This highly-interactive training course on Hydrocarbon Loss Reduction is intended for anyone who takes part in the reduction of hydrocarbon loss or who helps decide hydrocarbon loss investments. No prior knowledge of hydrocarbon loss management is required.
This GLOBAL FRANCHISE training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit to:
- Refinery and Petrochemical Plant Managers
- Finance Manager
- Yield Accountants
- Control Engineers
- Maintenance Engineers
- Plant Engineers
- Process Engineers
- Supervisors
Training Outline
DAY 1: Refinery and Petrochemical Plant Overview and Material Balance
- Basis of the Balance
- Definitions
- Material Balance Example
- Process Operating Losses
- Accounted Loss Table
- Loss Monitoring
- Loss Reduction
DAY 2: Measurement and Evaluation of Fuel Consumption
- Measurement
- Stock Measurement
- Imports
- Products
- Mass and Weight
- Evaluation of Fuel Consumption
- The Refinery and Petrochemical Plant Fuel Systems
- Fuel Measuring Systems
- Mass and Energy Balance Checks
- Maintenance of Fuel Systems
DAY 3: Flare Systems and Tankage
- Flare Systems
- Flare Systems
- Pilot Gas
- Purge Gas
- Flare Gas
- Flare Surveillance / Flare Steam
- Flow Measurement
- Flare Gas Recovery Systems
- Flare Reduction and Monitoring
- Tankage
- Physical Loss
- Measurement
DAY 4: Loss of Process Units and Slops System
- Loss from Process Units
- Introduction
- Losses to Flare
- Losses from Aqueous Streams
- Hydrocarbon Leaks to Atmosphere
- Losses during Shutdown and Startup
- Losses during Process Upsets
- Processing Losses
- Slops System
- Introduction
- Sources of Slop
- Slop Handling Facilities
- Segregation of Slops
- Measurement and Management
DAY 5: Statistics in Hydrocarbon Management
- Component Uncertainties
- Overall loss Uncertainty
- An Alternative Historical Method of Estimating the Uncertainty of Refinery Loss Data