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INPLANT Fluid Flow Design

INPLANT Fluid Flow Design is a simulator for the design, rating

and analysis of plant piping systems. Piping designs utilizing
INPLANT Fluid Flow Design have shown significant improvement
and utilities have realized lower capital/operating costs. The
simulator assists plants in their ongoing effort to improve safety
in the workplace and to comply with regulatory requirements.

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Summary
PIPEPHASE® Pipeline Network Design is the
simulator of choice for the world’s leading oil and
gas producing companies. The software combines
proven solution algorithms with modern production
methods and software analysis techniques to create
a robust and efficient oil field design and planning
tool with an extensive physical property data bank.
Business Value
yy Increased overall assetwide production
yy Improved well & flow line performance
yy Improved pipeline & facilities design
yy Integrated field development & planning
yy Reduced operating costs
yy Reduced capital costs
yy Increased engineering productivity
Multiphase Fluid Flow Simulator
For Plant Piping Networks
INPLANT Fluid Flow Design is a rigorous, steady-
state simulator for designing, rating, and analyzing
plant piping systems. Engineers can quickly rate and
analyze the safety of plant piping systems, design
new piping systems, or revamp a wide variety of
existing systems. Applications range from simple
single pipe sizing and rating calculations, to large
multiphase fluid piping networks with complex,
nested-loop topology. Relief system problems
involving networks with single or multiphase fluids at
high velocities or in critical flow can also be solved.
Applications
yy Process piping
yy Vacuum transfer lines
yy Fire-water networks
yy Utility distribution systems
yy Steam systems
yy Flare relief networks
yy Vessel depressuring studies
yy Single-link & relief system pipe sizing
Process Piping Systems
INPLANT Fluid Flow Design will allow engineers
to quickly identify the cause of poor hydraulic
performance in process piping systems and will
help find solutions. It solves pressure drop and
energy balance equations while simultaneously
performing rigorous heat-transfer calculations
for even the most complicated looped networks.
Line capacities, line sizes, flow distribution in
loops, required pump and compressor sizes, heat-
transfer effects, Joule-Thomson effects, in-line flow
patterns, vapor and liquid velocities, and preferential
phase splitting at tees are all accurately determined.
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Equipment Utility Piping Systems
The INPLANT Fluid Flow Design program was
specifically designed to rigorously solve looped
networks with mixed boundary conditions. These
advanced capabilities allow the user to easily
monitor the performance of all utility piping
networks in a plant. INPLANT Fluid Flow Design
calculates flow distributions within cooling water,
steam, lube oil, and air systems. The program
can accurately determine delivery pressures and
rates for a given inlet pressure and vice versa.
Relief Systems
INPLANT Fluid Flow Design allows engineers to
quickly and precisely reevaluate the adequacy of
relief systems when there is a change in unit design
or operation. This information is essential to avoid
emergencies that may jeopardize the safety of the
plant. The program accurately calculates required
backpressures for all types of single and multiphase
relief systems. If the required backpressures
are higher than the maximum vessel pressure
ratings, the program can automatically resize the
discharge lines. INPLANT Fluid Flow Design will
also identify undersized relief valves and facilitate
the selection of correctly sized replacements.
Rigorous Calculation Features
yy SimSci’s standard, industry-proven,
thermodynamic and physical property
methods and data libraries.
yy Built-in library data for over 1,600 components.
yy Comprehensive library of pressure-drop
calculation methods, including those specially
developed for high-velocity flow systems.
yy Detailed heat-transfer calculations, including
the ability to simulate multiple insulation layers
on pipes in a variety of ambient media.
yy Simultaneous, segment-by-segment, pressure-
drop and heat transfer calculation methodology.
yy Simulation of both single and multiphase fluids.
yy Fluids defined on a compositional/
non-compositional basis.
Flexible Pipe System Definition
yy Built-in library of pipe fitting and
process equipment models.
yy Single link or networks combined in
any configuration, including loops.
yy Optional flow rate or pressure
definitions at sources and sinks.
yy Extensive case study capability for “What-
if?” analysis and revamp studies.
Relief System Analysis
yy Dedicated network algorithm for
relief system rating and design.
yy Rigorous modeling of critical/sonic
flow pressure discontinuities.
yy Relief valve sizing using API and
DIERS/HEM methods.
yy User-defined relief valve data for standard
or balanced bellows devices.
yy Design case transient vessel-
depressuring simulation.
yy Sizing of all or selected system piping, subject
to Mach number and/or other constraints.
Built-In Databanks And Equipment
There is no need to input component data,
thermodynamic data or physical properties.
INPLANT Fluid Flow Design includes an exhaustive
library of more than 1,600 chemical components.
The program also integrates a data bank of the very
latest pressure drop calculation methods to cover
most industrial situations encountered, as well as
many non-standard applications. INPLANT Fluid
Flow Design’s comprehensive list of equipment
includes all types of fittings, elbows and tees, as well
as pumps, compressors, heaters, coolers, meters,
regulators, and many more pieces of equipment.
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Windows Graphical User Interface

