Course Description
The course is designed to familiarize technical professionals with the design, operation and maintenance of several common gas plant processing blocks. The course will cover dehydration systems used in typical field gathering and plant facilities, including a review of options available and will focus on mechanical propane refrigeration systems typically used in Hydrocarbon Dew Point, NGL, LPG and LNG Recovery systems, including a review of design and performance enhancements. Furthermore, tower operations and troubleshooting used in absorption and fractionation services, with optimization and key performance indicators discussed for each tower in each application will also be discussed.
Course Objectives
- Determining the water content of feed & product natural gas
- Understanding The problems and dangers of hydrate formation
- Learning effective methods of hydrate inhibition
- Learning the principles and operational elements of TEG gas dehydration
- Learning the principles and operational elements of Mole Sieve gas dehydration
- Learning the principle and operation element of Mechanical Refrigeration
- Learning the principle and operation element of fractionation process
Who Should Attend?
- Technologists
- Operations personnel (operators, supervisors, engineers )
- Process engineers
- Mechanical engineers
- Inspection engineers
- Maintenance or project engineers
Course Details/Schedule
- Water content of natural gas
- Hydrate formation ,Hazard ,prevention and handling
- Types of dehydration processes: absorption, adsorption and condensation
- Dew point & Dew point depression
- Glycol dehydration size
- Mass transfer operations: absorption and stripping, trays vs. packing
- TEG equipment: gas scrubbers, glycol contactors, flash tank, filters, lean/rich heat exchanger, regenerator, stripping gas
- Operating procedures and problems for TEG systems: startup and shutdown, normal operations, glycol losses, corrosion, troubleshooting
- Care of the TEG solution
- Mole sieve gas dehydration
- Adsorpers and desiccants
- Mass transfer zone
- Regeneration system
- Operation and adsorbent life
- Mole Sieve operating problems and troubleshooting
- Mole Sieve loading &unloading procedures
- Refrigeration circuit basic design /operation
- Capacity control
- Refrigeration equipment: surge drum ,expansion valve ,chiller ,compressor and condenser
- Operation troubleshooting and optimization
- Fractionation process principle
- Fractionation tower design trays & packaging
- Fractionation equipment: preheater .tower .reflux condenser, reflux pump and reboiler.
- Fractionation process variable and control system
- Fractionation process troubleshooting and optimization
