Petroleum Refining-Production Planning, Scheduling and Yield Optimization
Course Details
Objectives
• Gain an appreciation of modern planning and scheduling tools that will be useful for planning of crude and product deliveries in their facilities
• Assist in improved operations, optimization, upgrading and modification of existing facilities
• Will result in improved profitability and help in continuous modernization of facilities
• 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 operations
Outline
Application of Planning and Scheduling
• Overview of planning and scheduling in oil refineries
• Refinery Configuration:
• Hydro skimming Refinery
• Refineries with Secondary Conversion Process
• Integrated Refineries
• Existing & New Refineries
• Choice of Crude
• Crude oil scheduling
• Choice of Processes
• Capacity utilization of Crudes
• Severity of Process Operations
• Cut-points Optimization
• Facing Upset Situations
• Tankage Requirement
Improving Product Movements and Releasing Tankages
• Basic Information Required
• Crude Assay
• Intermediate Feed Characteristics
• Yields and Properties
• Different Process Units
• Utilities
Product Blending Rules
• Product Specifications
• New Trends in fuel production
• Environmental Issues
• Crude Cost
• Product Netback
Formulation of Problem
• Refinery Flow-sheets
• Simplified Material Balance
• General Formulation
• Demand Equations
• Product Inventory Control
• Product Quality Control
• Fixed Composition Blend
• Capacity Control/ Constraints
• Availability of Feedstock/ Control
Application to a Refinery Worksheet
• Petroleum Product Movement and Product Exchange
• Marginal Depot Supply and movements
• Commonly Used Methods & Recent Developments
• Mathematical Approach to Solution
• Linear Programming
• Graphic Method
• Vendors Software
• Discussion and Summary
Crude Oil Yields Refinery Technology
• Introduction
• Crude Oil Origins & Characteristics
• Crude oil Assay and properties
• Crude oil products
• Product specifications
• Gasoline
• Kerosene/ Jet Fuel
• Fuel Oil/ Diesel Fuels
• Petrochemical Feedstock’s
• Refineries Complexity
• Overall refinery flow: Interrelationship of processes
Petroleum Refinery Processes
• Crude Processing
• Desalting
• Atmospheric distillation
• Vacuum distillation
• Heavy Oils Processing – Cocking and Thermal Processes
• Delayed Coking
• Fluid Coking
• Flexi coking
• Visbreaking
• Case study – example
Process for Motor Fuel Production
• Fluid catalytic cracking
• Hydrocracking
• Cat Cracking
• Isomerization
• Alkylation
• Hydro treating
• Catalytic Reforming
• Case study – example
Supporting Operations
• Blending for Product Specifications
• Hydrogen production
• Refinery Gas Plants
• Acid Gas Treating
• Sulfur Recovery Plants
• Case study – example
Refinery Economics
• Residue Reduction
• Asphalt and Residual Fuel
• Cost Estimation
• Economic Evaluation
• Case Studies
Who Should Attend ?
Refining Professionals working in the industry either as refining technologists or in refining operations and engineers
All Professionals involved in Production, Planning and Scheduling
Process Engineers and Technologists engaged in planning and scheduling activities and who are required to understand and discuss issues related to their industry
Operations Personnel including Shift Supervisors
Marketers and Refinery Planners
Blending Professionals
Refining Technologists
