Question 61: How many inside/outside operators staff your FCC plant? What other processes are included in their scope of responsibility?
ZACH BEZON
[United Refining Company (URC)] Our FCC unit has five operators per shift. Typically, two people are inside running the DCS (distributed control system) and board-mounted controls while the other three are doing rounds in the unit. Units included in the FCC are:
*FCC,
*Gas concentration unit,
*Polymerization unit,
*Alkylation unit (H2SO4) with a dedicated satellite control room in this unit,
*One boiler,
*Multiple cooling towers, and
*Gasoline treating unit.
Year
2016