Fuel Quality Monitoring System Fundamentals

What are the Goals?

At the end of this Fuel Quality Monitoring System Fundamentals training course, you will learn to:

• Describe fuels chemistry, manufacturing, blending, distribution, and handling.
• Compare testing parameters for gasoline, jet fuel, and road diesel.
• Apply combustion parameters to fuels.
• Explain how fuel properties influence engine performance.
• Manage jet fuel quality by applying principles of handling and microbial degradation.
• Explain diesel properties and their impact on fuel performance.
• Troubleshoot quality problems and contamination of fuels.
• Discuss fuel quality monitoring system.
• Address specific problems in distribution and fuel testing and propose solutions

Who is this Training Course for?

This Fuel Quality Monitoring System Fundamentals training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Operation Engineers
• Production Engineers 
• Process Engineers
• Senior Operation Personnel
• Operation Staff
• Technical Supervisory Staff
• Plant Engineers
• Fuel quality specialists
• Measurement and quality control operators
• Foremen

Daily Agenda

Day One: Introduction of Fuel Quality Fundamentals 

• Crude oil chemistry and properties
• Classification of crude oils
• Crude assays and valuation
• Petroleum product specifications
• Petroleum products standardization and quality control
• Introduction to oil refineries
• Refinery configurations
• Case study: Impact of refinery configurations on fuel specifications

Day Two: Gasoline 

• Gasoline chemistry
• Manufacturing technologies
• Gasoline specifications and quality monitoring system
• Testing parameters for gasoline
• Composition, Combustion Characteristics, Octane Number, Corrosiveness, Density, Flash Point and Fire Point, Oxygenates, Stability, and Instability, Volatility
• Effect of fuel properties on engine performance
• Troubleshoot quality problems and contamination of gasoline
• Case-Study: Naphtha Hydrotreater, Catalytic Reformer, and Isomerization Units

Day Three: Jet Fuel 

• Jet fuel chemistry
• Manufacturing technologies
• Jet fuel specifications and quality monitoring system
• Testing parameters for Jet fuel
• Acidity, Calorific Value, Density, Flash Point, Freezing Point, Storage Stability, Thermal Stability, Viscosity, Volatility, Water
• Effect of fuel properties on engine performance
• Troubleshoot quality problems and contamination of jet fuel
• Case-Study: Hydrocracking Unit

Day Four: Diesel 

• Diesel fuel chemistry
• Manufacturing technologies (Hydroprocessing)
• Diesel fuel specifications and quality monitoring system
• Testing parameters for Diesel fuel
• Acidity, Sulfur content, Appearance and Odor, Ash, Calorific Value, Carbon Residue, Cetane Number and Cetane Index, Cloud Point, Composition, Diesel Index, Flash Point, Freezing Point, Neutralization Number, Pour Point, Stability, Viscosity, Volatility, Water and Sediment
• Effect of diesel fuel properties on engine performance
• Troubleshoot quality problems and contamination of diesel fuel
• Case Study: Production of ultra-low sulfur diesel

Day Five: Fuel Quality Monitoring System 

• Quality control of products in petroleum refining
• Gasoline Octane Blending
• Viscosity Blending
• Pour Point Blending
• Flash Point Blending
• Reid Vapor Pressure Blending for Gasoline and Naphthas
• Aniline Point Blending
• Sampling procedures
• Case-Study: Gasoline Blending
• Case-Study: Diesel and Jet Fuel Blending