Thermal Cracking Process

Consultant/Trainer: Jari Marci

The Petrogenium Thermal Cracking Course is an awareness skills course aimed at professionals who deal with Visbreaker or Thermal Conversion units at a Refinery.

Pricing

€2300

Location

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Dates

27-29 November 2023

Participants

This Petrogenium course can be tailored for awareness/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.
<br Participants may include: Unit technologists, process engineers and experienced operations staff who are working on or exposed to visbreaking technology or its products (fuel oil blending operations). Further the course will be valuable to anybody that wants to gain better perspective on how the Thermal Cracking Units fits into the refining scheme.

Learning Objectives

This course provides a general introduction to thermal conversion processes such as visbreaking, distillate cracking and Thermal Gasoil Units. The basis and theory behind the process will be addressed including properties of feed residue and products as well as stability theory. Further elements are main process equipment including their constraints, unit operation as well as unit decokes. The course will further address fuel oil blending as well as process economics. The last day of the course is an interactive clinic workshop during which current challenges and issues of the unit at hand will be discussed and analysed.

Programme

Day 1

Basics of Thermal Conversion
Line-ups of Thermal Conversion units
Yields and properties of TC-products
Exercise 1
TC-equipment

Day 2

Monitoring of TCUs
Start-up, shut-down
Decoke
Exercise 2
Troubleshooting
HSE and emergency procedures

Day 3

Thermal conversion furnaces
Exercise 3
TC Open Clinic

Course name:Thermal Cracking Process

Course date:27-29 November 2023

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Cancellations & Substitutions:

If you are unable to attend the course you can make a substitution. All substitutions and name changes must be received in writing by mail or e-mail no later than one week before the first course date. For cancellations received in writing after the course fee is paid and no later than 21 days before the course start date, Petrogenium will issue a credit note to be considered as a down payment for any Petrogenium courses during next 12 months. For cancellations received after 21 days before the course start date, the course material will be sent but no fees will be refunded.

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Programme Changes:

The course content may be subject to changes due to unforeseen circumstances. Petrogenium reserves the right to change the venue and/or lecturers, and to cancel the course, notifying the registrant 30 days before the first course date. Petrogenium accepts no responsibility for any loss or damage to property belonging to, nor for any personal injury incurred by, attendees at our training courses, whether within the training course venue or otherwise.