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Refinery Production Operations & Petroleum Produce

Introduction

Refinery Production Operations & Petroleum Produce

Learning Objectives

• Attendees will be able to implement the following skills:
• 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