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Petroleum Refining - Complete Guide to Products & Processes

Name: Petroleum Refining - Complete Guide to Products & Processes
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Industrial Refining Made Understandable

Petroleum refining transforms crude oil into the products that power modern life—from fuel and lubricants to components for chemicals and plastics. This course builds a strong foundation in how refineries actually work, what unit operations perform which tasks, and the logistics connecting supply to demand.

Coverage spans atmospheric and vacuum distillation, hydrotreating, reforming, cracking, and blending—each unit operation explained for its role in the overall process. You'll understand the products (gasoline, diesel, kerosene, LPG, asphalt) and how they emerge from crude. By the end, you'll have clarity on one of the world's most complex industrial systems.

About this course

The main scope of the course is to create strong basis and fundamentals regarding the processes in the Petroleum Refining. We take a look to the Oil&Gas Industry briefly and continue directly with the Refining Process. We then make a focus in each individual unit operation in the refinery.

Learn about:

Oil& Gas Industry
Difference between Petroleum Refining vs. Petrochemical Industry
Overview of the most important operations and products
Market insight (supply/demand) as well as (production/consumption)
Several Petroleum Refineries around the World

Unit Operations & Processes

Refining and Fractionation
Atmospheric Distillation Column
Vacuum Distillation
Hydrotreating (Hydrogenation)
Blending
Reforming
Isomerization
Alkylation
Steam Cracking
Fluid Catalytic Cracking
Gas Sweetening (Hydrodesulfurization)
Coking

Components:

Fuel Gas / Natural Gas
Liquified Petroleum Gases (LPG)
Propane, Butane
Sulfur / Hydrogen Sulfide
Gasoline / Automotive Gas Oil
Naphtha Cuts (Light/Heavy)
Kerosene
Diesel
Gasoil
Lubricants
Vacuum Residues
Asphalt
Coke

NOTE: This course is focused for Process Simulation

At the end of the course you will feel confident in the Petroleum Refining Industry. You will know the most common Process & Unit Operations as well as their distribution, production and importance in daily life.