Our programs are curated carefully for early-stage talent by keeping in mind the skill requirements of industry. These programs are curated and delivered by highly experienced industry experts to give industry-focused and case-centric learning experience.
Completed Programs/ Workshops
Concept of Refinery Configuration – Forging Conversion and Profitability Completed
Improve conversion and profitability for refinery by participating in this workshop. We touch upon various aspects of refinery configuration.
- Categories of refining operations
- Brief on primary, secondary, and treatment processes and their importance, significance & inter-functionality
- Classification of Secondary Processes
- Brief on major Conversion processes – FCC, HCU, DCU, DHDT, CRU, Residue Hydrocracker, Visbreaker, Solvent deasphalting, Coal gasification, etc.
- Concept of Refinery Configuration
- Evolution of Indian Refinery Configuration, the 70’s and Now
- Tougher Crude and Higher Quantity / Better Quality of Auto fuel – Contrasting Factors faced for deciding Refinery Configuration.
- Concept of Topping, Hydro-skimming, Medium Conversion & High Conversion Refinery – Impact on operational flexibility and refinery economics
- Residue Upgradation or Bottom of the Barrel Upgrade – the main challenge to firm up refinery configuration
- Latest technological trends for upgrading Refinery Configuration
- Processing options, configuration screening, configuration analysis, sensitivity analysis, selection of final configuration
- Crude Oil Selection for a refinery – Role of Refinery Configuration
- Concept & Methodology to optimize crude mix based on existing refinery configuration and overall economics.
- One example of refinery configuration selection based on the above concepts.
- Software programs involved in refinery configuration selection and input data required for refinery configuration selection.
Concept of Refinery Configuration – Forging Conversion and Profitability Completed
Improve conversion and profitability for refinery by participating in this workshop. We touch upon various aspects of refinery configuration.
- Categories of refining operations
- Brief on primary, secondary, and treatment processes and their importance, significance & inter-functionality
- Classification of Secondary Processes
- Brief on major Conversion processes – FCC, HCU, DCU, DHDT, CRU, Residue Hydrocracker, Visbreaker, Solvent deasphalting, Coal gasification, etc.
- Concept of Refinery Configuration
- Evolution of Indian Refinery Configuration, the 70’s and Now
- Tougher Crude and Higher Quantity / Better Quality of Auto fuel – Contrasting Factors faced for deciding Refinery Configuration.
- Concept of Topping, Hydro-skimming, Medium Conversion & High Conversion Refinery – Impact on operational flexibility and refinery economics
- Residue Upgradation or Bottom of the Barrel Upgrade – the main challenge to firm up refinery configuration
- Latest technological trends for upgrading Refinery Configuration
- Processing options, configuration screening, configuration analysis, sensitivity analysis, selection of final configuration
- Crude Oil Selection for a refinery – Role of Refinery Configuration
- Concept & Methodology to optimize crude mix based on existing refinery configuration and overall economics.
- One example of refinery configuration selection based on the above concepts.
- Software programs involved in refinery configuration selection and input data required for refinery configuration selection.
Industrial Distillation & Column Internals - Key to Efficiency & Effectiveness Completed
Introducing concepts of Industrial Distillation, Operations, Monitoring of Key Parameters, and Troubleshooting.
- Theoretical refresh of distillation – concepts & principles.
- Industrial example case Application of Multi-Component Distillation– Refinery.
- Crude Oil Characterization.
- Column internals – Significance, Features & Selection,
- Hydraulics.
- Typical operations and troubleshooting of Distillation Equipment’s.
- Performance Monitoring & Analysis of Distillation Equipment’s,
- Case Studies.
Upcoming Programs/ Workshops
Refinery Overview - Process & Operations. Upcoming
An Overview of Oil Refining, Typical flowsheet, Technology, Design, Operation, and Maintenance.
- Basics of Refining & Typical Flow Sheet.
- Brief on Technology of Primary & Secondary Units,
- Refinery Configuration.
- Operation and Upkeep.
- Performance Monitoring & Profitability.
