Course description
The International Petrochemicals Business – Technology, Markets and Economics is a VIRTUAL classroom course presented by the petrochemical training expert at Mennta Energy Solutions.
The petrochemical industry centres on the relationships between raw materials, intermediates, end products and applications. Basic to these relationships are chemical reactions, and fundamental to the total business is economics. To be able to work successfully within this complex industry requires a combination of practical experience with an understanding of chemistry, markets and economics. The course offers an organised overview of the industry that is essential for the successful operations within it.
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Content
- Chemical Industry Overview
- What the industry makes
- Restructuring
- Profitability
- The major players
- The Petroleum Refinery
- Steam cracking
- Catalytic cracking and reforming
- Catalytic reforming
- The refinery/petrochemical interface
- Natural and Associated Gas
- The Petrochemical Industry Basic Raw Materials Seven Major Groups
- Chemistry, production economics, feedstock sources and changes, applications and supply/demand balance
- Ethylene - Sources and Reactions
- Polymerisation, oligomerisation, a-olefins, detergent alcohols
- Ethylene oxide/ethylene glycol/polyesters
- Vinyl chloride/poly (vinyl chloride)
- Styrene/polystyrene
- Propylene - Sources and Reactions
- Polymerisation, oligomerisation, oxidation reactions
- Shell Higher Olefins Process
- C4 Unsaturates - Sources and reactions
- Butadiene - polymerisation, elastomers, butenes -1 and -2, isobutylenes and MTBE
- Benzene - Sources and Reactions
- Styrene, phenol, cyclohexane, adipic acid, caprolactam, nylons, MDI/PMDI
- Toluene - Sources and Reactions
- Xylenes -Sources and Reactions
- oxidation; p-xylene, terephthalic acid, PET; fibres and bottles o-xylene, phthalic anhydride polyesters, plasticizers, m-xylene
- Methane
- Synthesis gas
- Ammonia
- Methanol; formaldehyde,
- A look at the major types of Polymers