This Refinery Process Yield Optimisation training course is intended for refining professionals working in the industry either as refining technologists or in refining operations and engineers. It is designed to allow a further understanding of the various processes available and how these can be optimized to improve yields and refining margins.
- Refining Engineers
- Operations Personnel including Shift Supervisors
- Marketers and Refinery Planners
- Blending Professionals
- Other Engineers who would like a further understanding of the complex refining processes
- Accountants, Marketers and other Professions who would like to comprehend the advantages and limitations of the various refining processes at their site
Daily Agenda
Day 1: Crude Oil Yields Refinery Technology
- Introduction to crude oil origins & characteristics
- Crude oil assay and properties
- Crude oil products
- LPG
- Gasoline
- Kerosene / jet fuel
- AGO / diesel fuel oil
- Petrochemical feedstocks
- Overall refinery flow: interrelationship of processes
Day 2: Petroleum Refinery Processes
- Crude processing
- Desalting
- Atmospheric distillation
- Vacuum distillation
- Heavy oils processing / bottom of the barrel upgrading
- Coking and thermal processes
- Delayed coking
- Fluid coking
- Flexicoking
- Visbreaking
- Intermediate feed characteristics
Day 3: Process for Motor Fuel Production
- Fluid catalytic cracking
- Hydrocracking
- Cat cracking
- Isomerization
- Alkylation
- Hydrotreating
- Catalytic reforming
- Product specifications
Day 4: Supporting Operations
- Blending for product specifications
- Hydrogen production
- Storage tanks
- Refinery gas plants
- Acid gas treating
- Sulfur recovery plants
Day 5: Refinery Economics
- Residue reduction
- Asphalt and residual fuel
- Refinery complexity and netback
- Economic evaluation
- Cost estimation
- Group discussions
- Program evaluation & summary