DURATION
' + '4 Days
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DESIGNED FOR
' + 'Personnel in the petroleum refining business and related activities.
' + 'YOU WILL LEARN
' + 'Sources of refinery feedstocks, crude or synthetic
Composition of the feeds, their characterization, desirable properties, and selection
How a refinery matches crude composition (assay) to product market demand by selection of process units
Fundamentals of individual refinery processes, engineering, materials, and construction challenges
Operational challenges
How to improve profitability by debottlenecking, yield improvement, and blending
How to evaluate alternative processing schemes and what makes a regional ‘Pacesetter’ refinery
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ABOUT THE COURSE
' + 'This basic course shows how any crude oil is converted to products based upon the demand for premium quality gasoline, diesel, lubes, and chemical feedstock. It is useful for those new to the refining business such as new hires of any discipline, transferees from other sectors of the petroleum, upstream, mid-stream, and chemical sectors. This course is excellent for experienced operators who want to understand the ‘why’ as much as the ‘how’ of refining. Basics of refining and its technology are stressed. Details of chemistry, process conditions, and materials are described where necessary to support the basics. The backbone of the course is to develop a refinery processing scheme through a series of simple, linked student-worked problems. This will show how a processing scheme to meet product qualities and volumes is developed.
' + 'COURSE CONTENT
' + 'Refining climate, background and driving forces
Crude oil distillation processes: atmospheric and vacuum
Straight-run naphtha processing, treating, isomerisation and reforming for gasoline production
Distillate desulfurization for diesel and heating oil production
Light-ends recovery and treating of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for gasoline blending and sales
Vacuum gas oil conversion, catalytic feed hydrotreater (CFHT), fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) and hydrocracking
Light olefin streams recovery, treating and alkylation for gasoline
Residue processing, residue fluidized catalytic cracking (RFCC), ARVDS, VRDS, residue hydrocracking, delayed and continuous coking
Lube oil production
Aromatics recovery and re-arrangement to make benzene, toluene, ethyl-benzene and xylene (BTEX)
Product blending to make gasoline, diesel, heating oil, and fuel oil
Refining economics