Design of gas-handling systems and facilities
Updated and better than ever, Design of Gas-Handling Systems and Facilities, 3rd Edition includes greatly expanded chapters on gas-liquid separation, gas sweetening, gas liquefaction, and gas dehydration -information necessary and critical to production and process engineers and designers. Natural g...
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| Main Author | |
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Waltham, Massachusetts ; Oxford, England :
Elsevier,
2014.
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| Edition | Third edition. |
| Series | Surface Production Operations ;
Volume 2 |
| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9780123822086 0123822084 0128100192 9780128100196 0123822076 9780123822079 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (685 pages) : illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Surface Production Operations: Design of Gas-Handling Systems and Facilities ; Copyright ; Contents ; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Overview of Gas-Handling, Conditioning, and Processing Facilities; 1.1. Heating; 1.2. Separation; 1.3. Cooling; 1.4. Stabilization; 1.5. Compression; 1.6. Gas Treating; 1.7. Gas Dehydration; 1.8. Gas Processing; Chapter Two: Basic Principles; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Fluid Analysis; 2.3. Physical Properties; 2.3.1. Equations of State; 2.3.2. Molecular Weight and Apparent Molecular Weight; 2.3.3. Gas Specific Gravity.
- 2.3.4. Nonideal Gas Equations of State2.3.5. Liquid Density and Specific Gravity; 2.3.6. Liquid Volume; 2.3.7. Viscosity; 2.4. Flash Calculations; 2.4.1. Determine Gas and Liquid Compositions; 2.5. Characterizing the Flow Stream; 2.6. Use of Computer Programs for Flash Calculations; 2.7. Approximate Flash Calculations; 2.8. Other Properties; 2.9. Phase Equilibrium; Chapter Three: Heat Transfer Theory; 3.1. Objectives; 3.2. What Is a Heat Exchanger?; 3.2.1. Commonly Used Types of Heat Exchangers; Shell-and-Tube; Plate-and-Frame; Plate-Fin; Air-Cooled; 3.2.2. Heat Exchangers-The Bad News.
- 3.2.3. General Considerations3.2.4. Company Engineering Standards and Specifications; 3.2.5. Tube Vibration and Tube Rupture; 3.2.6. Acoustic Resonance and Vibration; 3.3. Process Specification; 3.3.1. Process Specification Sheet; 3.3.2. Design Data Sheet; 3.3.3. Required Physical/Thermal Properties; 3.4. Pressure Drop Considerations; 3.4.1. Key Parameter for Design and Troubleshooting; Tube side; Shell side; Other ways; Typical Pressure gradients (DeltaP/L); Flow path lengths, ft or m (L); 3.5. Basic Heat Transfer Theory; 3.5.1. Heat Transfer Mechanisms; 3.5.2. Basic Equations.
- 3.5.3. Flow of Heat3.5.4. Multiple Transfer Mechanisms; 3.6. Determination of Mean Temperature Difference; 3.6.1. Mean Temperature Difference; 3.6.2. Log Mean Temperature Difference; 3.6.3. Nonconstant "U" ; 3.6.4. Different Flow Arrangements; 3.6.5. Nonlinear Temperature Profile; 3.7. Selection of Temperature Approach (T2); 3.8. Determination of Heat Transfer Coefficient; 3.8.1. Overview; 3.8.2. Area Basis; 3.8.3. Heat Transfer Coefficient-Clean Tube; 3.8.4. Heat Transfer Coefficient-Fouled Tube; 3.8.4.1. Fouling Factors; 3.8.4.2. Fouling Considerations; 3.8.4.3. Fouling Mechanisms.
- 3.8.5. Evaluating Performance3.8.6. Heat Transfer Research Inc. Computer Simulation Programs; 3.9. Calculation of Film Coefficients; 3.9.1. Inside Film Coefficient; 3.9.2. Mass Velocity of a Fluid; 3.9.3. Outside Film Coefficient in a Liquid Bath; 3.9.4. Outside Film Coefficient for Shell-and-Tube Exchangers; 3.10. Tube Metal Resistance; 3.11. Approximate Overall Heat Transfer Coefficients; 3.12. Determination of Process Heat Duty; 3.12.1. Overview; 3.12.2. Sensible Heat; 3.12.3. Latent Heat; 3.12.4. Heat Duty for Multiphase Streams; 3.12.5. Natural Gas Sensible Heat Duty at Constant Pressure.