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Refining and Petrochemicals Overview

What happens to crude oil after it leaves the field. Covers crude assay and distillation, conversion and treating processes, product specifications and blending, petrochemical routes from steam cracking to polymers, and the economics, operations and safety of refining.

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Modules
7
Lessons
30
Duration
6h 3m
Level
Intermediate
Quizzes
7 graded
Enrolled
24

Course content

7 modules · 30 lessons · 6h 3m

How the units, utilities and offsites of a refinery fit together, the chemistry behind product quality, how to read a crude assay and what each product specification protects.

  • From Crude Barrel to Finished Products
    Preview
    11 min
  • Hydrocarbon Chemistry for Refiners12 min
  • Reading a Crude Assay and Comparing Crudes12 min
  • Product Specifications and What They Protect12 min
  • Module 1 quiz: The Refinery as a System9 questions · pass 70%

Topics covered

Refining
Petrochemicals
Distillation
Downstream
Process Industry

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