Amine Treating & Sour Water Stripping Training Course
Consultant/Trainer: Egbert van Hoorn
Efficient removal of acid gas like H₂S and CO₂ is essential for safe, compliant refinery operations. Yet upsets in amine units or sour water strippers can result in downtime, corrosion issues, and higher operating costs. This course equips engineers, operators, and maintenance teams with both theoretical knowledge and hands-on troubleshooting skills—covering solvent chemistry, equipment operation, process control, degradation, and salt management.
Led by seasoned trainer Egbert van Hoorn, the program offers scalable sessions for all experience levels. Through real-world examples and case studies, participants develop skills to optimize performance, prevent process upsets, and improve energy efficiency.
This course is tailorable per refinery or unit—and backed by optional post-course consultancy—this training turns operational challenges into performance gains.
Participants
This Petrogenium course can be tailored for awareness/inexperienced staff, for intermediate and for experienced personnel. Furthermore the course can be customized for a specific refinery, plant or unit. The option for post-course consultancy/help-desk support is also available.
Participants may include: operational staff and process engineers who are involved in operation, supervision or maintenance of Amine and Sour Water Stripping units.
The duration of the course is flexible. 1.5 days is the minimum although this can be extended to 3 days dependent on the client: the programme example given is for 2 days, the most common length. Operator training will typically be limited to 2 days.
Learning Objectives
- To understand the process principles in Amine Treating and Sour Water Stripping
- The purpose of the process units in the refinery
- To understand the Unit Equipment, Column Internals, Unit operation and Monitoring
- To interpret Amine analysis
- The process control steering of the unit
- How to handle the degradation of Amine solvents and Heat stable salts
- Troubleshooting
Day 1
Introductions, Course Objectives and Expectations
- Process Principles
- Amine Chemistry and Selection
- Equipment Review
- Design Parameters and Operating Conditions
- Amine Analysis
Day 2
- Process Control
- Loss Reduction and Foaming Control
- Corrosion Control and Case Studies
- Filtration
- Degradation of Amine Solvents and Heat Stable Salts
- Review of the Actual Refinery Operation
- Sour Water Stripping
Programme
Day 1
Introductions, Course Objectives and Expectations
- Process Principles
- Amine Chemistry and Selection
- Equipment Review
- Design Parameters and Operating Conditions
- Amine Analysis
Day 2
- Process Control
- Loss Reduction and Foaming Control
- Corrosion Control and Case Studies
- Filtration
- Degradation of Amine Solvents and Heat Stable Salts
- Review of the Actual Refinery Operation
- Sour Water Stripping