Course objective

• To familiarize and understand the various refinery types and appreciate how refining complexity impacts refining optimization and refining margins.
• Comprehend the importance quality giveaways and learn how use blending calculations to reduce these.
• Use hands on software that allow professionals in the industry to choose different types of crude diets and thus optimize refinery utilization and efficiency.
• Act as a primer into the industry of Petroleum Refining to maximize process fluid yields
• Familiarize industry professionals with all processes associated with the processing of petroleum into finished products
• Equip new engineers into the industry, with the basic tools for understanding the complex nature of Refining and its operations

Course outline

Crude Oil Yields Refinery Technology

• Introduction to Crude Oil Origins & Characteristics
• Crude oil Assay and properties
• Crude oil products & Product specifications
• LPG
• Gasoline
• Kerosene/ Jet Fuel
• AGO / Diesel Fuel Oil
• Petrochemical Feed stocks
• Overall refinery flow: Interrelationship of processes

Petroleum Refinery Processes

• Crude Processing
• Desalting
• Atmospheric distillation
• Vacuum distillation
• Heavy Oils Processing / Bottom of the barrel upgrading
• Cocking and Thermal Processes
• Delayed Coking
• Fluid Coking
• Flexi coking
• Visbreaking
• Case study – example

Process for Motor Fuel Production

• Fluid catalytic cracking
• Hydrocracking
• Cat Cracking
• Isomerization
• Alkylation
• Hydro treating
• Catalytic Reforming
• Case study – example

Supporting Operations

• Blending for Product Specifications
• Hydrogen production
• Refinery Gas Plants
• Acid Gas Treating
• Sulfur Recovery Plants
• Utilities
• Case study – example

Refinery Economics

• Residue Reduction
• Asphalt and Residual Fuel
• Refinery Complexity and Netback
• Economic Evaluation
• Cost Estimation
• Case Studies
• Group Discussions
• Program Evaluation & Summary

Who should attend?

• 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.