Advanced Process Solutions
Process Design- Control design and analyses utilizing rigorous dynamic models.
- Conceptual design and option selection.
- Facility (production, gas processing and refinery) safety and relief studies.
Flow Assurance
- Steady State and Dynamic pipeline studies.
- Integrated dynamic pipeline studies. Integration of dynamic pipeline and facilities process models. Study the effect of pipeline slugging on slug catcher and downstream process control.
- Process design and conceptual distillation design of azeotropic and complex systems.
- Heat integration and pinch analysis.
- Refinery separations and conversion units.
- Liquid phase and supercritical CO2 applications. CO2 Geosequestration.
- Upstream well selection and optimization. CO2 blending. Pressure-flow analyses for flow assurance and booster compression planning.
Enterprise simulation applications
- Online Performance monitoring.
- Integration of simulation models with online planning.
- Online and offline open loop optimization.
- Operator training systems.
We also provide custom programming and application development, implementation of proprietary unit operation, thermodynamic and reactor models.
Typical Software Used
Process Engineering/Flowsheeting
- HYSYS Family of steady state and dynamic programs: HYSYS (Aspentech), Unisim (Honeywell), Petrosim (KBC)
- VMGSim (Virtual Materials Group), ICON (PETRONAS)
- PROII (Invensys)
- Aspen Plus
Hydraulics
- Dynamics: OLGA (Scandpower)
- Steady State: PIPESIM (Schlumberger), Pipeflo (Neotec), Pipephase (Invensys)
- PROII (Simsci)
Others
- Flarenet, Flaresim: flare design & radiation computations
- HTFS.TASC, ACOL: detailed heat exchanger and air cooler rating and design