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CHE 586 Petroleum Refinery Processes

500 levelEngineering & Technology8 topics

CHE 586 covers 8 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Composition and classification of crude petroleum
  2. Atmospheric and vacuum distillation of crude
  3. Thermal cracking processes
  4. Catalytic cracking processes
  5. Catalytic reforming
  6. Hydrotreating and desulphurisation
  7. Refinery equipment design
  8. Product blending and specifications

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Composition and classification of crude petroleum

This topic covers what crude petroleum is made of and how crude oils are grouped for processing and valuation. For examination purposes, you must master the major hydrocarbon families, the common non-hydrocarbon impurities, and the main bases of classification such as density, sulphur content, and hydrocarbon character because these determine refining difficulty, product yield, and equipment requirements.

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