Summary:
• To further improve knowledge and experience with Amine Treating & Sour Water Stripping processes applications in general
• To become more familiar with specific challenges and how to effectively deal with these challenges in practice.
• The transfer and sharing of knowledge and best practices in the area of Amine processes.
Outline:
- Introduction to Amine Treating
- Absorber Chemistry, Mass Transfer, and Operations
- Regenerator Chemistry, Mass Transfer, and Operations ⦁ Key Process Indicators
- Troubleshooting
- Corrosion Management
- Amine Inventory Management
- Startup / Shutdown
- Fundamentals of Sour Water Stripping
- Optimizing SWS Operations
- Process Unit Optimization
- Steam Optimization
- SRU Feed Preparation
Instructor:
Alfred E. (Al) Keller retired from Conoco/ConocoPhillips/Phillips 66 as director of Treating and Sulfur Processing in 2017. Over a 35-year career, he was involved in implementing the first high-level oxygen enriched SRUs. He led the development of the first commercial ion exchange-based amine HSS removal (HSSX™) and regenerable particle (SSX™) and oil removal systems (HCX™) for amine solutions. He also led the development of SPOC™ technology for replacing SRU burners/thermal reactors with a catalytic reaction system. Al led the development of pre-sulfur pit sulfur degassing technology (ICOn™). He earned 32 US patents for these processes as well as processes for syngas production and HF acid recovery. He developed the training modules for ConocoPhillips/Phillips 66 for amine, sour water, SRU, TGU, and caustic treating, and developed/delivered an amine and sour water training course for Brimstone STS. Al currently provides consulting services via Becht in treating and sulfur processing for refineries.