Petroleum refining demystified - Oil & Gas industry
What you'll learn
- Comprehend the basic differences between exploration, refining and petrochemicals
- Understand the basics of the various refining processes
- Learn what crude oils are made of and understand the chemical properties of their hydrocarbon components like paraffins, naphthenes, aromatics...
- Learn how the refining processes work & interact with each other (distillation isomerization alkylation catalytic reforming hydrotreater sulfur plant...)
- Understand how the main petroleum products are made (LPG, gasoline, kerosene, diesel fuel, heating oil, heavy fuel, asphalts, lubricants...)
- Appreciate that aromatics are important to the petrochemical industry even though refineries are trying to minimize these in gasoline due to their toxicity
- Appreciate that olefinic and aromatic petrochemical precursors are specialty chemicals produced by the refining processes
Requirements
- There are no pre-requisites for this course. We will walk through the petroleum refining processes step by step
- For further information on the Oil & Gas industry, we encourage you to have a look at our courses:
- 1. Overview of the Oil & Gas industry
- 2. Petroleum products: Specifications, properties, market and demand
- 3. Logistics of crude oil and petroleum products
- 4. Oil & Gas: Markets, trading, Pricing and economic framework
- 5. Petrochemicals: The steam cracking process
Description
June 24 course update:
We have added new video lectures. In addition, new quizzes are being added to help you test your knowledge and emphasize the key learning points. The quiz will include:
True/False questions
Multi-choice questions
Images, cross-sectionnal views
Solved problems
and much more...
When you think you’ve got a good grasp on a topic within the course, you can test your knowledge by taking the quiz. If you pass, wonderful ! If not, you can review the videos and notes again or ask us for help in the Q&A section.
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Dear student,
Welcome to this online course on petroleum refining.
This course is designed to provide you with a complete understanding of the crude oil refining industry and breaks down for you all the major refining processes into easily digestible concepts using extensive graphics, process layouts and various manufacturing schemes.
You will first get a quick overview of the petroleum industry to put things into perspective before your journey begins.
Then you will discover the different types of crude oil, their composition and the chemical properties of their hydrocarbon components and how refiners separate these molecules using a process called distillation.
You will also learn the major conversion processes used to upgrade petroleum cuts into better quality blending components for the production of gasoline, diesel, heating oil and heavy fuel.
These processes include :
1. Isomerization
2. Alkylation
3. Catalytic reformers
4. Hydrotreaters
5. Fluid catalytic crackers
6. Hydrocrackers
7. Delayed cokers
For each of these conversion processes, you will learn :
Operating principles
Process flow diagram
Operating conditions
Associated yields
Catalysts used
Asphalts and lubricating oils are also covered in this course.
You will learn how these products are made from crude oil and discover their associated manufacturing processes.
=> IMPORTANT NOTES :
The course includes 18 downloadable resources in pdf format with unlimited access.
These documents contain everything you need to know about refining process schemes, layouts, crude oil characteristics and properties, petroleum products and much more...
To download the files :
1. Go to the "course curriculum" page
2. Expand all the sections to have access to all the pdf files
3. Click on any file to open it. You can save it to view it later offline
So with no further ado, check out the free preview videos and the curriculum and we look forward to seeing you in the first section.
Also remember, as enrolled student you will have unlimited access to this material and one-on-one instructor support. So feel free to interact with us by email or simply ask us for help in the Q&A section. It will be our pleasure to help you and provide assistance.
Hope to see you there
Cheers,
WR Training
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Who this course is for:
- Students in chemical engineering, refining, petrochemicals...
- Newly-hired refinery or petrochemical plant personnel and current semi-technical personnel who require further training
- Engineers (chemical, petrochemical, petroleum, process...)
- Refinery operators and technicians
- Support personnel of an oil company including maintenance, logistics, supply chain, sales, marketing, quality...
- Other support staff who have an interest in increasing their understanding of petroleum refining
- Non-technical professionals assigned to positions in refineries
- Business development managers, corporate planning professionals and business analysts switching disciplines who are required to have a better understanding of this stimulating field
- Energy industry journalists and reporters
- Professional personnel such as legal, banking, insurance, finance dealing with oil supply, petrochemicals, refining and transportation
- Anyone seeking to broaden the sphere of his knowledge and discover the petrochemical industry
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