The course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview on process simulation using HYSYS. It covers the nature and purpose of key gas processing operations; the major processes for dehydration, acid gas removal, NGL recovery and fractionation; the basic vocabulary unique to the industry and the key physical and chemical properties of natural gas constituents; the simulation basis manager and simulation environment; the wellhead, pipelines, separation and stabilization in gas plant operations; the use of glycol dehydration process; the gas sweetening with amines; the mechanical and JT refrigeration; and the modified lean oil plant, fractionation and turbo expander in gas processes.
The course presents an overview of the natural gas process simulation using Hysys, from the wellhead to the marketplace, with emphasis on gas plant process operations. The overall process flowsheet will be used to illustrate how the various operations are integrated into plants capable of handling diverse feeds from gas fields around the world. The key processes of dehydration, acid gas removal and hydrocarbon separation, including ethane and natural gas liquids (NGL) recovery, will be emphasized. Participants shall bring their Notebook computers and (if they can arrange it) a Hysys key as there will be an opportunity for participants to participate in process simulation.