THE LEARNING PORTAL
Understand the parts.
Connect the system.
Short exploratory paths through the equipment atlas. Rotate the model, reveal the internals, choose components and answer the knowledge check on each page.
Introductory equipment lessons for understanding visible parts and process roles. These paths provide no certification, qualification, continuing-education credit or operating instruction.
ALBERTA GAS PROCESSING / SIX QUESTIONS
From raw gas to separate products.
Compare separation, amine treatment, glycol dehydration, compression, the unmodeled NGL-recovery gap and fractionation using exact-part links.
Begin the gas-processing guide ↗Six readable study stops and an evidence table. The independent models do not form a designed plant or fixed operating sequence.
GUIDED PLANT STUDY / SIX STOPS
Read a gas-compression train.
Use a selectable process map, exact component links and six self-checks to connect separation, both compressor ends and aftercooling.
Begin the plant study ↗The complete reading and map work without WebGL. Open the original connected 3D scene when you choose.
NGL FRACTIONATION / SIX STOPS
Read a trayed column.
Follow an original sectioned vessel from mixed-liquid feed through tray openings, downcomers, reboiler and overhead questions.
Begin the fractionation study ↗Exact-part links, six self-checks and a product-evidence table work without WebGL. The column is an invented teaching illustration.
PRODUCTION FACILITY / SIX STOPS
Follow the three phase questions.
Open the original 424-part facility, trace the separate oil, water and gas branches, and test what the picture cannot prove.
Begin the facility study ↗Six guided stops, exact component links and a three-branch reading map work without WebGL. The layout is invented.
OIL SANDS / SIX STOPS
Follow the tailings questions.
Compare five original equipment illustrations across distinct whole-tailings and middlings branches, with exact part links and six self-checks.
Begin the oil-sands study ↗Start at primary separation, inspect transfer and classification, then return to the separate flotation branch and ask what thickening evidence is missing. Reading works without WebGL.
ROTATING EQUIPMENT / SIX STOPS
Read the parts around a rotating machine.
Compare pump passages, bearing support, face-seal boundaries and spacer-coupling parts with exact component links and six self-checks.
Begin the rotating-equipment study ↗Four independent original illustrations. Complete reading works without WebGL; these examples do not specify a matched installation.
PATH 01
Compare gas-compression technologies
See the difference between static rotor stages, positive-displacement components and a wider facility relationship map. These are not matched operating equipment.
PATH 02
Trace drilling-fluid circulation
Compare the original mud pump, open well-section relationship map, shale shaker and separate well-control component roles. These are teaching illustrations, not a rig design or operating sequence.
PATH 03
Start with the components
Build familiarity with the visible parts of common equipment. No engineering background assumed.
- Gate valve: identify the flow path and closure ↗
- Check valve: compare a hinged disc with a translating gate ↗
- Control valve: connect plug, stem and diaphragm actuator ↗
- Pressure relief: distinguish nozzle, disc, guides and direct spring ↗
- Differential-pressure flow element: inspect passage and independent tap paths ↗
- Pressure indication: compare sensing tube, movement and uncalibrated dial ↗
- Strainer: distinguish a perforated element from a valve closure ↗
- Cyclone: separate enclosure hardware from static vortex annotations ↗
- Coalescer: inspect hollow cores, media markers and independent liquid boundaries ↗
- Pump: connect drive, shaft and impeller ↗
- Mechanical seal: compare primary faces and secondary boundaries ↗
- Compressor: trace crank, crosshead, packing and valve stacks ↗
- Exchanger: distinguish shell and tube groups ↗
- Plate exchanger: compare corrugations, ports and alternating gasket boundaries ↗
- Air cooler: compare process tubes, external fins and lower fans ↗
PATH 04
Follow the production equipment
Move through the surface concepts without treating them as an operating sequence.
- Production tree: recognize the connection groups ↗
- Production choke: compare the needle, seat and open outlet ↗
- Separator: explore the illustrated phases ↗
- Vertical separator: distinguish gas and total-liquid boundaries ↗
- Connected scene: trace separation, compression and cooling ↗
- Dehydration: compare trays, caps and glycol boundaries ↗
- Storage: distinguish enclosure and inventory ↗
- Beam pumping: identify the surface linkage ↗
- Rod pump: distinguish the stationary and moving valves ↗
PATH 05
See the larger layout
Connect a conceptual facility to the individual equipment models. The layout is invented for learning.
Learn at your own pace.
All lessons and component descriptions are readable without WebGL. Knowledge checks run in your browser. No personal learning record is collected and no completion credential is issued.
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