Distillation Technology
Consultant/Trainer: Jari Marci & Charu Ehrenreich
Distillation remains the backbone of refining and chemical processing, but today’s challenges demand more than just the fundamentals. With increasing energy efficiency targets, stricter emissions regulations, and the push for greater operational flexibility, are you confident your distillation systems are optimized for the future?
Join industry-leading experts in our CPD Accredited Distillation Technology course and gain the knowledge to maximize efficiency, reduce costs, and improve product yields in an ever-changing landscape. Whether you’re tackling energy savings, troubleshooting performance issues, or preparing for the transition to more sustainable operations, this course provides the practical, real-world insights you need.
Join industry-leading experts in our CPD Accredited Distillation Technology course and gain the knowledge to maximize efficiency, reduce costs, and improve product yields in an ever-changing landscape. Whether you’re tackling energy savings, troubleshooting performance issues, or preparing for the transition to more sustainable operations, this course provides the practical, real-world insights you need.
Cost
€3525
Location
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Dates
14-16 October, 2025
About the Trainer
Jari is a passionate process engineer with many years of experience in Refinery and Mid-Stream Process Technology design, licensing, start-up, operation, research and development, and customer unit support. His specific areas of expertise cover residue processing technologies with an emphasis on Visbreaking and Thermal Cracking.
Participants
The Distillation Technology course is designed for professionals involved in the design, operation, optimization, and troubleshooting of distillation systems. Ideal participants include process engineers, operations engineers, plant managers, and technical specialists working in refineries, petrochemical plants, and chemical processing industries.
This course is particularly valuable for those responsible for maximizing column efficiency, improving energy performance, and ensuring product quality while navigating evolving industry challenges such as stricter emissions regulations and sustainability targets. Whether you’re an early-career engineer looking to strengthen your foundation or an experienced professional seeking to enhance your expertise with the latest best practices, this course provides actionable strategies and expert knowledge to help you make a measurable impact on your operations.
This course is particularly valuable for those responsible for maximizing column efficiency, improving energy performance, and ensuring product quality while navigating evolving industry challenges such as stricter emissions regulations and sustainability targets. Whether you’re an early-career engineer looking to strengthen your foundation or an experienced professional seeking to enhance your expertise with the latest best practices, this course provides actionable strategies and expert knowledge to help you make a measurable impact on your operations.
Learning Objectives
As a participant, you will gain a deep understanding of distillation fundamentals, including vapor-liquid equilibrium, column hydraulics, and mass transfer.
You will learn how to optimize column performance by assessing efficiency, capacity, and energy consumption while also enhancing your troubleshooting skills to address common operational issues such as flooding, foaming, and weeping. With a strong focus on energy efficiency, the course explores strategies to reduce energy consumption without compromising product quality.
As a participant, you will also learn how to adapt distillation processes to meet evolving environmental regulations and sustainability targets, improve separation efficiency by selecting the right internals, and apply advanced process control techniques for more stable and efficient operations. Through real-world case studies, you will develop practical problem-solving skills that can be directly applied to your own facilities, ensuring you stay ahead in a rapidly evolving industry.
You will learn how to optimize column performance by assessing efficiency, capacity, and energy consumption while also enhancing your troubleshooting skills to address common operational issues such as flooding, foaming, and weeping. With a strong focus on energy efficiency, the course explores strategies to reduce energy consumption without compromising product quality.
As a participant, you will also learn how to adapt distillation processes to meet evolving environmental regulations and sustainability targets, improve separation efficiency by selecting the right internals, and apply advanced process control techniques for more stable and efficient operations. Through real-world case studies, you will develop practical problem-solving skills that can be directly applied to your own facilities, ensuring you stay ahead in a rapidly evolving industry.
Day 1
- Introduction and basics: distillation basics and theory
- Modelling of vapour-liquid equilibria, Raoul’s law, partial pressure
- Column modelling, tray efficiency, rate based models
- Setting of operating conditions: pressure & temperature limits, operating window
- Distillation equipment, types, features and limitations
- Distillation trays, valves and downcomers. Random and structure packing.
- Inlet and outlet devices, distributors and draw-off trays.
- Exercise 1
- Crude Distillation Units
- Types and line-ups, operation, monitoring and optimisation
- Product specifications: Flash point, cloud points, distillation (initial/final) boiling points
- Miscellaneous equipment (vacuum sets, liquid ring pumps, drums & accumulators)
- Vacuum Distillation Units
- Types and line-ups, operation, monitoring and optimization, Maxwell-Bonnell Temperature
- Product specifications: Cloud Points, Conradson Carbon Residue
- Exercise 2
- Troubleshooting
- Jet flooding, foaming, entrainment, downcomer limitations
- Column turndown
- Others distillation units
- Stabilizers, LPG splitters, stripper-dryer columns
- Process control schemes
- Exercise 3
- Distillation Open Clinic
Programme
Day 1
- Introduction and basics: distillation basics and theory
- Modelling of vapour-liquid equilibria, Raoul’s law, partial pressure
- Column modelling, tray efficiency, rate based models
- Setting of operating conditions: pressure & temperature limits, operating window
- Distillation equipment, types, features and limitations
- Distillation trays, valves and downcomers. Random and structure packing.
- Inlet and outlet devices, distributors and draw-off trays.
- Exercise 1
- Crude Distillation Units
- Types and line-ups, operation, monitoring and optimisation
- Product specifications: Flash point, cloud points, distillation (initial/final) boiling points
- Miscellaneous equipment (vacuum sets, liquid ring pumps, drums & accumulators)
- Vacuum Distillation Units
- Types and line-ups, operation, monitoring and optimization, Maxwell-Bonnell Temperature
- Product specifications: Cloud Points, Conradson Carbon Residue
- Exercise 2
- Troubleshooting
- Jet flooding, foaming, entrainment, downcomer limitations
- Column turndown
- Others distillation units
- Stabilizers, LPG splitters, stripper-dryer columns
- Process control schemes
- Exercise 3
- Distillation Open Clinic