Course Outline

• Overview of the petrochemical industry 2/3 : Making polymers (PE, PP, PS, PVC)
• Overview of the petrochemical industry 3/3 : Other petrochemicals (Benzen, Xylene, Toluene, Styrene, Cumene, Phenol...)
• Crude oil refining
• Logistics of crude oil, petroleum products and chemicals : Transport and despatch
• Storage of petroleum, chemicals and LPG
• Oil and Gas : History, markets, pricing, economics and petroleum products
• Distillation, absorption and stripping : Engineering basics and equipment
• Heat transfer technologies : Process furnaces and heat exchangers
• Rotating equipment basics 1/4 : Centrifugal pumps
• Rotating equipment basics 1/4 : Positive displacement pumps
• Rotating equipment basics 1/4 : Centrifugal compressors
• Rotating equipment basics 1/4 : Reciprocating compressors
• Valves and piping in the Oil and Gas
• Fundamentals of process control used in industrial plants
• Process instruments used in industrial plants
• General inorganic chemistry
• Organic chemistry
• Essential physics
• IR and NMR spectroscopies