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Natural Gas Engineering

ABOUT THE COURSE:

The field of natural gas engineering is very much important for petroleum engineers specializing in gas processing technology. The course outlines an optimal balance between natural gas production, natural gas processing and gas transportation. An extensive treatise on natural gas engineering, both upstream and gas refining processes with key equipment and facility design will be covered. This course will also highlight the current status of production of natural gas through unconventional sources/technics and the applications of natural gas.

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Final Exam (in-person, invigilated, currently conducted in India) is mandatory for Certification and has INR Rs. 1100 as exam fee



INTENDED AUDIENCE:
Under graduate and post graduate students professional practitioner in the discipline of Chemical Engineering. Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Energy

CORE/ELECTIVE: Elective course for Chemical Engineering Core course for Petroleum Engineering

UG/PG: PG course for Chemical Engineering UG course for Petroleum Engineering

PREREQUISITES: Bachelor Degree in any Engineering discipline

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Petroleum Industries/companies: ONGC, OIL, GAIL, IOCL, etc.

2048 students have enrolled already!!

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:



Dr Pankaj Tiwari is serving as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati since Aug 2012. He has received doctoral degree from University of Utah, USA (2012) and Master of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India (2006). He also worked at General Electric, Plastic division at JFWTC Bangalore (2007) on developing the monomer for high performance polymer (HPP). He has taught Natural Gas Engineering as an elective course to UG, PG and PHD students at IIT Guwahati for three consecutive years (2013, 2014 and 2015).

COURSE LAYOUT:

Week 1  :  Introduction, Gas Production: Upstream, Reservoir- Well Completion, Properties of Natural Gas: Phase Behavior, etc.
Week 2  :   Properties of Natural Gas: Formation Volume Factor, etc., Gas Reservoir Deliverability, Wellbore Performance, Choke Performance
Week 3  : Well inflow performance relationship (IPR), Skin factor, Productivity Index, Wellbore Performance: TPR Curve, Single Phase & Multi Phase flow, Choke Performance: CPR Curve, Sonic and Subsonic Flow
Week 4  :  Well Deliverability: Nodal Analysis
Week 5  :  Natural Gas Production: Downstream, Surface Facilities, Principle of Separator, Design of Separator: Vertical, Horizontal; Two Phase Separation, Three Phase Separation
Week 6  :  Dehydration of Natural Gas, Design of Dehydration, Sweeting Processes
Week 7  :  Compressor design and energy calculation, Transportation and Measurement, Pipeline Design
Week 8  :  Flow through pipeline, issues and solutions, Unconventional Production of Natural Gas: Shale Gas, Gas Hydrates, Coal bed Methane, Oil Shale, Pyrolysis of            Carbonaceous Materials etc..

SUGGESTED READING MATERIALS:

1. B. Guo and A. Ghalambor, Natural Gas Engineering Handbook, Gulf Publishing Company, 2005.
2. D.L. Katz and R.L. Lee, Natural Gas Engineering, McGraw_Hill, 1990.
3. B. Guo, W.C. Lyons and A. Ghalambor, Petroleum Production Engineering: A Computer AssistedApproach, Elseveir, 2007.
4. T. Ahmed and P. D. McKinney, Advanced Reservoir Engineering, Elseveir, 2005.

CERTIFCATION EXAM :
  • The exam is optional for a fee.
  • Date and Time of Exam: October 28, 2018 (Sunday): 
  • Time of Exams: Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon session: 2pm to 5pm.
  • Exam for this Course will be available in both morning & afternoon sessions.
  • Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
  • The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.

CERTIFICATE:

  • Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
  • 25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of  Best 6 out of 8 assignments
  • E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Guwahati. It will be e-verifiable at http://nptel.ac.in/noc/