Outline of JCCP Regular Course TR-2-11

To provide participants with knowledge of the heavy oil upgrading processes, with a focus on the processes of cracking and hydrotreating

Processes to upgrade heavy oil, including topics on cracking units, sulfur-free gasoline and LP simulator learning

1.    Necessity to upgrade heavy oil
2.    Hydrotreating processes
3.    Thermal and catalytic cracking processes
4.    Gasification
5.    Selection and combination of upgreading processes
6.    Catalyst for upgrading processes
7.    Linear Programming
8.    Visit to:
       ・refineries
       ・a catalyst research institute
       ・a catalyst manufacture

Process engineers who are interested in the upgrading processes, with at least five years’ experience in refineries, and with a university degree or equivalent