Guia docente 2023_24
Escola de Enxeñaría de Minas e Enerxía
Grado en Ingeniería de la Energía
 Subjects
  Basic operations and processes of refining, petrochemicals and carbo-chemicals
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Subject 1.- Introduction Introduction. General concepts.
Subject 2.- Material and energy balances. Material balances in systems with and without chemical reaction.
Energy balances in systems with chemical reaction.
Subject 3.- Operations of separation Distillation.Rectification.
Liquid-liquid extraction.
Absorption.
Subject 4.- Introduction to chemical reactors Design of ideal chemical reactors
Subject 5.- Natural gas and oil refining Natural gas: constitution and conditioning.
Characterisation of the oil. Fractionation, craquing, reformed, alquilation and coquization.Blending of products.
Subject 6.- Petrochemical processes. Main compound derivatives of the methane, ethene, propene and benzene.
Subject 7.- Coal processes Technological use of coal: pyrolisis, gasification,etc.
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