A TECHNICAL NARRATIVE REPORTJG SUMMIT PETROCHEMICALS CORPORATION- NAPHTHA CRACKER PLANTMANUFACTURING & UTILITIES AND OFFSITE FACILITIESJULY 3 OCTOBER 7, 2015

A Technical Paper Presented to the Faculty of Chemical Engineering DepartmentCollege of Engineering, Architecture and Fine ArtsBatangas State UniversityBatangas City

In Partial Fulfillment of theRequirements for On-the-Job Training Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering

Gilbuena, Rojalyn C.

October 2015I. Introduction

For the preparation of fifth year students for their plant design and other subjects for the second semester, Chemical and Food Engineering Department at the Batangas State University requires a 600-hour On-the-Job Training in a certain industrial establishment related to their field (e.g. food, oil and gas, biotechnology etc.) which can expose them to their different working environments (e.g. operations, laboratory, process engineering, automation etc.). This way students will be able to apply the learnings they acquired academically.During the course of this training, the trainee was able to enhance her knowledge and skills as a chemical engineering student and had an overview of the duties and tasks that await for a chemical engineer in the business.Indeed, there are lots of discipline a chemical engineering student can go into. Oil and gas & petrochemical companies are just few of those homed by engineers, processed and operated technically by chemical engineers. As a result, JG Summit Petrochemicals Group caught students interest. As a trainee in Naphtha Cracker Plant (JGSOC-NCP), pioneer of naphtha cracking in the Philippines, I can say that the company is a great opportunity for an advantageous groundwork.

II. Company ProfileJG Summit Petrochemical Group (JGSPG) consists of JG Summit Petrochemicals Corporation (JGSPC) and JG Summit Olefins Corporation (JGSOC) which are both wholly owned subsidiaries of JG Summit Holdings, Inc. (JGSHI). JGSPG has a 250-hectare fully integrated, world-class, PEZA-accredited manufacturing complex in Brgy. Simlong, Batangas City, 120 km south of Manila.JG Summit Olefins Corporation was established to eliminate JG Summit Petrochemical Corporations need to import ethylene and propylene which are raw materials in the manufacture of EVALENE High Density Polyethylene (HDPE), Linear Low Density Polyethylene (LLDPE), Homopolymer Polypropylene (PP-H) and Random Copolymer ropylene (PP-R) resins.Naphtha Cracker Plant at sundown

JGSOC was incorporated in 2008. Engineering works for the naphtha cracker started in 2009. In 2010, JGSOC was registered with the Board of Investments as a producer of ethylene, propylene, pyrolysis gasoline, mixed C4 and other by-products. Commercial operations commenced in November 2014.

III.Training Detailsa. PersonalThe training opened my mind to the responsibilities that an engineer may handle in the industry, especially chemical engineers who might be a process engineer, an operation engineer or a panel engineer. They are the ones who truly knows how the plant works and what can cause damage to it. For these reasons, I have witnessed how much dedication you need to have in order to do your job perfectly. You need to be in love with your profession. InspirationSince I stayed in a firm mostly occupied with chemical engineers, be it laboratory or operations, my seniors served as inspiration for me to survive the remaining months of schooling and to pass the board exam. Observing them working made me realize that being an engineer does not end with your license, it just started your journey outside the four corners of the classroom. Likewise, being a non-passer is not a basis of what you are capable of, engineer by profession is being an engineer by heart and not by title alone.The trainees with their seniors. (Engr. Garcia as Field Teachnician and Engr. Arcan as Associate Process Engineer) and

b. Interpersonal Comrade and FamilyIndustry differs greatly from a university. Control room is different from a class room the way field rounds varies from rooming around It was quite hard to deal with professionals every day and face different activities from time to time. But employees of NCP were all great people with distinctive characters of the same denominator, they are all kind-hearted and very compassionate.The relationship we had was benign even with the Indian community. (Employees in JG are not all Filipinos, most of the panel engineers, supervisors and the manager in NCP are indianos). For three months long, my stay within the company was truly enjoying and challenging. I was able to work with them very comfortably although some has expectations to us as chemical engineering student. Learning without being stressed is the best description of my training. This provided me not only the opportunity to get along with new people and gave me not just a new set of friends but granted me another family. The trainees thanksgiving upon completion of training hours.

