Course Description

 

This Petroleum Refining Production Planning, scheduling, and yield optimization program is specifically designed to identify and resolve issues of production planning and scheduling in petroleum refineries that are most commonly encountered by refinery personnel working in this area. Issues of operations scheduling for petroleum refining are discussed in depth.

Participants in the petroleum production planning, scheduling, and yield optimization course will also be enhanced and provided with planning and scheduling examples that provide background information relevant to the topic of petroleum production planning and scheduling.

Additionally, the petroleum production planning, scheduling, and yield optimization program will present a detailed overview of refining process yields, from the crude oil feed to the finished products. Major refining processes are presented and discussed, including feedstock, feedstock preparation, operating conditions, catalysts, yields, product properties, and economics.

The petroleum production planning, scheduling, and yield optimization program is oriented toward the practical aspects of refinery operations as well as the terminology and economics of refining.

 

 

 Objectives

 By the end of the course, the participant will be able to :

 

• Gain an appreciation of production planning and scheduling tools that will be useful for planning crude and product deliveries.
• Discover and appreciate the similarities and differences between planning and scheduling.
• Understand the principles of scheduling optimization and promote efficient refining operations and yield optimization.
• Learn the skills of crude selection and optimization that result in improved profitability.
• Develop the skills necessary to apply blending techniques using Excel.
• Learn how to familiarize yourself, understand the various refinery types, and appreciate how refining complexity impacts the optimization of petroleum technologies and refining margins.
• Comprehend the importance of quality giveaways and learn how to use practical Excel spreadsheets for blending calculations to reduce quality giveaways.
• Use hands-on software that allows professionals in the industry to choose different crude diets to optimize refinery utilization efficiency and profitability.
• Act as a primer into the petroleum refining sector and familiarize industry professionals with all processes associated with the processing of petroleum into finished products.
• Equip new engineers in the industry with the essential tools for understanding the complex nature of refining and its operations.

Outline 

 

 

Day (1):

·   Application of Planning and Scheduling

• Refinery configuration:

ü  Hydro skimming refinery.

ü  Refineries with secondary conversion processes.

ü  Integrated refineries.

ü  Existing and new refineries.

ü  Choice of crude.

ü  Crude oil scheduling.

ü  Choice of processes.

ü  Capacity utilization of crudes.

ü  Severity of process operations.

ü  Cut-points optimization.

ü  Face upset situations.

ü  Tankage requirement.

·   Improving Product Movements and Releasing Tankages

• Basic information is required.
• Crude assay.
• Intermediate feed characteristics.
• Yields and properties.
• Different process units.
• Utilities.

 Day (2) :

·      Product Blending Rules

• Product specifications.
• New trends in fuel production.
• Environmental issues.
• Crude cost.
• Product netback.

·      Formulation of Problem

• Refinery flow-sheets.
• Simplify material balance.
• General formulation.
• Demand equations.
• Product inventory control.
• Product quality control.
• Fix composition blend.
• Capacity control/constraints.
• Availability of feedstock/control.

 

Day (3):

·      Application to a Refinery Worksheet

• Understand what petroleum product movement and product exchange are.
• Marginal depot supply and movements.
• Learn about commonly used methods and recent developments.
• Mathematical approach to solution.
• Linear programming.
• Graphic method.
• Vendor software.

 ·      Crude Oil Yields Refinery Technology

• Crude oil origins and characteristics.
• Understand crude oil assay and properties.
• Crude oil products.
• Product specifications.
• Gasoline.
• Learn about kerosene/jet fuel.
• Fuel oil/diesel fuels.
• Petrochemical feedstocks.
• Refinery complexity.
• Overview of overall refinery flow: Interrelationship of processes.

Day (4):

·         Petroleum Refinery Processes

• Crude processing.
• Desalting.
• Atmospheric distillation.
• Vacuum distillation.
• Heavy oils processing - cocking and thermal processes.
• Delayed coking.
• Fluid coking.
• Flexicoking.
• Visbreaking.

·      Process for Motor Fuel Production

• Fluid catalytic cracking.
• Hydrocrack.
• Cat cracking.
• Isomerization.
• Alkylation.
• Hydrotreat.

 Day (5) :

·      Supporting Operations

• Blend for product specifications.
• Hydrogen production.
• Refinery gas plants.
• Acid gas treating.
• Sulfur recovery plants.

·      Refinery Economics

• Residue reduction.
• Learn about asphalt and residual fuel.
• Cost estimation.
• Economic evaluation.

  

Training Method

A highly interactive combination of lecture and discussion sessions will be managed to maximize the amount and quality of information, knowledge, and experience transfer. The sessions will start by raising the most relevant questions and motivating everybody to find the right answers. The attendants will also be encouraged to raise more of their questions and to share developing the right answers using their analysis and experience. Course material through power point equipped with necessary animation, learning videos, and general discussion to provide the participant with full understanding concerning the subject course will be provided.

Flip chart – Lectures – Practical situations – Video – PowerPoint – Presentation –  style coach- led discussions – activities – Exercises - Quiz - Case study - Assessment.