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.

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TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies:

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 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
Training Materials	:	Only soft copy materials will be issued
Training Methodology	:	80% theory, 20% practical
Training Program	:	4 hours per day, from 09:30 to 13:30