This course provides a comprehensive technical review of sour gas treatment, sulfur recovery, conditioning processes and storage facilities, including operating and troubleshooting issues.
Public :
Professionals interested in sour gas: engineers involved in Oil & Gas field facilities operation or design, managerial staff in gas processing facilities, equipment providers, personnel from engineering companies.
Level :Knowledge
Prerequisite :
Process engineer degree or equivalent experience in natural gas field treatment.
Course Content
OVERVIEW OF GAS SWEETENING PROCESSES
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Duration : 0.25 Day
Nature, origins and compositions of the streams to be treated.
The properties of sulfur compounds and CO2.
Reasons for removing acid gases, usual specifications.
Cost impact of gas sweetening and stakes.
Acid gas management, impact on the sweetening unit.
The different types of gas sweetening processes.
AMINE SWEETENING PROCESSES
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Duration : 1.5 Days
General principles.
Generic processes and proprietary processes.
Typical process flow scheme.
Amine unit design: key design parameters.
Specific process arrangements.
Equipment review, process control.
Operational issues and troubleshooting.
Specificities of amine units.
Elgin-Franklin, an example of a versatile MDEA sweetening unit.
An example of successive revamping of an amine unit.
Acid gas enrichment.
OTHER GAS SWEETENING PROCESSES
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Duration : 0.75 Day
Scavengers.
Solid bed processes.
Redox processes.
Other solvent processes: hot carbonate, physical solvents, hybrid solvents.
Permeation membranes.
Cryogenic distillation processes.
LPG sweetening.
Guidelines for process selection.
RECOVERING SULFUR FROM ACID GASES
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Duration : 0.25 Day
Architecture of the sulfur recovery facilities.
Sulfur properties.
The sulfur market (sulfur uses).
SULFUR RECOVERY UNITS (Claus)
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Duration : 1.25 Days
Chemical mechanisms and general process flow diagram.
Key parameters of the Claus process.
The thermal stage.
The catalytic stages.
Adapting the process to the acid gas quality (rich/lean acid gas).
Operational issues.
TAIL GAS TREATMENT
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Duration : 0.75 Day
Types of TGT processes.
Direct oxidation processes.
Sub-dew point processes.
Wet sub-dew point process.
H2S absorption processes.
SULFUR CONDITIONING & STORAGE
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Duration : 0.25 Day
Liquid sulfur degassing.
Sulfur forming.
Sulfur storage.
Learning Objectives
Attendees will be able to implement the following skills:
Comprehend all concerns linked to sour gas treatment and sulfur recovery,
Review sulfur and acid pollutants main physical properties, specificities and induced hazards,
Understand operating principles and conditions of gas sweetening and sulfur recovery/handling processes,
Grasp main operating problems encountered in sour gas processing and sulfur recovery and handling.
Ways & Means
Highly interactive training by industry-specialist lecturers.
Numerous applications and illustrations.
Parts of the session customizable to a virtual remote classroom.
Learning assessment
Assessment by test at the end of the course.
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Coordinator :IFP Training trainer (permanent or contracted) having a good expertise and/or experience of the related topics, trained to adult teaching methods, and whose competencies are kept up-to-date.
To French entities : IFP Training is referenced to DataDock ; you may contact your OPCO about potential funding.
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