COURSE OVERVIEW

 This practical and highly-interactivecourse includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. 

 Process reactors are vessels designed to contain chemical reactions. The design of a process reactor deals with multiple aspects of process engineering. Process engineers design reactors to maximize net present value for the given reaction. Designers ensure that the reaction proceeds with the highest efficiency towards the desired output product, producing the highest yield of product while requiring the least amount of money to purchase and operate. Normal operating expenses include energy input, energy removal, raw material costs, labor, etc. Energy changes can come in the form of heating or cooling, pumping to increase pressure, frictional pressure loss or agitation. 

 Both tank and tubular reactors can be used as continuous reactors or batch reactors, and either may accommodate one or more solids (reagents, catalyst, or inert materials), but the reagents and products are typically fluids. Most commonly, reactors are run at steady-state, but can also be operated in atransient state. When a reactor is first brought into operation (after maintenance or inoperation) it would be considered to be in a transient state, where key process variables change with time. 

 This course is designed to provide delegates with an up-to-date knowledge on the operation, troubleshooting, start-up and shutdown of process reactors. It covers the various techniques of chemical reactions; operating variables of process reactors such as pressure, temperature, hydrogen ratio, R/G ratio and LHSV; start-up guidelines and emergency shutdown procedures for process reactors; proper safety rules for reactor operation; and the reaction mechanism involved in process reactors. 

 

Participants will be able to discuss the process control and troubleshooting techniques of process reactors; employ proven start-up and shutdown procedures and have an in-depth understanding of the catalyst regeneration procedure; apply feed preparation, catalyst deactivation and catalyst poisoning; and determine the different types of catalyst.