This RECTUS training course will highlight:

• Fuel quality fundamentals
• Fuel production technologies
• Gasoline specifications
• Jet Fuel specifications
• Diesel specifications
• Fuel quality monitoring system

By the end of this RECTUS training course, participants will:

• Familiarise all quality management techniques and procedures
• Learn available non-destructive testing for concrete and steel structure projects
• Understand the practical tools to control the concrete and the whole project that includes field-testing and the required laboratory facilities
• Familiarise various techniques for evaluating the structures under construction
• Learn modern field measurements such as concrete strength
• Familiarise with all quality control techniques in hot climate

This RECTUS training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Operation Engineers
• Production Engineers 
• Process Engineers
• Senior Operation Personnel
• Operation Staff
• Technical Supervisory Staff
• Plant Engineers
• Fuel quality specialists
• Measurement and quality control operators
• Foremen

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include:
• Lectures
• Workshop & Work Presentation
• Case Studies and  Exercise
• Videos and General Discussions

Day One: Introduction of Fuel Quality Fundamentals 

• Crude oil chemistry and properties
• Classification of crude oils
• Crude assays and valuation
• Petroleum product specifications
• Petroleum products standardization and quality control
• Introduction to oil refineries
• Refinery configurations
• Case study: Impact of refinery configurations on fuel specifications

Day Two: Gasoline 

• Gasoline chemistry
• Manufacturing technologies
• Gasoline specifications and quality monitoring system
• Testing parameters for gasoline
• Composition, Combustion Characteristics, Octane Number, Corrosiveness, Density, Flash Point and Fire Point, Oxygenates, Stability, and Instability, Volatility
• Effect of fuel properties on engine performance
• Troubleshoot quality problems and contamination of gasoline
• Case-Study: Naphtha Hydrotreater, Catalytic Reformer, and Isomerization Units

Day Three: Jet Fuel 

• Jet fuel chemistry
• Manufacturing technologies
• Jet fuel specifications and quality monitoring system
• Testing parameters for Jet fuel
• Acidity, Calorific Value, Density, Flash Point, Freezing Point, Storage Stability, Thermal Stability, Viscosity, Volatility, Water
• Effect of fuel properties on engine performance
• Troubleshoot quality problems and contamination of jet fuel
• Case-Study: Hydrocracking Unit

Day Four: Diesel 

• Diesel fuel chemistry
• Manufacturing technologies (Hydroprocessing)
• Diesel fuel specifications and quality monitoring system
• Testing parameters for Diesel fuel
• Acidity, Sulfur content, Appearance and Odor, Ash, Calorific Value, Carbon Residue, Cetane Number and Cetane Index, Cloud Point, Composition, Diesel Index, Flash Point, Freezing Point, Neutralization Number, Pour Point, Stability, Viscosity, Volatility, Water and Sediment
• Effect of diesel fuel properties on engine performance
• Troubleshoot quality problems and contamination of diesel fuel
• Case Study: Production of ultra-low sulfur diesel

Day Five: Fuel Quality Monitoring System 

• Quality control of products in petroleum refining
• Gasoline Octane Blending
• Viscosity Blending
• Pour Point Blending
• Flash Point Blending
• Reid Vapor Pressure Blending for Gasoline and Naphthas
• Aniline Point Blending
• Sampling procedures
• Case-Study: Gasoline BlendingCase-Study: Diesel and Jet Fuel Blending

A RECTUS attendance certificate will be awarded to all participants who complete at least 80% of the total course duration.