COURSE AGENDA
DAY 1 ● 1 DECEMBER 2008 (MONDAY)
FUNDAMENTALS OF NAPHTHA REFORMING PROCESS
Overview
- Setting course objectives
- Sharing definition and reforming process achievements
- Reviewing historical development of catalytic naphtha reforming
- Assessing refining processes
Chemistry of Catalytic Reforming Process
- Understanding chemistry and processing of petroleum feed
- Reviewing metal/acid function reactions on catalytic reforming
- Establishing relationship between kinetics and thermodynamics
- Monitoring reactions in the commercial reformers
- Addressing issues on environmental control
Reforming Catalysts
- Developing best practices in catalyst preparation
- Determining catalyst composition and types
- Evaluating commercial catalysts, mono and multifunctional
- Conducting evaluation and characterisation of naphtha reforming catalysts
Intensive Q&A Session
DAY 2 ● 2 DECEMBER 2008 (TUESDAY)
INDUSTRIAL OPERATION AND MONITORING OF NAPHTHA REFORMING PROCESS
Naphtha Hydrotreatment
- Assessing naphtha origins and characteristic/properties
- Understanding naphtha hydrotreating reactions
- Determining the process variables for hydrotreating process
- Assessing criteria for high and low quality feedstock and its effect
- Managing lower quality feedstock to generate high octane fuel and gasoline
- Troubleshooting of naphtha reforming process
Monitoring of Catalytic Reforming Process
- Understanding the importance of optimum temperature/pressure during reforming process.
- Reviewing thermodynamics versus kinetics: The real compromise
- Balancing pressure and temperature for optimum operating environment
- Exploring operating variable effects
- Establishing critical understanding on water/chlorine balance
Catalyst Selection and Performance Operation
- Understanding types of commercial catalyst available for reforming process.
- Establishing criteria for catalyst selection based on its composition, feedstock impurities, operating conditions and unit design
- Assessing catalyst deactivation: Coke formation, poisoning and sintering
- Evaluating measures to assess the quality of catalyst and its cycle length prediction
- Assessing the impact of feed impurities in the reforming process
- Improving practices in catalyst regeneration
- Examining unit start-up techniques
Intensive Q&A Session
DAY 3 ● 3 DECEMBER 2008 (WEDNESDAY)
UNIT CONFIGURATION, DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF INDUSTRIAL NAPHTHA REFORMING PROCESSES
Catalytic Reforming Technology
- Assessing reactor design and operation
- Reviewing licensed processes
- Identifying process classification: Semi regenerative, fully regenerative and continuous regenerative process
- Managing reforming technology for aromatic production
Modeling and Simulation of Reforming Process
- Discussing the rationale in simulating catalytic reforming process
- Examining factors in sensitivity analysis to ensure accuracy and management of model for unit optimization
- Understanding ways to validate simulation results under specified parameters
- Coordinating process engineering, unit operations, refinery planning and the laboratory in simulation process
- Evaluating catalyst change-out and its economic evaluation
Naphtha Reforming Troubleshooting
- Examining role of sulphur in reforming and the importance of sulphur guard unit
- Measuring and evaluating the presence of unwanted gases in reforming process
- Developing best practices for equipment maintenance, in particularly cleaning and replacing difficult equipment
- Evaluating the danger of a gas leakage during refinery operation
- Establishing criteria to maintain a good heat exchanger
- Exploring practices to remove high coke deposit during shut out operation
Intensive Q&A Session
*Programme is accurate at time of publishing and is subjected to changes
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