Course Objectives:

• Lectures, tutorials and group work in all areas of refinery energy efficiency
• Real-life Case Studies that illustrate technical solutions and obtainable benefits
• Transfer of instructor’s extensive hands-on industrial experience
• Use of basic energy software tools that will be made available to participants
• Open discussion on actual problems in participant’s own refinery

Course Outline.

Introduction to Energy Efficiency; the Effect of Energy on the Bottom Line

• Energy and its Effect on Refinery Profitability
• Refinery Energy Balance
• Energy Benchmarking; Site Efficiency Assessment
• Potential for improvement
• Approach to energy saving
• Fuel, power and steam costing methodology

Energy Features of Refinery Key Process Units and how to Improve their Energy Efficiency

• Distillation: Crude Unit, Vacuum Unit
• Binary Distillation Columns
• Hydro treating, Distillate and Naphtha
• Catalytic Reforming
• Fluid Catalytic Cracking
• Hydrocracking

Refinery Utility System

• Steam Systems
• Power generation
• Steam Turbines, Cycles, Efficiencies
• Gas turbines
• Cogeneration and its benefits
• Optimisation of  Steam & Power system

Process Heat Integration

• How heat integration works?
• Introduction to Pinch Technology
• Heat availability Curves and Energy Targeting
• Pinch Technology for refinery operators
• Retrofitting heat exchange networks for improved performance
• Intuitive versus Systematic Network Revamp

Equipment Efficiency; Effective Energy Management

• Fired heaters
• Rotating equipment
• Heat Exchangers
• Energy Focused Organisation
• The Energy Team
• Developing internal competence in energy

Who can benefit?

• Personnel responsible for inspection, maintenance and reliability
• Thermal and stationary equipment engineers
• Process Engineers
• Plant Engineers
• Project Engineers
• Plant energy managers/coordinators