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These course agendas are a representation of the course material presented for the specific classes. All material is subject to change depending on the specific needs of the clients at each course.
Some courses may be shortened to one or two days when represented by a three day agenda; these courses will typically cover the first day or two days worth of material. Please contact Bryan Research & Engineering for additional information on any training session.
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ProMax® Level I—Refinery Focus
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Duration: 3 days
Objectives:
Attendees will learn:
- Basics of process simulation methods
- Capabilities and features of ProMax
- Plant modeling techniques and methods
Prerequisites:
- Basic understanding of refinery operations
- Background in chemical or petroleum engineering
- Instructor-led demonstrations
- Hands-on
- Question-Answer
- Open floor
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See Course Agenda
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Course Agenda*:
Day 1
Introduction
- Microsoft Visio as the user interface
- ProMax menu and toolbar
- Defining the environment (property packages and components)
- Drawing the flowsheet (drawing stencil, stream types and blocks)
- General utilities
- Plotting, line sizing, phase envelopes, hydrate data, etc.
- Reporting capabilities
Simple Sour Water Stripper Exercise
- Typical equipment specifications
- Distillation column configuration and specification
- Amine analysis and ionic species data
- Property stencil - single line property display
Glycol Dehydration Exercise
- Saturator block
- Phase envelope
- Freeze-out analysis
Amine Sweetening Exercise
- Recycle and make-up/blow-down blocks
- Defining column internals
Day 2
Amine Sweetening and Calculators
- Discussion of simple specifiers and solvers
- Steam to amine circulation specifier
- Rich loading solver
- Lean loading solver
Discussion of Advanced Features
- Multiple flowsheets and environments
- Exchanger rating
- Separator sizing
- Excel data interface tools
Reactors and Sulfur Recovery
- Reactor block and types
- Reactions and reaction sets
- Gibbs Minimization reactor type and constraints
- 3-bed Claus unit example
- Air rate solver to maintain H2S/SO2 ratio
- Re-heater temperature solver to maintain approach to sulfur dewpoint
Day 3
Scenario Tester Example
- Loading and configuring scenario tester
- Crude preheat exchange train fouling analysis
- Shell and tube heat exchanger rating
- Scenario test to calculate fouling factors over many timestamps
Oil Package and Crude Fractionation
- Creating curve and single oils using the oil package
- Adding oils to environments
- VLE and VLLE column types
- Adding sidestrippers
- Adding pumparounds
- Pumparound estimate specification
- Column specifications
- Crude fractionator with sidestrippers exercise
- Tray rating
- Relief valve analysis
- Fuel property and distillation curve column specifications
Pipeline Block Example
- Configuring simple pipeline network
- Inlet flow solver to maintain outlet pressure
Tail Gas Hydrogenation Reactor Example
- Control to reactor outlet temperature and H2 Composition
*Subject to change
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