RPE-501 Sedimentology

UNIT-I

Rocks to Sediments: Sedimentogenesis Weathering clastic and nonclastic sediments, Agents

and mode of Sediment Transport Simple fluid flow concepts Laminar and turbulent flow,

Reynold’s and Froude Numbers concepts of critical (Threshold) and setting velocities.Diagenesis

of sediments; Provenance(Light and Heavy Minerals).

UNIT-II

Textures of Silliciclastis Sediments: Grain size statistics, roundness, spherecity, surface

textures; Grain Imbrications, Mass Properties of Sediments- Packing (Packing, density and

packing proximity), prorosity, permeability relationship between grail size and sorting with

porosity and permeability.

UNIT-III

Sedimentary Structures: Predepositional interbred(channel, Scour and fill, flute, Groove

and tool marks); Syndepositional Intrabed (Massive, Flat bedding Graded bedding, Cross

bedding, Lamination and cross- Lamination ); Postdepositional deformed interbred and

intrabed(Slump, Slide, Convolute bedding, Load structures). Organic(Trace Fossils); Digenetic

(Concrelions); Rain prints, Shrinkage. Cracks, and Volcanoes, Pock Marks Paleocurrnet

Analysis.

UNIT-IV

Sedimentary Environments: Physical and Chemical parameters of depositional

environment, Classification of Environment, Concept of Lithofacies Models.

UNIT-V

Classifications: Gravel Stone, Sandstone, Mudstone and Limestone and their

Classifications; Evaporites, Sedimentation and Tectonics: Tectonic control of sedimentation,

Platectonic in relation to type and evolutions of basins, Petroleum Prospects.

Suggested Readings

1. Baltt, H Middleton, T.G Origin of Sedimenty Rocks, Prentice-Hall 2. Boggs,S., Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy,Prentice-Hall 3. Selly, R.C., Applied Sedimentology; Prentice-Hall

RCH- 501 Chemical Reaction Engineering

UNIT 1

Rate of Reaction, Elementary and non-elementary homogeneous reactions, Molecularity and

order of reaction,Mechanism of reaction, temperature dependency from thermodynamics,

collision and activated complex theories. Integral and differential methods for analyzing

kinetic data, interpretation of constant volume reactor,zero, first, second and third order

reactions, half life period, irreversible reaction in parallel and series, catalytic reaction, auto

catalytic reaction, reversible reactions.

UNIT 2

Interpretation of variable volume batch reactions for zero, first and second order reactions,

design equation for batch, continuous stirred tank, plug flow reactors for isothermal reaction.

UNIT 3

Optimum reactor size, plug flow/mixed flow reactors in series and parallel, recycle reactor.

UNIT 4

Design of reactors for multiple reactions, parallel and series reactions. Temperature and

pressure effects for single reaction.

UNIT 5

Residence time distribution of fluids in vessels, E, F and C curves, Dispersion model, Tank in

series model. Non Isothermal PFR and CSTR, Safety issues in Non Isothermal Reactors.

Text Books:

1. Smith, J, M, “Chemical Engineering Kinetics”, 3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill (1990).

2. Levenspiel, O., “Chemical Reaction Engineering”, 3rd Edition, John Wiley (1998).

Reference Books:

1. Keith J. Laidler, “Chemical Kinetics” 3rd Edition, Pearson (2013)

RPE-503 Petro physics & Well Logging

UNIT-I:

Reservoir Rocks and Their Petro physical Parameters: Introduction to Petro physics and

formation evaluation, Sedimentary basins; hydrocarbon traps; origin of petroleum; migration and

accumulation of petroleum; hydrocarbon volume, properties of subsurface waters and petroleum.

