First Year: Semester I

First Year: Semester II

Second Year: Semester I

Second Year: Semester II

Third Year: Semester I

Third Year: Semester II

Fourth Year: Semester I

Fourth Year: Semester II

Energy scenario, what do petroleum Engineers do? Petroleum industry, petroleum exploration, drilling, production, reservoir performance, oil and gas transportation, utilization of oil and natural gas.

Introduction to mining industry; economics and structure of the mining industry; terminology of mining engineering; explorations; mining operations; mineral processing; mineral purchasing; metallurgy; roles and responsibility of mining engineers to mining industry; problems and environmental impacts in mining industry.

Origin of the Universe and Earth, Earth's Structure and Plate Tectonic Basics, Continental drift, Plate Tectonic theory and dynamics, Concepts of Geosphere; Fundamental theories and laws in Earth science; Minerals and Rock Cycle, Volcanism and Igneous Rocks, Weathering Processes, Sedimentary Rocks, Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks; Earth's Deformation, Folds, Faults, and Unconformity; Geologic Time, Hydrologic Cycle & Groundwater; Landform developed by Rivers, Coastal Processes, Glaciers, and Winds; Geological traps for georesources; Mass Wasting, Earthquakes, Energy Resources, Mineral Resources, Earth systems and global climate

Atoms, molecules and ions: Atomic theory, components of atoms. Electronic structure: Introduction to Quantum theory, the atomic spectrum of hydrogen and the Bohr model, Quantum numbers, energy levels and orbitals, electronic configuration, chemical bonding and molecular structure. Acids and bases: Theories and modern definition, dissociation constant, pH, buffer solution etc. Periodic table: electronic arrangment and the periodic table, summarized chemical properties of s-block, p-block, d-block, and f-block elements. Gases: the ideal gas law, volume of gases involves in reactions, gas mixtures, partial pressure, kinetic theory of gases, real gases. Introduction to chemical kinetics: rate laws, rate constant, equilibrium cvonstant, order of reaction etc. Chemical Equilibrium: Equilibrium constant Kp, Kc, D S, D G catalyst. Organic chemistry: Introduction, classification, nomenclature, general chemistry of different classes of organic compounds (i) properties (ii) preparations (iii) reactions and (iv) uses.

Organic and Inorganic qualitative analysis.

Physical chemistry and mineral analysis, colligative properties, electrochemistry, solution and distribution of solute in immiscible solvents, colloid and surface chemistry, thermodynamics and chemical kinetics of solution; ore sampling and dissolution, separation and analysis of metal ion ore solution, introduction to petrochemicals.

Basic knowledge of mineralogy; crystallography; crystal system; physical properties; identification of rock-forming and economic minerals; origin of igneous; sedimentary and metamorphic rocks; geological and engineering classification rocks.

Based on course no PGE 122.

Based on 1^st year courses

The second law of thermodynamics, alternate statement of second law, heat engine, temperature scale, carnot cycle, entropy, entropy changes an irreversibility, lost work, third law of thermodynamics. Thermodynamic properties of fluids, relationship among the thermodynamic properties, single phase and two phase system, types of thermodynamics diagrams. Thermodynamics of flow processes: Fundamental equations, flow of pipes, expansion processes. Conversion of heat into work by power cycle: Vapor cycle, steam power plant, internal combustion engine, Otto engine, diesel engine, gas-turbine power plant, jet engine. Refrigeration and liquefaction: Carnot refrigeration cycle, vapor compression cycle, comparison of refrigeration cycle, absorption refrigeration, heat pumps, liquefaction process. System of variable composition: Ideal and non ideal behavior, Relationship among thermodynamic properties, partial molal properties, fugacity and fugacity coefficient, fugacities in ideal solutions, activity and activity coefficient. Phase equilibria: Nature and criteria of phase equilibrium, the phase rule and Duhem’s theorem, vapor-liquid solutions, Gibbs-Duhem equation.

Fluids Properties: Definition of fluid, properties of fluid. Fluid Statics: Pressure measurement, manometer. Kinetics of fluid flow: Types of flow Euler’s acceleration formula, Reynold’s transport theorem, equation of continuity, momentum balance equation, energy balance equation. Bernoulli’s equation: equation of motion for incompressible fluid, Navier-Stokes equations and Euler equation of motion. Steady Incompressible flow in pressure conduits: Laminar and turbulent flow, critical Reynolds number, Hydraulics radius, Entrance conditions, velocity profile, pipe roughness, major and minor head loss. Fluid flow measurement: Pitot tube, orifice meter, venturimeter, rotameter. Pumps: Introduction and classification of pumps, pumps performance, mixed and axial flow pumps.

