The Hydrotreating / Hydrocracking Catalyst and Process Technologies Short Course provides a focused introduction to conventional distillate hydrotreating and hydrocracking operations, emphasizing how these units function, how catalysts perform within them, and which operating parameters most strongly influence outcomes. The program is delivered through class‑based lectures that integrate process fundamentals, real industrial case studies, and discussion of the critical variables that govern efficiency, product quality, and catalyst life across both hydrotreating and hydrocracking technologies.

Course Contents

1. Process objectives
2. Refining overview
3. Feedstock
4. Catalyst
5. Reactions
6. Hydrogen consumption
7. Process schemes
8. Reactors
9. Kinetics
10. Operating conditions
11. Material balance & product yields
12. Product quality
13. Analytical methods
14. Economics & investment
15. Safety
16. Miscellaneous Items
17. Hydrotreating / hydrocracking routes, i.e., naphtha, mid-distillae, VGO, VR procesisng options
18. Pilot plant testing & process scale-up