Now, more than ever, while we practice social distancing and isolation to protect ourselves and others, we need our community to support each other. In this spirit, Refining Community hosts eREFCOMM a virtual event for technical sharing and remote networking. The concept will be in the spirit of our favorite live conference activity, the break out session. Every other week, we will have a new short topic and lively discussion around that topic.
- Interactive Webinars
- When: Second and Fourth Thursday of each month
- Time: 8PT, 9MT, 10CT, 11ET (1500 GMT)
- Duration: 60 minutes
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August 6 – Solvent Deasphalting: Why is there so much buzz?
Many refiners are struggling to meet new product specifications and improve refinery margins simultaneously while dealing with large resid pool. The choice for resid upgrading technology and flow scheme is of paramount importance especially in the face of the IMO 2020 regulations.
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July 30 – How Effective are Operator Rounds at Your Site?
In our first Breakout webinar, participants will discuss the effectiveness of their site’s feedback loop, share successes and pitfalls, and learn from the experiences of their international operations colleagues.
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July 23 – Managing Coke Drum Foam with Chemicals
The production of foam above the level of the coke bed during and after coke drum filling is just part of the process and is inevitable (generally). There are various scenarios where more or less foam can be expected. As part of this webinar, we will explore how foam can be reduced or managed with antifoam chemicals and through process awareness.
July 15 – Leveraging the Cloud for Refinery Operator Training
Operator Training Simulators (OTS) have long been utilized to improve the skills of an operational workforce, thereby increasing plant performance…
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July 9 – Should You Worry about CUI on the Coke Drum Structure?
Corrosion under insulation (CUI) is one of the best known and researched corrosion mechanisms in process industries. CUI is not often discussed in the context of the delayed coker specifically or especially around the drum structure equipment itself.
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June 25 – Back to the Future: Lift Plug Valves Making a Come Back
In the beginning, the preferred valve of choice for delayed cokers was the lift plug valve. For many of you who still work on older units, you know this because all your valves are still this type.
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Recap June 11 – Making sure your spare heater charge pump is ready for action
The heater charge pump is arguably the most critical pump in the entire delayed coker. It can also be the most challenging to keep properly ready in standby mode so it is hot and ready when called into action and QUICKLY.
Recap May 28 – Coke Drum Level after the Demise of Neutron Backscatter (aka K-ray)
For many years, the only indication for the coke drum level was the Neutron-Backscatter (NBS) type. Then in the 90’s, continuous level gamma source instruments were developed. Their rollout has been gradual for the existing installed capacity and they are the standard on new grassroots units.
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Recap May 14 – How Much Should You Quench Coke Drum Vapors?
Our goal is to keep the coke in the coke drum, right? We are not always completely successful in this mission but one way to keep the drum vapor line clean is to minimize carryover from the drum and quench the vapors “enough” to prevent coke deposition on the ID of the pipe.
Recap April 23 – Coke Drum Stripping Steam: A goldilocks approach
Traveling the coking world, we have literally talked to 1000s of operators and opinions vary about the ‘best’ way to switch the drum and steam strip. In this installment of eREFCOMM, we are going to investigate the variety of techniques in place and discuss the pros and cons of various methods.
Webinar Schedule
| July 9 | Should You Worry about CUI on the Coke Drum Structure? | Sponsor: | |
| July 15 | Leveraging the Cloud for Refinery Operator Training | Sponsor: | |
| July 23 | Managing Coke Drum Foam with Chemicals | ||
| July 30 | How Effective are Operator Rounds at Your Site? | Sponsor: | |
| August 6 | Solvent Deasphalting: Why is there so much buzz? | Sponsor: | |
| August 13 | Keep Your Ball Valves Turning | Sponsor: |  |
| August 27 | Leading Indicators - Drill Stem Force Spikes | ||
| September 10 | Leading Indicators - Control Valve Position | ||
| September 24 | Decoking Series - Pig Fast, Pig Often, Pig to Clean | ||
| October 8 | TBA | ||
| October 22 | TBA | ||
| November 12 | TBA |