ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 4 Expository Class: 37 Interactive Classroom: 10 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Chemistry Engineering
Areas: Chemical Engineering
Center Faculty of Sciences
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
• Understand the importance of petroleum; oil and natural gas have not only as an energy source but also as a source of raw materials.
• Understand the structure of industries and petrochemical companies involved from exploration and extraction of petroleum.
• Know the refinery processes, relationships between them and their sequence.
• Understand the structural and behavioral characteristics that determine the scope of intermediate petrochemical products and techniques that facilitate processing into final products.
• Understand the processes and chemical fundamentals needed to generate consumer products from petrochemical raw materials.
• Understand the importance and usefulness of consumer petrochemicals.
• Know the chances of recovery and reuse of consumer petrochemicals.
Block I - Petrochemical Processes.
1. Petroleum on our society. History of Petroleum. Petroleum today. Petroleum Origin (biogenic, abiogenic). Classification of Petroleum. Petroleum reserves (conventional Petroleum, natural gas, etc.)
2. Refining and separation processes: gas desulfurization (concentration of acid gases, sulfur recovery). Desulfurization of liquid (chemical treatments, hydrotreating). Refining processes (production of lubricating oils).
3. Thermal conversion processes: Vis-breaking. Coking (fluid bed coking, delayed coking, green coke calcining).
4. Catalytic conversion processes: fixed bed catalytic processes. Moving bed catalytic processes. Fluidized bed catalytic processes.
5. Catalytic conversion processes with hydrogen: catalytic reformed. Hydrocracking.
6. Process for obtaining C1, olefins and aromatics.
Block II - Raw materials and products of the petrochemical industry.
7. Chemicals based on methane, ethane and higher paraffins. Introduction. Compounds derived directly from methane (carbon disulfide, hydrogen cyanide, chloromethane), derived from synthesis gas (ammonia, methanol and other alcohols, etc). Compounds derived from propane, butane and isobutane: oxidation, chlorination and isomerization. Paraffin compounds.
8. Chemicals derived from unsaturated hydrocarbons. Ethylene derivatives (ethylene oxide, acetaldehyde, vinyl chloride, ethene oligomerization). Propylene derivatives (oxidation, chlorination, hydroformylations, alkylations). Olefinic derivatives (n-butene, isobutylene, butadiene).
9. Compounds based on benzene, toluene and xylenes. Introduction. Reactions of benzene (alkylation, chlorination, nitration, oxidation and hydrogenation) reactions of toluene (dealkylation, oxidation, chlorination, nitration, carbonylation). Importance of benzene derivatives, toluene and xylene.
*Basic bibliography.(de asistencia a clase)
Gary J.H. e Handwerk G.E., "Refino de petróleo", Ed. Reverté, Barcelona (1980). ISBN: 84-291-7904-6. Signature: QUT 48, QUT 49, QUT 50, QUT 51, QUT 52.
Speight J.G., "A química e a tecnoloxía do petróleo" (2006). ISBN-10: 0849390672. Signature: 131.1 39; A131.1 9; 131.1 9 A.
Matar S. & Hatch L.F., "Chemistry of petrochemical processes" (2001). ISBN 9780884153153. Signature: 131.1 41.
Burdick D.L & Leffler W.L., "Petrochemicals in nontechnical language" (2001). ISBN-10: 1593702167. Digital version available at https://archive.org/details/petrochemicalsin0000burd/
*Supplementary bibliography.
Ramos Carpio M.A., "Refino de petróleo, gas natural e petroquímicos". Fundación Fomento Innovación Industrial, D.L. Madrid (1997). ISBN: 84-605-6755-9. Signature: QUT 121, QUT 213, QUT 214.
Speight J.G., "Unha introdución á tecnoloxía, economía e política do petróleo" (2011). ISBN-10: 1118012992
Ullmann's, "Enciclopedia de química industrial", 5th CD-ROM edition, Wiley-VCH (1997).
Austin G.T., "Manual de procesos químicos na industria", Mc. Graw-Hill, México (1993). ISBN: 970-10-0388-8. Signature: QUT 151, QUT 152, QUT 153, QUT 154.
Basic Competences.
CB3: Students must have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their field of study) to inform judgments that include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical.
CB4: Students must communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
CB5: Students will be able to develop those learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.
Transversal Competences.
CT1: Capacity for analysis and synthesis.
CT4: Capacity for teamwork
CT9: Ability to organize and plan.
Specific Competences.
CEOP1: Knowledge of the processes and products of the petrochemical industry.
1. Classroom (theory, problem classes and seminars). The course consists of 6-ECTS credits. This workload includes 47 face-to-face hours devoted to both theory (37 hours) and seminars (10 hours). During the seminars, the teacher and the students will solve the proposed problems, which allows the teacher to evaluate the abilities and difficulties of each student and improve learning.
2. Bulletins. Throughout the course and coinciding approximately with the end of each topic, sets of problems will be proposed, which the student must solve and hand in for correction as personal work. Doing this work at home will enable the student to acquire the necessary skills for the final exam. Of course, the student will be able to ask the teacher for any doubts or ask for help in carrying out the work.
3. Group Tutoring. Throughout the course will be planned four tutorials in groups (10 people) to be used to discuss and resolve all doubts in groups seeking greater participation of the student.
4. Personalized tutorials. The aim is to closely monitor the work carried out by each student. To this end, the bulletins are an important tool for the teacher and the students themselves, as after correction they will give us a close-up view of the weaknesses and strengths in the learning of each student. In the end, the teacher will try to clarify doubts and guide the student's personal work.
5. Digital platform (Moodle). University of Santiago de Compostela uses a Learning Management System (LMS) as a digital platform in which the teacher will provide the necessary information for students (PowerPoint files, summaries of the issues, newsletters, practice scripts, etc.) via the Internet. On this platform, there will also be discussion forums and an internal email that facilitates communication between teacher and student.
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the “Regulations for evaluating student academic performance and reviewing grades” will apply.
The continuous evaluation system will be based on three points:
• During the course, coinciding with the end of each issue, a bulletin of exercises will be proposed. The student must resolve the exercises and deliver them to the teacher for correction. The rating of these exercises will constitute 10% of the final grade. All basic and specific competencies will be assessed, representing respectively 15% and 85% of the value of the mark.
• During the course, the student will be given a work which will be handed in as a written document and as a presentation in which the topic will be discussed in class. The grade for this work will constitute 35% of the final grade. All basic, transversal and specific competencies will be evaluated. The percentage of the note will be respectively 10%, 10% and 80%.
• Finally, a partial exam will be held on each topic which will include all their contents. These contents will be evaluated using theoretical questions. The exam mark will be 55% of the final mark. This section has a peculiarity; the student will need a minimum grade. The student must correctly answer 45% of each of the tests (4.5 points out of 10 on the test). All specific competencies will be evaluated.
The number of ECTS credits of the subject is 4.5
Lectures in large group 102h (37h in the classroom and 65h of personal work )
Interactive clases in small group (seminars) 40h (10h in the classroom and 30h of personal work)
Interactive clases in very small group (tutorials) 4h, 100% in the classroom
Exam 4h, 100% in the classroom
Total= 150h
Total working hours in the classroom = 55h
Total hours of personal work = 95h
It will also be useful for students to install the official application of the USC and Microsoft Teams on their mobile devices.
The main thing is to study day by day.
The languages of this course are spanish and gallician.
Thelmo Alejandro Lu Chau
Coordinador/a- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 982824136
- thelmo.lu [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) PhD Assistant Professor
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