GAS CONDITIONING, TREATMENT & PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY

  • Discipline: Facilities Engineering
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Duration: 5 Days

The main objective of this course is to provide the attendees from personnel operators, Engineers, supervisors and managers at petrochemical refineries and gas processing facilities with better knowledge of natural gas processing operations and optimizations. The course provide a comprehensive knowledge about gas processing operations including gas fractionation, glycol and desiccant dehydration, gas sweetening (physical and chemical solvents, LNG operations, Application of gas engineering and technology in the operation, design and the evaluation of gas processing facilities.

  • Basic information
  • Uses of natural gas
  • Basic terminology
  • Basic hydrocarbon nomenclature
  • Physical properties of hydrocarbon systems
  • Overview of phase behavior
  • Water-hydrocarbon phase behavior
  • Gas hydrates
  • Basic thermodynamics
  • Separations systems
  • Dehydration of natural gas
  • Liquid hydrocarbons recovery
  • Mechanical refrigeration
  • Compression refrigeration
  • Expansion refrigeration
  • Acid gas removal
  • Heat transfer Systems
  • Heat exchangers, fired heaters
  • Key learning points