Heat

Transfer Equipment - PF-43

Discipline: Process Facilities
Level: Intermediate
Duration: 5 days
Instructor(s): Mark Bothamley, Ronald Frend

This course reviews the selection, basic design, and operation of heat transfer equipment
commonly used in the oil and gas industry, with focus on E&P production facilities. Heat
transfer equipment discussed will include shell and tube exchangers, compact heat
exchangers, brazed aluminum exchangers, air coolers, and fired equipment (fire-tube and
direct-fired).

Designed For:
Engineers and senior operating personnel involved in the design, specification, or
operation of heat transfer equipment.

You Will Learn:

How to select the correct heat transfer equipment for a particular application with
reference to typical facility process flow diagrams (PFDs)
To apply heat transfer principles to design and specify heat transfer equipment
How to evaluate the performance of heat transfer equipment and recommend
solutions to problems
About the typical instrumentation and control schemes used by the various types of
heat transfer equipment

Course Content:
Typical process heating and cooling applications
Fluid properties
Heat transfer principles
Shell and tube exchangers

Compact heat exchangers: plate-frame, printed circuit, welded plate

Brazed aluminum exchangers
Air coolers
Fired equipment (furnace type and fire-tube)
Operating problems
Typical instrumentation control schemes

Instructors:
MR. MARK BOTHAMLEY is a Senior Technical Advisor for PetroSkills. His experience
covers the areas of design, operation, troubleshooting and optimization of offshore and
onshore oil and gas production and treating facilities. Prior to joining PetroSkills he was
with BP/Amoco for 24 years, in several locations around the world. Mr. Bothamley is a
past chairman of the SPE Facilities Subcommittee and a former member of the GPSA
Data Book Editorial Review Board. Mr. Bothamley holds a BS in Chemical Engineering
from Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, and a Diploma in Natural
Gas and Petroleum Technology from the British Columbia Institute of Technology in
Vancouver, BC Canada.

MR. RON FREND has almost forty years of engineering, consulting and management
experience starting his career with Shell Tankers (UK) as an engineer officer cadet
through to chief engineer, then taking up a maintenance engineering position in Oman
rising to a senior management position in Shell International (Middle East) before opening
an engineering consultancy in 1989. His entire career has been concerned with practical
applications of maintenance, operations and engineering. Ron is experienced in a variety
of engineering and maintenance analytical techniques as well as possessing management
skills suitable to an engineering consultancy and a large multi-national corporation.
Highlights of Ron's career include centrifugal compressor optimization of surge control
systems, introduction of enveloped demodulation vibration analysis techniques and
development of a methodology to calculate U and R values based on infrared thermal
imaging measurements. Ron is currently based in Blackpool, England where he is
managing director of his own consultancy. He is a registered engineer with a MSc from
Huddersfield University in England as well as being a certified Chief Engineer Officer
(marine).

In-House Course Presentations

All courses are available for in-house presentation to individual organizations. In-house
courses may be structured the same as the public versions or tailored to meet your

requirements. Special courses on virtually any petroleum-related subject can be arranged

specifically for in-house presentation. For further information, contact our In-House
Training Coordinator at one of the numbers listed below.
Telephone 1- 832 426 1234
Facsimile 1- 832 426 1244
E-Mail inhouse@petroskills.com
Public Course Presentations
How to contact PetroSkills:
1-800-821-5933 toll-free in North America or
Telephone 1-918-828-2500
Facsimile 1-918-828-2580
E-Mail registrations@petroskills.com
Internet www.petroskills.com
Address P.O. Box 35448, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74153-0448, U.S.A