Fuels Quality Management

Consultant/Trainer: Paul van Oers

The Petrogenium Fuels Quality Management course will provide an introduction into and raise awareness of the importance of managing all aspects of the final product quality as delivered to your customer, including fuels quality management, products specifications, applications and release policy.

Participants

This Petrogenium course can be tailored for awareness/inexperienced staff, for intermediate and for experienced personnel. Furthermore the course can be customized for a specific refinery, plant or unit. The option for post-course consultancy/help-desk support is also available.

Participants may include: all staff dealing with fuels quality e.g. operations, laboratory, economics & scheduling, process engineers and technical staff.

Learning Objectives

The properties of crude oil and refined products; awareness of refinery production processes and the link to final product quality; background o bio-fuels quality parameters in relation to application and the management of e.g. production, blending; managing product quality through the supply chain; balancing fuel quality and economics; will include a case study on an actual incident from a client.

Programme

Day 1

Introduction and customer PQ (product quality) issues
Crude Oil
Oil movements
Overview of the refining processes and product refining
Product quality at the refinery
Product quality giveaway & exercise
Regulatory & specification changes
Gasoline & application

Day 2

Diesel & application
Management of change
Residual fuel oil & application
PQ trends & developments
Biofuels (FAME, ethanol, HVO)
Product quality incident management & exercise

Day 3

Aviation fuels
Product contamination
Data interpretation & decision making (& exercise)
Sampling & testing
Fit for purpose
Product quality in the supply chain
Course evaluation