This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of gas plant operation. It covers the proper knowledge and skills expected in a competent process operator including process operations, process equipment, process control, process instrumentation and modern troubleshooting techniques; the various types of separators, hydrates, gas dehydration, gas sweetening, condensate stabilization and fractionation; the liquefied petroleum gases and the operation, control and troubleshooting process of equipment including centrifugal pumps, positive displacement and vacuum pumps, centrifugal compressors, displacement compressors as well as fan and blowers; and the various types of valves and its applications, functions, operation, maintenance and troubleshooting.
During this interactive course, participants will learn the various measurement in process control such as pressure measurement, level measurement, temperature measurement and flow measurement and their corresponding principles; the principles of control valves including its body types, cavitation, valve coefficient and characteristics; the main types of actuators and accessories; the pressure relief valves and rupture discs including its types and functions; the proper application, operation, maintenance and troubleshooting; and the operation, control, maintenance and troubleshooting of storage tanks and its types, auxiliaries and internals, applications and constrains and functions.