MY SPECIALITY. (Technological Faculty)

(Technological Faculty)

I am a student of the Technological Faculty of the Ufa State Petroleum Technological University.

Students entering our faculty may specialize in various branches. Thus those who will choose the branch of petroleum and gas refining will deal with designing and operating various refineries and work at research institutes and laboratories.

At the plants petroleum, its numerous derivatives and hydrocarbon gases are processed into fuels, gasoline, lubricating (lube) oils, greases and many other finished products as well as into raw materials and by-products for synthesis of petrochemicals.

One of the most urgent today's problems is microbiological processing of oil products and their oxidized derivatives into single-cell proteins. Special attention is directed both to the principles of technology providing high nutrition value and harmlessness of the product and to the definition of their fields of application (technical, feed, food).

Scientists consider microorganisms to play a large great role in many industries. With the new genetic methods the microbiologists and chemists are able to replace the existing pathway with a new one.

Petroleum refining and the production of chemical goods are the leading branches in our country. They started intensive development in the 1950's.

Combining several processes in a single technological operation is now one of the main trends of technological progress in petroleum refining.

The introduction of the catalytic reforming process solved the problem of upgrading straight-run gasolines, especially those derived from sulfur-bearing crude with simultaneous extraction of hydrogen. A continuous thermal contact cracking process in the boiling bed of powdered coke which enables refining of petroleum residues, black oil, petroleum asphalt, cracking tar, etc. - is being improved.

Along with the setting up new processing plants during the past few years, many large-scale processing units have been built and put into operation with hydrocarbon raw materials. This accounts for a multiple increase of output and expansion of many petrochemicals production.

The leading trends of petroleum processing are: maximum specialization of petrochemical plants; maximum concentration of petrochemicals production by the integrated units; full automation of technological processes control by modern computers.