Description
SUITABLE FOR:
Chemical, mechanical, instrumentation and process engineers, process plant operation and supervisory staff.
OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the course, delegates will:
- Understand some of the criteria for selecting a compressor for a given set of design conditions.
- Be able to set up and tune simple anti- surge control systems.
- Be able to explore the safe and efficient operation of a compression system, using a dynamic simulation model.
SUMMARY:
- Compressor principles and thermodynamics
- Performance curves – fixed and variable speed
- Process condition changesCapacity / performance control
- Surge
- Anti-surge control
- Complex anti-surge control
- Case Study
- Performance testing
- Compressor protection on tripStart-up
- Compressor efficiency
- Load Balancing
