SYNOPSIS

CENTRIFUGAL PUMP THEORY AND APPLICATION shall provide the audience with the knowledge and principles of pump design, sizing, selection and performance analysis. The course will be beneficial to engineers dealing with pump and will be presented in a way that is comprehensible to the engineers who are with or without the oil and gas background. The objectives of the course are to provide exposure to the audiences on understanding of fundamental design of centrifugal pump, the critical pump parameters when evaluating pump selection and making the best decision on specification.

Centrifugal pump in the oil and gas industry is a ‘must equipment’ on every plant/site and this one-day course will answer questions that many people have, such as how important this equipment onboard, understanding the requirement and criticality of the pump within the whole system and matching those to the correct pump selection. Some highlights of the course are back to fundamental of mathematical modeling of the centrifugal pump on various aspects of its parameters, type and material selection. These are the major factors in ensuring the selected pump match the required performance as well as the ensuring the reliability of the pump.

The course will also look at selected case studies for better understanding of the importance in correct pump selection.


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Ir. Hassanazhari Ahdi has been in the oil and gas industry for 27 years working for companies such as Technip, TPVN, KPOC and SDE. His core expertise is in design works, erection, testing, hook-up and commissioning.  Currently, he is an independent consultant providing consultancy for various design offices. He graduated from University of Malaya with a degree in Mechanical in year 1987 and a Masters in Engineering from UTM in year 2006. He has served many major Oil and Gas Companies locally and abroad such as PETRONAS, SHELL, EXXON-MOBIL, QATAR PETROLEUM, QATAR MEARSK OIL, TOTAL, CONOCO-PHILIPSs and CUU LONG.

His experience covers several major onshore/offshore turnkey projects starting from proposal, FEED, detailed design, erection, pre-commissioning/commissioning until handover to operation. The projects he was involved in include Polyethylene Plant, PVC Plant, Cabot Semi-Scale plant, BP-Amoco PTA Plant, MOQ BG-BA Platform and KBB Platform. Besides green field, his experience covers brown field too on retrofitting and debottlenecking of offshore platform and onshore plant.

He has delivered lectures for Executive Diploma student at UTM covering mechanical discipline syllabus tailored to specific application to oil and gas industries. He also has been appointed into a SIRIM technical committee in establishing MS Code for parts of LPG domestic cylinder.