LIQUID PIPELINE HYDRAULICS

A fully interactive course on hydraulics of pipelines transporting liquids, such as water and petroleum products. Covers steady state pipeline hydraulics as applied to long distance pipelines and short pipe segments within a plant, including pressure drop calculations, pumping power required and centrifugal pump analysis.

It is useful for design engineers, plant engineers, project engineers, planning and business development engineers in an organization that designs, constructs or operates pipelines.

With several thousand miles of existing pipelines and proposed construction of many thousand miles of pipelines in the US and other countries, the optimum selection and utilization of these facilities require knowledge of pipeline capabilities and expansion requirements to ensure maximum return on invested capital. This requires a thorough understanding of pipe sizing, flow velocities, hydraulic pressure drop, use of drag reduction agents and pump selection for ensuring proper equipment sizing to reduce initial capital cost and annual operating expenditures.

What You Will Learn

1. The physical properties of liquids, such as density, specific gravity, viscosity, bulk modulus and vapor pressure and their variation with temperature. Blending liquids to improve flow through pipelines.
2. Understand and use the various pressure drop formulas such as Colebrook-White and Hazen-Williams equations for steady state flow in pipes. Darcy friction factor and Transmission factor. Use of Moody diagram for pressure drop.
3. Size pipelines for specified throughput and pressures.
4. Comparison of isothermal and thermal flow
5. Calculate pipe strength, Maximum Allowable Operating Pressure (MAOP) and hydrostatic test pressures.
6. Calculate the locations and power of pump stations required.
7. Analyze centrifugal pump curves for various impeller sizes and speeds. Calculate impeller trim size to reduce energy loss. NPSH and cavitation. Viscosity corrected pump performance using the Hydraulics Institute method..
8. Explore pipeline throughput expansion scenarios, comparing the economics of using Drag Reducing Agents(DRA), pipe loops or building new pump stations.
9. Determine the capital cost, operating cost, cost of service and transportation tariff.

COURSE MATERIALS :

1. FLUID PROPERTIES
2. PRESSURE DROP DUE TO FRICTION
3. PIPE ANALYSIS
4. PRESSURE REQUIRED TO SHIP PRODUCT
5. PUMP ANALYSIS
6. PUMP STATION DESIGN
7. DRAG REDUCTION EFFECT 
8. BATCHING DIFFERENT PRODUCTS
9. TRANSIENT FLOW IN LIQUID PIPELINES
10. SUMMARY -Q & A

PARTICIPANT

This is an ideal course for those employed in the petroleum, water, oil and gas and the pipeline industry that work with pipeline transportation of liquids. It is useful for design engineers, project engineers, planning and business development engineers in analyzing the capabilities of existing and new pipelines, optimizing performance and estimating requirements for expanding throughput of pipelines.

INSTRUCTUR INSTRUCTUR

Ir. Gregorius Harjanto and Team.