CLIENT HOSTED SEMINARS TROUBLESHOOTING REFINERY PROCESSES (A typical 6-day course outline.) Day One - Distillation • Review of Distillation Fundamentals • Tray Hydraulics • Identifying Flooded Towers • Tray Deck Plugging - Downcomer Back-Up • Damaged Trays • Effects of Excessive Preheat • Control Problems in Distillation • Incipient Flood • Expanding Tower Capacity   Day Two - Distillation • Crude Column Fractionation • Optimizing Pumparounds • Side Stream Stripping Problems • Tower Pressure Drop Surveys • Tower External Temperature Surveys • Coker Fractionator Problems • Tower Bottoms Steam Stripping • Packed Tower Design and Operation • FCU Fractionator Problems   Day Three - Reboiling and Condensing • Thermosyphon Reboilers • How Reboiler Problems Cause Tower Flooding • Kettle and Forced Circulation Reboilers • Fouling in Shell and Tube Exchangers • Effect of Sub-Cooling on Condenser Efficiency • Pressure Control in Light Ends Columns • Air Fin-Fan Coolers • Vacuum Systems-Inter-Stage Condensers   Day Four - Fired Heaters • Proper Use of Excess Air • Heat Balancing Convective and Radiant Sections • Draft Control • Afterburn - Causes and Cures • Air Preheaters • Preventing SO3 Condensation • On-Stream Cleaning Techniques • Coke Formation Inside Tubes • Debottlenecking Heaters   Day Five - Pumps, Turbines, and Steam Jets • Operation of Centrifugal Pumps • Mechanical Seals & Bearings • Optimum Impeller Size • Sizing Motor Drives • Troubleshooting Reduced NPSH • Steam Turbines - Use of Hand Valves • Surface Condensers • Vacuum Pumps • Converging - Diverging Jets • Optimizing Steam Jet Performance • Pumping Viscous Fluids   Day Six - Compressors • Centrifugal Compressor Fundamentals • Relationship of Polytropic Head to Surge • Rotor Fouling • Measuring Compressor Efficiency • Reciprocating Compressor Fundamentals • Volumetric Compression Efficiency • Head-End Unloaders Email Norm Contact Us

 

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