Flow measurement and gas metering station
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Each delegate will achieve a detailed understanding of the following theoretical aspects:
- Appreciate design criteria and importance of accuracy in gas quantity and quality measurements
- Basics of measurement uncertainty
- Understand measurement concepts and types of error
- Understand the basic concepts, principles of operation and equipment used for typical liquid/gas metering systems, meter proving, sampling and analysis
- Understand typical operations, control functions and record keeping requirements for crude liquid/gas metering systems
Participant profile
- This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Production Supervisors
- Instrument Supervisors
- Graduate Engineers
- Process Engineers
- Production Engineers
- Metering Engineers & Technicians
- Instrument & Analyser Technicians
- Personnel who witness or audit natural gas measurement
COURSE DURATION
5 days course
Course outline
Day One:
- Introduction to the Physics of Gas Flow
- Fluid Mechanics Concepts
- Flow Rate and Total Flow Measurement of Gases and fluids
- Units & Measurement of Flow
- Flow Sensor Selection Criteria
- Liquid/gas quality measurement
- Boiling & Cryogenic Fluids
- Gas Flow Calculations – Measured Variables
Day Two
- Measurement Concepts
- Natural Gas properties & Measurement
- Standard or Normal Volume
- Design criteria and regulations
- Uncertainty in measurement
- Accuracy vs. Repeatability
- Accuracy & Rangeability
- Prover loop and associated components
Day Three:
- Metering systems I
- Differential Pressure Flowmeters
- Pitot Tubes
- Variable Area Flowmeters
- Mechanical Flowmeters
- Positive Displacement Flow
- Turbine Flowmeters
- Other Rotary Flowmeters
- Metering systems Calibrations and maintenance
Day Four:
- Metering systems II
- Electronic Flowmeters
- Magnetic Flowmeters
- Vortex Flowmeters
- Ultrasonic Flowmeters
- Mass Flowmeters
- Coriolis Mass Flowmeters
- Thermal Mass Flowmeters
- Hot-Wire Anemometers
- Gas Flowmeter Troubleshooting and maintenance
- NGTS Measurement Design criteria and regulations
- Syndicate exercise: Pressure drop Calculations
Day Five:
- Custody Transfer Instruments
- Sampling & analysis
- Measurements & Calculations
- Correction Methods
- Calculation Methods
- Calibration Frequency
- Precision Standards
- Pressure/Density &Level Instrumentation
- Record keeping and reporting