Refinery Process Yield Optimisation

INTRODUCTION

This Refinery Process Yield Optimisation training course will present a detailed overview of refining process yields, from the crude oil feed to the finished products. It is targeted at personnel directly involved in refining utilization and optimization, including but not limited to refining technologists and operations personnel as well as non-technical personnel interested in these processes or involved in refinery planning.

All the major refining processes are explored and examined with a view of understanding and appreciating how each unit relates to each other whilst at the same, time how these relationships can enhance refinery operations.

Major refining processes are presented and discussed, including feedstock, product properties and refinery yields. Refining economics will be included as means to optimizing refining operations and profitability.

The GLOMACS Refinery Process Yield Optimisation training course is oriented toward the practical aspects of refinery operations and yield optimization and includes the terminology used in the industry.

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.

Training Methodology

Process Yields is a hands-on, stimulating learning experience with access to professional software used by refining technologists and experts for optimizing refining operations. The Refinery Process Yield Optimisation training course will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas. Participation is encouraged in a supportive environment.

To ensure the concepts introduced during the training course are understood, they will be reinforced through a mix of learning methods, including lecture style presentation, open discussion, case studies, software simulations and group work.

Attendees will have the opportunity to develop personal competencies and build up expert knowledge of crude oil yield processes in a range of equipment.

Organisational Impact

The organization will:

• Have a comprehensive understanding overview of refining process yields, from the crude oil feed to the finished products.
• Learn how their competitors identify and improve issues related to refinery economics.
• Know how to optimize crude selection and refining operations.
• Gain insight of common and new techniques and softwares as well as key industry success factors

Personal Impact

By attending this Refinery Process Yield Optimisation training course, participants will:

• Gain understanding and practical insight of the basic concepts of refining complexity impacts, refining optimization and refining margins and its impact on the organization’s profitability.
• Be equipped with the basic tools for understanding the complex nature of crude assay and choose different types of crude diets and thus optimize refinery utilization.
• Improve their level of personal knowledge of the techniques used in industry for blending, refinery integration and optimization.
• Be able to plan and develop techniques for improving Hydrocarbon loss in refinery.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This GLOMACS 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.