Course Objectives

• To improve understanding and awareness of Crude Oil fractionation, catalytic and hydrofining processes

Course Outline

• Petroleum Products.
  • Energy and non-energy products and their main uses.
  • Principal components of petroleum products; general hydrocarbon classification and main impurities.
  • Quality requirements imposed on petroleum products.
  • New trends in market structure and product characteristics.

Refining Processes.

• Crude Oil fractionation.

• Origin overall characteristics and classification of crude oils.
• Yields and properties of straight-run cuts obtained by distillation.
• Industrial units
  • Topping
  •  vacuum distillation
  •  light-ends fractionation
  •  various process schemes
  •  operating conditions
  •  Energy consumption.
  • Catalytic reforming and summarization.
• Basics of processes
• types of catalysts
• Product yields.
  • Industrial units
  • Process schemes
  • operating conditions
  • equipment involved
  •  Energy consumption.
  • Hydro refining processes.
• Main features of impurities removal by catalytic hydrogen treatment.
• Main refining applications.
  • Conversion units.
  • Characteristics and origin of feeds to be cracked
  • Conversion by means of thermal cracking:
  • Conversion by means of catalytic cracking.
  • Recent developments in catalytic cracking of heavy residues.
  • Base Lube Oil Manufacturing.

Who can benefit?

• All refining personnel.