About
Analogous to flight simulator training for pilots, Petroskills’ SIM courses simulate realistic operations and upsets and allow practicing troubleshooting skills in a risk-free environment. This interactive 2-day course combines elements of high fidelity, generic process simulators as well as a student-driven learning model centered around the INSTO™ Methodology. The course teaches operators how to build a mental model of various processes and stress critical thinking skills for operators that can be brought back to the control room. In this course each trainee will have access to their own generic amine plant simulator. Trainees will have an opportunity to startup each piece of equipment as well as spend time troubleshooting common malfunctions relating to amine plants. Operations that promote both safety as well as optimization are stressed throughout the course.
Target Audience
Console Operators, Outside Operators, Operations Supervisors, and Operations Engineers that work with amine or absorption 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 amine units
- Determine the effects of pressure, temperature, amine flow and sour gas flow and compositions have on product yields and product purities in amine units
- Assess critical safety concerns during the startup, shutdown and restart of an amine unit as well as simulate these startup and shutdown procedures
- Analyze trends and relate this information to various normal and abnormal situations for amine unites
- Utilize the Think EQ.U.I.P.P.E.D.™ method, a quick root cause analysis, that can identify most common process upsets in real time.
- Practice techniques for amine unit optimization including maximizing throughput while maintain certain minimum product specifications during difficult operating scenarios