Fluids Properties: Definition of fluid, properties of fluid. Fluid Statics: Pressure measurement, manometer. Kinetics of fluid flow: Types of flow Euler’s acceleration formula, Reynold’s transport theorem, equation of continuity, momentum balance equation, energy balance equation. Bernoulli’s equation: equation of motion for incompressible fluid, Navier-Stokes equations and Euler equation of motion. Steady Incompressible flow in pressure conduits: Laminar and turbulent flow, critical Reynolds number, Hydraulics radius, Entrance conditions, velocity profile, pipe roughness, major and minor head loss. Fluid flow measurement: Pitot tube, orifice meter, venturimeter, rotameter. Pumps: Introduction and classification of pumps, pumps performance, mixed and axial flow pumps.

Based on course no PGE 212.

Concept of stress; normal stress, shearing stress, bearing stress and application to the analysis of simple structure; stress and strain under axial loading; Hoek’s law; modulus of elasticity, deformation of members under loading; statically intermediate problems; multi-axial loading and shearing strain; concept of torsion; stress components and stress transformation; stress at a point (Mohr stress circle) and two-dimensional state of stress. Characteristics of rock materials and rock masses Different rock mass classifications. Problems in rock mechanics.

Engineering properties of soil and rock materials; compaction, consolidation; method of stability analysis of slope; soil exploration for foundation of building, Bridge, Roads, Highways and airport construction; Erosion. siltation, River training, construction materials and their availability in Bangladesh.

Based on course no PGE 214.

Introduction and scope; occurrence of sedimentary rocks and sedimentary processes, lithification and digenesis. Texture, structure, composition and classification of sedimentary rocks. Study of modern sediments and depositional systems. Concept of depositional systems and facies within a stratigraphic framework.

Stratigraphic concepts; classification, stratigraphic column and stratigraphic subdivisions and stratigraphic procedures and chronostratigraphy; Brief Stratigraphy of the adjoining areas of the Bengal Basin, Assam, West Bengal, Myanmar, Bay of Bengal and Salt Range.

Earth and rock excavation; subsidence and ground control; exploration, development and exploration of mineral deposits by surface and underground mining including quarrying and mining of coal and placer deposits; tunneling; shaft sinking; mine ventilation, and illumination; mine drainage; mine haulage and hoisting.

Modes of heat transfer. Conduction: mechanism of thermal conduction in solids, liquids and gases; other thermal properties; steady state conduction in one dimension; transient heat conduction. The basic equation of momentum and heat transport. Some approximate solutions of convection heat transfer. Dimensionless correlations for forced and free convection. Heat transfer with phase change; boiling and condensation. Thermal finite surfaces indifferent enclosures. Types of heat transfer equipment. Design of heat exchangers; mean temperature difference in different flow arrangement; thermal and mechanical design. Materials of construction. Extended surfaces.

Based on Course PGE 222

Set, Probability. Probability Distribution. Discrete Probability. Distribution. Continuous Distribution. Functions Of Random Variables. Estimation Theory. Test of Hypothesis. Regression and Curve Fitting. Correlation Theory

Based on 2^nd year courses

Different techniques and machineries used in open pit mining. Principles of rock slope stability in buildings and mining application. Formulae and calculations by using geological and hydrogeological information. Mining practices commonly used in placer deposits; placer mining equipments; structure and mine organization; economic analysis.

Measurements of the physical properties of the reservoir rocks: Porosity, permeability, capillary pressure, relative permeability, mechanical properties: relating the measured properties to the performance of actual reservoirs.

Based on course no. PGE 312

Reserve estimation, reservoir drive mechanism, material balance, rate decline analysis, fluid flow in porous media, and well testing.

Subsurface environment (Subsurface water, subsurface temperature, subsurface pressure and subsurface fluid dynamics). Generation and Migration of Petroleum: origin of petroleum, formation of kerogen, petroleum migration and petroleum system. Reservoir of Petroleum: Porosity, permeability, capillary pressure – their relationship with texture; effects of diagenesis on reservoir quality.

