Day One –Distillation

•	Review of Distillation Fundamentals
•	Tray Hydraulics
•	Identifying Flooded Towers
•	Tray Deck Plugging – Downcomer Back-Up
•	Damaged Trays
•	Effects of Excessive Preheat
•	Control Problems in Distillation
•	Incipient Flood
•	Expanding Tower Capacity

Day Two – Distillation

•	Crude Column Fractionation
•	Optimizing Pumparounds
•	Side Stream Stripping Problems
•	Tower Pressure Drop Surveys
•	Tower External Temperature Surveys
•	Coker Fractionator Problems
•	Tower Bottoms Steam Stripping
•	Packed Tower Design and Operation
•	FCU Fractionator Problems

Day Three – Reboiling and Condensing

•	Thermosyphon Reboilers
•	How Reboiler Problems Cause Tower Flooding
•	Kettle and Forced Circulation Reboilers
•	Fouling in Shell and Tube Exchangers
•	Effect of Sub-Cooling on Condenser Efficiency
•	Pressure Control in Light Ends Columns
•	Air Fin-Fan Coolers
•	Vacuum Systems-Inter-Stage Condensers

Day Four – Fired Heaters

•	Proper Use of Excess Air
•	Heat Balancing Convective and Radiant Sections
•	Draft Control
•	Afterburn – Causes and Cures
•	Air Preheaters
•	Preventing SO3 Condensation
•	On-Stream Cleaning Techniques
•	Coke Formation Inside Tubes
•	Debottlenecking Heaters

Day Five - Pumps, Turbines, and Steam Jets

•	Operation of Centrifugal Pumps
•	Mechanical Seals & Bearings
•	Optimum Impeller Size
•	Sizing Motor Drives
•	Troubleshooting Reduced NPSH
•	Steam Turbines – Use of Hand Valves
•	Surface Condensers
•	Vacuum Pumps
•	Converging – Diverging Jets
•	Optimizing Steam Jet Performance
•	Pumping Viscous Fluids

Day Six - Compressors

•	Centrifugal Compressor Fundamentals
•	Relationship of Polytropic Head to Surge
•	Rotor Fouling
•	Measuring Compressor Efficiency
•	Reciprocating Compressor Fundamentals
•	Volumetric Compression Efficiency
•	Head-End Unloaders