Natural Gas Engineering

By Prof. Pankaj Tiwari | IIT Guwahati

Learners enrolled: 1133

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.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Under graduate and post graduate students professional practitioner in the discipline of Chemical Engineering. Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Energy
PREREQUISITES: Bachelor Degree in any Engineering discipline
INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Petroleum Industries/companies: ONGC, OIL, GAIL, IOCL, etc.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Duration :	8 weeks
Category :	Chemical Engineering
Credit Points :	2
Level :	Postgraduate
Start Date :	29 Jul 2019
End Date :	20 Sep 2019
Exam Date :	29 Sep 2019 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1 : Introduction, Gas Production: Upstream, Reservoir- Well Completion
Week 2 : Properties of Natural Gas: Phase Behavior
Week 3 : Well inflow performance relationship (IPR), Skin factor, Productivity Index, Gas well testing
Week 4 : Wellbore Performance: TPR Curve, Single Phase & Multi Phase flow, Choke Performance: CPR Curve,
Sonic and Subsonic Flow, 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 : Natural Gas Processing: Dehydration of Natural Gas, Design of Dehydration, Sweeting Processes,
Compressor design and energy calculation
Week 7 : 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..

Books and references

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.

Instructor bio

Prof. 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 certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centers.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 29th September 2019 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
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. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course. (use as per duration of the course)
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 10
Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75.

If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.
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 nptel.ac.in/noc.
Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies are being discontinued from July 2019 semester and will not be dispatched.

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