Process Operations
Do your operations personnel have the knowledge to navigate your processes and drive your operations success?
Operations personnel need to know how to minimize accidents and downtime by promoting safety and efficiency. Whether getting new employees up to speed quickly or providing a tune up for experienced personnel, OverNite Software’s Process Operations series is the key. OverNite Software’s Process Operations series includes 16 courses intended for process plant operators, but are useful for maintenance and other plant personnel. The courses in this series range from general knowledge courses including process chemistry and reading P&IDs to courses about specific equipment such as distillation towers, heat exchangers, and reactors. Each course has objectives, multiple lessons, and feedback screens that allow the learner to revisit content. Automatic bookmarking makes it easy to take a course in segments. All courses are enhanced with professional graphics, animations, and narration, as well as test questions to ensure learning. Courses are delivered via a state of- the-art learning management system that allows you to customize curricula, adjust testing parameters, and even customize courses with site-specific content and photos.
| 612 Distillation Basics |
| Examines batch distillation, multiple still distillation, reflux, and re-distillation, types of trays used in distillation, and the relationship between trays and fractionating tower size. |
| 613 Operating Distillation Towers |
| Addresses changing variables and the effect on other variables, common distillation process problems, and normal operations. |
| 617 Reading P&IDs and PFDs |
| Examines P&IDs, PFDs, and their differences as well as the symbols and what they represent. |
| 618 Centrifugal Pumps: An Introduction |
| Examines functions of centrifugal pumps, how to prevent casing leaks and air infiltration, packing and seals, and how to determine if a pump is performing properly. |
| 619 Centrifugal Pumps: Installation, Troubleshooting, and Safety |
| Addresses five pump problems, the use of a troubleshooting tree, and safety precautions that preserves equipment and protects operators and maintenance personnel. |
| 620 Heat Exchangers |
| Examines the main function and parts of a heat exchanger, ways heat is transferred in a shell and tube exchanger, factors that affect the rate of heat, and the steps for running a heat exchanger. |
| 621 Valves |
| Addresses the importance of valves, the major types of valves, and the consequences of inadequate valve maintenance. |
| 622 Cooling Towers: An Introduction g |
| Examines the basic types, function, products, and components of cooling towers, how a cooling tower works, and how to remove the solids caused by inhibitors. |
| 623 Cooling Towers: Operation and Troubleshooting |
| Explores variables that affect contro lmechanisms, the steps for cooling tower operation, and use of protective equipment. |
| 624 Reciprocating Compressors |
| Explores compressors and compressor speed, how a compressor works, the parts of a compressor and a v-belt-driven motor, and how to start up, run, shut down, and troubleshoot a compressor. |
| 625 Process Chemistry: Elements & Subatomic Particles |
| Explores the basic role of process chemistry in a plant employee’s job, the differences between organic and inorganic chemistry, atoms and subatomic particles, and the stability of elements and their ability to bond with other elements. |
| 626 Process Chemistry: Chemical Combinations and Properties |
| Addresses different ways elements combine to form molecules, how molecules are expressed in formulas, calculating molecular weights using the periodic table, various bond and reactions, balancing chemical equations, and a comparison of mixtures and compounds. |
| 627 Process Chemistry: Organic Compounds |
| Addresses hydrocarbons as classifications for different substances and the uses of alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, and amines. |
| 629 Cargo Trucks |
| Examines rules for accepting hazardous transport material when loading a cargo truck, how and what may be loaded into a cargo truck, types of unloading, and properly marking the cargo truck. |
| 631 Tank Cars |
| Explores how to prepare tank cars for loading, how to safely load and unload under various conditions, and labeling a tank car to identify what its content. |
| 633 Reactors |
| Addresses process reactor design and basic operation, the parts and types of reactors, operator responsibilities for reactors, and how the reaction runs in batch. |
