Course Overview:
Build the practical skills you need to design a single-unit compressor station during this online training. This course enhances your understanding of the main systems in a single-unit compressor station and gives you the confidence to make effective design decisions. You will have experience laying out major interconnecting piping and performing calculations to size equipment.
Target Audience:
- Engineers who want to focus on compressor station design and broaden their industry experience in specific fields
- Engineers responsible for compressor station design or operation and maintenance design
- Technicians responsible for compressor operation and maintenance
- Supervisors and managers who are responsible for compressor station systems and personnel
When
24/7 access
Course Format
Online self-paced
CEU 3.4 | PDH 34
Price
$1,295.00
Course Objectives:
- Learn to recognize a natural gas compressor station and categorize it as production, gathering, transmission, distribution, or processing
- Understand how the compression process integrates into the pipeline system to cause pressure and flow increases and decreases
- Review load and critical operations requirements
- Identify the major equipment in a compressor station based on an aerial photograph and describe their purpose, general function, and relative importance
- Explore the operations and design of gas quality control systems, with a focus on state-of-the-art technologies
Topics Covered:
- Compressor Station Layout Horsepower (Gas Engines and Gas Turbine Drives)
- Gas Cleaning
- Valves, Yard Piping, Metering
- Fuel Gas Piping and Gas Processing
- Electrical Classification and Ventilation Requirements
- Emergency Action
- Foundations
- Compressed Air System
- Electrical Loads
- Sizing a Generator
- Sizing Wire and Conduit
- Lighting Systems
- Tankage, Power, and Power Gas Systems
- Cooling Water Systems
- Automation
- Exhaust System Design
- Air Intake System Design
- Building Heating
- Cathodic Protection
This curriculum contains an Introduction and 13 parts with a total of 22 Modules and 1 Final Exam. The Introduction must be completed before the rest of the course is unlocked. After completing the Introduction users can take the modules in any order. However, it's recommended completing the course in sequential order.
Digital Badge:
Earn a certificate of completion and a digital badge to display on your LinkedIn profile after successfully completing the course.
If you're registering with a company colleague (or two or more) at the same time, you can save an additional 10%. (The 10% discount applies only to two or more students taking the same class and does not apply to two students taking separate courses.) Contact us if you plan to use the team discount.
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