This course describes the manufacturing processes of the main molecules derived from petroleum refining to supply petrochemicals.
The importance of petrochemicals is recalled. Then the steam cracking of naphtha is described, with its thermodynamics, its chemistry, its process and the selective hydrogenations of some of its products.
The production chain of aromatic hydrocarbons (excluding naphtha steam cracking) is then presented, as well as the production of hydrogen by the steam reforming of methane.