Course Description

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Troubleshooting Distillation Towers. It covers the basics and importance of distillation towers in the petrochemical industry; the distillation tower components covering trays, packing, reboilers and condensers; the fundamentals of vapour-liquid equilibrium (VLE) including the concepts of dew point, bubble point and phase diagrams and how they guide distillation; the different types of trays and packing; the hydraulics of distillation towers covering flow regimes, flooding and weeping; the importance of reflux ratio and its effects; and the safety aspects during hazardous scenarios and distillation tower safety precautions and best practices. Further, the course will also discuss the factors that can cause foaming and the symptoms and causes of flooding and weeping; the common signs of damage and reasons for mechanical failures including the common causes of abnormal temperature and pressure profiles; the product purity issues, reboiler and condenser performance and process simulation tools; and the gamma scans and radiography, tower pressure drop measurements and sampling and lab analysis. link to course overview PDF

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total tuition hours

30 % Lectures
20 % Workshops & Work Presentations
20 % Case Studies & Practical Exercises
30 % Videos, Software & Simulators

In an unlikely event, the course instructor may modify the above training methodology before or during the course for technical reasons.

VIRTUAL TRAINING (IF APPLICABLE)

If this course is delivered online as a Virtual Training, the following limitations will be applicable

Certificates	:	Only soft copy certificates will be issued to participants through Haward’s Portal. This includes Wallet Card Certificates if applicable
Training Materials	:	Only soft copy Training Materials (PDF format) will be issued to participant through the Virtual Training Platform
Training Methodology	:	80% of the program will be theory and 20% will be practical sessions, exercises, case studies, simulators or videos
Training Program	:	The training will be for 4 hours per day starting at 09:30 and ending at 13:30
H-STK Smart Training Kit	:	Not Applicable
Hands-on Practical Workshops	:	Not Applicable
Site Visit	:	Not Applicable
Simulators	:	Only software simulators will be used in the virtual courses. Hardware simulators are not applicable and will not be used in Virtual Training