Introduction
Refinery operations are having to respond to low oil prices with the concomitant expectation of low petroleum product prices, whilst handling different crude feedstocks and meeting tighter environmental regulation. Therefore Refinery operations must optimize the yield of high-value petroleum products and make maximum use of the bottom of the barrel.
Advanced Refinery Process Yields Optimization training course will present an overview of refining unit operations. It covers how the nature of the crude feedstock and the combination of these units in different refinery configurations affects process yields of the finished products generated from the crude oil feed.
Major refining processes are presented and discussed including feedstock, operating conditions, catalysts, yields, product properties, and economics. It also discusses how global demand and environmental issues are driving refinery configuration and optimization and how the refineries are responding to this. It presents the fundamental understanding required to achieve the optimization and touches on the software options to enable this.
Course Objectives
At the end of the Advanced Refinery Process Yields Optimization training course, you will be able to:
- Understand the complex nature of Refining and its operations
- Understand the drivers of the Petroleum Refining industry to maximize process fluid yields
- Appreciate the purpose and subtleties of all processes associated with the processing of petroleum into finished products
- Apply the learning to aid refinery scheduling and optimization
- Appreciate the implications of different feedstocks on product quality and product range
Who should Attend?
Advanced Refinery Process Yields Optimization training course, is ideal for:
- Process Engineers, Technologists, Operating and Supervisory personnel engaged in the refining activities who have a minimum of experience and who are required to understand and discuss issues related to their processes.
- Refinery scheduling staff, blending staff and crude oil buyers
- Engineering and operations personnel, this training course will also be suitable for business, sales, technical, and scientific personnel with limited or no broad refinery operating experience, along with Technical sales personnel.
- Those involved in selling equipment or supplies to the refining industry and those involved with economic evaluations of refinery operations will benefit from this training course
Course Outline
Crude Oil Yields Refinery Technology:
- Introduction
- Crude Oil Origins & Characteristics
- Crude oil Assay and properties
- Crude oil products
- Product specifications
- Gasoline
- Kerosene/ Jet Fuel
- Fuel Oil/ Diesel Fuels
- Petrochemical Feedstocks
- Refineries Complexity
- Overall refinery flow: Interrelationship of processes
Petroleum Refinery Processes:
- Crude Processing
- Desalting
- Atmospheric distillation
- Vacuum distillation
- Heavy Oils Processing – Cocking and Thermal Processes
- Delayed Coking
- Fluid Coking
- Flexicoking
- Visbreaking
Process for Motor Fuel Production:
- Fluid catalytic cracking
- Hydrocracking
- Cat Cracking
- Isomerization
- Alkylation
- Hydrotreating
- Catalytic Reforming
Supporting Operations:
- Blending for Product Specifications
- Optimisation
- Hydrogen production
- GTL
- Refinery Gas Plants
- Acid Gas Treating
- Sulphur Recovery Plants
Refinery Economics:
- Residue Reduction
- Asphalt and Residual Fuel
- Cost Estimation
- Economic Evaluation
- Case Studies
- Group Discussions
- Program Evaluation & Summary