Porosity; factors governing magnitude of porosity; engineering and geological classification of

porosity and its use. Permeability; classification of permeability; factors governing magnitude of

permeability; permeability porosity relationship

UNIT-II:

Spontaneous Potential (SP) and Natural Gamma Ray Logs: Origin of SP; static SP and its

determination; factors affecting shape and amplitude of SP curve; role of SP log in formation

evaluation; estimation of formation water resistivity (Rw ) from SP log. Sources of natural

radioactivity and gamma radiation; geochemical behavior of potassium, thorium and uranium;

radioactivity of shales and clays; simple and spectral gamma ray tool including radiation

detectors; calibration of simple and spectral gamma ray tool; factors affecting gamma ray log

response; depth of investigation and unwanted borehole effects in gamma log

UNIT-III:

Porosity Logs: Acoustic Log: Principles; factors affecting acoustic wave velocity; acoustic

logging tools- single and double receiver type tools; borehole compensated systems; cycle

skipping in acoustic log; bed thickness effect on acoustic log; depth of investigation; uses of acoustic logging, Formation Density Log: Interaction of gamma rays with matter; principle

of density log; energy requirements of gamma ray sources for density log;measurement

tools- single and double detector type;log characteristics- depth of investigation and bed

resolution; factors affecting porosity measurements; uses of formation density logging; litho-density log- principles and formation evaluation.Neutron Log: Interaction of neutrons with

matter, neutron sources and neutron detectors, neutron moderation and principle of neutron log,

neutron logging tools- single spacing type, sidewall-neutron porosity probes, borehole

compensated systems; corrections in porosity measurements due to the presence of shale, rock

type. Uses of Neutron logging

UNIT-IV:

Concept of resistivity in well logging; resistivity of rocks, factors affecting the resistivity of electrolyte bearing rocks. Unfocussed Resistivity Devices: single-electrode systems and its limitations; normal and lateral resistivity tools and their limitations; factors affecting

normal and lateral resistivity measurements; Microresistivity measurements- tools,

applications and limitations

Departmental Elective Course I RPE (051-054)

RPE-051 Geochemical Prospecting Methods

UNIT-I

Introduction: Brief review of biogeochemical genesis of commercial petroleum; Generative

sedimentary environment (Physical, Chemical and Biological) for petroleum source

UNIT-II

Petroleum Kitchens: Concept of source rocks (effective, possible and potential sources

rocks); Source rock evaluation in terms of quantity, quality and thermal maturation of organic

matter.

UNIT-III

Analytical Techniques: Common Techniques for determination of Total Organic Carbon

(TOC) Chemical and optical methods of characterization of type of organic source material and

its Thermal maturation.

UINT-IV

Migration Paths and compositional changes: Migration of petroleum its effect on the

composition of oil/gas-biodegradation, Water washing, cracking and deasphaliting;

important methods of correlation between reservoiral petroleum and source extracts.

UNIT-V

Geochemical Models and Surface Prospecting: Models-Arhenius equation and time-

temperature control on hydrocarbon generation, burial history curves, temperature history,

Time-Temperature index and maturity through time; Quantitative Assessment of hydrocarbons

generated, expelled and trapped; Surface Prospecting-Light and heavy hydrocarbons, magnetic,

Ac carbonate anomalies-IP and Gamma ray approaches.

RPE-052 Drilling Fluid Casing & Cementation

UNIT I:

Drilling Fluids- Life line of rotary drillings: Functions of drilling, fluids, General

composition and nature of commonly used water base muds.

UNIT II:

Properties of Drilling Muds: mud viscosity, get strength, filtration and wall building sand

content and liquid. Solid ratio, filtrate pH, Electrical resistivity and other properties and their

determination.

UNIT III:

Basic Classification of Muds: Fresh water muds- Simple clay- water med, chemically based

clay water muds, Salt water muds; Emulsion muds- Oil-in- water emulsion mud.

Water – in- Oil emulsion; Oil base mud; Surface muds; Drilling hazards dependent on mud

control, formation damage, its evaluation.

UNIT IV:

Petroleum Well Cement: Oil well cements, API cement classifications – class A,B,C,D,E,F

and special cement types in common use Pozzo;ana, Diesel,-Oil, Oil –in- water Emulsio, Resin

and Gypsum cements; Cement additives commonly in use to control slurry, density, filtration,

thinking, time strengths- time requirements, permeability, perforating quality & corvosion

resistance.

