COURSE OVERVIEW

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.
Most process plant operations are divided into two sectors;
the reactor section and the separation section. The high
value products are produced in the reactor section and
purified in the separation section. The proper reactor
design and catalyst selection can greatly improve company
profit margins. The net effect is to produce increasing
amounts of higher value products by improving selectivity.
Reactor design and catalyst developments are one of the
largest Research and Development (R&D) Divisions in
Chemical Engineering. To stay abreast of the current
reactor designs and catalyst developments should be an
operations personnel’s target.
This course will guide the participants to develop key
concepts and techniques to operate, select and optimize
catalytic processes in process plants. These key concepts
can be utilized to make proper design and operating
decisions in order to optimize production.
The course is intended to give engineers and senior operators who work with solid
catalysts the knowledge on different types of catalysts used in the petroleum and
petrochemical industries.
The course will provide concise description of today’s most important catalytic
processes, including petroleum refining, supported metal catalysis, zealot catalysis,
oxidation catalysis, air pollution control and synthesis gas reactions.