Scheduling and Yield Optimization

Module 1

Production Planning & Scheduling Petroleum Refineries

DAY 1

Application of Planning and Scheduling

• Overview of planning and scheduling in oil refineries

• Refinery Configuration:

• Hydro skimming Refinery

• Refineries with Secondary Conversion Process

• Integrated Refineries

• Existing & New Refineries

• Choice of Crude

• Crude oil scheduling

• Choice of Processes

• Capacity utilization of Crudes

• The severity of Process Operations

• Cut-points Optimization

• Facing Upset Situations

• Tankage Requirement

DAY 2

Improving Product Movements and Releasing Tankages

• Basic Information Required

• Crude Assay

• Intermediate Feed Characteristics

• Yields and Properties

• Different Process Units

• Utilities

DAY 3

Product Blending Rules

• Product Specifications

• New Trends in fuel production

• Environmental Issues

• Crude Cost

• Product Netback

DAY 4

Formulation of Problem

• Refinery Flow-sheets

• Simplified Material Balance

• General Formulation

• Demand Equations

• Product Inventory Control

• Product Quality Control

• Fixed Composition Blend

• Capacity Control/ Constraints

• Availability of Feedstock/ Control

DAY 5

Application to a Refinery Worksheet

• Petroleum Product Movement and Product Exchange

• Marginal Depot Supply and movements

• Commonly Used Methods & Recent Developments

• Mathematical Approach to Solution

• Linear Programming

• Graphic Method

• Vendors Software

• Discussion and Summary

Module 2

Refinery Process Yields Optimisation

DAY 6

Crude Oil Yields Refinery Technology

• Introduction

• Crude Oil Origins & Characteristics

• Crude oil Assay and properties

• Crude oil products

• Product specifications

• Gasoline

• Kerosene/ Jet Fuel

• Fuel Oil/ Diesel Fuels

• Petrochemical Feedstocks

• Refineries Complexity

• Overall refinery flow: Interrelationship of processes

DAY 7

Petroleum Refinery Processes

• Crude Processing

• Desalting

• Atmospheric distillation

• Vacuum distillation

• Heavy Oils Processing – Cocking and Thermal Processes

• Delayed Coking

• Fluid Coking

• Flexicoking

• Visbreaking

• Case study – for example

DAY 8

Process for Motor Fuel Production

• Fluid catalytic cracking

• Hydrocracking

• Cat Cracking

• Isomerization

• Alkylation

• Hydrotreating

• Catalytic Reforming

• Case study – for example

DAY 9

Supporting Operations

• Blending for Product Specifications

• Hydrogen production

• Refinery Gas Plants

• Acid Gas Treating

• Sulfur Recovery Plants

• Case study – for example

DAY 10

Refinery Economics

• Residue Reduction

• Asphalt and Residual Fuel

• Cost Estimation

• Economic Evaluation

• Case Studies

• Group Discussions

• Program Evaluation & Summary