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Natural Gas Engineering - PTRL5010
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Petroleum Engineering
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.petrol.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Properties of Natural Gases: typical compositions. Equations of state: general cubic equations, specific high accuracy equations. Use of equations of state to find residual energy properties. Gas Compression: positive displacement and centrifugal compressors; fans. Calculation of power requirements. Compressible Flow in Pipes: fundamental equations of flow: continuity, momentum, energy equations. Isothermal flow in pipes: the Weymouth equation. Static and flowing bottom-hole pressures in wells. Fundamentals of Gas Flow in Porous Media: Steady-state flow equations. Definition of pseudo-pressure function. Gas Flow in Cylindrical Reservoirs: general equation for radial flow of gases in symmetrical homogeneous reservoirs. Non-dimensional forms of the equation; derivation of coefficients relating dimensionless to real variables. Infinite reservoir solution; pseudo-steady-state solution. Gas Well Deliverability Tests: Flow-after-flow tests: prediction of IPR curve and AOF for the well. Isochronal tests. Drawdown tests: need for data at two flow rates. Special Project. (Ref: PTRL4016)

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