Product Blending & Optimization Training Course
Consultant/Trainer: Anwar Tatariya
The Petrogenium Product Blending & Optimization course will provide a better understanding of blending systems and typical blend tocks. In addition, it also covers numerous best practices on for maximizing product quality, ensuring stability, and minimizing give-away.
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Participants
This Petrogenium training can be tailored for awareness/inexperienced staff, for intermediate and for experienced personnel, although it has originally been designed as an advanced course. Furthermore the course can be customized for a specific refinery / plant or multiple sites. The option for post-course consultancy/help-desk support is also available.
Participants may include: Product schedulers, Blend operations, Tank farm operations, Products and intermediate traders.
Learning Objectives
After completion of the course participants will have solid understanding of:
- A better understanding of the blending system & various blend stocks in the refinery process
- Improved the knowledge and skill about the blending rules, and compatibility of blend components
- Understanding how to fulfill product properties to meet requirement and specifications in the market
- How to optimize blend effectively
- Single grade and multi-grade blend optimization
Day 1:
- Product blending overview
- Blending systems – batch, continuous and in-line
- Product specifications
- Property blending correlations:
- Linear, non-linear and derived (pre-blend and post-blend) property correlations
- Quality giveaway
- Blend components and typical properties
Day 2:
- Blend optimization objectives:
- Component cost vs product price
- Minimize giveaway
- Adherence to planning targets
- Blend optimization:
- Single batch optimization
- Multi batches / multi grades optimized together
- Correction batch optimization
- Additives
- Key product blending software
Programme
Day 1:
- Product blending overview
- Blending systems – batch, continuous and in-line
- Product specifications
- Property blending correlations:
- Linear, non-linear and derived (pre-blend and post-blend) property correlations
- Quality giveaway
- Blend components and typical properties
Day 2:
- Blend optimization objectives:
- Component cost vs product price
- Minimize giveaway
- Adherence to planning targets
- Blend optimization:
- Single batch optimization
- Multi batches / multi grades optimized together
- Correction batch optimization
- Additives
- Key product blending software