COURSE OVERVIEW

 This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators.
 
This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Refinery Shutdown, Turnaround and Troubleshooting. It covers the various reasons for shutdowns in refinery operations, regulatory and statutory requirements and financial and operational implications; the shutdown and turnaround lifecycle phases covering initiation and planning, preparation and execution, commissioning and startup and post-analysis and lessons learned; the roles and responsibilities of turnaround manager, project engineer and contractor; the scope definition and work list development; the risk assessment and management in turnarounds, turnaround KPIs and performance metrics; and the detailed planning techniques. Further, the course will also discuss the shutdown scheduling essentials, logistics and materials management; the contractor management and safety management during turnaround; the quality assurance and control, shutdown of heat exchangers and boilers and column and reactor shutdown procedures; the pumps, compressors and turbomachinery, alignment and vibration diagnostics, bearing inspection and replacement; the mechanical seal maintenance and performance verification; the piping and valves maintenance, isolation techniques and hydrotesting; the gasket replacement, flange integrity and valve overhauling procedures; and the stress analysis and support adjustments. 

 During this interactive course, participants will learn the instrumentation and control systems, utility systems and ancillary equipment; the common problems during shutdown and startup challenges and troubleshooting; the root cause analysis (RCA), fault tree analysis (FTA), “5 whys” and cause mapping and documentation and reporting; the troubleshooting of rotating equipment, process troubleshooting in major units and communication and decision-making in crisis; the commissioning and performance testing, punch list management, post-shutdown review and documentation and cost control and financial closure; the turnaround improvement initiatives covering benchmarking against industry best practices, the performance gaps, future turnaround strategies and organizational turnaround capability; the digital tools for planning and tracking, remote monitoring and IoT in turnarounds; the digital twins and predictive analytics; and enhancing safety and efficiency with automation.