Traps and Seals: nomenclature of trap, seals and cap rock, classification of trap with brief description. Sedimentary basin and petroleum system: Basic concept, Mechanism of basin formation, Classification of Sedimentary basin: cratonic basin, trough, rift and drift suite of basin and strike slip basin with brief description; Petroleum system of Bangladesh.

Introduction to exploration techniques; most widely used geophysical techniques like: Gravity, Magnetic, Electrical and Seismic methods in exploration of petroleum and mineral resources. Brief discussions on survey techniques, processing and interpretation of data acquired from different methods. Geological exploration techniques; exploratory drilling; an integration of magnetic, gravity, and seismic applied to exploration for Petroleum.

Introduction to the science of materials relating their mechanical, thermal, electronic and chemical properties, atomic, molecular and crystal structures. Ceramic and metallic crystals, polymers and composite materials and their properties. Electrochemical theory of corrosion, concentration and differential temperature cells. The interaction of mechanical stresses and corrosion, corrosion resistant materials, corrosion testing.

Measurement of the physical and chemical properties of hydrocarbon fluids including the study of the phase behavior of petroleum fluids. Proximate analysis of coal/coke. Determine of calorific values of coal/coke.

Introduction; hydrologic cycle, precipitation, run off, evapotranspiration and their measurements, hydrograph construction and interpretation, drainage basin evaluation and its quantitative evaluation, drainage patterns, velocity of river flow, stage and discharge measurements; flood.

Introduction and related science, origin and occurrence of ground water, rock properties affecting ground water, subsurface distribution of groundwater, geological formations as aquifers, types of aquifers. Ground water movement and groundwater modelling. Fundamentals of well hydraulics, steady and unsteady flow, equilibrium and non-equilibrium equations, well losses, well interference. Ground water exploration; presentation and interpretation of results; determination of aquifer characteristics and pumping test. Water wells, well design and well development. Ground water resources of Bangladesh.

Parts of drilling rigs/ machinery of rotary drilling, mechanics of rotary drilling fluids; Directional and horizontal drilling; well control; drill string design; casing and cementing; drilling fluids and their properties, safety and environmental aspects of petroleum exploration and development.

Background of well logging and purposes, petrophysical properties, modern well logging methods and their applications. Determination of fluid saturations, chemical compositions of the saturating fluids. Applications of the results in reservoir evaluation.

Based on course no PGE 322

Well-reservoir performance, gas well tests, water, influx, reservoir characterization, immiscible displacement, and introduction to reservoir simulation.

Geological framework of Bangladesh; Comprehensive study of stratigraphy of Bangladesh. Georesources habitats of Bangladesh. Mineral resources of Bangladesh - occurrence, distribution, stratigraphic relationship, reserve and uses of gas & oil, coal, peat, limestone, glass sand, white clay, placer deposits, hard rocks, building materials and metallic minerals. Mineral resources and reserve, economic and political consideration, conservation and utilization of minerals and their role in development. National mineral policy of Bangladesh.

Method selection, classification of mining systems; Shaft design construction, freezing. Tunneling: stress distribution around tunnel and zone of influence in horizontal layered and massive rock, and jointed Rock masses. Deformability in different types of opening; Energy changes accompanying underground Mining.

Based on course no PGE 326.

Definition of mineral processing engineering. Physical methods of mineral processing; fundamental of mineral processing including sampling, comminution and liberation, screening, size determination, gravity concentration, magnetic and electrostatic separation, dewatering, construction of simple flow sheets or mineral processing plant.

Industrial Visits and Training

Based on 3^rd year courses

Thesis will be carried out

Concepts of unified treatment of transport process. Theories of viscosity, thermal conductivity and diffusivity. Generalized expressions for transport fluxes. Multi-component equations of change. Analytical and approximate solutions of equations of change in momentum, heat and mass transfer processes.

Basic concepts of chemical process control: incentives for process control; design aspects; hardware elements. Modeling for control purposes; development of mathematical models; linearization of nonlinear systems; input-output model; transfer functions. Dynamic and static behavior of chemical processes: first, second and higher order processes; transportation lag: systems in series. Analysis and design in feedback control systems: concept of feedback control;’ feedback controllers and final control elements; block diagrams; closed loop responses; concept of stability; stability testing. Frequency response analysts: bodes diagrams; Nyquist plots; Bode and Nyquist stability criteria; control system design by frequency response analysts.

Analysis and design of advanced control systems: control of system with large dead or inverse response; multiple-loop control systems; feed forward and ratio control; adaptive and inferential control. Design of control systems for multivariable processes: synthesis of alternative control configurations for multiple-input and multiple-output processes; interaction and decoupling of control loops. Design of control systems for complete plants.