UNIT V:

Petroleum Well casing and Cementing Techniques: General functions of casing; Casing

cementation purpose and Technique. Three stage cementing method, Auxiliary cementing

equipment- cementing plug, Wall scratchers, Casing Centraliser, Cement volume and

determination of top of cemented zone

RPE-053 Optimization Techniques

UNIT I

Introduction to process optimization; formulation of various process optimization problems and

their classification. Basic concepts of optimization-convex and concave functions, necessary and

sufficient conditions for stationary points.

UNIT II

Optimization of one dimensional functions, unconstrained multivariable optimization- direct

search methods. Bracketing methods: Exhaustive search method, Bounding phase method

Region elimination methods: Interval halving method, Fibonacci search method, Golden section

search method. PointEstimation method: Successive quadratic estimation method. Indirect first

order and second order method. Gradient-based methods: Newton-Raphson method, Bisection

method, Secant method, Cubic search method. Root-finding using optimization techniques.

UNIT III

Multivariable Optimization Algorithms: Optimality criteria, Unidirectional search, direct search

methods: Evolutionary optimization method, simplex search method, Powell’s conjugate

direction method. Gradient-based methods: Cauchy’s (steepest descent) method, Newton’s

method. Constrained Optimization Algorithms: Kuhn-Tucker conditions, Transformation

methods: Penalty function method, method of multipliers, Direct search for constraint

minimization: Variable elimination method, complex search method.

UNIT IV

Linear Programming: Graphical solution, Primal Simplex method, Artificial starting solution,

Dual Simplex method, Primal-Dual relationship, Duality, Sensitivity analysis. Revised Simplex

method.

UNIT V

Transportation problem, Optimization of staged and discrete processes. Dynamic programming,

Introduction to Specialized & Non-traditional Algorithms.

BOOKS:

1. T.F.Edgar and D.M.Himmelblau, “Optimization of Chemical Processes”, Mc Graw Hill,

International editions, chemical engineering series, 1989.

2. G.S. Beveridge and R.S. Schechter, “Optimization theory and practice”, Mc Graw Hill,

Newyork, 1970.

3. Hamdy A. Taha, “ Operation Research”, Pearson, 2008

RPE-054 Natural Gas Engineering

UNIT 1 Introduction: Composition of Natural Gas, Utilization of Natural Gas, Natural Gas Industry,

Natural Gas Reserves, Types of Natural Gas Resources, Future of the Natural Gas Industry.

Properties of Natural Gas: Physical properties of natural gas and hydrocarbon liquids

associated with natural gas. Reservoir aspects of natural gas. Calorific value of gas and

measurement.

UNIT II

Gas Compression: Types of Compressors, Selection, Thermodynamics of Compressors,

Compression calculations. Heat and Mass Transfer Principles and Applications in Natural

Gas Engineering, Use of Mollier Diagrams. Gas Flow Measurement: Process control and

instrumentation in natural gas processing plants.

UNIT III

Natural Gas Processing: Field separation and oil absorption process, Refrigeration and

low temperature processing, Liquefaction Process, Dehydration of Natural Gas, Sweetening

of Natural gas and sulphur recovery. Processing for LPG, CNG, system, Conversion of gas

to liquid. Custody transfer- principles and measurements.

UNIT IV

Gas Gathering, Transport and Storage: Gas Gathering System. Steady Flow in Simple

Pipeline System, Steady State and non Steady State Flow in Pipelines, Solution for

Transient Flow. Transmission of Natural Gas, Specifications. Underground Storage and

Conservation of Natural Gas.

UNIT V

Unconventional gas: Coal Bed Methane, Natural Gas Hydrate, Basin Centered Gas, Tight

Gas Sands, Shale Gas. Current Technology for Shale Gas and Tight Gas Exploration and

Production. LNG: Production and Utilization Issue and Challenges to Enhance Supply of Natural

Gas.

RPE-551 Sedimentology Lab

1. Mechanical Analysis of Sediments and estimation of grain size parameters. 2. Determination of roundness of Grains. 3. Determination of Spherecity of Grains. 4. Determination of packing of Sedimentary Grains. 5. Determination of Porosity of Rock Samples. 6. Determination of Permeability of Earth Mass. 7. Preparation of Burial history Curves. 8. Preparation of Stratum Contour Map 9. Palaeo current’s and depositional environment. 10. Industrial/Field Visit.

