so here is where im working now...

[chuckyoufarley]

what payaso said ^^^^

 

[Bababooey]

plant operator...we hire contractors to do any maintenance.

i sit behind 4 computer screens, and make sure everything operates correctly....we can control everything from the computers and from an indoor controll panel for all the compressors

So are you basically Homer Simpson but instead of working in a nuclear plant you work with natural gas? If you hit the wrong button does the entire county disappear in a mushroom cloud?
(just poking fun, im sure youre very qualified to do your job, but as a Simpsons fan i had to make the comparison...)

 

[NOKUY]

So are you basically Homer Simpson but instead of working in a nuclear plant you work with natural gas? If you hit the wrong button does the entire county disappear in a mushroom cloud?
(just poking fun, im sure youre very qualified to do your job, but as a Simpsons fan i had to make the comparison...)

lol...thats pretty funny i havent watched simpsons in a long time


i couldent mess anything up to the point of causing any damage to anyone except losing my company money....everything is set so that if it reaches a certain limit it will shut down before any catastrophy.

 

[ArcticBlast]

soooo cool! i know it sounds nerdy, but thanks for explaining with pictures (yes, i can see them now!)!

congrats on the cool job, man! I must spread more reputation before i give it to NOKUY again!

ArcticBlast

Edit: i'm not calling YOU nerdy, i'm calling myself nerdy for getting excited over industrial components and whatnot

 

[Bababooey]

Yeah, that makes sense. A company would want to make sure that all the really IMPORTANT functions arent left vulnerable to human error.
Is your job somewhat boring then? Can you read or watch tv and still keep an eye on everything?

 

[shadow]

still doin natty gas stuff.


this new gig is confusing at first...im getting it tho...

im operating a cryogenic natty gas plant.

we have 3 big ass turbine compressors, and the focus of this plant is to seperate liquids from the gas.

basicly we have a huge ass demethanizer and we generally recover ethane and other heavies and send the liquid out the pipe to a frac plant.

we have a turbo expander/compressor and by changing psi and volume we change temps down to -175 degrees.

like i said learning lots of shit...the cooling/amine shit is abit confusing right now, but sort of getting it.

ill take sum pics this week...cuz this plant is crazy.

anyone else do this work?

Reminds me of the power cycles chapters of my thermodynamics class last semester. In theory, all of that stuff is really cool, never seen one in real life though.

By the way, there is no such thing as a turbine compressor Turbines act by expanding the gas and lowering the volume which produces shaft work that is generally used to partially power a compressor.

edit: If you have any questions about the theory about how any of that stuff works, just shoot me a pm. I will help you to the best of my knowledge (2.5 years of college only, but I have taken classes about all of that process equipment, just haven't gotten the chance to use it yet, thats next semester)

 

[NOKUY]

By the way, there is no such thing as a turbine compressor Turbines act by expanding the gas and lowering the volume which produces shaft work that is generally used to partially power a compressor.

i know what your saying....i phrased it wrong, but the turbines are the engine

...there are quite a few parts of the plant i didnt show....

i didnt show any of the reboilers, or the reflux condesor, or the aftercooler fans, or the cold seperator, or any of the amine system

...maybe next week for that

 

[shadow]

Do you know what they use as the heating fluid for the reboiler, and the cooling fluid in the condensor? I am guessing it is just steam, and probably high pressure water but I am curious

 

[NOKUY]

Do you know what they use as the heating fluid for the reboiler, and the cooling fluid in the condensor? I am guessing it is just steam, and probably high pressure water but I am curious

by that point there is no water left.....all the water was elimitated in the dehydration beds....its just dry gas, and liquid gas, and vapors now.

the reflux condensor is connected to the gas/gas exchanger.

all that goes thru the condensor is regenerated gas at about -150 to -171 F

the exchanger consists of dry inlet gas and regenerated gas vapors.

the reboiler uses cold gas liquid to begin cooling warmer inlet gas

 

[NOKUY]

cool...glad sum of u liked to see and hear about it....i will post some more of some stuff i left out,

we vent tons and tons and tons of C02 to atmosphere tho...dont ask me how we can, but we are heavily regulated and we do.

 

[swampdank]

Really cool YUKON. I just like seeing all that expensive techy stuff.


Sounds like a pretty cool gig you got. Did you have to study the field or did you just work your way around the plant?

Either way, it looks hella cool.