yy Easy-to-use, graphical interface for new and experienced users.
yy New problem set-up wizard.
yy Full, point-&-click pictorial laydown of nodes, links, and devices.
yy Color-coded input guidance system.
yy Output reports can be generated in Excel® spreadsheets.
yy Output plot capabilities, including phase envelope and pressure/temperature versus distance graphs.
yy Complete, on-line hypertext help system.
yy Keyword readback and automatic network laydown of existing INPLANT Fluid Flow Design input files.

Process Engineering Suite

The Process Engineering Suite (PES) is a consistent
set of tools for engineering design and operational
analysis. This integrated suite of software readily
interfaces with other applications commonly used
by process engineers, thus enhancing productivity
in the plant lifecycle. PES can be used for oil and
gas production, refining, petrochemicals, chemicals,
pharmaceuticals, and polymer plant modeling.

Plant Piping
yy PRO/II Process Engineering: General-purpose with INPLANT

process flowsheet simulation and xoptimization.

yy HEXTRAN®: Comprehensive heat
transfer simulation and pinch analysis. Heat Exchanger
Flare Networks
Networks
with VISUAL FLARE
with HEXTRAN
yy DATACON™: Plant gross error Process
detection and data reconciliation. Engineering
Suite (PES)

yy INPLANT Fluid Flow Design: Multiphase, fluid

flow simulation for plant piping networks.
yy VISUAL FLARE Safety Relief Design:
Process Design Data Reconciliation
Design and modeling of safety systems with PRO/II with DATACON

and pressure relief networks.

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DEVICES PVT PROPERTY DATA

Pipes and Fittings

• Pipes • Expansion COMPOSITIONAL NON-COMPOSITIONAL
• Contraction • Bends
• Entrance/Exits • Nozzles Component Data Single Phase Gas
• Elbows • Venturimeters • 1,600 pure components • Lee; HYWET; Katz; HYDRY; Standing
• Tees • Orifice plates • User-defined properties
Single Phase Gas
• Petroleum pseudo components
Valves • Vazquez; Beal; Standing
• Assay characterization
• Gate valves • Ball valves
Thermodynamic Data Steam Tables & Water
• Globe valves • Check valves
• Angle valves • Butterfly valves • BWRS
• Foot valves • Braun K10 USER PRODUCTIVITY
• Chao-Seader
Equipment • Curl-Pitzer • Unlimited case studies
• Pumps • Coolers • Grayson-Streed • Output reports in Excel ®
• Compressors • Regulators • Johnson-Grayson • Flow regime maps
• Chokes • Separators • Lee-Kesler • Mixed boundary conditions for networks
• Nozzles • Injection points • Peng-Robinson • User-defined methods/data/devices
• Heaters • Sales points • Soave-Redlich-Kwong • External PVT data link
• Full documentation
Transport Properties
• API methods Calculator Function
• SIMSCI method • Generate user-defined parameters
• TRAPP method from model varibles

CALCULATION MODELS PRESSURE DROP METHODS

Multiphase Fluids
SINGLE LINK NETWORK • Beggs and brill
• Moody
• Pressure drops • Same as single link plus: • Eaton
• Velocities - Gathering sytems • Dukler
• Heat transfer - Distribution systems • Hagedorn and Brown
• Phase equilibria - Hybrid systems • Mukherjee and Brill
• Flow patterns - Looped systems • Eaton-Flannigan
• Hydrate prediction - Flare/relief/networks • Lockhart and Martinelli
• Sonic velocity • Dukler-Eaton-Flannigan
• Critical flow • Beggs and Brill High Velocity
• Line sizing • User-defined

Fitting Models
PREFERENTIAL SPLITTING • Homogenous
• Chisholm
• TUFFP VESSEL DEPRESSURING • User-defined
• Oranje
Single Phase Fluids
• Hong • T.P profiles vs. time • Moody
• Proportional • Composition, flow vs, time • Hazen-Williams
• User-defined • User-defined liquid engagement • Panhandle B
• Straigh through tees
• Weymouth
• Dead end tees
• American Gas Association
• User-defined

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