Advance Refinery Operations Plants Process and Troubleshooting
Advance Refinery Operations Plants Process and Troubleshooting
OBJECTIVES
- Advanced level physical principles, hydrocarbon properties, and hydrocarbon phase behavior
- Practical thermodynamics, including mass and energy balances
- Principles of fluid dynamics and application to pumps, compressors, and turboexpanders
- To understand process equipment, including heat exchangers, fired heaters, separators, piping, and towers with trays or packing
- To understand process unit operations, including gas conditioning and processing, gas dehydration, NGL extraction processes, stabilization/fractionation, and sulfur recovery
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Plant and facility operations and maintenance technicians, supervisors, and managers.
COURSE OUTLINE
- Hydrocarbons basic principles
- Units of measurement
- Process drawings
- Overview of oil and gas processing
- Important properties of hydrocarbons
- Phase behavior fundamentals
- Practical thermodynamics: mass and energy balances
- Heat transfer and fired heaters
- Mechanical refrigeration
- Introduction to process control
- Basic principles of fluid flow
- Centrifugal pumps
- Centrifugal compressors
- Reciprocating compressors
- Introduction to gas turbines
- Production separators and oil dehydration
- Water treating
- Corrosion and corrosion monitoring
- Amine gas sweetening
- Sulfur recovery
- Mass transfer operations
- Water-hydrocarbon behavior
- TEG gas dehydration
- Mole sieve dehydration
- Gas expansion NGL recovery (valve and turboexpander)
- Crude oil, condensate, and NGL stabilization
- NGL fractionation
- Process troubleshooting