Fluid Catalytic Cracking Training

Consultant/Trainer: Eelko Brevoord / King Yen Yung

Enhance your refining expertise with Petrogenium’s Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) course—designed for engineers seeking practical knowledge to optimize FCC unit performance. Learn core principles, catalyst technology, and advanced troubleshooting from industry experts to improve operational efficiency and profitability. Join this hands-on training to tackle common challenges in FCC and elevate your refinery’s output.

Participants

The Participants may include: oil refining personnel especially those involved with FCC; researchers & professionals; catalyst manufacturing staff, especially those in the production & research of FCC catalysts; staff involved in refinery optimization & maximizing synergies between refinery processes.

The course can be customized for specific refinery staff members at beginners or experienced levels or needing a better understanding of certain aspects of Fluid Catalytic Cracking like Catalyst Testing and Selection or Unit Monitoring or Troubleshooting.

Learning Objectives

After completion of the course the participant will have a good understanding of catalytic cracking and the role of the Fluid Catalytic Unit in a complex refinery to enhance profitability. The main aspects of unit monitoring and optimization, catalyst manufacturing, composition and selection, as well as basic troubleshooting will be covered.

After the course, the participant is capable to assess the impact of processing heavy feeds/residues. Tools are given to optimize product selectivity and unit profitability.
Day 1:
  • Fundamentals
    • Process flow
    • Reaction chemistry and kinetics
    • Impact conditions
    • Heat balance

Day 2:
  • Process equipment
  • Feed quality and Residue processing
  • Pilot plant testing

Day 3:
  • Catalyst & catalyst additives technology
  • Equilibrium catalyst quality
  • Maximum propylene operations
  • Fluidization
  • Troubleshooting:
    • catalyst losses
    • fouling
    • coking in reactor vapor line
    • coking in fractionator
  • Economics

Programme

Day 1:
  • Fundamentals
    • Process flow
    • Reaction chemistry and kinetics
    • Impact conditions
    • Heat balance

Day 2:
  • Process equipment
  • Feed quality and Residue processing
  • Pilot plant testing

Day 3:
  • Catalyst & catalyst additives technology
  • Equilibrium catalyst quality
  • Maximum propylene operations
  • Fluidization
  • Troubleshooting:
    • catalyst losses
    • fouling
    • coking in reactor vapor line
    • coking in fractionator
  • Economics