Niloy Deb

Niloy Deb

Lecturer

Department of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Engineering

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)

Room: OAB 202 (B), Old Academic Building, BUET, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh

Email: niloydeb [at] pmre [dot] buet [dot] ac [dot] bd

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PMRE 413: Natural Gas Engineering

Undergraduate Course, offered by the Department of PMRE, BUET to the Department of ChE, BUET, 2024

Course Content: Overview of natural gas properties. Qualitative phase behavior of hydrocarbons. Gas production systems and components. Deliverability tests of gas wells. Analysis of water-hydrocarbon systems. Field processing of natural gas: gas-liquid separation, dehydration, desulfurization, LPG and liquid hydrocarbon recovery techniques, selection of processing plant and equipment. Introduction to the natural gas industry in Bangladesh.

Lecture Materials

  1. Introduction
  2. Overview of Energy Resources: Global Scenario
  3. Overview of Energy Resources: Bangladesh Scenario
  4. Natural Gas Properties
  5. Hydrocarbon Phase Behavior
  6. Gas Production System
  7. Gas Liquid Separation
  8. Separator Design
  9. Dehydration Process
  10. Sweetening Process
  11. Condensate Stabilization
  12. Compression in Natural Gas System
  13. Pipeline Design
  14. Series, Parallel, and Looped Pipelines
  15. Liquefaction of Natural Gas

Reference Books

  1. Ikoku, C. U. (1984). Natural gas production engineering. Krieger Publishing Company.
  2. Wang, X. (2009). Economides, Advanced Natural Gas Engineering. University of Houston, Houston, Texas.
  3. Arnold, K., & Stewart, M. (1989). Surface production operations: design of gas handling systems and facilities.
  4. Mokhatab, S., Poe, W. A., & Speight, J. G. (2018). Handbook of natural gas transmission and processing: principles and practices. Gulf Professional Publishing.
  5. Kidnay, A. J., Parrish, W. R., & McCartney, D. G. (2019). Fundamentals of natural gas processing. CRC Press.