Centrifugal Gas Compressor Operations & Maintenance

This course will provide a comprehensive understanding of Operation, Maintenance & Troubleshooting of the various types of reciprocating, rotary, and centrifugal compressors including trunk piston compressors, sliding crosshead piston compressors, diaphragm compressors, rotary screw compressors, straight lobe compressors, sliding vane compressors, liquid ring compressors, centrifugal, and axial compressors.

Compressor Selection, Operation and maintenance & troubleshooting will be presented as well as safety precautions corresponding to working with compressors. An interactive workshop about compressor troubleshooting of turbo machines including soft program and manufacture manual will be executed during training This course will focus on maximizing the efficiency, reliability, and longevity of this equipment by providing an understanding of the characteristics, selection criteria, common problems and repair techniques, preventive and predictive maintenance with case study.

Audience

This course is designed for engineers, experienced maintenance technicians, operations supervisors, pump application engineers working on Main Oil Line Pumping. All personnel who operate, manage, or are involved in, designing, specifying, selling, sourcing, installing, servicing and maintaining Flowserve MOL pumping equipment can attend this course.

Course objectives

Persons in staff (senior technicians, operators, supervisors, superintendents) and corporate engineering, plant planning and design, systems design, equipment selection and evaluation, and equipment maintenance areas. The industries most directly involved with the subject matter are those producing chemicals, petrochemicals, petroleum products, natural gases, manufacturing gases, steel and other metals, and plants requiring process refrigeration. The course is also designed to benefit all levels of Technical Personnel in the oil and gas industry as well as in chemical and process industries but will greatly benefit:

Mechanical Engineers
Product Engineers and Technologists
Operation, technical service and maintenance professionals
Engineers, Consultants and Sales professionals
Technical professionals responsible for interdisciplinary energy projects
Anyone who is involved in the selection, applications, and operation of compressors.

Course contents

Day-1

Introduction
First Exam
Safety Consideration
Thermodynamic Basics and Fluid Mechanics
What is Compression?
Compressible Fluids – Gas Properties
Types of Compressors
The Gas Laws for Ideal and Real Gases

Day-2

Compression Efficiency
Classification of Compressors (Interactive Workshop)
Multi-stage compression
Reciprocating Compressors
Rotary Compressors
Rotodynamic Compressors
Centrifugal Radial Compressor
Axial Compressor

Day 3

Compressor Selection

Factors of Selection
Industrial Applications
Case Study; Gas Turbine Cycle – Advantages and Disadvantages of Gas Turbines
Operation of Compressors
Vibration Analysis
Compressor maintenance
Compressor Bearing

Day-4

Oil Seal
Lubrication Oil and Grease
Shaft Alignment
Valves
Pipelines

Day-5

Drivers:
Steam Turbine
Gas Turbine
Internal Combustion Engine
Electric Motor
Preventive and Predictive Maintenance of Compressors
Compressor Troubleshooting (Manufacture Manual)
Interactive training via API Software (Workshop)
Safety in Compressor Operation and Maintenance.
Conclusion – Readings – Final Exam – Evaluation.
Posttest

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