Gas Transmission and Distribution
Syllabus
- Review of natural gas industry: production, processing,
transmission, distribution, utilization
- Physical and thermodynamic properties of natural gas
and condensate
- Pressure drop calculation in gas and condensate
pipelines
1- Single phase gas pipeline equations: Weymouth, Panhandle A and B, IGT
distribution
2- Two phase gas pipeline equations: Beggs and
Brill, Duns and Ros, Orkisewski,
Gregory Aziz and Mandhane
- Gas compression
1- Type of compressors and selection
2- Compressors design: reciprocating and centrifugal
- Gas flow measurements
1- Type of measurements
2- Design of orifice meters
- Design of gas transmission pipeline networks
1- Simple pipeline networks: series and parallel
2- Balance of pipeline networks using computer
3- Simulation of pipeline networks using HYSYS and PIPESYS software
- Design of gas distribution networks
1- The characteristics of gas utilization and design load estimation
2- Map preparation for computer calculations
3- Balance of gas distribution networks using computer
Marking Scheme
- Mid-Term
Exam:
30%
- Final
Exam:
40%
- Homework:
10%
- Projects:
20%
Reference Books
- Sanjay Kumar, Gas Production Engineering, Gulf
Publishing Company, 1987. (Textbook)
- G.G. Wilson et. al. , IGT Home Study Course: Gas Distribution, Istitude of gas technology.
- GPSA Electronic Data Book, By the Gas Processors
Suppliers Association, 11th Edition,1998.
- J. P. Brill and H. D. Beggs, Two
Phase Flow in Pipes, 6th Edition, 1989.
- HYSYS 3.1 Reference Manuals, Hyprotech,
2002.
Sample Exams
| Process
Control I | Process
Control II | Process Control Lab | Plant
Design and Economics | Petrochemical
Processes |
| Unit
Operations I | Unit
Operations II | Gas Transmission and Distribution
|
| Applied
Mathematics in Chemical Engineering |