Sustaining Operational Excellence
Author(s)
Martin Skarle (Preem), Manel Serra, Jesús Gil Vilda, and Josep-Anton Feliu (Inprocess)
Magazine
2020. Hydrocarbon Engineering, January, Pages: 45-49
Abstract/Summary
For more than a decade, refinery panel operators at Preemraff have been coached on safety and operation excellence through hands-on training with an operator training simulator (OTS). The fluidised catalytic cracker (FCC) at the Lysekil Refinery was the first refinery unit for which an OTS was built. In 2016, it was decided to extend the use of this training tool to two other existing units: the hydrogen production unit (HPU) and the Isocracker unit (ICR). In addition, the existing FCC OTS also had to be updated with recent plant changes. The authors also examine modern training methods for operators and look at how these have been successfully rolled out.
