Petroleum Refinery Engineering Questions

• Which of the following has maximum hydrogen/carbon ratio (by weight)?
• Percentage of straight run gasoline in a typical crude oil may be around
• Presence of predominantly large quantity of aromatics (polynuclear) is not desirable in aviation fuel, because it has
• Aniline point is the temperature at which
• Most widely used solvent for dewaxing is
• Catalyst used in isomerisation process is
• Pyrolysis of kerosene or natural gasoline is done to produce mainly the
• Higher vapour pressure of gasoline indicates
• Aromatics have the highes __________ of all the hydrocarbons of same carbon atoms.
• Catalyst used in alkylation process is
• Road grade bitumen is produced from vacuum residue by its
• Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) is mainly a mixture of
• "Breathing loss" on storage of gasoline occurs due to the
• Natural gas recovered along with crude oil from oil wells is called wet natural gas which has a higher __________ compared to the dry natural gas.
• Vacuum maintained in the vacuum distillation column in oil refinery is in the range of about __________ mm Hg absolute.
• Which of the following fractions of petroleum contains maximum sulphur?
• Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) in domestic use cylinders is in the liquid form. The density of LPG in liquid form is about __________ of that of water (i.e. 1 gm/c.c).
• Vacuum maintained in the vacuum distillation tower of the crude distillation plant is about __________ mm Hg (absolute).
• Octane number (unleaded) of reformed gasoline may be upto
• Lane and Garton classification of petroleum is based on its