This workshop reviews the physical, chemical and engineering principles used to understand the processing of natural gas and its by-products in Western Australia. The workshop provides a general overview of gas processing and emphasizes the design and operation of gas plants and related facilities. The following subjects are covered: physical properties, phase equilibria and vapour liquid equilibrium calculations, water-hydrocarbon systems, sour gas treating/sweetening, dew point control and natural gas liquids recovery.

DR. BRENT R. YOUNG PH.D. C.ENG. is Associate Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering and Director of the Industrial Information and Control Centre at The University of Auckland, where he co-directs a group of 12 postgraduate researchers on process modelling and control. Prior to this he was with the University of Calgary, Canada and the University of Technology, Sydney. Dr Young is a Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineers, United Kingdom and a Vice President of the Institute of Measurement and Control New Zealand. He has co-authored over 200 refereed publications including the book “A Real-time Approach to Process Control”, published by John Wiley (2nd Ed., 2006). Brent comes to UWA as a 2009 Gledden Visiting Senior Fellow and has given several such workshops to industry in locations such as Calgary, Houston, Ponka City, Barcelona, Kyoto and New Plymouth.