Refinery Process Yield Optimisation

What are the Goals?

• 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 is this Training Course for?

This Refinery Process Yield Optimisation training course is intended for refining professionals working in the industry either as refining technologists or in refining operations and engineers. It is designed to allow a further understanding of the various processes available and how these can be optimized to improve yields and refining margins.

• 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

Daily Agenda

Day One: 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

 Day Two: 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

 Day Three: Process for Motor Fuel Production

• Fluid catalytic cracking
• Hydrocracking
• Cat cracking
• Isomerization
• Alkylation
• Hydrotreating
• Catalytic reforming
• Product specifications

Day Four: Supporting Operations

• Blending for product specifications
• Hydrogen production
• Storage tanks
• Refinery gas plants
• Acid gas treating
• Sulfur recovery plants

 Day Five: Refinery Economics

• Residue reduction
• Asphalt and residual fuel
• Refinery complexity and netback
• Economic evaluation
• Cost estimation
• Group discussions
• Program evaluation & summary