Start on: April 2024
Target Audience
Production and processing personnel involved with natural gas and associated liquids, to acquaint or reacquaint themselves with gas conditioning and processing unit operations. This course is for facilities engineers, process engineers, senior operations personnel, field supervisors, and engineers who select, design, install, evaluate, or operate gas processing plants and related facilities. A broad approach is taken with the topics.
You Will Learn
- Application of gas engineering and technology in facilities and gas plants
- Important specifications for gas, NGL, and condensate
- About the selection and evaluation of processes used to dehydrate natural gas, meet hydrocarbon dewpoint specifications, and extract NGLs
- How to apply physical/thermodynamic property correlations and principles to the operation, design, and evaluation of gas processing facilities
- Practical equipment sizing methods for major process equipment
- To evaluate technical validity of discussions related to gas processing
- To recognize and develop solutions for operating problem examples and control issues in gas processing facilities
Course Content
- Gas processing systems
- Physical properties of hydrocarbons
- Terminology and nomenclature
- Qualitative phase behavior
- Vapor-liquid equilibrium
- Water-hydrocarbon phase behavior, hydrates, etc.
- Basic thermodynamics and application of energy balances
- Process control and instrumentation
- Relief and flare systems
- Fluid hydraulics; two-phase flow
- Separation equipment
- Heat transfer equipment
- Pumps
- Compressors and drivers
- Refrigeration in gas conditioning and NGL extraction facilities
- Fractionation
- Glycol dehydration; TEG
- Adsorption dehydration and hydrocarbon removal
- Gas treating and sulfur recovery
- Overview and summary
