Process Engineering Essentials Training

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
19 Oct 2025 Sharm El-Sheikh $ 3,500 Register

Process Engineering Essentials Training

Introduction

The Process Engineering Essentials training course in Dubai is well-matched to those professionals and practitioners who require familiarity not only with chemical engineering principles but also with many of the other engineering disciplines including mechanical, electrical and instrumentation. This is essential since Process Engineering is at the heart of much of the chemical, oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. Process Engineers are interested in the transportation and transformation of solids, liquids, and gases. In the oil and gas sector, of specific importance are separation processes including distillation, heat transfer, hydraulics, and fluid flow, reaction engineering, but also process control and economics. This training course focuses on the central areas of process engineering and guides the delegates in developing both fundamental and practical understandings of key issues.

This training course will feature:

  • A practical introduction to the fundamentals of process engineering
  • Key areas applicable to major process industries especially oil, gas & petrochemical
  • Process Engineering influence on Safety and Risk
  • Optimization of process design and control.
  • Costs and project costing

Objectives

    By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

    • Understand the fundamental principles used in processes and facilities
    • Apply practical understanding of hydraulics and fluid flow
    • Apply learning from historical safety incidents
    • Perform relevant calculations & analyses to assist in the operation, sizing, & troubleshooting
    • Develop perspective & focus from a company viewpoint of the interaction of different engineering disciplines

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practice. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.

Who Should Attend?

This training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:-

  • Plant/Operations Personnel and Managers
  • Petroleum Engineers
  • Production Engineers
  • Trainee Process Engineers
  • R&D Chemists, Plant Chemists
  • Economists and Business Managers

Course Outline

Day 1: Introduction and Fundamentals of Process Engineering

  • Mass and energy balances

  • Reactor types

  • Process & Engineering Diagrams

  • Flammability

  • Electrical area classification

  • Risk Management and Hazard Studies

Day 2: Hydraulics and Fluid flow

  • Pressure and head & Bernoulli's theorem

  • The flow of liquids, Reynolds number and pressure drop in pipes

  • Two-phase and multi-phase flow

  • Enthalpy and thermodynamics

  • Principle of process relief devices and process design of relief systems

  • Mechanical Equipment – Pumps, Compressors & Mixers

Day 3: Heat Transfer and Reaction Engineering

  • Heat Transfer Mechanisms 

  • Heat transfer coefficients and calculation

  • Heat exchangers, type and sizing  

  • Catalysis and Reaction Engineering

  • Chemical reactions & kinetics

  • Green Chemistry & Engineering and Sustainability

Day 4: Distillation Processes and Equipment

  • Phase behavior and vapor/liquid equilibria

  • Gas/Liquid separation

  • Distillation equipment - Columns and vessels 

  • Troubleshooting of process equipment

  • Overview of Other Separation Processes 

  • Effluent treatment [in refinery and petrochemical] industries

Day 5: Process Control and Economics

  • Classification of control systems

  • Measured variables

  • Simple feedback control

  • Preliminary economic analysis

  • Fixed and variable costs, break-even analysis

  • Estimating the cost of process equipment and plants

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