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These course agendas are a representation of the course material presented for the specific classes. All material is subject to change depending on the specific needs of the clients at each course.
Some courses may be shortened to one or two days when represented by a three day agenda; these courses will typically cover the first day or two days worth of material. Please contact Bryan Research & Engineering for additional information on any training session.
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ProMax® Level I—Oil & Gas Focus
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Duration: 3 days
Objectives:
Attendees will learn:
- Basics of process simulation methods
- Capabilities and features of ProMax
- Plant modeling techniques and methods
Prerequisites:
- Basic understanding of oil & gas plant operations
- Background in chemical or petroleum engineering
- Instructor-led demonstrations
- Hands-on
- Question-Answer
- Open floor
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See Course Agenda
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Course Agenda*:
Day 1
Introduction
- Microsoft Visio as the user interface
- ProMax menu and toolbar
Simple Gas Plant Exercise
- Project Options
- Defining the environment (property packages and components)
- Drawing the flowsheet (drawing stencil, stream types and blocks)
- Plotting, line sizing, phase envelopes, hydrate data, etc.
- Reporting Capabilities
- Adding display objects (material balance, block properties)
- Property stencil - single line property display
- P-stream and q-stream recycle blocks
Glycol Dehydration Exercise
- Saturator block
- Distillation column configuration and specification
- Phase envelope
- Freeze-out analysis
- Make-up/Blow-down blocks
Amine Sweetening Exercise
- Defining column internals
- Additional make-up block specifications
- Amine analysis and ionic species data
Day 2
Amine Sweetening and Calculators
- Discussion of simple specifiers and solvers
- Steam to amine circulation specifier
- Rich loading solver
- Lean loading solver
Discussion of Advanced Features
- Multiple flowsheets and environments
- Exchanger rating
- Separator sizing
- Excel data interface tools
Scenario Tester Example
- Loading and configuring scenario tester
- Crude preheat exchange train fouling analysis
- Shell and tube heat exchanger rating
- Scenario test to calculate fouling factors over many timestamps
Day 3
Reactors and Sulfur Recovery
- Reactor block and types
- Reactions and reaction sets
- Gibbs Minimization reactor type and constraints
- 3-bed Claus unit example
- Air rate solver to maintain H2S/SO2 ratio
- Re-heater temperature solver to maintain approach to sulfur dewpoint
Tail Gas Hydrogenation Reactor Example
- Control to reactor outlet temperature and H2 Composition
Pipeline Block Example (optional)
- Configuring simple pipeline network
- Inlet flow solver to maintain outlet pressure
Oil Package and Crude Fractionation (optional)
- Creating curve and single oils using the oil package
- Adding oils to environments
- VLE and VLLE column types
- Adding sidestrippers
- Adding pumparounds
- Pumparound estimate specification
- Column specifications
- Crude fractionator with sidestrippers exercise
- Tray rating
- Relief valve analysis
- Fuel property and distillation curve column specifications
*Subject to change
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