Refinery & Petrochemicals Hydrocarbon Mass Balance & Loss Course
Consultant/Trainer: Eric-Hans Wolff
The Petrogenium. Refinery & Petrochemicals Hydrocarbon Mass balance & Loss course will support you not only with developing proper mass balances around your refinery and/or petrochemicals plant, but also to identify losses. This comprehensive course will help you to mitigate your losses with a lot of practical hands-on information. No high-level consultancy speak, but the real thing!
This course can be given face-to-face or remotely. The presentations are interactive, supported with slides that also serve as a dedicated course manual (PDF file). The course includes interactive discussions and participant topics (on demand, aided by short videos, exercises and Q&A sessions). Learning assessment is through a written examination (if required).
This course can be given face-to-face or remotely. The presentations are interactive, supported with slides that also serve as a dedicated course manual (PDF file). The course includes interactive discussions and participant topics (on demand, aided by short videos, exercises and Q&A sessions). Learning assessment is through a written examination (if required).
Participants
This Petrogenium. course can be tailored for awareness or inexperienced staff, for intermediate and for experienced personnel. Furthermore, the course can be customized for a specific refinery, plant or unit. The option for post-course consultancy/help-desk support is also available.
Participants may include: Refinery and Petrochemical Plant Managers, Production Managers, Finance Manager, Oil Movement Managers, Yield Accountants, Instrumentation Engineers, Control Engineers, Laboratory Manager, Maintenance Engineers, Terminal Operators, Plant Engineers, Supply & Trading Managers, Process Engineers and Technologists
Participants may include: Refinery and Petrochemical Plant Managers, Production Managers, Finance Manager, Oil Movement Managers, Yield Accountants, Instrumentation Engineers, Control Engineers, Laboratory Manager, Maintenance Engineers, Terminal Operators, Plant Engineers, Supply & Trading Managers, Process Engineers and Technologists
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Get a brief introduction to refining and petrochemicals operation (technical and economic).
- Understand the various types, roles, and importance of mass balances.
- Appreciate the (monetary) impact of hydrocarbon loss.
- Understand the various types of hydrocarbon losses (physical, paper, accounted, unaccounted).
- How to minimise the physical and paper hydrocarbon losses.
- Understand the impact of ocean loss and how to minimise.
- Appreciate the use of checklists to find potential hydrocarbon losses.
- Save money after implementation of mitigating actions!
- Understand how Key Performance Indicators can support business improvement.
- Appreciate the need for good governance.
- How to reduce flaring.
Programme
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
- Refinery & Petrochemicals Introduction
- Refinery operation
- Petrochemicals operation
- Hydrocarbon Mass Balances
- The role of a mass balance
- The impact of hydrocarbon loss
- Basic refinery mass balance
- Reconciled refinery mass balance
- Hydrocarbon Losses
- Physical losses
- Paper losses
- Accounted losses
- Unaccounted losses
- Minimising Physical Hydrocarbon Losses
- Physical losses mitigating actions
- Physical losses checklists
- Minimising Paper Hydrocarbon Losses
- Paper losses mitigating actions
- Paper losses checklists
- Ocean Loss
- What is ocean loss
- Minimising ocean loss
- Targets and Benchmarks
- Targets & Benchmarks
- How to arrive at Best-in-Class
- Questions and Answers
Day 2
- Key Performance Indicators
- KPI Introduction
- KPI Dashboards
- Governance
- Roles & Responsibilities
- Reviews Meetings
- Auditing
- Case Study ‘Flare reduction’
- Introduction
- Case Study
- Best Practices
- Questions and Answers
Day 3
- HM 31 Guide Topics
- Introduction
- Weighing & measuring
- Loss from process units
- Tankage
- Miscellaneous Topics
- Idea lists
- Tools
- Summary & Conclusions
- Questions and Answers
- Examination
- Course Feedback & Certification