Petroleum Coke Manufacturing & Delayed Coker

What are the Goals?

By the end of this Petroleum Coke Manufacturing & Delayed Coker training course, the participants will be able to:

• Conduct online spalling and predict its time
• Deal with coke drum cycle troubles like unheading valve problems
• React with delayed coker emergency situation especially with incomplete drum cycle
• Obtain the basic knowledge of the petroleum coke manufacturing methods
• Explain the pet coke production technologies
• Learn the safety of delayed coking
• Understand the product market trends and future
• Introduce the environmental issue of the petroleum coke

Who is this Training Course for?

This Petroleum Coke Manufacturing & Delayed Coker training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Refinery and Petrochemical Plant Managers
• Process Engineers and Technologists
• Operations Personnel including Shift Supervisors
• Other Engineers who would like to have a further understanding of pet coke manufacturing technology

Daily Agenda

Day One: Overview About Delayed Coking Technologies 

• Crude Oil Chemistry
• Role of the delayed coker in the modern refinery
• Typical Coking Refinery Flow Scheme
• Refinery Complexity
• Impact of a Coker
• Feedstock considerations
• CCR %
• Asplatne
• Distillation D86, D1160
• Delayed coking
• Licensors
• Delayed Coking
• Flexicoking
• Safety and Storage
• Petroleum coke category analysis and hazard characterization

 Day Two: Coke Drum Cycle Time Optimization

• Troubleshooting of switch valve problems
• Optimisation of steam out
• Water quencing and sludge injection
• Coke cutting methodology
• Trpubleshooting of top and bottom inheading valve
• Jet pump performace monitoring
• Coke drum warm up for better life time

Day Three: Troubleshooting of Delayed Coker

• Estimation of online spalling optimum time
• Typical spalling chart
• Common problems during spalling steps
• Steam air decoking
• Coke drum overhead line cleaning and its effect in yield optimization
• Incomplete coke drum

Day Four: Petroleum Coke - Use and Environmental Issues

• Industry and environmental issues
• Usage and application of petroleum coke
• Potential health and environmental impacts
• Emission factors
• Emission and control

Day Five: Pet Coke Properties and End Uses 

• Pet Coke Quality
• Process Economics
• Hydro Treating Atmospheric Residue
• Use Of Fuel Grade Coke for Power Generation
• Feedstock Effects
• Contaminants
• Fuel Grade Coke
• Anode Grade Pet Coke
• Needle Grade Pet Coke