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Crude to Chemicals Technologies Short Course
The short course overviews the processing objectives, process configurations offered by licensors and technology developers, various types of crude oils and their compositions, and economics. The fundamental and practical aspects of refining and petrochemical technologies (hydrotreating, hydrocracking, deep hydrogenation, fluid catalytic cracking, residue processing options, steam cracking, selective hydrogenation, aromatics recovery, reverse isomerization) used in each configuration will be reviewed to give full understanding of chemical production.

Course Contents

  1. Introduction: Conventional refining vs crude to chemicals
  2. Crude to Chemicals Objective
  3. Crude to chemicals feedstock types and evaluation
  4. Crude to chemicals process configurations offered by licensors and developers
  5. Overview of Process and Catalyst Technologies
    1. Hydrotreating
    2. Hydrocracking
    3. Deep hydrogenation
    4. Fluid catalytic cracking
    5. Residue processing options
    6. Steam cracking
    7. Selective / deep hydrogenation
    8. Aromatics recovery complex
    9. Light naphtha reverse isomerization
  6. Case Studies
    1. Material balances for different configurations
    2. Technology selection for max chemical production
    3. Technology selection for selective chemical production
  7. Product specifications & evaluations
  8. Process economics
  9. Intellectual property overview

Course Details

  1. Scope: The Short Course overviews the process configurations offered by licensors and technology developers.
  2. Objective: To learn the fundamentals of each process configuration, feedstocks used, process technologies utilized, product specification.
  3. Timing: 5x50 minutes lectures/day.
  4. Candidates: Scientists and engineers with B.Sc. Degree and 1 year of practical experience.
  5. Prerequisite: None.
  6. Teaching Staff: Dr. Omer Refa Koseoglu.
  7. Duration: 4 days.
  8. Course Manual: Hard or soft copy will be provided.
  9. Location: Raddison Blu Hotel, Sisli, Istanbul, Türkiye.
  10. Cost: To be announced. The fee will include attendance, lunch, coffee&refreshmentsand course manuals, hard & soft copy.