RPE-552 Well Logging Lab

1. Identification of Lithology’s and Determination of their Thikness. 2. Qualitative Interpretation of Intrigrated well Log Data./ Idetification of Porous and

Permeable formations of possible hydrocarbon Accumulations. 3. Estimation of resistivity of Mud, Mud Cake, and Mud filtrate at bore hole temperature

of prospective Stata. 4. Determination of formation Water Resistivity using SP Logs. 5. Determination of Shale Volume using SP Logs & Gamma Ray Logs. 6. Determination of Porosity from Gamma Logs & Sonic Logs. 7. Well Log Correlation and Preparation of structure Contour Maps. 8. Interpretations of Well Logs for possible Geological features for

Oil/Gas/Entrapment. 9. Sedimentological Interpretation from SP, Gamma, & Resistivity Logs. 10. Visit to Industrial Logging Labs(If Possible)

RPE-553 Chemical Reaction Engineering Lab

1. Find out kinetic constant and study conversion of a given reaction in a batch reactor

2. Find out kinetic constant and study conversion of a given reaction in a plug flow reactor

3. Find out kinetic constant and study conversion of a given reaction in a CSTR

4. Study and operation of an adiabatic batch reactor

5. Study of a reversible reaction in a batch reactor

6. To determine energy of activation of reaction of ethyl acetate with sodium hydroxide

7. Find out specific rate contant and activation energy of a reaction in a plug flow reactor

8. To determine reaction equilibrium constant of reaction of acetic acid with ethanol.

9. To determine changes in free energy, enthalpy and entropy for the reaction of potassium

10. iodide with iodine.

11. Study and operation of a cascade CSTR

RPE-554 Technical Presentation

RPE-601 Petroleum Refining Engg.

UNIT-I

Introduction to Petroleum Refinery: Global and Indian Petroleum Refinery, Crude oil

availability, Emerging Scenario in petroleum Refining.

Introduction to Petroleum Refinery Petroleum Products: Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG),

Naptha, Motor Spirit, Kerosene, Aviation Turbine Fuels, Diesel Fuels, Fuel Oil, Petroleum

Hydrocarbon Solvent, Lubricating Oils, Petroleum Waxes, Bitumen, Petroleum Coke.

Evaluation of Crude oil and Petroleum Products: shot term and long term evaluation

composition of crude oil, TBA assay, ASTM distillation, Evaluation crude oil base and other

properties, product quality analysis and Standards.

UNIT-II

Crude oil distillation: Introduction Impurities in Crude oil, Need for Desalting of Crude Oils,

Electric Desalting of Crude oil, Crude Oil Distillation, Atmospheric and Vacuum Distillation of

Crude Oils, Effect of crude characteristics and operating variables in Crude oil distillation,

Processing of high TAN crude Oil.

UNIT-III

Thermal Conversion Process: Thermal Cracking Reactions, Thermal Cracking, Visbreaking-

Conventional and Soaker, Coking Processing Delayed, Fluid and Flexi Coking, Petroleum Coke.

UNIT-IV

Catalytic Conversion Process: Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC), Hydro cracking, Catalytic

Reforming, Alkylation, Isomerization and Polymerization.

UNIT-V

Finishing Processes: Hydrogen Sulphide Removal Process, Sulphur Conversion Process.

Sweetening Process, Solvent Extraction Process and Hydrotreating Process.

Lube Oil Manufacturing Processes: Vacuum Distillation, Solvent Deasphalting, Solvent

Extraction of Lube Oil Fractions, Solvent Dewaxing Process, Hydrofinishing Process,

Manufacture of Petroleum Wax, Lubricating greases and Bitumen Processing.

RPE-602 Petroleum Instrumentation and Control

UNIT I

Introduction to Process control systems, Use of Laplace & Inverse Laplace Transformation in

study of Process Dynamics & Control . Dynamic Modeling of a Process, Dynamic behavior of

First order system, First order systems in series & second & higher order systems for various

kind of inputs, Linearization of nonlinear systems, Transportation & Transfer Lag.