c. TechnicalJG Summit Petrochemical Corporation, specifically JG Summit Olefins Corporation-Naphtha Cracker Plant provided me opportunities to be knowledgeable about their operations and to be exposed with the equipments present within their plant.For the reason that the supervisors decided to have a rotation assignment of departments, I was lucky to be able to explore the inside and outside battery limit sections of NCP. While I was in Outside Battery Limit, I was exposed to the water and air system used for the operation. One important part in OSBL is the waste water treatment facility commonly called as Effluent Treatment System (ETS) since it is considered as a mini plant within a plant. My awareness of sludge treatment was enriched and can serve as a basis for a plant design.Moving to Inside Battery Limit which comprises of Hot, Compression and Cold Section, I was able to study each area and had a review of the major equipments each section has. In Hot section, I was familiarize to the parts and function of a boiler, heater and gasoline fractionator. I also dealt with the analysis of reactions and processes taking place in each stage from naphtha feed to cracked gas including by products that can be utilized for the operation of the plant itself. In compression section, I was introduced to quench tower and the side stream products that can be recycled and used for miscellaneous processes. Moreover, I was quite exposed to compressors and dryer. While in cold section, my background in distillation columns and fractionation towers was enriched. Gasoline fractionator and Quench tower at sundown.

In addition to these, my knowledge about plant safety policies and practices was increased. I have also experienced line tracing in the field and it familiarized me deeper to P&IDs. I was also acquainted with different valves and pumps and was reviewed with their functions and safety considerations. Furthermore, I gained knowledge about regeneration of catalysts in some reactors.Accordingly, I was able to apply my learnings from school especially in Analytical chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Engineering Safety, Environmental and Waste Management Control, Law and Ethics, Unit Operations, Process Dynamics and Control, Reaction and Kinetics, Calculations and Stoichiometry, and Thermodynamics.

d. Program SpecificAs the chairman for training for newly hired employees of NCP, Engr. Pathik Pandya decided to have our 600-hour training to be divided into three parts. The trainees were also divided into three groups and took the training for each section one group at a time provided that each group spent 200 hours in a certain area.The supervisors gave us tasks and assignments we need to study and explore within the plant. Through the help of reading materials provided for us and lectures and information we gathered from the field technicians while working with them in the field, we had the chance to be knowledgeable about the process in the whole plant as deeply as we could.We had weekly reporting about the equipments and processes engaged in the operation of the plant. Technically, my training includes site familiarization, process flow overviews, major equipment identification, safety and hazard considerations, line tracing activities and pumps and valves familiarization.

IV.Training Assessment in Relation to:a. Student Outcomes

Upon completion of my training, it was undeniably had a great contribution on my knowledge and improved the learnings I have acquired from the school. I have become truly aware on the safety policies strictly implemented in a manufacturing plant specifically in an oil and gas firm. I was able to increase my familiarity on columns, reactors, distillation, fractionation, pumps, valves, sludge and waste water treatment. I also knew how to do line tracing which was quite confusing at first since symbols in P&IDs greatly differs to the real picture in the site. In addition to these, I already knew the activities of a field technician does on site. I have new skills acquired like conducting tube metal temperature monitoring using a portable pyrometer, free chlorine testing via portable colorimeter, sampling through sampling bottle, cylinder bomb and sampling bladder.b. Engineering Program

On-the-Job Training serves as standard information on the demands of chemical engineering profession in any industrial firm. This provides an overview on what nature of environment one can look out for once employed as an engineer. It also imparts that each is required to join a healthy competition in order not to create gap with your colleagues but to develop oneself.

Moreover, this will also help us students to decide on which area of specialization we want to focus on. The training gives inspiration for us to be the best chemical engineer that we could in the near future.