COURSE OVERVIEW:

This course provides a comprehensive and practical understanding of flare and overpressure protection systems in oil, gas, petrochemical, and related process industries. It covers the fundamentals of overpressure scenarios, relief device sizing, flare network design, radiation and noise assessment, and system integration into facility layouts and safeguarding philosophies. Participants will learn how to apply relevant codes and standards, develop and verify relief load calculations, evaluate flare system capacity, and support safe, compliant, and cost-effective designs and modifications. Case studies and worked examples will be used throughout to bridge theory and day-to-day engineering practice.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

After completion of the course, the participants will be able to:

1. Explain the purpose and key functions of relief, disposal, and flare systems in process facilities.
2. Describe typical overpressure causes such as blocked outlet, fire, utility failure, and control malfunction.
3. Identify the main types of pressure relief devices and describe where each type is typically applied.
4. Interpret and apply relevant international standards and recommended practices for relief and flare systems.
5. Collect and verify necessary process data required for relief calculation and flare system evaluation.
6. Perform basic relief load estimation for common design cases in steady state and simplified dynamic situations.
7. Understand the principles of relief valve orifice sizing for gas, liquid, and two-phase flows.
8. Explain the main elements of a flare system, including headers, subheaders, knock out drums, seals, risers, and tips.
9. Evaluate flare system hydraulic performance, including pressure drop, backpressure, and line velocities.
10. Assess radiation, noise, and smokeless capacity constraints for flare tips and their impact on plant layout.
11. Interpret existing flare system studies, identify debottlenecking opportunities, and understand their limitations.
12. Recognize common design and operational issues in flare and relief systems and propose practical mitigation measures.
13. Support management of change activities involving tie in of new loads to existing flare systems.
14. Communicate overpressure and flare system risks, constraints, and recommendations effectively to multidisciplinary teams.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

-Process engineers and senior process engineers in design and operations

-Facilities and project engineers involved in brownfield modifications and debottlenecking

-Safety and loss prevention engineers working with overpressure protection and flare systems

-Operations and production engineers responsible for day to day plant safeguarding

-Reliability, integrity, and inspection engineers dealing with pressure relief devices

-Control and instrumentation engineers involved in safeguarding systems and interlocks

-HSE and risk engineers supporting hazard studies and regulatory submissions

TRAINING COURSE METHODOLOGY:

A highly interactive combination of lectures, discussion sessions, and case studies will be employed to maximise the transfer of information, knowledge, and experience. The course will be intensive, practical, and highly interactive. The sessions will start by raising the most relevant questions and motivating everybody to find the right answers. The attendants will also be encouraged to raise more of their questions and to share in developing the right answers using their analysis and experience. There will also be some indoor experiential activities to enhance the learning experience. Course material will be provided in PowerPoint, with necessary animations, learning videos, and general discussions.

The course participants shall be evaluated before, during, and after the course.

COURSE CERTIFICATE:

National Consultant Centre for Training LLC (NCC) will issue an Attendance Certificate to all participants completing a minimum of 80% of the total attendance time requirement.