Operations and Troubleshooting of Distillation Columns, Absorbers, Regeneration, Separators and Desalters
Introduction
The success of every company depends of each employee's understanding of the business's key components. Employee training and development will unlock the companies' profitability and reliability. When people, processes and technology work together as a team developing practical solutions, companies can maximize profitability and assets in a sustainable manner.
Distillation is the most common separation technique and is energy intensive. Distillation can consume more than 50% of a process plant’s operating energy cost. A way to improve an existing plant’s operating cost or to reduce a new distillation system’s operating cost is to improve the efficiency and operations by correct equipment selection, process optimization and control.
It is strategically important that your operations team understands the fundamentals of process unit operations concepts. This is the difference between being in the best quartile of operational ability and being in the last quartile. There is vast difference in the operational ability of operating companies and most benchmarking studies have confirmed this gap in operational abilities.
Whether you have a team of new or seasoned employees, an introduction or review of these concepts is very beneficial in closing the gap if you are not in the best quartile, or maintaining a leadership position. Most studies show that a continuous reinforcement of best practices in operational principles is the most effective way to obtain the desired results. Training and learning should be an on-going continuous life- long goal.
OBJECTIVES
This course will guide the participants to develop key concepts and techniques to design, operate, and troubleshoot a distillation system. These key concepts can be utilized to make design and operating decisions. Training and development is an investment in future success - give yourself and your employees the keys to success.
Product recoveries, purities, and energy utilization can be improved in most distillation systems. This cannot be achieved without first and understanding of distillation principles and design. These principles need to be understood in advance of designing, operating, and troubleshooting a distillation column for the operator, designer, or problem-solving to be effective.
By the end of the training, participants will be able to:
- The operation, control, and troubleshooting of a distillation column and its associated equipment
- An overview of distillation, practical solutions as well as the theory
- An understating of essential distillation concepts
- Valuable practical insights for trouble-free design and field-proven techniques for commissioning, start-up, and shutdown of distillation operation
- The fundamental knowledge of distillation control
- To tailor your approach to specific design, analysis and troubleshooting problems
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This course is intended those who are making day to day decisions regarding the operation, design, maintenance, and economics of process industry plants such as Line Operations personnel, Operation Supervisors, Line Maintenance personnel, Maintenance Supervisors, Senior Plant Supervisors, Operations Engineers, Process Support Engineers, Design Engineers, and Cost Engineers as well as Technical Engineers, Operating Engineers, Process Support Personnel, Chemist, and Managers.