COURSE OVERVIEW:

This comprehensive course, focusing on Process Optimization and Troubleshooting, provides participants with an integrated understanding of how to improve process performance using benchmarking, structured analysis, and effective use of available resources. The course explains how to recognize and quantify process variability, understand process dynamics, and evaluate control loop performance as foundations for optimization.

Participants will learn how process design influences day-to-day operation, how to identify sources of variability, and how to attenuate disturbances through control and operating strategies. The course also addresses practical troubleshooting of process and equipment problems, including how to manage upsets and emergency procedures while maintaining safety and protecting assets. Practical exercises and case studies will enable participants to apply the concepts learned to realistic plant scenarios.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

After completion of this course, the participants will be able to:

1. Explain the principles of process optimization and the role of benchmarking in identifying improvement opportunities.
2. Describe the concepts of process variability and process dynamics and their impact on product quality, energy use, and reliability.
3. Assess control loop performance and identify loops that are unstable, sluggish, or poorly tuned.
4. Explain how process design decisions influence operability, controllability, and optimization potential.
5. Identify sources of process variability using plant data, trends, and observations.
6. Apply practical methods to attenuate disturbances and manage process variability through operating practices and control strategies.
7. Diagnose common control loop and instrumentation problems and propose corrective actions.
8. Use appropriate tools and resources, including plant data systems and procedures, when optimizing or troubleshooting process and equipment issues.
9. Support the management of abnormal situations and emergency procedures from a process engineering perspective.
10. Develop and prioritize optimization and troubleshooting actions that improve performance while maintaining safety and compliance.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

-Process Engineers

-Operations Engineers and Senior Operators involved in optimization and troubleshooting

-Control and Automation Engineers working closely with process units

-Maintenance and Reliability Engineers supporting process performance

-Technical Support and Asset Performance Engineers in processing facilities

TRAINING COURSE METHODOLOGY:

A highly interactive combination of lectures and discussion sessions, as well as case studies, will be managed to maximize the amount and quality of information, knowledge, and experience transfer. The course will be intensive but practical and highly interactive. The sessions will start by raising the most relevant questions and motivating everybody to find the right answers. The attendants will also be encouraged to raise more of their questions and to share in developing the right answers using their analysis and experience. There will also be some indoor experiential activities to enhance learning. Course material will be provided in PowerPoint, with necessary animations, learning videos, and general discussions.

The course participants shall be evaluated before, during, and after the course.

COURSE CERTIFICATE:

National Consultant Centre for Training LLC (NCC) will issue an Attendance Certificate to all participants completing a minimum of 80% of the total attendance time requirement.