Course Description:

The laws of science will ultimately dictate what can or cannot be done with feedstocks to provide the needed products. The science of analytical chemistry is at the core of understanding of both the problems of processing various feedstocks.

This course examines the way that the analytical science has been applied to defining the properties and behavior of the different feedstocks that are used in the petroleum refining industry.

This course study the essential elements of all analytical tests used to characterize petroleum. It is, of course, critical for testing laboratory personnel to be fully familiar with all the details of the tests they are performing. But it is also important for nonlaboratory personnel to know at least the significance, advantages, and limitations of particular tests used to characterize product quality.

Course Goal:

This course will prove useful not only to laboratory personnel but also to product specification writers, process engineers, process scientists, researchers, and marketing staff in understanding the importance of these tests as well as their limitations, so that sound conclusions can be reached regarding the quality and performance of a particular product.

Course Objectives:

By the end of the course the participant will be able to:

1. Be qualified for inspection of the nature of the petroleum
2. Provide deductions about the most logical means of refining or correlation of various properties to structural types present and hence attempted classification of the petroleum.
3. Proper interpret the data resulting from the inspection of crude oil requires an understanding of their significance.
4. Evaluate petroleum for use as a feedstock usually involves an examination of one or more of the physical properties of the material.

Course Outline:

1. Introduction
2. Definitions and History
3. Chemical Composition
4. Classification
5. Physical Properties
6. Thermal Properties
7. Electrical and Optical Properties
8. Spectroscopic Methods
9. Chemical Methods
10. Fractional Composition
11. Chromatographic Analysis
12. Structural Group Analysis
13. Molecular Weight
14. Instability and Incompatibility
15. Use of the Data – The Structure of Petroleum

Who Can Benefit?

1. Lab chemists and all lab staff
2. Engineers and chemists who work in oil fields and refineries
3. Intermediate and high level operators and technicians in oil field and refineries