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Refinery Production Operations & Petroleum Produce

Introduction

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
• describe the composition, main characteristics and new trends of petroleum products,
• explain the role of various processing units in a refinery,
• describe the main manufacturing schemes encountered in oil refining,
• acquire and use a common vocabulary with interlocutors in the oil services sector.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• This course provides a broad technical information on refining processes and units, in order to understand a manufacturing scheme in relation with the qualities of the products.

COURSE CONTENT

•  PETROLEUM STATISTICS

  • Evolution of the structure of the Crude market and the characteristics of petroleum products on a European and global scale. Biofuels in formulations.

•  PETROLEUM PRODUCTS

  • Principal components of petroleum products; general hydrocarbon classification and main impurities (sulfur, nitrogen, metals and asphaltenes, etc.).
    • Quality requirements for petroleum products regarding their utilization: quality specifications measured by standard tests, characteristics related to the product composition.

•  REFINING PROCESSES

  • Crude oil fractionation
  • Origin, overall characteristics and classification of crude oils.
  • Yields and properties of straight-run cuts obtained by distillation, potential destinations.
  • Industrial units: atmospheric distillation, vacuum distillation, light-ends fractionation.
  • Typical process scheme, operating conditions.
  • Catalytic reforming and isomerization
  • Octane improvement of virgin naphthas.
  • Basics of processes, types of catalyst, product yields and hydrogen production.
  • Industrial units: process flowsheets, operating conditions, equipment, low pressure processes.
  • Hydrorefining processes
  • Main features of impurities removal by catalytic hydrogen treatment.
  • Main refining applications.
  • Example of ULSD hydrotreatment unit: operating principles, operating conditions.
  • Sulfur recovery unit: amine washing, sulfur production, Tail gas treatment from Claus units.
  • Conversion units
  • Outline of conversion and various cracking processes.
  • Characteristics and origin of feeds for cracking.
  • Conversion by means of thermal cracking: visbreaker, various cokers.
  • Conversion by means of catalytic cracking: FCC and related units, gasoline sweetening and desulfurization, alkylation, production of ethers and propylene, hydrocracker and related units, hydrogen production (SMR, POX).
  • Developments in hydrotreatment and hydroconversion of heavy residues.
  • Evolution of feeds and processes
  • Co-processing
  • Bio-refineries

•  MANUFACTURING FLOWSHEETS

  • Main routes to major products.
  • Up to date refining schemes including the production of petrochemical intermediate products.
  • Impacts of the evolution of market demand and the quality of the products on manufacturing patterns.
  • Base lube oil manufacturing.