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2020-2021 SDSM&T Academic Catalog 
    
2020-2021 SDSM&T Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CBE 483/583 Petroleum Refining

Credits: 2 or 3

Overview of unit operations of Petroleum Refining.  Use of heuristics to estimate performance of economics of refinery units.  Application of chemical engineering principles to petroleum refining.  Relevant aspects of computer‐aided process simulation for complex mixtures. The 2 lecture credit hours are for refinery overview and heuristic design-economics.  The 3 lecture credit hours include Aspen modeling of ChE refinery applications. 

Prerequisites: 2 credit hour prerequisites: CBE 364 or IENG 301 or IENG 302 (Engineering Economics), CBE 222 or ME 211 (Introduction to Thermodynamics), or equivalent.

3 credit hour prerequisites: CBE 343, CBE 364 and CBE 417, or permission of instructor.
Notes: Students enrolled in CBE 583 will be held to a higher standard than those enrolled in CBE 483.


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