DURATION

5 Days

DESIGNED FOR

Engineers & senior operating personnel responsible for designing, operating and maintaining relief and flare systems in oil and gas facilities.

YOU WILL LEARN

• Select the correct heat transfer equipment for a particular application with reference to typical facility process flow diagrams (PFD’s)

• Apply heat transfer principles to design and specify heat transfer equipment

• Evaluate the performance of heat transfer equipment and recommend solutions to problems

• About the typical instrumentation and control schemes used by the various types of heat transfer equipment
  

ABOUT THE COURSE

This course reviews the selection, basic design, and operation of heat transfer equipment commonly used in the oil and gas industry with focus on E&P production facilities. Heat transfer equipment discussed will include shell and tube exchangers, compact heat exchangers, brazed aluminum exchangers, air coolers, and fired equipment (fire-tube and direct–fired).

COURSE CONTENT

• Typical process heating & cooling applications

• Fluid properties

• Heat transfer principles

• Shell and tube exchangers

• Compact heat exchangers

  • plate–frame

  • printed circuit

  • welded plate

• Brazed aluminum exchangers

• Air coolers

• Fired equipment (furnace type & fire-tube)

• Operating problems

• Typical instrumentation control schemes