Petroleum Refining and Petrochemicals
General Objectives:
To develop a very comprehensive competency in the fields of petroleum refining and petrochemicals, in terms of processes, equipment, operation, safety, economics...
Specific Objectives:
At the end of training the trainees will be able to:
- Acquire a basic and solid knowledge of refining techniques;
- Select and design main equipment of processing plants;
- Learn about the technology and operation of equipment;
- Understand the main refining processes with their fundamental aspects and their operation;
- Grasp safety and environmental issues in refinery operations;
- Touch upon some economic issues of the industry.
CONTEÚDOS
CONTENTS
Module I – Physico-chemical properties of hydrocarbons and petroleum cuts
- Organic compounds, crude oil and petroleum products;
- Quality control – Standard tests – Blending rules.
- Properties of pure substances;
- Fluid properties: liquid-vapor equilibrium of hydrocarbons mixtures, of non ideal mixtures, of non identified components;
- K values from modern numerical methods.
- Classical industrial column design, short cut methods;
- Operating parameters, optimization, process control parameters;
- Internal equipment;
- Practice of PROII/PROVISION, process simulation, simplified design of equipment, economic evaluation and optimization.
- Typical distillation units: process diagrams, operating conditions, separation quality;
- Corrosion and desalting;
- Operating and control of multidraw-off columns; vacuum systems.
- Catalytic reforming, isomerization, hydrotreatment, sweetening of light cuts and sulfur recovery.
- Overview of conversion processes: thermal processes, catalytic processes;
- Visbreaking, coking processes, FCC, RFCC, distillate hydrocracking, residue hydrocracking.
- Heat transmission;
- Heat exchangers: sizing and performances, operation;
- Furnaces and boilers: performances, operating conditions, combustion, operation, safety.
- Characteristics of liquid and gas simple phase flow; gas compression laws, expansion;
- Technology and operation of pumps, compressors, steam turbines, gas turbines, electrical motors.
- Instrumentation, controllers, valves, control loops implementation;
- PID tuning, monovariable control limits, multivariable control.
- Product and equipment related risks, safety in process operation;
- Hazard analysis in design and operation.
- Sources, outlets and main industrial uses of olefinic and aromatic intermediaries;
- Steam cracking and treatment of the cuts produced;
- Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) and production of aromatics;
- Economics of petrochemicals.
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Angola | Cabo- Verde | Moçambique | Portugal | S. Tomé e Princípe
Angola | Cabo- Verde | Moçambique | Portugal | S. Tomé e Princípe