Surface Production Operations, Volume 2:: Design of Gas-Handling Systems and Facilities

by Ken Arnold, Maurice Stewart

Overview

This revised edition puts the most current information about gas-handling systems and facilities at your fingertips. The authors channeled their classroom and field experience into this volume, which features many new sections such as:

* Heat recovery units
* Kinetic inhibitors and anti-agglomerators
* Trays and packing for distillation and absorption towers
* Compressor valves
* Foundation design considerations for reciprocating compressors
* Pressure vessel issues and components
* Nox reduction in engines and turbines
* Safety management systems

This book walks you through the equipment and processes used in gas-handling operations to help you design and manage a production facility. Production engineers will keep this volume on the desktop for the latest information on how to DESIGN, SPECIFY, and OPERATE gas-handling systems and facilities. The book allows engineers with little or background in production facility design to easily locate details about equipment, processes, and design parameters. With this volume, you will more completely comprehend the techniques of handling produced fluids from gas wells so your facility can be more efficient and productive.

* Revised edition puts the most current information about gas-handling systems at your fingertips
* Features brand new sections!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780080518220
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	08/12/1999
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	574
File size:	26 MB
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About the Author

Ken Arnold is the founder and former president of Paragon Engineering Services, Houston, Texas. He has more that 40 years of experience in the operations and project management. He is actively involved in production facility design. He has served on numerous SPE, API, and government advisory committees as an expert on oil handling, produced-water treating, and safety aspects producing operations.
Dr. Maurice Stewart, PE, a Registered Professional Engineer with over 40 years international consulting experience in project management; designing, selecting, specifying, installing, operating, optimizing, retrofitting and troubleshooting oil, water and gas handling, conditioning and processing facilities; designing plant piping and pipeline systems, heat exchangers, pressure vessels, process equipment, and pumping and compression systems; and leading hazards analysis reviews and risk assessments.

Table of Contents

Overview of gas-handling facilities. Heat transfer theory. Heat exchangers. Hydrates. LTX units and indirect fired heaters. Condensate stabilization. Acid gas treating. Gas dehydration. Gas processing. Compressors. Reciprocating compressors. Mechanical design of pressure vessels. Pressure relief. Safety systems. Valves, fittings, and piping details. Prime movers. Electrical systems. Index.

Editorial Reviews

A reference of current information on gas-handling systems and facilities, allowing engineers with little or no background in production facility design to easily locate details about equipment, processes, and design parameters. Walks readers through equipment and processes used in gas-handling operations to help them make informed choices about designing and managing a production facility, with chapters on areas such as heat transfer theory, heat exchangers, acid gas treating, compressors, and electrical systems. Includes b&w photos of equipment. This second edition contains new sections on areas such as heat recovery units, kinetic inhibitors, and safety management systems. Arnold is founder and president of an engineering service firm. Stewart is an adjunct professor of petroleum engineering at Louisiana State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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