| DURATION: 9 Weeks | STARTING DAY: 10-01-2018 ENDING DAY: 10-03-2018 |
| OBJECTIVES | To enable the participants to update their knowledge in the area of flow measurement and control on Oil,gas, water and also to cover the International Standards in flow measurements and also the standard procedure on maintaining fuel installation according to International Standards, Flow measurement and control in flow meters and its calibration, norms and ethics in calculation of custody transfer in petroleum industry etc |
| TOPICS | Instrumentation for flow measurement Pressure and Differential pressure measurement- methods, principles,instruments and standards, Temperature measurement-principles, instruments and standards, thermo wells, density measurement, online densitometers, Measurement of viscosity, level gauging of storage tanks. Sensors, Transducers & Transmitters Introduction to working principle and features of sensors and transducers for pressure, temperature, level, density,mass,etc. and smart transmitters Selection & Application of flow meters Different types of flow meters-Differential pressure flow meters, Turbine flow meters, P.D.meters, Vortex flow meters, Ultrasonic flow meters, Coriolis mass flow meters etc – principles, applications and installation effects, selection and sizing of flow meter for various applications. Performance/QR Evaluation/Calibration of Flow meters Calibration Techniques, Gravimeter method, volumetric method, Master meter method, Meter provers, pipe provers and Tank Provers. Calibration of Liquid and Gas flow meters, assessment of uncertainty and statistical analysis of accuracy in fluid flow, Traceability of measurements and calibration at site & case studies. Calibration of Auxiliary / Secondary Instruments Pressure calibration, Calibration of pressure transducers, calibration of mass and weighing balances. Density calibration, volume calibration, Temperature measurement and calibration, Timer calibration, calibration of counters, frequency calibration and calibration of electrical parameters. Data Acquisition Systems & Flow computers Data acquisition systems (DAS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Field Bus, PLC and Introduction to LAB VIEW programming for Data acquisition and control, Introduction to DCS and Flow computers. Custody Transfer flow measurement and Custody transfer Instrumentation Custody transfer of petroleum and Natural gas- standards and practices, flow meters for custody transfer, provers for custody transfer applications, custody transfer instrumentation, flow computers for custody transfer and leased automatic custody transfer. Auditing and Validation of flow metering stations Inspection, Auditing and validation of Petroleum and Natural Gas custody transfer installations – standards and practices, system layout and installation requirements as per relevant standards, inspection and validation of secondary instruments and validation of flow computers, validation of CNG dispensers at site and Case studies. Model Approval of flow meters Model approval of flow meters for Liquid & Gas applications, Model approval as per OIML standards, electrical test for model approval,etc., Flow control Techniques- Control valves and Actuators Types of valves, Flow characteristics of Valves, performance evaluation of control valves, selection and sizing of control valves, Actuator selection & sizing, testing of actuators, Matching actuators for Control valves. |
| TARGET GROUP | Technical Personnel in Electronics, Instrumentation, Electrical, Industrial Engineering working in Oil & Gas industry, Process Industries and related fields can apply. Participants may be from industry, R&D organisation or Academic Institutes or Govt. Officials. |
| *REGISTRATION FEE | US$ 4000 + Service Tax as applicable(under Self Financing scheme only) |