Review of flow through porous media, permeability for series and parallel strata in linear and plane radial system. Well completions- open hole and cased hole. Formation damage- causes, detection and prevention. Packers and types. Perforation: well stimulation techniques, Surface equipment- gathering systems and production battery layout. Well testing and perforation analysis, artificial lift systems.

Review of the theories of fluid flow, gas gathering for distributing system planning. Flow calculation, layout and sizing of distribution piping system, Network analysis, construction and maintenance of distribution system. Economics of distributions, specific design problems on distribution system.

Well design; drilling planning and well completion well cost estimation; drilling operations planning; well site operations and performance reporting.

Underground traversing, underground curve, transferring the meridian and level to underground, problems of direction and distance, borehole surveying, open-pit surveying and triangulation.

Explosive, its design and blasting; Underground excavation support design (Different type of supports) and support calculation. Mine transport and Mine ventilation. Mining activities in Bangladesh.

Hazards and safety in petroleum industries. Introduction to risk management, principles and issues in risk analysis, Risk reduction measure: structural and non-structural; acts and regulations. Hazards identification, hazards and operability studies, hazards analysis-event tree and fault tree analysis, frequency analysis, consequence analysis, data source and data selection, risk criteria and cost benefit analysis, safety audit and safety regulations

Properties of natural gas, gas measurement, gas hydrates, condensate stabilization, acid gas treating, gas dehydration, compressors, process control, deliverability test, gathering and transmission, and natural gas liquefaction.

Petroleum Economics: World oil economy, petroleum law, concession and contract systems, petroleum exploration and production economics, and decision analyses.

Mineral Economics and Management: Knowledge of mineral market structure, pricing and trading of mineral and metal commodities; investment analysis of mineral deposit : reserve estimation, cost estimation; project management; risk and sensitivity analysis; safety and environmental management; mining legislation in Bangladesh; rehabilitation and land use of mining project.

An overview of reservoir properties with emphasis on different governing equations. Different techniques of gas and oil well testing-inherent advantages and disadvantages. Application of the methods to some real data.

Pollution of the Environment: a) Air pollution: composition and evaluation of atmosphere; Earth radiation balance: particles, ions and radicals in the atmosphere, chemical and photochemical reactions, depletion of the ozone layer, green house effect. Air pollutant and their effects. Water Pollution: water resources. The hydrologic cycle, complexation in natural water and waste water, micro organisms-catalysts of aquatic chemical reaction, eutrification, water pollutants inorganic, organic sediments, radioactive materials. Waste Pollution Control Processes: Study of physical and biological process employed for biological processes employed for pollution control, removal of suspended, colloidal and dissolved phases of pollution. Industrial Wastes: waste water treatment, study of unit operation and processes, sludge handling and disposal effects, disposal of waste waters in ground water travel of pollutants through soil, removal of nutrients and pollutants by soil interaction Solid wastes, sources, municipal refuse, industrial solid wastes, contamination by basic organic chemicals and toxic metals, comparative treatment of incineration, chemical treatment, solidification encapsulation and landfill. Environmental Problems in Bangladesh.

Reservoir simulation is used to investigate petroleum reservoir characteristics and behavior, including: pore volume, fluid distribution and movement, and recovery. The result of simulation studies include optimized field development and management plans which maximize the value and/or reserves of producing properties. The course covers finite difference approximations to the diffusivity equation and the application of those approximations for reservoir simulations. Practical use of reservoir simulation is also covered through application to common reservoir engineering problems.

Factors influencing oil and gas economics, taxation of oil and gas properties. Estimation of costs. Evaluation of processing facilities. Probability and sensitivity analysis.

Nature of mining enterprise; underground, alluvial and surfacial sampling; mineral reserve and mining cost; beneficiation; realization and marketing; taxation; valuation of mineral properties; mining organization and administration.

Water intrusion problems in different types of mine. Dewatering in different conditions. Safety analysis in slope, wall and roof in mines, Geotechnical Monitoring for Safety in Highwall Mining.

Environmental impacts of mining and mineral processing, conservation of soil, water and air quality, procedures for safe disposal of solids, liquid and gaseous wastes from mining and mineral processing plants. Petroleum or Gas derived brine management; Environmental aspects of storing and transporting extracted and/or processed minerals.

Based on Fourth Year Courses