About
Analogous to flight simulator training for pilots, Petroskills’ SIM courses simulate realistic operations and upsets so trainees can practice troubleshooting in a risk-free environment. This interactive 3- or 5-day course combines traditional classroom learning with elements of high-fidelity, generic process simulators and a student-driven learning model based on the FAST-Op Methodology. The course helps operators build a mental model of key processes while strengthening critical-thinking skills that transfer directly to the control room.
Each trainee will have access to their own simulator with various modules including heat exchangers, flash drums, compressors, pumps, heaters, and instrumentation systems. Trainees will practice startup procedures and troubleshoot common malfunctions relating to equipment from each module. The course also contains classroom training including industry overview, adsorption for contaminant removal – including hydrogen sulfide, nitrogen, VOCs, siloxanes, and carbon dioxide - across multiple techniques (non-regenerable, PSA and TSA), membrane technologies, and catalytic deoxygenation. Safety and operational optimization are emphasized throughout the course.
Target Audience
Console Operators, Outside Operators, Operations Supervisors, and Operations Engineers who work with RNG processes.
You Will Learn
- Identify equipment, valves and instrumentation on P&IDs, HMI and in the field through the 3D VR environment as well as key operating points for units.
- Determine how pressure, temperature, flow, and composition affect product yield and purity.
- Assess critical safety concerns during the startup, shutdown and restart of units as well as simulate these startup and shutdown procedures.
- Analyze trends and relate this information to various normal and abnormal situations for units.
- Apply the Think EQ.U.I.P.P.E.D.™ method, a root cause analysis technique which can identify most common process upsets in real time.
- Analyze how major industry processes work, including gas collection, membrane separation, pressure-swing adsorption, temperature-swing adsorption, and catalytic deoxygenation.
- Understand the basics of landfill gas and industry drivers.