Course Description
The course will cover all aspects of natural gas liquids recovery methods including (MRU, Turbo expander, JT valve) with all essential concepts of operation and control, and will provide strong basic knowledge of gas liquefaction principles. This course is designed to provide necessary information and practice for such activities.
What Do Participants Learn?
- State the applications of refrigeration in industry,
- Define 'critical temperature' and 'critical pressure'
- Define the term 'liquefaction'
- Distinguish between 'adiabatic' and 'isothermal' expansion
- Explain the Joule-Thomson effect and state its relevance to refrigeration
- Explain the industrial vapor compression system of refrigeration
- Describe the primary and secondary refrigerants,
- Describe the components of a refrigerant system.
- Define the terms 'primary refrigerant' and 'secondary refrigerant'.
- State the desirable properties of each of the above groups of refrigerants.
- List typical refrigerants and their uses
- Gain deep knowledge of turbo expander system
Who Should Attend?
- Process operations professionals.
- Field & DCS operators.
- Petroleum & chemical engineers.
- Oil & Gas Treatment technicians.
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
Section One: Fundamentals & principles
- Introduction to NGLs
- Properties of gases
- Basic concepts of liquefaction ( boiling point & latent heat )
- Gas Liquification methods
- Uses of refrigeration
- Basic refrigeration principles (adiabatic, isothermal change and The Joule-Thomson Effect
- The Selection of a Refrigerant
Section Two: MRU: Main equipment & Process Description
- Refrigeration Cycle
- – Compression
- – Condensation
- – Expansion
- – Evaporation
- – Re-Circulation
- Refrigeration Study & analysis
Section Three: MRU: Operation, Control, and troubleshooting
- Start-up procedure
- Shutdown procedure
- Routine Operating Checks
- Main Process problems ( causes & corrective actions )
Section Four: JT Valve, Turbo Expander: Construction & principles
- JT Valve
- Introduction to turbo expander
- Turbo Expander components
- Turboexpander working principle
Section Five: Turbo Expander: Operation and Control
- Process description
- Operation and control
- Overview of NGLs Recovery methods
- Assessment