Course Objective

• To improve understanding of distillation and corrosion control

Who Can Benefit

• Chemicals engineers
• Forman's
• Operators

Course content

• Initial Fractionation Of Crude Oil
  • TBP analysis of crude oils
  • Determination of petroleum fractions in view of their end-use
  • Crude oils: overall properties and yields
  • Main crude oil fractionation schemes
• Analysis of Operating Conditions of an Atmospheric Distillation Unit (ADU)
  • Typical unit: process scheme, operating conditions
  • Material balance: crude oil yields, product characteristics, separation quality
  • Crude intake temperature - over flash
  • Product stripping
  • Heat balance of the column – pump rounds
  • Liquid - vapor flows: fractionation and heat exchange zone
• Desalting and Corrosion Control
  • Corrosion by sulfur
  •  napthenic acids and mineral salts
  • Crude oil desiting
  • desalter operation
  •  operating variables incidents and troubleshooting
  • Further neutralizing treatment
• Analysis of Operating Conditions of a Vacuum Distillation Unit
• Typical unit
  • process scheme, operating conditions
  • Material balance and separation quality
  • Vacuum system (Operating of steam ejectors and liquid ring pumps Operating conditions and supervision of vacuum systems Comparative performance Main incidents: causes and troubleshooting Operation of the
• column and internals
  •  fractionation
  •  heat exchange and washing zone
• Operation of the Multi-Draw off Columns

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