Hydrocracking Training Course
Consultant/Trainer: Bob Scheffer / John Baric
Optimize your hydrocracking operations with Petrogenium’s comprehensive course designed for engineers and operational staff. Gain practical knowledge of reaction kinetics, catalyst technology, feedstock management, corrosion prevention, and troubleshooting. This training equips you to improve unit performance, tackle common challenges like catalyst deactivation, and optimize product yields—strengthen operational reliability and profitability.
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: oil refining personnel especially those involved with hydrocracking; researchers & professionals who work in hydrocracking; catalyst manufacturing staff, especially those involved in the production& research of hydrocracking catalysts; staff involved in refinery optimization & maximizing synergies between refinery processes.
Learning Objectives
How to make optimal use of hydrocracking units; understanding the types of reactions & kinetics, including reaction calculations; catalyst explanations, manufacture & commercially available catalysts; feedstocks; catalysts handling & testing; corrosion; safety aspects; troubleshooting; tenders & technical offers; technical forecasts based on pilot plant data.
Day 1
Hydrocracking schemes
Product properties
- Types of reactions and kinetics – Kinetics: HDN, HDS, Hydrogenation, cracking – Reaction Mechanism – Normalisation
Catalysts
- Composition – Hydrogenation function – Acidity – Amorphous Silica-Alumina – Zeolites
- Properties of catalysts (e.g. SA, PV, MPD, strength etc)
Catalyst manufacture
- Support – Zeolite – Extrusion – Calcination – Impregnation – Quality control & Analyses
Commercially available hydrocracking catalysts
- Topsoe – ART – Axens – Criterion / Shell
Day 2
Feedstocks
- Type – Contaminants
Catalyst handling
- Reactor loading – Presulphiding procedures – Unloading
Catalyst testing
- Best Practices pretest – WABT Temperature profile – WHSV – Recycle cutpoint – Pressure
- Gas to oil ratio – Critical Measurements
Calculations
- Conversion – Hydrogen consumption – Normalizations of WABT’s
Day 3
Corrosion
- High-temperature – Aqueous – Wash-water injection to prevent corrosion
Safety aspects
- Catalysts – H2S – Polycyclic Aromatics – NH3- Sulphiding Compounds – Ni(CO)4
Troubleshooting
- Reasons for malperformance in – How to identify/rectify malperformance Invitation to tender/Technical offer preparation – How to prepare a technical forecast based on pilot plant data
Programme
Day 1
Hydrocracking schemes
Product properties
- Types of reactions and kinetics – Kinetics: HDN, HDS, Hydrogenation, cracking – Reaction Mechanism – Normalisation
Catalysts
- Composition – Hydrogenation function – Acidity – Amorphous Silica-Alumina – Zeolites
- Properties of catalysts (e.g. SA, PV, MPD, strength etc)
Catalyst manufacture
- Support – Zeolite – Extrusion – Calcination – Impregnation – Quality control & Analyses
Commercially available hydrocracking catalysts
- Topsoe – ART – Axens – Criterion / Shell
Day 2
Feedstocks
- Type – Contaminants
Catalyst handling
- Reactor loading – Presulphiding procedures – Unloading
Catalyst testing
- Best Practices pretest – WABT Temperature profile – WHSV – Recycle cutpoint – Pressure
- Gas to oil ratio – Critical Measurements
Calculations
- Conversion – Hydrogen consumption – Normalizations of WABT’s
Day 3
Corrosion
- High-temperature – Aqueous – Wash-water injection to prevent corrosion
Safety aspects
- Catalysts – H2S – Polycyclic Aromatics – NH3- Sulphiding Compounds – Ni(CO)4
Troubleshooting
- Reasons for malperformance in – How to identify/rectify malperformance Invitation to tender/Technical offer preparation – How to prepare a technical forecast based on pilot plant data