Process Engineering Oil & Gas: Career, Documents. Activities

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: What is Process Design?

Lecture 2: Importance of Process Design

Chapter 2: Role of a Process Engineer in a Typical Project

Lecture 1: Optimizing process requirements Reducing Project Cost

Lecture 2: Proper and Optimized Equipment Sizing

Lecture 3: Minimize Energy and Utility Consumption

Lecture 4: Ensuring Safe and Environment friendly Process

Lecture 5: Deliver Maintainable and Operable Plant

Chapter 3: Project Start Phase

Lecture 1: Project Workflow

Lecture 2: How a Project Starts

Lecture 3: Project Inputs – Feed & Product Specifications

Lecture 4: Project Inputs -Existing Utility and Effluent Systems

Lecture 5: Project Inputs – Codes, Standards and Design Criteria

Lecture 6: Project Outputs: Documents & Activities to be provided by a Process Engineer

Chapter 4: Process Design Basis

Lecture 1: Design Basis

Lecture 2: Design Basis Walkthrough – Introduction

Lecture 3: Process Description, Scope and Battery Limits

Lecture 4: Feed Specs and Product Requirements

Lecture 5: Available Utility Effluent Systems and Site Conditions

Lecture 6: Process Design Criteria

Lecture 7: Equipment, Piping and Instrument Tagging Philosophy

Chapter 5: Plant Simulation

Lecture 1: Process Simulation

Lecture 2: Things to Consider Example 1 – Optimizing Compressor Stages

Lecture 3: Things to Consider Example 2 – Choose Proper Fluid Package

Lecture 4: Things to Consider Example 3 – Tower Optimization

Chapter 6: Process Flow Diagram (PFD)

Lecture 1: Process Flow Diagram (PFD)

Lecture 2: Example of a PFD with Heat and Mass Balance (HMB) Table

Lecture 3: 6 Tips to choose the best process control scheme

Chapter 7: Sizing of Distillation Columns

Lecture 1: Main Sizing Activities

Lecture 2: Tower Sizing & Hydraulics

Lecture 3: Article: Discover Basic Guidelines For an Effective Tower Operation

Lecture 4: Tower Sizing Example – Adding Tower Internals on HYSYS

Lecture 5: Effect of tower operation on Process at maximum capacity and turndown

Lecture 6: Example of Tower Datasheet & Sketch

Chapter 8: Sizing of Exchangers

Lecture 1: Heat Exchanger Thermal Design

Lecture 2: Article: Understand Thermal Design Aspects of Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers

Lecture 3: How to choose the Optimum Exchanger TEMA type?

Lecture 4: Example 1 – Shell and tube heat exchanger Sizing using HTRI

Lecture 5: Example 2 – Shell and tube heat exchanger Sizing using HTRI

Chapter 9: Sizing of Separators / Vessels

Lecture 1: Separator / Vessel Sizing

Lecture 2: Article: Sizing and Selection of Separators / Vessels

Lecture 3: Vessel Sizing Example using Aspen Hysys

Lecture 4: Readjusting Simulation to optimize the size of the vessel

Lecture 5: Example of Separator Datasheet & Sketch

Chapter 10: Evaluating Required Utilities / Effluents

Lecture 1: Understanding Role of Utilities in a Plant

Lecture 2: Plant Effluents and effect of their quantity and frequency

Lecture 3: Analyzing Cooling Water Consumption in a Distillation Unit

Lecture 4: Add Steam Consumption to the Utility Summary

Lecture 5: What shall we do with other utilities?

Lecture 6: Adding Effluent Summary

Chapter 11: Pipe Sizing

Lecture 1: Pipe Sizing

Lecture 2: Effect of Pipe Size on Plant Hydraulics

Lecture 3: Two Phase Flow

Lecture 4: Pipe Sizing Criteria and Calculation Procedure for Process Engineers

Lecture 5: Example of a Pipe Sizing Calculation

Chapter 12: Pump Hydraulics

Lecture 1: Pump Hydraulic Calculations

Lecture 2: A closer look into Pump Curves

Lecture 3: Example of a Pump Hydraulic Calculation

Lecture 4: Solution to pump NPSH Calculation

Lecture 5: Example for pump Differential Head

Lecture 6: Calculation of pump differential head

Lecture 7: Discover Tips for Preparation of a Pump P&ID

Chapter 13: Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs)

Lecture 1: Introduction to P&ID

Lecture 2: Equipment Data

Lecture 3: Piping, valves, and Fittings

Lecture 4: Instrumentation, Control and shutdown Systems

Lecture 5: Ensure Proper Equipment Operability on a P&ID

Lecture 6: Scope and Battery Limits

Lecture 7: Different Phases of P&ID Issuance

Chapter 14: Process Safety Measures

Lecture 1: Potential Hazards in a Process Plant

Lecture 2: Warn the Operator – Layers of Protection

Lecture 3: Proper Design Conditions – Eliminate the Risk

Lecture 4: Fail Safe Position – Eliminate the Risk

Lecture 5: Prevent Hazard by Shutting down the System – Layers of Protection

Lecture 6: ESD / SIS Protection

Lecture 7: Mitigate Hazard by PSV – Layers of Protection

Chapter 15: P&ID Walkthrough

Lecture 1: Walking through P&ID – Part 1

Lecture 2: Walking through P&ID – Part 2

Chapter 16: Adding Proper Design Conditions to Equipment and Piping

Lecture 1: Scenarios based on which design pressures and temperatures are specified

Lecture 2: Basic design pressure, maximum and minimum design temperature criteria

Lecture 3: Steaming out conditions

Lecture 4: Design Pressure in case of Pump or Compressor Discharge blockage

Lecture 5: Design temperature at exchanger maloperation or blow down MDMT

Lecture 6: Atmoshperic tank and tower sections design pressures

Lecture 7: Centrifugal Pump Procurement & Overpressure Challenge – Case Study