UNIT II

Classification of control systems ,Regulator & Servo control, Feed Forward & Feed backward

control, Negative & Positive Feed back Control, Modes of control action, Controllers & Final

control Elements, Reduction of Block & Signal Flow Diagrams.

UNIT III

Closed loop transfer function, Response of closed loop control system for various type of control

actions. Concept of stability, Stability Criterion, Routh test for stability, Frequency response

analysis and its applications.

UNIT IV

Principles of measurements and classification of process control instruments, Functional

elements of an instrument, Static & Dynamic Characteristics of instruments, Transducers, Error

analysis, Measurement of temperature: expansion thermometers, Resistance Thermometers,

thermocouples, Thermistors, Pyrometers.

UNIT V

Measurement of pressure: Manometers, Elastic pressure transducers, Measurement of Vacuum,

flow measurement: Inferential flow measurements, Quantity flowmeters, Mass flowmeters,

Liquid level measurements: Direct methods, indirect methods, electrical methods, and viscosity.

BOOKS:

1. Coughnour and Koppel, " Process Systems Analysis and Control ", McGraw-Hill, New

York, 1986.

2. S. K. Singh, " Industrial Instrumentation and Control ", Tata McGraw-Hill, 2008.

3. George Stephanopolous, " Chemical Process Control ", Prentice-Hall of India Pvt-Ltd.,

New Delhi, 1990.

4. Nakra and Chaudhary, " Instumentation Measurement and Analysis", Tata McGraw Hill,

1978.

5. P. K. Sarkar, “ Process Dynamics and Control”, Prentice Hall India, 2014.

6. D. N. Considine, “Process Instrumentation and Controls Handbook”, Considine, McGraw Hill

RPE-603 Reservoir Engineering

UNIT-I

Natural Mechanisms of Petroleum Production: Introductory ideas about production,

Reservoir Drives-Water drives (active and not active drives), Gas Drive (solution gas and gas

cap), and Gravity drives.

UNIT-II

Reservoir Rock Properties: Reservoir rocks, petro physical properties of rocks, porosity,

permeability, Tortuosity, texture and inter-relationship (porosity, permeability and textural

parameters (grain size, sorting, shape etc).

UNIT-III

Reservoir Fluids: Oil, Gas, Water and their saturation in pore spaces of rocks; Concept of

effective/ absolute porosity and absolute/ effective and relative permeability; Wettability;

Capillary phenomena, Relationship between saturation of oil-water and with relative

permeability of rocks irreducible(Pressure, volume and temperature and nature of fluid flow

concept under saturated and oversaturated reservoirs).

UNIT-IV

Fluid flow in Reservoirs: Darcy Law and its assumption, Steady and unsteady state flow

equation.

UNIT-V

Production and development of Oil/ Gas Fields: Pressure Volume and Temperature and

Nature of Undersaturated, saturated and oversaturated reservoirs; Retrograde condensation;

Artificial methods of energizing the reservoir for enhanced oil recovery; Common methods of

artificial lifts, Field development principles, Rate and order of drilling well, Well spacing and

pattern, Selection of development plans, Production variants, Performance Prediction, Recovery

Factor.

Departmental Elective Course II RPE (061-064)

RPE-061 Oil and Gas well drilling technology

UNIT I

Overview of drilling: Drilling plan- GTO -Types of drilling, Rotary bit technology- Drilling

string basics. Drilling fluid properties- Drilling fluid hydraulics calculations- Bit

HydraulicsOptimization- Swab & Surge-pressures- Mud hydraulics analysis report- Lost

circulation. Disposing of the drilling fluids waste and drill cuttings waste.

UNIT – II

Hydrostatic pressure, Pore pressure, Causes of abnormal pore pressure, abnormal pore

pressure evaluation- Mud logging methods - Measurement while drilling & logging while

drilling data-Direct measurements of pore pressure. Formation integrity tests – Fracture

gradient determination – Theory of wellbore – FIT procedural Guidelines – Predicting

fracture gradient HPHT well design.

