To understand the Distillation Processes and Distillation Control for several cases 

Engineers and operators for design, operation and maintaining of processes and instrumentation.

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

• Lectures
• Workshop & Work Presentation
• Case Studies and Practical Exercise
• Videos and General Discussions   

Distillation process

• Crude stabilization and sweetening.
• Condensate stripping.
• Crude distillation for atmospheric and vacuum units.
• NGL fractionation.
• Sour Gas Treating.
• Plant Conditions/Data 

Distillation control:

• Control Variables and Objectives
• Pressure Control.
• Material and Energy Balance Control.
• Single-Product Quality Control.
• Dual-Product Quality Control.
• Product Quality Measurement.
• Control Techniques and Strategies.
• Constraints. 

Troubleshooting:

• Difficulties and Their Causes.
• Flooding, Loss of Separation Efficiency, Equipment Damage and Changes In Tower Operation And Control Problems.
• Identifying Causes, Collect Information, Generate Additional
• Information, Evaluate The Information, Symptoms Versus Causes,
• Troubleshooting Tools, Gamma Ray Absorption and Neutron Backscatter.
• Tower Modifications, Specific Problems, Most Common Problems,
• Natural Gas Liquids (Ngl) Or Light Ends Fractionation, Vacuum
• Crude Units, Atmospheric Crude Units, Diglycol Amine (Dga) Gas
• Treating and Sour Water Strippers.
• Packed Columns, Liquid Distributors, Flooding and Restrictive Support Plate. 

Operating Improvements:

• Objectives, Meeting Specifications, Improving Yields, Increase Throughput and Reduce Utility Consumption.
• Improvements, Improve Fractionation Quality, Reduce Product Quality Giveaway, Improve Instrumentation, Analyzers, Develop Computer Applications and Utilize Operating Variable Objective Relationships.

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.