Rotary Equipment - Design Concept, Operation, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Upcoming
Design, Concepts, Operations, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting of Rotary Equipment
- Rotary equipment – Overview.
- Different types and their relevant applications.
- Pumps and their components.
- Impellers, Shaft, Seals, Volutes and their functioning.
- Affinity law.
- Concepts of Cavitation, NPSH & minimum suction pressure.
- Concepts of Recycle flow – Anti-surge, minimum recycle.
- Vacuum and Steam Jet Ejectors.
- Compressors – Basic Concept.
- Classification of Compressors.
- Positive Displacement Type.
- Centrifugal Compressors.
- Design, Selection, and Operational Issues.
- Troubleshooting.
- Recent trends.
Industrial Fired Heaters and Heat Exchangers - Design, operations, monitoring and troubleshooting Upcoming
Design, Concepts, Operations, Monitoring and Troubleshooting.
- Fired Heaters – Categories and Features
- Various sections of furnace and their functions.
- Natural, Forced, Induced & Balanced Draft Furnaces.
- Various Components of an Industrial Furnace.
- Burners – Design and performance aspects.
- Furnace Calculation, Excess Air, Heat Flux and Efficiency.
- Air Pre-heaters.
- Refractory / Insulation.
- Fired Heater Operation, Maintenance & Troubleshooting.
- Classification of Heat Exchangers.
- Concept of Co-Current and Countercurrent flow & LMTD.
- Concept of Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient.
- Components of Heat Exchangers-Shell, Tube, Baffles.
- Steps in Heat Exchanger Design.
- Recent Trends in Heat Exchanger Types (Plate, Extended Surface etc).
- Operational aspects of Heat Exchangers.
- Heat Exchanger operation, monitoring & troubleshooting.
Basic concepts of modelling and Simulation with Use Cases Upcoming
Basic Concepts of modeling, various tools and techniques, physical properties and modeling templates with examples
- Overview of process simulation
- Various modules of process simulation
- Various users of process Simulation
- A brief overview of each module
- Building blocks for steady-state
- Component list, Physical property selection
- Building blocks for dynamics
- Degrees of Freedom
- Steady State flow-sheet Example
- Major Equipment modeling – Brief Details
- Major use cases / Case Studies
- Conclusion.
Conceptual Design - Introduction to basic engineering Upcoming
Introduction to concepts on heat and mass balance, process flow diagram
- Conceptual Design overview
- Feasibility assessment and configuration.
- Process flow diagram – Design, Operation, and monitoring
- Significance of PFD for Design and Operating companies
- Heat and material balance overview.
- Significance of HMB for Design and Operating companies
- Process and Inst Diagram Overview
- Key components of P&ID
Process Control and Automation - Overview Upcoming
Overview on Plant automation, Instrumentation , Architecture and Various Components
- Overview
- Control Concepts
- Automation layers and hierarchy
- DCS overview – objective and functionalities
- PLC Overview – Objective and functionalities.
- Types of control loop
- Feedforward principles
- Multivariable control overview
- Concepts of Advanced process control
- Use Cases
INTERNAL CORROSION DAMAGE MECHANISMS AND THEIR MITIGATION - Assessment and Mitigation Upcoming
- Internal corrosion impacts on Industry – Oil and Gas Upstream and Downstream, Petrochemicals and Chemical Industries like Fertilizer industry
- Corrosive damage mechanisms and testing
- Corrosion mitigation techniques, monitor
- Assessment of corrosion management practices
FAILURE ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION - Failure Assessment and Risk Mitigation Upcoming
Analyze failures effectively to avoid their recurrence and also understand early failure indicators to prevent them.
- Onsite Investigations, sampling, and Interpretations.
- Lab investigations – Visual inspection, Chemical Analysis, Electrochemical, Microscopy, fractography, SEM-EDS, XRD, Simulations, software, etc. for Identification of the most probable mechanisms leading to premature failures.
- Recommendations of remedial measures to prevent such failures in the future.
- Case Studies.