COURSE OVERVIEW

Course Description

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

 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of production process optimization, problem solving and operational troubleshooting. It covers the fundamentals of production process optimization; the basic optimization tools and what can optimization achieve; the cost versus capacity and the pareto principle in operational and investment economics; and the financial returns, breakeven analysis, graphical solutions, incremental method, global and local optima and configuration optimization.

 

Further, the course will also discuss the capacity creep, plant debottlenecking, optimizing operations planning and unit performance; the proper scheduling, optimizing process operations and the key parameters for optimization; the components of plant problem solving, the limitations to plant problem solving, and the sources of historical data; the daily monitoring system guidelines, setting trigger points and problem solving approach; and the step 1 to step 6 considerations, risk analysis and troubleshooting manual.

 

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the guidelines for temperature, pressure and level problem solving; the process controls, verifying measurements and analogue controls versus digital controls; the feedback and feedforward controls; the DCS (Distributed Control Systems) and advanced controls including process analyzers, offline optimization, real time online optimization and model predictive control; the potential sources, basic principles of fluid overview and equivalent piping lengths; and the commercial correlations, two phase flow/theory and applications, heat transfer, troubleshooting techniques/applications and hazards.

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TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies:

30 % Lectures
20 % Workshops & Work Presentations
20 % Case Studies & Practical Exercises
30 % Videos, Software & Simulators

In an unlikely event, the course instructor may modify the above training methodology for technical reasons.

VIRTUAL TRAINING (IF APPLICABLE)

If this course is delivered online as a Virtual Training, the following limitations will be applicable:

Certificates	:	Only soft copy certificates will be issued
Training Materials	:	Only soft copy materials will be issued
Training Methodology	:	80% theory, 20% practical
Training Program	:	4 hours per day, from 09:30 to 13:30