DESIGNED FOR

Personnel employed in the petroleum refining business and related activities. It is useful for those new to the refining business such as new hires of any discipline, transferees from other sectors of the petroleum, gas and chemical sectors, and for experienced operators who want to understand the ‘why’ as much as the ‘how’ of refining.

YOU WILL LEARN

* About sources of refinery feed stocks, crude or synthetic.

* About composition of the feeds, their characterization, desirable properties, and selection.

* How a refinery matches crude composition to product market demand by selection of process units.

* Fundamentals of individual refinery processes, engineering, materials, and construction challenges.

* About 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.

ABOUT THE COURSE

This basic course shows how any crude oils are converted to the demand for premium quality gasoline, diesel, lubes, and chemical feedstock. 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, reforming for gasoline production.

* Distillate desulfurization for diesel and heating oil production.

* Light-ends recovery and treating of LPG for gasoline blending and sales.

* Vacuum gas oil conversion, CFHT, FCC, and hydrocracking.

* Light olefin streams recovery, treating and alkylation for gasoline.

* Residue processing, RFCC, ARVDS, VRDS, residue hydrocracking, delayed and continuous coking.

* Lube oil production.

* Aromatics recovery and re-arrangement to make BTEX.

* Product blending to make gasoline, diesel, heating oil, and fuel oil.

* Refining economics.

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