MRED 415 FOSSIL FUELS

Raw materials for energy production, deposits, environmental impact; Origin of fossil fuels; Natural gas, properties, production, processing; Oil, properties, distillation, petroleum products; Non-conventional fossil fuels, tar sands, shales, hydrates, properties, production, processing; exploitation; Instrumental analysis, gas and liquid chromatography, spectroscopy, applications for fossil fuels; Environmental effects of fossil fuel production and use; Methods for oil pollutants characterisation and rehabilitation.

Laboratory exercises: Measurement of physical properties of oil and petroleum products (density, refraction index, cold properties, viscosity); Distillation (ASTM D-86 and SimDist); Measurement of asphaltenes in oil samples; Measurement of petroleum HC in soil sample.