Introduction to Refinery Processing

An introduction to the oil refinery, its technology, major process, and operations. A seminar suitable for engineers, managers, operators, and others with a need to understand refinery operations and economics. Modules cover both the overall refinery and the major refinery units. Each process unit section includes a review of the objectives, feeds, products, processes, technology, major equipment, and performance of that unit.

This seminar is available in three-day or two-day packages to meet your needs. Client specific configurations can be made by mixing the modules from the different seminars to include the material required to meet your specific needs. Additional modules, not in the standard packages, can be added as well.

Introduction to Refinery Processing (Three-Day Seminar)

An introduction to the oil refinery, its technology, major process, and operations. A three-day seminar suitable for engineers, managers, operators, and others with a need to understand refinery operations and economics. Modules cover both the overall refinery and the major refinery units. Each process unit section includes a review of the objectives, feeds, products, processes, technology, major equipment, and performance of that unit.

The modules in this package include:

• Introduction: objectives and approach
• Petroleum Chemistry
• Crude Oil: characterization and properties
• Fuel Products: properties and specifications: lpg, gasoline (petrol), jet fuel (kerosene), diesel, gas oils, fuel oils, asphalts
• Refinery Overview: types of refineries and how units connect
• Crude Distillation: atmospheric distillation, vacuum distillation, desalting, alternate processing sequences
• Fluid Catalytic Cracking: process, equipment, catalysts, operation
• Gas Plants: saturate, unsaturate, and coker gas plants
• Catalytic Reforming and Aromatics: semi-regenerative, cyclic and continuous catalytic reforming and solvent extraction of aromatics
• Light Oil Processes: isomerization, alkylation, and polymerization
• Hydrotreating: removal and reduction of sulfur, olefins, nitrogen, aromatics, and metals
• Gas Treating and Sulfur Recovery: gas treating, amine processes, sweetening, dehydration, Claus (partial oxidation and split processes)
• Hydrocracking: gas oil and residue hydrocracking
• Residue Processing: Deasphalting, visbreaking, delayed coking, fluid coking, flexicoking, residue catalytic cracking
• Future Fuel Options: future clean fuels, lpg, gasoline (petrol), diesel, reformable naphtha
• Future Refinery Configurations: refining developments, crude quality changes, environmental factors, product specification changes, long-term trends, example refinery configurations.
• Glossary: definitions of terms
• References: additional reference material and background information

Introduction to Refinery Processing (Two-Day Seminar)

An introduction to the oil refinery, its technology, major process, and operations. A two-day seminar suitable for engineers, managers, operators, and others with a need to understand refinery operations and economics. Material has been concentrated on areas most important to the typical refinery. Modules cover both the overall refinery and the major refinery units. Each process unit section includes a review of the objectives, feeds, products, processes, technology, major equipment, and performance of that unit.

The modules in this package include:

• Introduction: objectives and approach
• Petroleum Chemistry
• Crude Oil: characterization and properties
• Fuel Products: properties and specifications: lpg, gasoline (petrol), jet fuel (kerosene), diesel, gas oils, fuel oils
• Refinery Overview: types of refineries and how units connect
• Crude Distillation: atmospheric distillation, vacuum distillation, desalting
• Fluid Catalytic Cracking: process, equipment, catalysts, operation
• Gas Plants: saturate, unsaturate, and coker gas plants
• Catalytic Reforming and Aromatics: cyclic and continuous catalytic reforming and solvent extraction of aromatics
• Light Oil Processes: isomerization, alkylation, and polymerization
• Hydrotreating: removal and reduction of sulfur, olefins, nitrogen, aromatics, and metals
• Gas Treating and Sulfur Recovery: amine processes, Claus (partial oxidation)
• Hydrocracking: gas oil and residue hydrocracking
• Residue Processing: Deasphalting, delayed coking, residue catalytic cracking
• Future Fuel Options: future clean fuels, lpg, gasoline (petrol), diesel, reformable naphtha
• Future Refinery Configurations: crude quality changes, environmental factors, product specification changes, long-term trends, example refinery configurations.
• Glossary: definitions of terms
• References: additional reference material and background information

Additional Modules

These are additional modules not in the standard packages. These modules cover auxiliary processes and less common units.

• Hydrogen: production and recovery
• Lubricants: properties
• Lubricants: processing: vacuum distillation, dewaxing, solvent extraction, hydrodewaxing
• Refinery Petrochemicals: aromatics, cumene, phenol
• Petrochemical Products: hydrogen, ethylene (ethene), propylene (propene), aromatics
• Older Process: TCC, Acid, Duo-Sol, Thermal Reforming, Urea Dewaxing