UNIT – III

Wellbore stability–Determination of the magnitude and direction of the in situ stress

Determination of rock properties, Failure criteria – Stress distribution around a wellbore

Procedure for determining safe mud weights to prevent hole collapse Preventing borehole

instability Gas behavior in a well – Kick tolerance How to calculate kick tolerance –

Influence of FG on kick tolerance – Kick tolerance while drilling – Kick tolerance graph –

UNIT – IV

Casing Functions of casing – Types of casing – Casing properties Casing specifications –

Casing connections – Factors influencing casing design – Collapse criterion – Burst criterion

– Combination strings – Tension criterion Compression loads – Biaxial effects – Triaxial

analysis – Triaxial load capacity diagram Casing seat selection method.

Cementation: Introduction cement slurries-Typical field calculations- Cementing

nomenclature- Cement additives – Cementation of liners.

UNIT - V

Directional drilling: Applications- Well planning- Down-hole motors- Deflection tools and

techniques- Face orientation- Direction control with rotary assemblies- Navigation drilling

systems. Horizontal wells: Well profile design considerations – Torque and drag – Horizontal

borehole stability – Extended reach well design – Multilateral wells.Stuck pipe, well control:

Kicks- Kick control- Pressure control theory- BOP-Special kick problems and procedures to free

the pipes and Fishing operations. Types of fishing tools,Case studies of blow out control.

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Petroleum Engineering: Drilling and Well Completion, Carl Gatlin, Prentice-Hall,

Inc., 1960.

2. Drilling Engineering, J.J. Azar and G. Robello Samuel, Pennwell Books, 2007.

3. Working Guide to Drilling Equipment and Operations, William Lyons, Gulf

Publishing, 2009.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

1. Oil Well Drilling Engineering: Principles and Practice, H. Rabia, Graham & Trotman,

1985.

2. Drilling Engineering: A Complete Well Planning Approach, Neal Adams, Tommie

Charrier Pennwell, 1985.

3. Practical Well Planning and Drilling Manual, Steve Devereux, Pennwell, 1998.

4. Primer of Oil Well Service, Workover and Completion, Petroleum Extension Service,

University of Texas at Austin, 1997.

5. Formulas and Calculation for Drilling, Production and workover, Norton J.

Lapeyrouse, 2ndEdition, Gulf Publishing, 2002.

6. Applied Drilling Engineering, Adam T. Bourgoyne Jr., Keith K. Millheim, Martine E.

Chenevert and F. S. Young Jr., Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1991.

7. Well Engineering and Construction, Hussain Rabia, Entrac Consulting, 2002.

8. Drilling Fluids Processing Handbook, ASME Shale Shaker Committee, Gulf

Professional Publishing, 2005.

9. Fundamentals of Drilling Engineering, Robert F. Mitchell, Stefan Z. Miska, Society

of Petroleum Engineers, 2011.

RPE-062 Production Design and Development

UNIT I: INTRODUCTION

Essential factors of product design- requirements of good design- factors affecting product design-

product development process tools- Design by evolution and innovation- Asimow’s model- Journeys

in product development- product engineering – nature and scope- Product design practice in industry.

UNIT II: CREATIVITY

Creative thinking and organizing for product innovation criteria – method and tools for directed

creativity –challenges of quality management – Case studies – Mumbai’s Dabbawalas – creativity by

less learned- Creativity on wheel chair – MARICO (case study)- Patent –design patents- patent

application steps – sale of patent rights.

UNIT III: DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS

Functional and production design – form design – influence of basic design, mechanical loading and

material on form design – Design for manufacture and assembly – Design for robustness – Design for

production – Design for stiffness and rigidity – strength consideration in product design –

optimization in design – Project analysis –Mechanical estimating and costing.

UNIT IV: PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES

Planning and preparation – Resources – Talent –striving, thinking, relating – Quality assurance in

product design –Strategy for product development – Case studies.

