Session 2

1. Session 2: Process Technology
Overview

2. Today’s Agenda
 What process technology is
 What the process industries do
 What a process technician does
 Duties, responsibilities and expectations of a
process technician
 Working conditions in the process industries
 Student presentations description
 Working mathematics

3. Student Safety Minute

4. What Process Technology Is
 Process Technology - the processes and
technologies required to transform a quantity of
raw materials into other products.

5. Common Operations Within the
Process Industries
1. Raw materials are made available to a
process facility.
2. Raw materials are sorted.
3. Raw materials are processed.
4. A product (output) is created.
5. Product is distributed to consumers.

6. The Process Industries
 Oil and Gas  Pulp and Paper
 Chemical  Water and Waste Water
 Mining  Food and Beverage
 Power Generation  Pharmaceutical

7. What Process Industries Do
 Oil and Gas exploration and production
 Chemical manufacturing
 Mining
 Power Generation
 Pulp and Paper
 Water and Waste Water treatment
 Food and Beverage manufacturing
 Pharmaceutical manufacturing

8. What a Process Technician Does
 Process technicians are responsible for
planning, analyzing, and controlling the
production of products from the acquisition of
raw materials through the production and
distribution of products to customers.

9. Process Technician Duties
 Monitoring and controlling process equipment
 Assisting with equipment maintenance
 Troubleshooting and problem solving
 Communicating and working with others
 Performing administrative duties
 Performing with a focus on safety, health,
environment and security.

10. Process Industry Equipment
 Pipes and valves  Cooling towers
 Pumps  Distillation columns
 Compressors  Turbines
 Furnaces  Motors
 Boilers  Instrumentation
 Heat exchangers  Auxiliary systems
 Vessels (tanks, drums,  Utilities
reactors)

11. Working Conditions
 Alltypes of weather
 Outside some or most of the time
 Drug and alcohol free environment
 Working as a member of a team
 Shift work
 Using tools and some heavy lifting

12. Summary and Wrap-Up
 Summary
 Q&A
 Homework
 Safety Minute Presenter