Product Blending & Optimization Training Course

Consultant/Trainer: Anwar Tatariya

The Petrogenium Product Blending & Optimization course will provide a better understanding of blending systems and typical blend tocks. In addition, it also covers numerous best practices on for maximizing product quality, ensuring stability, and minimizing give-away.

Participants

This Petrogenium training can be tailored for awareness/inexperienced staff, for intermediate and for experienced personnel, although it has originally been designed as an advanced course. Furthermore the course can be customized for a specific refinery / plant or multiple sites. The option for post-course consultancy/help-desk support is also available.

Participants may include: Product schedulers, Blend operations, Tank farm operations, Products and intermediate traders.

Learning Objectives

After completion of the course participants will have solid understanding of:

A better understanding of the blending system & various blend stocks in the refinery process
Improved the knowledge and skill about the blending rules, and compatibility of blend components
Understanding how to fulfill product properties to meet requirement and specifications in the market
How to optimize blend effectively
Single grade and multi-grade blend optimization

Programme

Day 1:

Product blending overview
Blending systems – batch, continuous and in-line
Product specifications
Property blending correlations:
- Linear, non-linear and derived (pre-blend and post-blend) property correlations
Quality giveaway
Blend components and typical properties

Day 2:

Blend optimization objectives:
- Component cost vs product price
- Minimize giveaway
- Adherence to planning targets
Blend optimization:
- Single batch optimization
- Multi batches / multi grades optimized together
- Correction batch optimization
Additives
Key product blending software