Flare and Relief System Design for Oil and Gas Installations

Ahmad is a Process & Safety Consultant with more than 20 years’ engineering experience in Oil & Gas Industry, within divers projects (FPSO, Offshore Platform, Onshore gas plants, Compressor station and Multi-Phase Pipeline), at different engineering stages (Basic & FEED, Detail Design, Pre-commissioning, Commissioning) and Operation support.

Summary

Despite many safety precautions within oil and gas facilities, equipment failures or operator errors can cause increases in process pressures beyond safe levels. If pressures rise too high, they may exceed the maximum strength of pipelines, vessels, and other equipment. This can result in rupturing of process equipment, causing major releases of toxic or flammable gases or liquids which can lead to injuries to people, damage to assets and the environment. Installing relief systems is the last guard to relieve liquids or gases before excessive pressures are developed. Itis therefore important that the relief system is designed and sized to function correctly.

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You will learn:

  • Why relief system is so important? –purposes of relief systems and their importance in safe operations
  • Flare System Overview
  • Flare System Elements
  • Causes of overpressure and the ways to control/mitigate
  • Defining possible relief scenarios
  • Commonly used pressure relieving devices, selection, and sizing criteria
  • Determining set/relieving pressures to meet operational, safety, and code requirements
  • Designing Criteria and operating relief and flare header systems considering fluid characteristics, service conditions, volumes, gas dispersion, and radiation.
  • Selection other key components of a relief/flare system