Refinery operations are having to respond to low oil prices with the concomitant expectation of low petroleum product prices, whilst handling different crude feedstocks and meeting tighter environmental regulation.Therefore Refinery operations must optimise the yield of high-value petroleum products and make maximum use of the bottom of the barrel.

Advanced Refinery Process Yields Optimisation training course will present an overview of refining unit operations. It covers how the nature of the crude feedstock and the combination of these units in different refinery configurations affects process yields of the finished products generated from the crude oil feed.

Major refining processes are presented and discussed including feedstock, operating conditions, catalysts, yields, product properties, and economics. It also discusses how global demand and environmental issues are driving refinery configuration and optimisation and how the refineries are responding to this. It presents the fundamental understanding required to achieve the optimisation and touches on the software options to enable this.