Oil Refinery and Transportation

2 hours

Section A

1.1. Crude oil and refined products are stored in tanks for shipment to other locations or processing
into finished products. There are four basic types of tanks used to store petroleum products. List
them.
1.2. Two hydrofluoric acid alkylation processes are commonly available. List them.
1.3. What are the disadvantages of having chokepoints?
1.4. What is the implication of carbon residue?
1.5. Define the term alkylation.
1.6. What is the significance of the freezing point of a jet fuel?
1.7. There are four basic types of tanks used to store petroleum products. List them.
1.8. What is hydrotreating?
1.9. What do you understand by the term Cetane number? Give the Cetane numbers for the different
classes of diesel.
1.10. The conversion process within a refinery involves three processes. List them

Section B

2.0. Write notes on oil pipelines as an efficient mode of crude oil transportation (20 marks)

3.0. Shine light on the desalting process within a refinery (20 marks)

4.0. Discuss the mode of operation of the CDU (20 marks).

5.0. (a) Shine light on the following compounds found in crude oil.

(i) Naphthenes (4 marks)

(ii) Aromatics (2 marks).
(iii) Sulphur (4 marks).
(iv) Oxygen (3 marks).
(v) Nitrogen (2 marks).
(vi) Metallic compounds (2 marks).
(vii) Asphaltenes and Resins (3 marks).

6.0. In a refinery, Discuss how is vacuum residue obtained? (20 marks)