Petroleum Refining Demystified Training
Course Highlights Broad up the sphere of your knowledge and discover the petrochemical industry without having to leave the comfort …
- Course Highlights
Broad up the sphere of your knowledge and discover the petrochemical industry without having to leave the comfort of your home with the Petroleum Refining Demystified Training course.
This course is designed to provide you with a complete understanding of the crude oil refining industry. It breaks down all the major refining processes into easily digestible concepts using extensive graphics, process layouts and various manufacturing schemes, helping you understand these topics smoothly.
Throughout the course, you’ll understand the basics of the various refining processes, learn what crude oils are made of and understand the chemical properties of their hydrocarbon components like paraffins, naphthenes, aromatics. You’ll also get to know how the major refining processes work and interact with each other, and understand how the main petroleum products are made.
Enrol in the Petroleum Refining Demystified Training course today and start learning this chosen field as quickly and effectively as possible!
- Who Is This Course For
This course is specially designed for students in chemical engineering, refining, petrochemicals, newly-hired refinery or petrochemical plant personnel and current semi-technical personnel who require further training and refinery operators and technicians.
Other support staff who have an interest in increasing their understanding of petroleum refining, non-technical professionals assigned to positions in refineries, business development managers, corporate planning professionals and business analysts switching disciplines who are required to have a better understanding of this stimulating field.
Course Curriculum
Course Curriculum
| Unit 01: About the Course | |||
| Learning objective | 00:10:00 | ||
| Unit 02: Overview of Crude Oil Refining | |||
| Refining activity overview | 00:04:00 | ||
| Unit 03: Petroleum Properties | |||
| Crude oil: Composition and characteristics | 00:28:00 | ||
| Unit 04: Distillation and Fractionation | |||
| Atmospheric distillation87 | 00:12:00 | ||
| Vacuum distillation | 00:03:00 | ||
| Light cut fractionation | 00:04:00 | ||
| Unit 05: Converting Petroleum Cuts | |||
| Isomerization | 00:08:00 | ||
| Alkylation | 00:05:00 | ||
| Catalytic reforming | 00:09:00 | ||
| Unit 06: Hydrofining Petroleum Cuts | |||
| Hydrotreating | 00:08:00 | ||
| Sulfur plant | 00:05:00 | ||
| Unit 07: Cracking Heavy Petroleum Cuts | |||
| Fluid catalytic cracking | 00:09:00 | ||
| Hydrocracking | 00:05:00 | ||
| Delayed coking | 00:03:00 | ||
| Unit 08: Blending Operation | |||
| Blending of finished petroleum products | 00:04:00 | ||
| Unit 09: Making Asphalts | |||
| Asphalts | 00:07:00 | ||
| Unit 10: A Typical Refinery Operation | |||
| A typical refinery scheme | 00:08:00 | ||
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1 Year Access 
1 Students 
2 hours, 12 minutes