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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: 8

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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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