Course Objective

• To improve understanding and awareness of Crude Oil fractionation,
• catalytic and hydorefining processes

Who Can Benefit

• All refining personnel

Course content

• Petroleum Products
• Energy and non-energy products and their main uses
• Principal components of petroleum products; general hydrocarbon
• classification and main impurities
• Quality requirements imposed on petroleum products
• New trends in market structure and product characteristics
• Refining Processes
• Crude Oil fractionation
  • Origin, overall characteristics and classification of crude oils
  • Yields and properties of straight-run cuts obtained by distillation
  • Industrial units: topping, vacuum distillation, light-ends fractionation; various process schemes, operating conditions, energy consumption
• Catalytic reforming and summarization
  • Basics of processes, types of catalysts, product yields
  • Industrial units : process schemes, operating conditions, equipment involved, energy consumption
• Hydrorefining processes
  • Main features of impurities removal by catalytic hydrogen treatment
  •  Main refining applications
• Conversion units
  • Characteristics and origin of feeds to be cracked
  • Conversion by means of thermal cracking: visbreaker, various cokers
  • Conversion by means of catalytic cracking
  • Recent developments in catalytic cracking of heavy residues
• Base Lube Oil Manufacturing

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