Crude Metering and Measurement Systems Course
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Crude Metering and Measurement Systems Course
Course Overview:
This course offers an extensive insight into custody transfer metering systems with the instruments of hydrocarbon measurement including the principles, operations and maintenance as the focal topic.
Participants will study different kinds of flow meters (orifice, turbine, ultrasonic and even Coriolis meters), automatic samplers, densitometers and even pressure, temperature and differential transmitters. Notable mentions include meter proving, instrument verification routines, flow computer calculation routines, and adherence to international specifications.
This course will also incorporate report writing, primary and secondary fault condition analysis, and regulatory auditing. Tailored for maintenance technicians, supervisors, and engineers, this program enables the recipients to effectively oversee and control the operation of industrial systems oriented toward custody transfer.
Course Objectives:
The course addresses the concepts of custody transfer metering, the principle of allocation in shared facilities, and the general operating principles of custody transfer instruments:
- Flow meters (orifice, turbine, ultrasonic, venture, corilis) Densitometers
- Pressure / temperature / differential transmitters
- Automatic samplers
- BS & W measurements
- Chromatography
- Meter proving and instrument verification / re-certification
- Calculation routines and verification of flow computers
- Implementation of international standards
- Generic operating and reporting procedures
- The function of the pipeline and regulatory auditors
- Review of typical fault conditions
Who Should Attend?
Maintenance technicians, Supervisors, and Engineers.
Course Outlines:
Meters
- Focus on monetary implications of hydrocarbon measurements, an overview of methods, and definition of terms, Definition of SI units, and principles of traceability of measurement/instrument calibration
- Relevance and general principles of the meter station
- Overview on common features of dedicated flow computers, Function and calculation sequence of turbine meter flow computers
- Principles of verification of turbine meter flow computers
- Principles and practice of operating crude oil turbine meters, Turbine flow meter, Operation Theory
- Design & Construction Variations
- Turbine Meter Accuracy, Sizing & Selection
- Installation & Accessories, New Developments
- Gas Turbine & Shunt Meters
- Principles and practice of operating crude oil PD meters
- Differential Pressure Flowmeters
- Sizing the Orifice Plate, Piping, Installation, & Maintenance,
- Plate and senior orifice, Orifice Types & Selection,
- Orifice Performance
- Venturi & Flow tubes, Venturi-Cone Element
- Principles and practice of operating Coriolis meters
- Proving background, volumetric tanks, pipe provers methods, and handling
- Principles of meter K-factor control
- Principles of Ultrasonic Flowmeters
- Introduction to storage tank measurements
- Focus on Mobrey Solartron 7830 series densitometers
- Representative sampling, operation of automatic samplers, and sample handling
- Liquid mixture equations, principles of BS & W probes
- Gas Chromatography, Advantages of Discrete Sampling,
- Gas Supplies
- Injection, Columns, Oven, Detection system
- The carrier gas, Gas Chromatography mechanism
- What is dew point? Calorific value
- Generalized overview of reporting hydrocarbon meter station data
- The role of meter station auditors
- Generalized overview of operating a hydrocarbon meter station
- Guidance on predictable fault conditions and mis-measurement methods
- Revision
- Case Studies