PS-Diary

DEEPANSHU SHARMA

2017A1PS0674P
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Tasks Planned for Week: To know about IOCL: History, Business Divisions, Products and
Services, Refineries, Pipelines, Shareholdings. To know the basics of refineries working and
process units.

Tasks Completed: IOCL: History, Business Divisions, Products and Services, Refineries,
Pipelines, Shareholdings. Basics of refineries working and process units

Variation in Plan & Plan to Overcome them(if any): No variations in plan.

Activities for Next Week: To read the slides provided by the mentor about refineries working and
salient features of process units in refineries.

Learning Outcomes: Got to know about the history and working of IOCL. Got some basic idea
about working of refineries which would help me in understanding my project better.

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Tasks Planned for Week: Learn about the features of different refinery units. Learn working of
Desalter and DCU unit.

Tasks Completed: Read about the features of different units. Also understood the working of
Desalter and DCU unit.

Variation in Plan & Plan to Overcome them(if any): No variations in plan.

Activities for Next Week: Study about Simulation and binary distillation. Design the distillation
(binary) tower and it's equipment ( with flow sheet).

Learning Outcomes: Get to know how different process units in petroleum refineries linked to
each other and how they work. Also, understood principles and techniques used in DCU and
Desalter units.

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Tasks Planned for Week: To know about Simulation and binary distillation. Work on Designing of
the distillation (binary) tower and it's equipment ( with flow sheet).

Tasks Completed: Learnt basics of simulation and distillation (reflux ratio, reboiler duty,condenser
duty etc).Desiged the distillation (binary) tower and it's equipment ( with flow sheet).

Variation in Plan & Plan to Overcome them(if any): No variations in plan.

Activities for Next Week: Learn about the working of Desalting Unit, Fractionation Unit, VDU,
Visbreaking Unit, DCU, FCCU

Learning Outcomes: Understood the basic steps involved in Simulation and applied it in my
simulation. Also, learnt about functions of different equipments used in distillation tower.

Equipments/Software Used/Learnt: PRO/II PROCESS ENGINEERING V10.2

Mentor's Comments:
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Tasks Planned for Week: To learn and understand the working of refinery units namely, Desalting
Unit, Fractionation Unit, VDU, Visbreaking Unit, DCU, FCCU.

Tasks Completed: Working of Pretreatment Unit, Fractionation Unit, VDU, Visbreaking Unit, DCU,
FCCU analysed.

Variation in Plan & Plan to Overcome them(if any): No variations in plan.

Activities for Next Week: To find the optimum pressure for the problem statement given by my
Mentor.

Learning Outcomes: Get to know the chemical processes and reactions involved in different units.
Also, get to know the significance of each unit.

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Tasks Planned for Week: To find the optimum pressure for the problem statement given by my
Mentor.

Tasks Completed: Got the optimum pressure for the distillation tower under the conditions
mentioned in problem statement.

Variation in Plan & Plan to Overcome them(if any): No variations in plan.

Activities for Next Week: To make case study for other two higher pressures with difference of
1kg/cm2 to compare reboiler duty. Also, to read and understand about Diesel
Hydrodesulphurization (DHDS), CATALYTIC HYDROTREATING (DHDT) Technology

Learning Outcomes: Get to know how to adjust the pressure of the distillation tower to get min.
reboiler duty and product specifications satisfied.

Equipments/Software Used/Learnt: PRO/II PROCESS ENGINEERING V10.2

Mentor's Comments:
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Tasks Planned for Week: To make case study for other two higher pressures with difference of
1kg/cm2 to compare reboiler duty. Also, to read and understand about Diesel
Hydrodesulphurization (DHDS), CATALYTIC HYDROTREATING (DHDT) Technology

Tasks Completed: Case study for pressures with difference of 1 kg /cm2 is done and relation of
pressure with rebolier duty is generated. Also, understood the process of Diesel
Hydrodesulphurization (DHDS) / Catalytic HYDROTREATING (DHDT) Technology.

Variation in Plan & Plan to Overcome them(if any): No variations in plan.

Activities for Next Week: To target the product specifications as per table given in problem
statement and fill other distillation points. Also, read and understand about Sweetening and
Treating Processes.

Learning Outcomes: Understood how pressure in the distillation column affects the reboiler duty
and also learn new concepts of DHDS/DHDT.

Equipments/Software Used/Learnt: PRO/II PROCESS ENGINEERING V10.2

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Tasks Planned for Week: To target the product specifications as per table given in problem
statement and fill other distillation points. Also, read and understand about Sweetening and
Treating Processes.

Tasks Completed:

Variation in Plan & Plan to Overcome them(if any):

Activities for Next Week:

Learning Outcomes:

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