Knowledge of centrifugal process Gas Compressors is highly valued and will advance your career in many industries; including oil & gas, petro-chemicals, refinery & LNG & fertilisers.

If you are considering investing time and money in a compressor training course, a search on the internet will offer you many options, but which course will be right for you?

The following guidance may help you to evaluate the courses and select the most appropriate compressor course to suit your needs.


Specialist Courses

There are specialist courses offered by manufacturers of compressors and suppliers of associated control systems. These courses will teach you compressor operations and maintenance related issues. There are other courses that offer training on compressor surge control systems. So if your aim is to learn surge control systems you should attend these courses. There are other courses that offer condition and performance monitoring and you will receive training on condition and performance related issues. These are specialist courses and will cover one aspect of a compressor. However, if you are new to the industry or have been working with compressors but feel that you are not satisfied with just a superficial knowledge and require a better understanding, then you will require a different type of course.


In Depth Training Course

In order to gain a full understanding of centrifugal compressors, you have to delve deeper into the subject. If you are involved in the design selection, operation and control you need to understand something more. You must learn about the following facets of the technology:-

·                Thermodynamics of gas compression i.e. the science which governs the compression of gases.

·                Application Engineering; identify the usage of compressors and the process systems e.g. oil and gas, gas lift and gas  injection, LNG, refinery, petrochemicals etc.

·                Selection of compressor to match the industrial application

·                Compressor hardware; the rotating elements, the static parts, the seals, the materials etc.

·                Compressor design process and their design performance

·                Compressor operations and field performance

Understanding the Compressor Operation

A Compressor is similar to the human heart, except it is the heart of a process plant; without the compressor the plant will neither start nor operate. You need to understand the relationship between the process requirements and compressor design characteristics. For example, what pressure rise is required? what is the range of flow the compressor must deliver? what is the temperature rise and power consumption? All these are important matters which you will be confronted with in a real operating plant.

MSE Compressor Training Courses

MSE’s Gas Compressor Technology Course (GCT) has been developed over many years working closely with operating companies and their nominated personnel. The course provides knowledge and training on gas compressor technology including compressor design, compressor application, compressor hardware, compressor testing; compressor controls and surge system design. This course covers the facets of compressor operation and control without which you will not feel comfortable in tackling this equipment.

Course Exercises

One of the highlights of MSE's training course, GCT2, is a collection of unique exercises which the attendees solve. These examples are taken from actual operating plants and demonstrate how to determine compressor performance and their operating characteristics.

These exercises bring into focus many of the different operating problems which users face in the field, challenging and dispelling some of the commonly held misunderstandings about centrifugal compressor performance and operation.

Course delegates have expressed their satisfaction with the course work. Sample comments are shown below...

"The Course has been very well designed to take you from the very basic concepts to advanced applications of compressor design, operation and troubleshooting.  Dr Akhtar's vast experience helps also when you have to discuss specific problems related to your plant/machine."
Delegate from BG Group

"Seeing a "live" demonstration of a dynamic simulation model is a modern example of a picture telling a thousand words. Understanding its capabilities will help me maximise the benefits of such studies to the projects I am involved with."
Delegate from BP

"I would highly recommend this course to design engineers through to management. It is an invaluable tool for new compressor design, selection and optimisation of compression systems in later field life."
Delegate from Conoco Phillips

"The course gives an excellent grounding in the fundamentals of compressor design, selection and optimisation. Having worked on compressor performance at arm's length on computer simulation programs, the course really helped me to grasp the concepts and visualise the machines as opposed to seeing them as black boxes on a PFD."
Delegate from BG Group

Places on the next course are limited so book now to avoid disappointment.









Course Tutor:
Dr M S Akhtar
Technical Director
MSE (Consultants) Limited

Next Training Course:
21st to 25th June 2010