The oil refining process stands as one of today’s most intricate industrial processes, integrating catalyst systems, complex reactor designs, sophisticated computer hardware and software for control, and advanced safety and environmental protocols.
A typical medium-sized refinery is equipped with hundreds of pumps, heat exchangers, and drums, alongside dozens of furnaces, compressors, high temperature/high pressure reactors, and thousands of control loops managed by associated computer control technologies. Given this complexity, optimizing such systems through isolated, single-point or single-system approaches proves less effective. Instead, it's essential to view the refinery holistically, considering it as an integrated system rather than merely a collection of individual components. Here, multi-method simulation—comprising Discrete Event, Agent Based, and System Dynamics techniques—plays a pivotal role. These simulation methods enable the integration of all refinery systems into a unified model. This approach provides insights into both the overall system performance and the specific outputs of its components, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of how the refinery functions as a whole. This holistic view is critical for optimizing operations, improving efficiency, and making informed decisions that contribute to the refinery's overall effectiveness and competitiveness in the industry. This Refinery System Process Analysis and Testing Using Agent Based Simulation Training Course will enable you to understand the capabilities of anyLogic as multi-method simulation tool in oil refinery industries.
This Coventry Academy training course will cover:
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
This Coventry Academy training course is designed for all professionals working in the field of data analysis, oil and gas exploration, geology and reservoir modelling and will greatly benefit:
This Coventry Academy training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes presentation of theoretical concepts, video lectures and many exercises that will be done through the guided work of the delegates themselves. The delegates will use free Personal Learning Edition AnyLogic software to create models and define and select statistics.