ADVANCED STEEL STRUCTURES

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING PROGRAM

TRAINING PERIOD: - 3Months
PROJECT PERIOD: - 3Months
 Structure Type:- Oil & Gas Production Processing Plant
 Structural Component:- Multi – Level Steel Frames & Roof Trusses
 Material Type:- Structural Steel
 Software Used:- Staad Pro & Manual Design Calculations

About Structure
 An oil production plant is a facility which processes production fluids from oil
wells in order to separate out key components and prepare them for export.
 Typical oil well production fluids are a mixture of oil, gas and produced water. An oil
production plant is distinct from an oil depot, which does not have processing
facilities.
 Oil production plant may be associated with onshore or offshore oil fields.
 Many permanent offshore installations have full oil production facilities. Smaller
platforms and subsea wells export production fluids to the nearest production facility,
which may be on a nearby offshore processing installation or an onshore terminal.
 The produced oil may sometimes be stabilized (a form of distillation) which reduces
vapour pressure and sweetens "sour" crude oil by removing hydrogen sulphide,
thereby making the crude oil suitable for storage and transport.
 Offshore installations deliver oil and gas to onshore terminals which may further
process the fluids prior to sale or delivery to oil refineries
 The configuration of onshore oil production facilities depends on the size of the oil
field. For simple fields comprising a single well or a few wells, an oil storage tank
may be sufficient. The tank is emptied periodically by road tanker and transferred to
an oil refinery.
 For larger production rates a rail tanker transfer facility may be appropriate. For larger
fields a full three-phase processing facility is required. Three-phase separators
separate the well fluids into its three constituent phases: oil, gas and produced water.
 Oil may be transferred by road or rail tanker or by pipeline to an oil refinery. Gas may
be used on the site to run gas engines to produce electricity or can be piped to local
users. Excess gas is burned in a ground flare. Produced water may be re-injected into
the reservoir
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Multi Level Steel Frames and Roof Trusses

 The Oil and gas Processing plant is a multi-level 4 storey’s steel structure supporting
various processing and equipment at different levels of Plant.
 On the first and second level of the plant, various processing equipments has been
placed at a height of 7.75 m above the ground, which is spanning 27 m in Length. .
 On the top level of the Plant, a roof truss has been constructed at a height of 22.975 m
above the ground, which is spanning 21 m in Length.
 Additional Mezzanine level has been constructed along with this plant at right side of
the elevation to support the processing unit.
 The complete structure has been constructed by structural steel for the operation of oil
and gas production and processing purpose.
 Various load such as equipment static , equipment dynamics, wind and seismic load
has been considered to sustain by the structural frames.

Codes and Standards Considered

Code Description
Indian Codes
IS 1893-2002 Criteria for Earthquake resistant Design of Structures
IS 456-2000 Code of Practice for Plain and reinforced concrete
IS 800-2007 Code of Practice for General construction in steel
IS 875 Code of practice for Design Loads for Buildings and Structures – Part 1, 2
& 3 – Dead Loads, Live Loads, Crane Loads and Wind Loads

Loads Considered
1. Dead Load
2. Super Dead Load
3. Live Load
4. Equipment Static
5. Equipment Dynamic
6. Thermal Load Ambient Variation
7. Wind Load
8. Seismic Load
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Structural Model

Figure 1 Elevation of Oil & Gas Processing Plant

Figure 2 Structural Model of Oil & Gas Processing Plant.

Figure 3 Actual Oil & Gas Processing Plant

Software Operations
1.) Overview of Structural Analysis
and Design

2.) Introduction
3.) Getting Familiar with
 Staad Editor
 GUI
 Structure Wizard
 Creating a New Project and Units
 Global Coordinate System Vs. Local Coordinate
 Beta Angle

4.) Introduction to File, Edit, View, Selection, Geometry, Commands,

Analyze, Mode
5.) Introduction to Snap Node/Beam
 Insert Node
 Add Beam
 Translational
 Move
 Rotate
 Mirror
 Member Offset
 Connect Beam Along
 Intersect,
 Merge,
 Break
 Splits,
 Stretch selected members

6.) Introduction to Setup,

 Geometry,
 General,
 Design Assigning Properties
 Assigning Supports
 Group Specification
 Assigning Load
 Structure Analysis
  Material Specification
 Design Table Member

7.) Loading
 Self weight
 Nodal Load
 Member Load
 Area Load
 Floor Load
 Wind Load
 Seismic Load

8.) Introduction to Analysis Perform Analysis

 Analysis of Framed Structure

 Dynamic Analysis.

9.) Introduction to Post Processing

 Extracting Design Forces

 Support Reactions
 Displacements
 Result Setup

10.) Overview of Output Page

 Pre-analysis and Post-analysis

11.) General Guideline for Design of Steel Column and Beam Design

 Structural Steel Design

12.) Interactive Steel Design

 Design Parameters
 Commands
 Check Code

13.) Detailing Concepts

 Modelling
 Layers Setting
 Layout Creation
 Scaling
 Setting Model in Layout
 Pdf Creation