Wayne Monnery

Gas Processing Surface Facilities

13:13 Hours
This course covers the surface facilities process technology of natural gas processing. The topics range from gas gathering (pipeline hydraulics) to the plant inlet (separation and slug catching) and then through the typical gas plant technologies (dehydration, treating/sweetening, dew point control/liquid recovery, sulphur recovery and acid gas injection). The course is an intermediate level course that is suitable for operations and technical personnel as well as management. The course also works as a refresher or for those new to gas processing. Many of the technical topics are generally applicable and valuable even in other non-gas processing surface facilities. The course has numerous lessons with over 12 hours of content.

1.01 – Gas Processing Overview (9 min.)  
1.02 – System Design & Operating Issues (16 min.)
1.03 – Flow In Pipes (14 min.)
1.04 – Optimal Pipe Diameter (10 min.)
1.05 – Operating Problems (17 min.)
1.06 – Plant Inlet Processing (16 min.)

2.01 – Two Phase Vertical Separator Design (19 min.)
2.02 – Two Phase Horizontal Separator Design (12 min.)
2.03 – Three Phase Separators (12 min.)
2.04 – Horizontal Three Phase Separators (12 min.)
2.05 – Plant Inlet Processing (6 min.)

3.01 – Reciprocating Compressors (12 min.)
3.02 – Centrifugal Compressors (19 min.) 

4.01 – Pump Selection (17 min.)
4.02 – Centrifugal Pumps (16 min.)
4.03 – Reciprocating Pumps (7 min.)

5.01 – Gas Processing Chemistry (20 min.)
5.02 – Gas Sweetening (Part 1) (13 min.)
5.03 – Gas Sweetening (Part 2) (7 min.)
5.04 – Gas Sweetening (Part 3) (11 min.)
5.05 – Gas Sweetening Operating Problems (14 min.)
5.06 – Metal Cracking & Foaming (14 min.)
5.07 – Solution Degradation & Testing (11 min.)
5.08 – Physical Solvents & Alternate Processes (6 min.)
5.09 – Dry Processes (10 min.)
5.10 – Gas Sweetening Calculations (5 min.)

6.01 – Gas Dehydration: Purpose & Process (16 min.)
6.02 – Gas Hydrate Estimation (7 min.)
6.03 – Gas Dehydration Methods (15 min.)
6.04 – Gas Dehydration Operating Problems (10 min.)
6.05 – Liquid Desiccant Absorption (18 min.)
6.06 – Liquid Desiccant Absorption Operating Problems (25 min.)
6.07 – Gas Dehydration Regen Processes (12 min.)
6.08 – Gas Dehydration Desiccants (11 min.) 

7.01 – Hydrocarbon Liquid Recovery – Overview (11 min.)
7.02 – Economizer Refrigeration Cycle (17 min.)
7.03 – Heating/Cooling Curves (8 min.)
7.04 – Refrigeration Plant Design (21 min.)
7.05 – Silica Gel Plants (4 min.)
7.06 – Lean Oil Plants (9 min.)
7.07 – Turbo Expander Plants (33 min.)
7.08 – Process Selection (12 min.)
7.09 – Fractionation (16 min.)
7.10 – Reflux & Reboiling (16 min.) 

8.01 – Sulphur Recovery Processes (25 min.)
8.02 – Variations On The Claus Process (10 min.)
8.03 – Reheating Methods (7 min.)
8.04 – COS & CS2 (24 min.)
8.05 – Operation & Control (20 min.)
8.06 – Sulphur Recovery Enhancements (7 min.) 

9.01 – Acid Gas Injection – Why Consider It? (34 min.)
9.02 – Design Considerations (9 min.)

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