Course description
Gas Treating and Sulfur Recovery - G-6
This course emphasizes process selection, practical operating issues, technical fundamentals, and integration of the sweetening facilities into the overall scheme of gas processing. Sulfur recovery and tail gas processes are also covered, including standard Claus configurations, SuperClaus, EuroClaus, SCOT, etc. Special design and operation topics, such as trace sulfur compound handling and the importance of H2S:CO2 ratio, are covered as well. Related topics reviewed during the course include liquid product treating, corrosion, materials selection, and NACE requirements.
For the virtual session, course hours will be 0800-1200 CST (GMT - 6:00) on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for each of the two weeks.
"Presentation of different technologies according to different requirements and the reasons of selection. Practical examples and pictures or site." - Process Engineer, France
"Exercises, calculations were very interesting and useful." - Participant, Kazakhstan
Suitability - Who should attend?
Production and processing personnel involved with natural gas treating and sulfur recovery, requiring an understanding of the principles of these process operations. This course is for facilities engineers, process engineers, operations personnel, and field supervisors, as well as others who select, design, install, evaluate, or operate gas sweetening and sulfur recovery facilities.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
- Evaluation and selection of processes to remove acid gases (H2S, CO2, COS, CS2, mercaptans, etc.) from gas and NGLs
- The advantages and disadvantages of available gas treating technology and processes
- How to estimate solvent circulation rates, energy requirements, and equipment sizes
- To recognize and evaluate solutions to common operating and technical problems
- Sulfur recovery technologies, including an overview of the Claus Sulfur process
- How to select among the proper sulfur recovery process given differing process conditions
- Tail gas cleanup
Training Course Content
- Fundamentals of sour gas processing, sweetening, etc.
- Overview of gas treating and sulfur recovery, terminology
- Gas specifications and process selection criteria
- Generic and specialty amine treating
- Common operating and technical problems
- Proprietary amine solvents, such as Sulfinol and Flexsorb
- Carbonate processes
- Physical absorption processes, e.g. Selexol
- Metallurgical issues (corrosion)
- Other technologies and new developments
- Selective treating, acid gas enrichment
- Solid bed and non-regenerable treating; scavengers
- Liquid product treating
- Sulfur recovery processes (including degassing)
- Tail gas clean-up (SCOT-type, CBA, and others)
- Acid gas injection
- Membranes
- Emerging and new technologies
- Course workshop and summary
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Reviews
Average rating 4.3
"Working through the workshop was good and I enjoyed working on the excel spreadsheet."
"I enjoyed the course and will definitely recommend it to others."
"I was a bit hesitant with the fact that we had to do it virtually, but it was actually quite good, easy to follow."