Refinery Process Yield Optimization

OBJECTIVES

• Familiarize and understand the various refinery types and appreciate how refining complexity impacts refining optimization and refinery economics.
• Comprehend the importance of quality giveaways and learn how to use blending calculations to reduce them.
• Use hands-on software that allows 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 operation.

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.

COURSE OUTLINE

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

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

Process for Motor Fuel Production

• Fluid Catalytic Cracking
• Hydrocracking
• Cat Cracking
• Isomerization
• Alkylation
• Hydrotreating
• Catalytic Reforming
• Product Specifications

Supporting Operations

• Blending for Product Specifications
• Hydrogen Production
• Storage Tanks
• Refinery Gas Plants
• Acid Gas Treating
• Sulfur Recovery Plants

Refinery Economics

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