Natural Gas Engineering
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The official GTU curriculum for Natural Gas Engineering (subject code 3711613) as prescribed for CE(A · Semester 1 divides the course into 7 units, covering 28 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3711613)Unit 1 Introduction
- Understanding natural gas, estimation of gas reserves and non associated gas reserves
- world natural gas/LNG scenario
Unit 2 Properties
- Phase behaviour fundamentals
- properties of natural gases
- gas and liquid separation
Unit 3 Natural Gas Hydrates
- Natural gas hydrates
- hydrate thermodynamics and formation kinetics
- hydrate exploitation
Unit 4 Gas Dehydration
- Gas-water system
- water content determination
- glycol dehydration
- solid bed dehydration
Unit 5 Acid Gas Treating
- Gas sweetening processes
- solid bed adsorption
- chemical and physical solvent processes
- sulphide distillation
- gas permeation
Unit 6 Gas Processing
- fractionation and design consideration
- design procedures for iron sponge units and amine systems. 8 14 5 Gas Hydrates: Determination of hydrate formation temperature/ pressure
- condensation of water vapour
- temperature drop due to gas expansion
- thermodynamic inhibitors
- kinetic inhibitors and anti agglomerates. 6 10 6 Gas Engineering: Steady state flow of gas through pipes
- multiphase gas liquid flow
- gas compression
- gas flow measurement
- gas gathering and transport
Unit 7 Economics
- Business aspects and market trends