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Operations and Maintenance
Basic Refinery & Petrochemical Operations
An interactive two-day troubleshooting course for refinery and petrochemical operators, supervisors and early-career engineers. Each trainee works on their own generic process simulators, building a mental model of how heat exchangers, flash drums and distillation columns behave. The focus is on critical thinking skills that can be taken straight back to the control room.
- Discipline
- Operations and Maintenance
- Level
- Foundation
- Duration
- 2 days
- Formats
- Classroom, In-house
Every course can be delivered in-house and tailored to your organisation.
Who should attend
Console and outside operators, console supervisors and early-career engineers who work with separation processes.
What participants will be able to do
- Operate a cascade control loop on a heat exchanger
- Determine how operating changes affect yields and purities
- Identify key operating points in a distillation column
- Analyse trends during normal and abnormal operation
- Apply a structured method to troubleshoot process upsets
Topics covered
- Process simulators
- Heat exchanger control
- Flash drums
- Distillation columns
- Trend analysis
- Operator troubleshooting