Start Date : 28 Sep,2025
End Date : 2 Oct,2025
Duration : 5 Days
Overview:
The Process Engineering Essentials training course is well-matched to those professionals and practitioners who require familiarity not only with chemical engineering principles, but also with many of the other engineering disciplines including mechanical, electrical and instrumentation. This is essential since Process Engineering is at the heart of much of the chemical, oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. Process Engineers are interested in the transportation and transformation of solids, liquids and gases. In the oil and gas sector, of specific importance are separation processes including distillation, heat transfer, hydraulics and fluid flow, reaction engineering, but also process control and economics. This training course focuses on the central areas of process engineering and guides the delegates in developing both fundamental and practical understandings of key issues.
Course Objectives:
- Understand fundamental principles used in processes and facilities
Apply practical understanding of hydraulics and fluid flow
Apply learning from historical safety incidents
Perform relevant calculations & analyses to assist in operation, sizing, & troubleshooting
Develop perspective & focus from a company viewpoint of interaction of different engineering disciplines
Course Content:
1. Introduction and Fundamentals of Process Engineering
Mass and energy balances
Reactor types
Process & Engineering Diagrams
Flammability
Electrical area classification
Risk Management and Hazard Studies
2. Hydraulics and Fluid flow
Pressure and head & Bernoulli's theorem
Flow of liquids, Reynolds number and pressure drop in pipes
Two-phase and multi-phase flow
Enthalpy and thermodynamics
Principle of process relief devices and process design of relief systems
Mechanical Equipment – Pumps, Compressors & Mixers
3. Heat Transfer and Reaction Engineering
Heat Transfer Mechanisms
Heat transfer coefficients and calculation
Heat exchangers, type and sizing
Catalysis and Reaction Engineering
Chemical reactions & kinetics
Green Chemistry & Engineering and Sustainability
4. Distillation Processes and Equipment
Phase behavior and vapour/liquid equilibria
Gas/Liquid separation
Distillation equipment - Columns and vessels
Troubleshooting of process equipment
Overview of Other Separation Processes
Effluent treatment [in refinery and petrochemical] industries
5. Process Control and Economics
Classification of control systems
Measured variables
Simple feedback control
Preliminary economic analysis
Fixed and variable costs, break even analysis
Estimating the cost of process equipment and plants
Targeted Audience:
Plant/Operations Personnel and Managers
Petroleum Engineers
Production Engineers
Trainee Process Engineers
R&D Chemists, Plant Chemists
Business Managers
