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.

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Universal Oil Products PENEX Isomerization Process. It covers the various types of isomerization and its role in octane enhancement; the UOP PENEX technology, feed preparation and pretreatment and reaction chemistry and mechanism; the catalyst technology in PENEX, process flow diagram (PFD) familiarization and feed drying and hydrotreating units; and the isomerization reactor design, product separation and recovery and utility systems and ancillaries.

Further, the course will also discuss the control philosophies, distributed control system (DCS) integration, alarms and safety interlocks and advanced process control (APC); the process safety analysis (HAZOP), management of change (MOC), effluent treatment and emissions and handling of chlorides and hazardous waste; and the catalyst loading and start-up procedures, normal operation and monitoring and catalyst deactivation and poisoning.

During this highly interactive course, participants will learn the troubleshooting process upsets, shutdown and catalyst regeneration and performance optimization techniques; the connection with naphtha hydrotreating unit, blending into gasoline pool, integrating with reforming and aromatics units and hydrogen balancing with other processes; the cost-benefit analysis of isomerization, margin improvement and yield assessment; the impact of crude slate variation and optimization for profitability; the energy and utility optimization, digitalization and automation trends and advanced process control (APC) applications; the reliability and asset integrity, debottlenecking and revamp strategies; and the emergency shutdown (ESD) systems, fire and gas detection and chloride/hazardous chemical handling.