Syllabus
Syllabus
Petrochemical Engineering
Unit I: Introduction Overview of LNG industry: History of LNG industry Base load LNG Developing an LNG Project World and Indian Scenario Properties of LNG
Unit II: Liquefaction Technologies: Propane precooled mixed refrigerant process Description of Air products C3MR LNG process Liquefaction LNG flash and storage. Cascade process: Description of Conocophillips optimized cascade (copoc) process Liquefaction LNG flash and storage. Other Liquefaction Processes: Description of Linde MFC LNG process- Precooling and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) recovery Liquefaction and subcooling. Trends in LNG train capacity strategy for grassroots plant.
Unit III: Supporting Functional Units in LNG Plants: Gas pretreatment: Slug catcher NGL stabilization column Acid gas removal unit Molecular sieve dehydrating unit Mercury and sulfur removal unit NGL recovery Nitrogen rejection Helium recovery.
Unit IV: Receiving Terminals: Receiving terminals in India Main components and process description of marine facilities storage capacity Process descriptions. Integration with adjacent facilities Gas inter changeability Nitrogen injection Extraction of C2+ components.
Unit V: LNG Shipping Industry: LNG fleet Types of LNG ships Moss Membrane prismatic; Cargo measurement and calculations. Major equipment in LNG industry Cryogenic heat exchangers: Spiral Wound heat exchangers Plate-fin heat exchangers Cold boxes; Centrifugal compressors Axial compressors Reciprocating compressors. LNG pumps and liquid expanders Loading Arms and gas turbines. Unit VI: Vaporizers: Submerged combustion vaporizers open rack vaporizers Shell and tube vaporizers, direct heating with seawater, and indirect heating with seawater. Ambient air vaporizers: Direct heating with ambient air Indirect heating with ambient air. LNG tanks.
Unit VII: Safety, Security and Environmental Issues: Safety design of LNG facilities Security issues for the LNG industry Environmental issues Risk based analysis of an LNG plant. Unit VIII: Offshore applications: Offshore design considerations offshore receiving terminal offshore LNG productions offshore LNG transfer.
Text Book: 1. LNG : Basics of Liquified Natural Gas, Ist Edition, Stanley Huang, Hwa Chiu and Doug Elliot, PETEX, 2007. https://ceonline.austin.utexas.edu/petexonline/fil e.php/1/ebook_demos/lng/HTML/index.html