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above to the petrochemical industry. Course Contents Pressure drops in pipes. Sedimentation and thickening. Filtration, crushing, grinding and mixing. Batch heating of the liquid in tanks. Leaching, liquid-liquid extraction, drying, desorption and adsorption, integral and differential methods of analysis of laboratory kinetic data. Application of half-life method for determination of reaction order and rate constant. Heterogeneous reaction: cation and anion exchange capacity 400 Level GET 402 Engineering Project I (2 Units: C; PH 90) Learning Outcomes At the end of this course, the students should be able to: 1. Complete the design phase of a complex engineering problem sourced from industry or community during the SIWES III programme. 2. Demonstrate the connection between engineering product-making and the theoretical courses they have learned following the applicable industry best practices. Course Contents In the second semester of the 400-level students, preferably in groups, work from the university on the identified industry or organization to tackle industry complex engineering problems. Theoretical issues may be provided by the department faculty or industry experts. During the vacation, students will now work full time with the organisation/industry on the project as part of the SIWES III. The students can also go beyond the department and engage in multidisciplinary undertakings. Literature survey, review of existing systems etc. must be achieved to a satisfactory extent. GET 404 Engineering Valuation and Appraisal (2 Units: C; LH 30) Learning Outcomes At the end of this course, the students should be able to: 1. Identify at least three (3) objectives of engineering valuation work, valuer's primary duty and responsibility and valuation terminologies. 2. Describe at least four (4) Valuer's obligation to his or her client, to other valuers, and to the society. 3. Demonstrate with example the engineering valuation methods, valuation standards, and practices. 4. Prepare engineering valuation and appraisal reports and review 5. Discuss expert witnessing and ethics in valuation. 6. Determine price, cost, value, depreciation and obsolescence in real property, personal property, personal property, machinery and equipment, oil, gas, mines, and quarries valuation.

; 3. verify theoretical and experimental knowledge by planning and executing experiments in the laboratory; and 4. work both independently and in a group in the laboratory and document the results obtained through writing of laboratory reports. Course Contents HSE in the chemical laboratory gas analysis, Maleic Diene value of dry oil. Calibration of instruments. Practical demonstration of a control loop for pneumatic and electronic instrumentation. Vapour-Liquid equilibrium. Continuous (rectification) distillation crystallization. Determination of saponification and unsaponification matter in fats. Solubility of solids. Absorption using Packed column. Fluidization Engineering, film and drop condensate. Heat exchangers. 500 Level

; 2. apply numerical methods in solving problems involving Petrochemical Engineering processes listed in the course content; 3. describe optimization theory and its applications to petrochemical processes; 4. model material and energy flows around reacting and non-reacting systems using an appropriate modelling software package; 5. define and solve engineering problems and formulate suitable strategies for problem solutions; and 6. Apply knowledge of Artificial Neural Network software and DATAFIT in process optimization. * It is expected that 2hrs every week should be used by the students to learn how to use software such as Microsoft excel, POLYMATH, (MATLAB is a computing language and interactive environment for data visualisation, algorithm development, data analysis, and full of numeric computation) for simple calculations based on the content of this course. Course Contents Review of elementary theorems and operations on vectors and matrices. Application to Petrochemical Engineering stage processes including rectification, multicomponent distillation, staged absorbers, complex monomolecular kinetics, stirred tanks reactions and stage dynamics. Review of solutions of the standard form of differential equations including series solutions. Green’s functions. Formulation of simple and complex chemical engineering problems and their solutions. Numerical methods for solving linear and non-linear equations, ordinary and partial differential equations. Iterative procedures. Optimization techniques.

; 3. prepare a flow diagram and identify critical/important points in an organic synthesis procedure listed in the course content; and 4. prepare reaction schemes using the appropriate software. Course Contents Raw materials and their processing techniques for halogenation of paraffins, methane, ethane, olefins, ethylene liquid and gaseous phase halogenation processes. Chlorination products of olefins; methylchloride, synthetic fibers, glue and plastics, vinyl chloride from acetylene, freezers, and antifreezes; hydrolysis, hydration, dehydration esterification processes in the production of solvents, plastification synthetic lubricants, complex organic ethers – monomer for polymerization reactions, oxidation of paraffin and olefins; ethylene oxide and some higher oxides of hydrocarbons synthesis of Amides; condensation of aldehydes with olefins: synthesis of isoprene synthesis of rubber. PREQ PCE 501.

above; 3. can prepare a flow diagram and identify critical/important points in an organic synthesis procedure of the process listed above; and 4. can prepare reaction schemes using the appropriate software. Course Contents Raw materials and their processing techniques for ethylene, acetylene, synthesis gas, and liquid hydrocarbons; properties of olefins, thermo-dynamic stability of hydrocarbons, olefin production; use of polymerization reactions, raw materials from aromatic hydrocarbon, chlorination, nitration, oxidation, hydrogenation aromatization, isomerization reactions. Synthesis on basis of acetylene, carbon monoxide, and synthesis gas.

Analysis of drill cuttings. Determination of lithology. Determination of porosity. Fluid saturations. Capillary Pressure. Permeability; electrical properties, effective permeability and relative permeability. Physical properties of petroleum and its products. Gravity. Viscosity. Surface tension. Thermodynamic behavior of naturally-occurring hydrocarbon mixtures. Differential and flash vaporisation tests at elevated pressures and temperatures.

Earth Structure and Depositional Systems. Origin, Maturation, Migration and Accumulation of Petroleum. Trapping Mechanisms. Abnormal pressure. Petroleum prospecting and tools. Uses of geological data, reservoir rocks and fluids. Subsurface maps, Correlation principles. Petroleum as a resource. Petroleum Geology of Nigerian Sedimentary Basins and Evaluation: Niger Delta, Chad Basin, Anambra Basin, etc. NOTE: Geologic field trip added for completeness 300 Level

Introduction to Petroleum Production Engineering: subsurface operations. Operational functions and output of subsurface production engineer. Well completion: tubing, types, tubing equipment, uses of tubing, calculations. use of wirelines. packers-types; uses. Multiple zone completion. Well heads - casing and tubing hangers. Christmas tree. Nodal analysis in flow and outflow performances: governing equations, inflow performance relationship (IPR), productivity index, formation damage, fines migration and skin effect, vertical lift well head equipment performance and pressure losses, choke performance. Problem wells analysis: sand, water, hydrate, scale, unstable flow, surge, waxy crude production, etc. Well surveillance. Well stimulation: Fracturing and acidizing. Introduction to artificial lift methods. Gas lift and pumping system. Computer Application for Nodal Analysis (Proper or alternative).

Surface Equipment: Gathering systems, Design and Testing of flow lines, service and cleaning of systems. Phase separation: Separation process, separators and components design and construction of separators, dehydration, emulsion problems and treatment. Dew-point depression. Absorption and adsorption.

; 3. produce grease and bitumen; and 4. enumerate the safety rules and combat environmental issues in the refinery. Course Contents Catalytic cracking and hydrocracking. Lubricating oil properties. Manufacture of lubricating oils. De-asphalting, phenol and furfural extraction, dewaxing, clay treatment and hydro-finishing processes. Grease production. Refinery layout. Safety rules. Environmental protection in the petroleum refinery. Manufacture of bitumen.