COURSE OVERVIEW

 

This hands-on, 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 

 

Natural gas and crude distillates such as naptha from petroleum refining are used as feedstocks to manufacture a wide variety of petrochemicals that are in turn used in the manufacture of consumer goods. The basic petrochemicals manufactured by cracking, reforming and other processes include olefins (such as ethylene, propylene, butylenes and butadiene) and aromatics (such as benzene, toluene and xylenes). The capacity of naptha crackers is generally of the order of 250,000-750,000 metric tons per year (tpy) of ethylene production. Some petrochemical plants also have alcohol and oxo-compound manufacturing units on site. The base petrochemicals or products derived from them, along with other raw materials, are converted to a wide range of products. 

 

This course is designed to cover the manufacturing process of petrochemicals and the monitoring and troubleshooting of such process. It covers petrochemicals and petrochemical complex, aromatics, olefins, synthesis gas (syngas), methanol synthesis, formaldehyde, methanol manufacturing and sources of olefinic and aromatic hydrocarbons. 

 

Further, the course will also cover the treatment of olefenic C4 and C5 cuts and the treatment of aromatic gasolines including acetylene, monomers for the synthesis of elastomers, ethylene and propylene oxides, acetic derivatives, alcohols, phenol, acetone and methyl ethyl ketone, vinyl monomers, monomers for polyamide synthesis, monomers for polyester synthesis, monomers for polyurethane synthesis and olefin production from methanol.