UNIT V: HUMAN AND VALUE ENGINEERING

Human beings as applicator of forces – Anthropometry – design of controls and displays –

man/machine information exchange – aesthetic and ergonomic considerations – Value engineering –

maximum value-Normal degree of value – value analysis of job plan – Idea generation check-list –

Cost reduction through value engineering case study on tap switch control assembly – Economic

factors influencing design – Material and process selection.

REFERENCES

1. Kavin & Krishn, Product Design Techniques in reverse engineering & New product development,

Pearson Education

2. Paul Plsek, E. Creativity, Innovation and Quality. Prentice - Hall of India Private Limited

3. Jones, J.C. (1970) Design Methods. Interscience

4. Buhl, H. (1960) Creative Engineering Design. Iowa State University Press

5. Dieter, G.E. (1983) Engineering Design. McGraw Hill

6. Niebel, B.W. & Draper, A.B. (1974) Product Design and Process Engineering. McGraw Hill

RPE-063 Reliability Engineering

UNIT I

Basic Concepts of Reliability: Probability distributions used in maintenance engineering- Binomial,

Poisson, Exponential, Normal, Log-normal, Gamma and Weibull distribution; failure rate, hazard rate,

failure modes, MTTR, MTBF, MTTF

UNIT II

System Reliability Models: System reliability-n-component series systems, m-component

parallel systems and combined system; standby systems; K-out-of-m systems; redundancy techniques

in system design; event space, decomposition (Key Stone), cut and tie sets, Markov analysis,

reliability and quality, unreliability, maintainability, availability

UNIT III

Maintenance Concepts and Strategies: Introduction, maintenance functions and objectives,

maintenance planning and scheduling, maintenance organization. General Introduction to

Maintenance Types: Breakdown, emergency, corrective, predictive, and preventive; maintenance

prevention; design-out maintenance, productive maintenance, shutdown maintenance and scheduled

maintenance.

UNIT IV

Condition Based Maintenance: Principles of CBM, pillars of condition monitoring, CBM

implementation and benefits; condition monitoring techniques- visual monitoring, vibration

monitoring, wear debris monitoring, corrosion monitoring, performance monitoring

UNIT V

Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM):- Concept, methodology, benefits; Total Productive

Maintenance: Evolution of TPM, TPM objectives, concept, pillars of TPM.Failure Modes and Effects

Analysis (FMEA)/ Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA): Overview, elements of

FMECA, applications and benefits, risk evaluation, risk priority numbers, criticality analysis, process

FMEA, qualitative and quantitative approach to FMECA; design FMEA and steps for carrying out

design FMEA

REFERENCES

1. Ebeling CE; An Introduction To Reliability & Maintainability Engg; TMH

2. Srinath L.S; Reliability Engineering; East West Press.

3. Naikan; Reliability engg and life testing; PHI

4. Kapur KC and Lamberson LR; Reliability in Engineering Design; Wiley India

5. Telang AD and Telang A; Comprehensive Maintanance Management; PHI

6. Mishra R.C; Reliability and Maintenance Engineering; New age International publisher.

7. Balaguruswamy; Reliability Engg; TMH

8. Dhillon; Engg Maitainability- How to design for Reliability and easy maintenance; PHI

9. Davidson John; The Reliability of mechanical system; Institution of Mech. Engineers, London

RPE-064 Non Conventional manufacturing process

UNIT I

Thermal Processes:

Electro-discharge Machining: Mechanism of material removal, machining system, EDM-Spark

Circuits, material removal rates, surface integrity, Heat-affected zone, applications, process

control, EDM automation, environmental impact, Electrical Discharge Milling, Wire EDM.

Laser Beam Machining: Material removal mechanism, types of Lasers, LBM equipment, process

characteristics, applications. Electron Beam Machining: Basic equipment and metal removal

mechanism, process characteristics, applications. Plasma Beam Machining: Machining systems,

material removal rate, accuracy and surface quality, applications. Ion Beam Machining: Introduction,

material removal rate,accuracy and surface effects, applications

UNIT II

Mechanical Processes:

Ultrasonic Machining: Definitions, characteristics, machining system, material removal process,

design of acoustic horns, factors affecting material removal rate, dimensional accuracy and surface

quality, applications. Water Jet Machining: Introduction, machining system, process

parameters, and applications .Abrasive Jet Machining: Introduction, machining system, material

removal rate, applications. Abrasive Water Jet Machining: Process Characteristics, machining

system, process capabilities, and applications.

