& Hydrotreating (Chapters 7 & 9)
Gasoline Finishing: Reforming, Isomerization, & Alkylaiton
(Chapters 10 & 11)
Supporting
Processes (Chapter 13)
Blending & Optimization
(Linear Programming)
Biofuels
Summary of refinery operations
Extra
instructor notes
Presentation from Keith Zink, BP.
Useful
programs (notes
for downloading & incorporating into Excel spreadsheet):
Calculation of Physical Properties from
Properties of Petroleum Fractions
Pure
component data (spreadsheet)
Fundamental
Conversion Factors
Modeling
crude towers with Aspen
Plus®:
Homework
Assignments
|
Due Date & Link to Problem Statement |
Topic & Link to Solution |
| #1 |
Tuesday August 26, 2008 |
Chemical Species in Petroleum Fractions |
| #2 |
Tuesday September 2, 2008 |
Crude Oil Assay |
| #3 |
Tuesday September 9, 2008 |
Crude Oil Assay |
| #4 |
Thursday September 18, 2008 |
Blend crude oils |
#5
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Tuesday September 30, 2008 |
Gasoline Blending & Properties |
#6
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Thursday, October 16 23, 2008 |
Delayed Coking |
#7
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 |
FCCU |
#8
|
Thursday, November 13, 2008 |
Combined FCCU & Delayed Coking
|
#9
|
Thursday, November 20, 2008 |
Hydroprocessing, Reforming, & Alkylation |
#10
|
Thursday, December 4, 2008 |
Blending & Optimization |
Special Projects
Problem statement. Due October 31, 2008.
|
Quiz Date |
Topic & Link to Solution |
| #1 |
August 28, 2008 |
Crude oil composion; crack spread |
| #2 |
September 11, 2008 |
Blending specific gravities |
| #3 |
September 18, 2008 |
Reference temperatures & Watson K factor calculations |
| #4 |
October 16, 2008 |
AspenPlus models; octane numbers |
| #5 |
October 21, 2008 |
Blending calculations |
| #6 |
October 23, 2008 |
Working with crude oil assays |
| #7 |
November 4, 2008 |
Coker calculation |
| #8 |
November 6, 2008 |
Characteristics of petroleum processing |
| #9 |
November 20, 2008 |
Nomenclature |
| #10 |
December 4, 2008 |
Biofuels & Supporting Processes |
Useful
External Links
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