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Ashok KhopkarConsultant

Oil & Gas Upstream

Energy & Utilities

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Why enroll

1. Learn to provide best solution to the customer with respect to LPG storage type, and its capacity

2. Learn sizing of other equipment like vapourisers

3. Better prospects in the current job

4. Ability to do these things helps in strengthening customer base and results in business growth.

5. This activity is one of the most important part of the job specifications in LPG contracting and consulting companies.

6. The consumer company management members will be able to take right decision for their company if they attend this course.

Your instructor

Ashok Khopkar

General manager at the time retirement

Consultant

54+ yrs experience·India

Is this course for you?

You should take this if

You work in Oil & Gas Upstream or Energy & Utilities
You're a Petroleum Technology / Chemical & Process professional
You have some foundational knowledge in the subject
You prefer live, instructor-led training with Q&A

You should skip if

You're looking for an introductory overview course
You need a different specialisation outside Petroleum Technology
You need fully self-paced, on-demand content

Course details

LPG is known as clean and efficient fuel. So, many years ago, industries started switching to LPG from other fuels like FO, Diesel, electrical power. The process still continues. New industries like steel re-rolling mills, foundries, forge-shops, fabrication shops, gas-cutting, heat treatment industry, paint shops and general industry with heavy fuel consumption, plan their production with LPG as fuel.

Hospitals, Hotel industry also use LPG as their main fuel. Bakeries, Large company canteens use LPG as fuel. Seasonal industries like seed drying, find LPG very convenient.

It is very essential to precisely calculate the consumption of LPG to plan storage facility. Under-capacity storage can result in shortage of fuel and loss of production. Over-capacity will result in unnecessary capital investment and uneconomical operations.

Optimized storage capacity decision can be taken through systematic analysis of consumption pattern, by collecting data of existing / proposed equipment consuming LPG.

For LPG contracting and consulting companies / supply companies, it is essential to know total consumption over certain time period like daily, monthly and also the peak consumption rate during a certain time slot.

It is equally important for the consumer company management also to take proper decision on this to avoid over or under capacity storage.

Upto certain limit, consumption can be met with cylinder installations, which needs less space and is economical. But beyond that, one needs to have storage vessels, like bullets.

Cylinders or tanks ? Which one to use? What size? Vapouriser required or not? What capacity?

This course answers all these questions.

This course explains the process of collecting and analysing the data using spreadsheets and graphs, leading to optimum storage. Case studies will explain the process in sufficient depth.

Course suitable for

Key topics covered

What data is essential for assessing LPG fuel consumption
How to systematically record it
Step by step Process of analysing collected data and converting to common unit
How to arrive at capacity of storage vessels, vapoursisers, PRS.
Which factors are taken into consideration for that.
Case studies

Opportunities that await you!

Career opportunities

Training details

This is a live course that has a scheduled start date.

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What learners say about this course

Kingsly Antony

May 3, 2026

Module 2’s bottling-plant capex spreadsheet and the propane vs butane pricing parity example stuck, since it's mapping classroom math to day-one ops in oilgas LPG. mostly useful, though I wasn't sold on the light treatment of safety regs and wished there was more on distribution infra beyond cylinders.

Yacine BE

May 3, 2026

Bridges legacy oilgas ops to current LPG growth without hand-waving; the Module 2 “cylinder lifecycle” diagram and the bottling-plant throughput example stuck, especially how infra constraints cap RPS at the gate. it's mostly practical, though I wasn't sold on the light treatment of safety compliance and wished for more on prod forecasting beyond imports.

Ajay Chinthalapudi

May 3, 2026

The module on LPG cylinder bottling economics—specifically the walk-through of distributor margin math in Chapter 3—felt practical for scoping infra spend and ops tradeoffs. It didn't go far on safety/regulatory detail, which matters in oilgas, but for team leads pressure-testing costs, it's a decent skim between meetings.

Manish Rodrigues

May 3, 2026

Felt closer to a mentor’s whiteboard than a packaged class, especially in how it bridges legacy LPG ops with more modern thinking. Chapter 3’s bottling-plant cashflow example, where he maps cylinder recert delays to dealer churn, stuck; it’s the kind of prod reality you don’t see in decks. i've been translating some of that into how we think about arch and infra, even borrowing obs/RPS framing without pretending LPG runs like k8s. Mostly worked, though I wasn’t sold on the light touch around digital reporting, but the failure-mode framing made the time count.

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Questions and Answers

Q: You're estimating peak LPG demand for a forge shop running intermittently fired furnaces. While stuck, you search: "how to size LPG storage tank based on hourly peak consumption pattern". Data you trust: average LPG use 1.2 MT/day, documented peak hour is 180 kg/h for 2 hours, delivery frequency every 7 days. Ambient is 38°C, no vaporiser installed yet. What storage configuration best fits duty without masking vaporisation risk?

A: Undersizing vaporisation capacity leads to pressure collapse at peak hour, tripping burners and stalling production mid-heat. Two bullets split the wetted surface, respect fill limits at 38°C, and let you meet the 180 kg/h draw without betting the plant on undocumented future vaporisers.

Q: During turnaround you’re reviewing a scanned P&ID and google: "interpret LPG P&ID vaporiser bypass line normally closed". The rev-4 drawing shows a bypass around the vaporiser with a manual valve tagged 'NC'. Field walkdown finds it cracked open. No flow arrow direction is legible. What’s the safest assumption for capacity checks?

A: Ignoring a live liquid bypass can dump subcooled LPG downstream, flashing violently and starving burners while overpressuring headers. Treating it as full-flow forces conservative checks until isolation status is proven, avoiding a missed hydraulic path hidden by bad drawings.

Q: Operations complain of burner trips only during early morning. You search: "LPG burner low pressure trips at dawn vaporisation issue". Storage is one 12 KL bullet, draw 140 kg/h, ambient drops to 12°C at night. No vaporiser. Relief valves untouched. What root cause fits all symptoms?

A: Picking the wrong cause keeps you chasing instruments while the plant keeps tripping at the same hour. At low ambient the bullet can’t sustain 140 kg/h by natural boil-off, so pressure decays predictably before sunrise. The fix sits in storage and vaporisation, not regulators.

Q: While checking spacing you google: "API 2510 LPG storage tank minimum distance to process unit". The plant wants to add a 30 KL bullet near an operating compressor shed. What drives the separation distance requirement?

A: Ignoring radiation and overpressure effects puts occupied buildings inside lethal zones during a BLEVE. API spacing is anchored in thermal radiation and blast consequences, not convenience or acoustics, so respecting it directly reduces fatality risk.

Engineering Approach to LPG Storage Sizing and Equipment Selection

Engineering Approach to LPG Storage Sizing and Equipment Selection

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