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Cost: $150 After you send in your registration an invoice will be sent which can be paid with a credit card via the secure Square site. Several days after that you will receive an invitation from Webex containing a link to the meeting and confirming the date.
Description: This lesson begins with a review of the hydraulic tools explained in Oil Pipeline Hydraulics and Hydraulic Tools. From there students review line operations by following 3 batches of crude oil down an actual line and discuss where each crude oil is, how they can tell, and potential operating problems and solutions. The lesson concludes with a line optimization case study.
Learning Objectives
- Combine the systems resistance curve and pump curve graphs and explain how and why they show the operating point of the line.
- Describe how control valves and variable speed drives are used to control flow.
- Combine the systems profile and hydraulic gradient and explain:
- What the distance between the profile and gradient shows
- What happens when the hydraulic gradient falls below the system profile
- Explain how to convert from psi to feet of head.
- Explain why controlling pressure is the key to controlling rate.
- Describe how the hydraulic gradient changes when the viscosity changes.
- Describe how the hydraulic gradient changes when the rate changes.
- Explain how to identify gravity changes in hydraulic profiles.
- Describe column separation, what cause it and why it can be dangerous.
- Discuss your key learnings from this lesson.
Lesson Outline
- Review of Hydraulic Tools
- Hydraulic Gradients and Profiles
- Line Hydraulics with Batching
- Line Optimization
Format
- 85 Power Point slides presented by the instructor via the Webex platform.
- Q & A after each slide.
- Limited to 12 students.
Audience
- Oil pipeline controllers
- Other oil pipeline control room personnel
- Field operations personnel
- Others who work with controllers
- Others who want to understand more about oil pipeline hydraulics.
For more information
- +1-281-467-3200
- tom@pipelineknowledge.com