Understanding the International Petrochemicals Business -
Technology, Markets and Economics
Date: 2 - 4 Jun 2008
Venue: Johannesburg,
South Africa
Code: CH0\ARSA08
Course Director: Dr Jeffrey
Plotkin
Cost: GBP£1815
Course Summary
The organic chemical 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. There
are no pre-requisites for this course, nor is any advanced preparation
required.
What you will learn:
- Insight into the 'broad picture'
- Understanding of the concepts the industry has evolved
- Understanding of the economics of the industry
- The refining-petrochemical interface and the origin of the
industry’s seven basic raw materials
- Understanding of the value chains that flow from the seven
basic raw materials
- Who the major players are and their role in the massive
restructuring the industry is undergoing
Who Should Attend?
- Chemists, engineers, commercial, sales and purchasing staff
- Research and development, marketing and planning personnel,
chemical industry administrators who wish to increase their knowledge and
experience of the chemical reactions, feedstocks, markets, key players, basic
economics of the industry
- Associated services including finance and banking staff,
legal, government agencies, on-line services
Course Contents
Chemical Industry Overview
- What the industry makes
- Restructuring
- Profitability
- The major players
The Petroleum Refinery
- Steam cracking
- Distillation
- Catalytic cracking
- Catalytic reforming
- The refinery/petrochemcial interface
Natural and Associated Gas
- The Petrochemcial Industry’s 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
- Oxidation - Wacker reaction (acetaldehyde, vinyl acetate,
acetic acid, acetic anhydride, PVA)
- Ethylene oxide/ethylene glycol/polyesters
- Vinyl chloride/poly (vinyl chloride)
- Styrene/polystyrene
- Ethanol
Propylene - Sources and Reactions
- Polymerisation, oligomerisation, oxidation reactions
(acrylic acid, propylene oxide), ammoxidation, cumene hydroperoxide (phenol,
acetone), oxo reactions, hydration, metathesis - Shell Higher Olefins Process
C4 Unsaturates - Sources and reactions
- Butadiene - polymerisation, elastomers, 'living' polymers,
hexamethylenediamine; nylon intermediates; chloroprene; maleic anhydride;
butenes -1 and -2, isobutylenes and MTBE
- The Clean Air Act
Benzene - Sources and Reactions
- Styrene, phenol, cyclohexane, adipic acid, caprolactam,
nylons, MDI/PMDI
Toluene - Sources and Reactions
- Hydroealkylation, kisproportionation, toluene dissocyanate
and urethanes
Xylenes - Sources and Reactions
- Separation; oxidation; p-xylene, terephthalic acid, Pet;
fibres and bottles o-xylene, phthalic anhydride polyesters, plasticizers,
m-xylene
Methane
- Synthesis gas
- Ammonia; urea
- Methanol; formaldehyde, thermoset polymers
- HCN
- Chlorination
- Acetylene; 1,4-butanediol
Specialties
- Speciality chemicals and engineering polymers
Summary
- Characteristics of the industry
- The important concepts the course emphasised
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