UNIT III

Chemical Processes:

Chemical Milling: Introduction, tooling for CHM, process parameters, material removal rate,

accuracy and surface finish, applications. Photochemical Milling: Introduction, process description,

applications.

UNIT IV

Electrochemical Processes:

Electrochemical Processes: Electrochemical Machining: Principles of electrolysis, theory of

ECM, ECM equipment, basic working principles, process characteristics, process control,

applications, micro-ECM, environmental impacts. Electrochemical Drilling, Shaped Tube

Electrolytic Machining, Electrostream (capillary) Drilling, Electrochemical Jet Drilling,

Electrochemical Deburring.

UNIT V

Additive Manufacturing:

Basics and definitions: Principle of layer-based technology,advantages, classification. Rapid

Prototyping Process Chain: 3D Modeling, Data Conversion and Transmission, Checking and

Preparing, model building, post processing. Rapid prototyping techniques: Stereo lithography, Solid

Ground Curing (SGC), Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), Three-

dimensional printing,

REFERENCES

1. Jain V. K., “Advanced Machining Processes”, Allied Publishers, New Delhi.

2. Mishra P. K, “Non-conventional Machining”, Narosa Publishing House.

3. Hassan El-Hofy, “Advanced Machining Processes: Nontraditional and Hybrid

Machining Processes”, McGraw-Hill Co., New York (2005).

4. Benedict, Gary F., “Non-Traditional Manufacturing Processes”, Marcel Dekker

Inc., New York (1987).

5. Pandey, P. C. and Shan, H. S., “Modern Machining Processes”, Tata McGraw Hill

Co, New Delhi (1980).

6. Chua C. K. and Leong, Lim, “Rapid Prototyping Principles and Ap

RPE-651 PETROLEUM PRODUCTION/TESTING LAB

Practical related to measurements of surface tension, Diesel Index, Bromine number, RVP, Sulphur

content, Carbon Residue, Water content, ASTM distillation of Petroleum and Petroleum Products.

RPE-652 RESERVOIR ENGG. LAB

1. Determination of POROSITY of Earth masses by Various Methods. 2. Determination of Permeability of Earth Masses by Various Methods. 3. Determination of Surface tension of various Petroleum Fractions. 4. Ternary phase Diagram with Oil fraction/Water/Alcohol. 5. Log Simulator. 6. Using production vs. time data and decline curve analysis method, computation of:

amount of initial Gas in place and Gas reserves. If R.F. is 70% 7. Total Gas reserve. 8. Using chart scanner and a recorded bottom hole. Built up chart and production data

before shut down, compute permeability and skin.

RPE-653 WELL DRILLING LAB

1. Calculate Tangential stress in a well bore. 2. Determine Casing inspection by ultrasonic image tester. 3. Calculate rock mechanics by the help of mohr’s circule. 4. Calculate the amount of forces required in hydro fracturing technique for shale. 5. Plot Mud log by using GAMMA ray log method. 6. Calculate the stability of horizontal well bore. 7. Determine the rock properties responsible for leakage of surrounding matrix in to

well bore.

8. Calculate the importance of Drill sting operations in hydrogen sulfide (H2S)

Environment.

RPE-654 PETROLEUM INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL

LAB

1. Transient response to single tank system with storage & Flow to (a) step change (b)

impulse change in put.

2. Transient response of non interacting system in series.

3. Transient response of interacting system in series.

4. Study the operation of ON-OFF electronic temperature controller & determination of its

5. performance to control the temperature of a system having capacity to store thermal

energy.

6. Transient response of a CSTR System to step change.

7. Study the dynamics of parallel & counter flow shell & tube heat exchanger.

8. Controlling of Parallel Flow & counter flow STHE using digital PI controller to have

desired output.

9. Dynamics characteristics of mercury & water manometers.

10. Study of control value characteristics.

11. Study the performance of cascade control system & to maintain desired level in a

tank,with flow.