Hydrotreating and Hydrocracking Process Technology

Introduction

This comprehensive Hydrotreating & Hydrocracking Process Technology training course overlays the process fundamentals and sound knowledge of Hydrotreating and Hydrocracking processes where Hydrogen is a key material in the upgrading and treatment of refinery products and fractions. A review of the state-of-the-art in process design, energy and mass integration will be presented as potential key improvements.

In-depth, practical review of Hydrotreating / cracking technologies is provided across the training course topics. The contents focus on the Hydro-conversion of heavy products, distillates, diesel, and naphtha into other hydrogenated/lower molecular weight products, besides saturated products with enhanced Cetane number, free of sulfur, nitrogen and metals. This training course also discusses some process design / chemistry and engineering principles for such processes and presents scope for improvements.

This Hydrotreating and Hydrocracking Process Technology training course is valuable to engineers / scientists, designers and researchers involved in the industry of Hydro-conversion in refiners. Yet it is most beneficial to those professionals with experiences in other fields and willing to acquire knowledge in Hydro-conversion processes.

This GLOMACS Hydrotreating & Hydrocracking Process Technology training course will feature:

• Lectures, exercises and team work in some areas of process design and improvement
• Real studies that exhibit improvement solution for energy / environment
• Knowledge transfer of instructor’s extensive engaged industrial consultations
• Practice of Excel-based design tools for mass / energy integration in refining plants
• Open discussion on actual problems / data for design and improvements

Objectives

By the end of this Hydrotreating & Hydrocracking Process Technology training course, participants will be able to:

• Develop deep understanding of mass / H2/ energy balance in refining processes
• Gain in-depth knowledge of the state-of-the-art of material and energy integration
• Evaluate different flow schemes for hydrotreating and hydrocracking processes
• Manipulated process design and operation variables for better H2-conversion performances
• Master experiences of chemistry / kinetics, function of catalysts, clean production, environmental issues of very typical upgraded fuel productions

Training Methodology

This Hydrotreating and Hydrocracking Process Technology training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes training seminar materials, proposed reading / state-of-the-art of the training seminar content, lecture talks, exercises, team works and discussions, and solved applications. The nature of the training will be interactive and a practice of how to think, not what to think will be mastered. The philosophy of the training seminar delivery will be:

• Development of a deep understanding of the-state-of-the-art of all contents and topics
• Analysis and improvement of some case studies with respect to economics and environment
• Practices in process design / simulation of specific applications based on Excel or commercial packages if available