This course will provide a comprehensive understanding of equipment operating characteristics. It will cover essential types of mechanical equipment, including positive displacement and dynamic pumps and compressors, motors and drives and their associated systems and components. The applications of these equipment will be discussed along with their suitability for different operational duties and selection criteria. In addition, the seminar will focus on associated equipment including packing, mechanical sealing systems, bearings and valves.
The course will focus on maximizing the efficiency, reliability, and longevity of this equipment by providing a thorough understanding of the characteristics, common problems, condition monitoring and maintenance criteria related to machinery and equipment operation.
- New engineers
- Asset Management Team members
- Process Engineer
- Operator I (Production)
- Engineering & Construction engineers
- Maintenance and operations personnel who are or will be responsible for the selection, sizing, specification, installation, testing, operation and maintenance of pumps used in oil and water handling facilities, gathering stations, water flood, etc.
- Experienced professionals who want to review or broaden their understanding of pumps and pumping systems used in oil and water handling facilities.
- Professionals with little to moderate production facility design and/or operations background
- Other professionals who want a better understanding of the subject matter
To enhance the participant’s competency necessary to understand how to design, select, specify, install, operate and trouble-shoot
By the end of this course, the participant will be able to:
- Be familiar with the important parameters in designing, selecting, specifying, installing and operating pumps and pumping stations.
- Differentiate between suction head, suction lift and total dynamic head
- Understand how to develop system head vs. capacity curves
- Understand how develop pump performance curves for series and parallel operation
- Specify the materials and details of construction for bearings, seals, lubrication system, wear rings, couplings and valves
- Understand how to determine net positive suction head (NPSHA) and margin
- Understand piping and foundation requirements
- Understand suction and discharge velocity requirements
- Select the appropriate driver, such as, internal combustion engine turbine or electrical motor
Upon Request
