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Basic Understanding of Petrochemicals Book Course

  • Chemists, engineers, commercial, sales and purchasing staff.
  • Research and development, marketing and planning personnel, chemical industry
  • administrators including finance who wish to increase their knowledge.
  • Delegates taking this course are not required to have an understanding of refining chemistry
  • since these topics will be covered during the course.

Course Outline

DAY-1: CHEMICAL INDUSTRY OVERVIEW

  • The Petroleum Refinery
  • Steam cracking
  • Distillation
  • Catalytic cracking
  • Catalytic reforming
  • The refinery/petrochemical interface
  • The Petrochemical Industry’s Basic Raw Materials. Viz; Chemistry/ roduction/economics/ feedstock

DAY-2: OLEFIN BASED COMPOUNDS

Ethylene – Sources and Reactions

  • Polymerisation, oligomerisation.
  • Oxidation Wacker reaction (acetaldehyde,vinyl acetate, acetic acid, acetic anhydride,PVA)
  • Ethylene oxide/ethylene glycol/polyesters
  • Vinyl chloride/poly (vinyl chloride)
  • Styrene/polystyrene
  • Ethanol

DAY-3: OLEFIN BASED COMPOUNDS

Propylene – Sources and Reactions

  • Polymerisation, oligomerisation, oxidation reactions (acrylic acid, propylene oxide), ammoxidation, cumene hydroperoxide (phenol, acetone), oxo reactions, hydration, metathesis – Shell Higher Olefins Process C4 Unsaturates – Sources and reactions
  • Butadiene – polymerisation, elastomers, ‘living’ polymers, hexamethylenediamine; nylon intermediates; chloroprene; maleic anhydride; butenes -1 and -2, isobutylenes  and MTBE

DAY-4: AROMATIC BASED COMPOUNDS:

  • Benzene – Sources and Reactions
  • Styrene, phenol, cyclohexane, adipic acid,caprolactam, nylons, MDI/PMDI
  • Toluene – Sources and Reactions
  • Hydroealkylation, toluene disocyanate and urethanes
  • Xylenes – Sources and Reactions
  • Separation; oxidation; p-xylene, terephthalic acid, Pet; fibres and bottles oxylene,phthalic anhydride polyesters, plasticizers, m-xylene

DAY-5: NATURAL AND ASSOCIATED GAS

  • Methane
  • Synthesis gas
  • Ammonia; urea
  • Methanol; formaldehyde, thermoset polymers
  • HCN
  • Chlorination
  • Acetylene; 1,4-butanediol
  • Characteristics of the industry