OVERVIEW

Automate process design and operations performance analysis

The OLI Cloud APIs are modern, REST based APIs to access the OLI Engine for chemical stream analysis, mineral scaling, aqueous corrosion and process simulation of industrial chemical applications.

The OLI Cloud APIs leverage first principles-based analysis capabilities with an unparalleled chemistry property database and three thermodynamic models that deliver accurate, rigorous multi-component calculations for the broadest range of phenomena and operating conditions. These are the same first principles-based models and database capabilities that are currently available in the OLI Windows platform.

Automation of electrolyte calculations, database integrations and performance dashboard/API development for chemical stream analysis, prediction of scaling tendencies and design of operating windows using REST APIs to access OLI Engine in the cloud. Custom software development and process design services are available as optional services from OLI.

 

Key technology capabilities

  • Automate electrolyte calculations for research and engineering teams to raise productivity
  • Integrate electrolyte calculations with operations databases (e.g., Pi) to analyze operations
  • Develop KPIs, IOWs, dashboards to manage operations with OLI’s consulting services

 

Key simulation capabilities

  • Equilibrium calculations – solid-aqueous-vapor-organic phase distribution
  • Advanced mechanisms – redox, kinetics, surface reactions, etc.
  • Advanced property calculations – ORP, water activity, transport properties, etc.
  • Single point equilibrium calculations – isothermal, set pH, bubble and dew points, etc.
  • Multiple point equilibrium calculations, plots – trends in pH, T, P, concentration, etc.
  • Simple mix and separate capabilities

 

Sample process applications

  • Mitigate corrosion risk with amine chloride sublimation
  • Optimize materials selection with high-pressure autoclave formulation
  • Improve process design with gas-phase condensation
  • Improve process design and materials selection with pH prediction
  • Eliminate toxic contamination with trace and heavy metal simulation

Automate electrolyte calculations, database integrations and performance dashboard/API development for prediction of aqueous corrosion and design of operating windows using REST APIs to access OLI Engine in the cloud. Custom software development and process design services are available as optional services from OLI.

 

Key technology capabilities

  • Automate electrolyte calculations for research and engineering teams to raise productivity
  • Integrate electrolyte calculations with operations databases (e.g., Pi ) to analyze operations
  • Develop KPIs, IOWs, dashboards to manage operations with OLI’s consulting services

 

Key simulation capabilities

  • Thermophysical, electrochemical modules for predictive kinetics, thermodynamics analysis
  • Active-passive transition, effects of solution species on passivity.
  • Effects of T, P, pH, concentration, velocity, materials and process changes on corrosion
  • E-pH, Pourbaix, E-species and Stability diagrams, general corrosion rates
  • Effects of heat treatment, kinetics and transport properties
  • Automatic inclusion of redox and real-solution calculations

 

Sample process applications

  • Reduce experimental costs with screening to focus lab and plant tests
  • Mitigate operational risk by prediction of “Hot spots” for sensor locations
  • Improve asset performance by prediction of Useful remaining service life
  • Improve design with predicting effect of pH, composition, temperature on corrosion
  • Optimize design with lab and plant screening sensitivity studies
  • Improve operations efficiency with failure diagnosis and avoidance
  • Improve operations by simulating seawater injection, ion-stripping
  • Optimize design and improve operations efficiency with optimal material selection

Automate electrolyte calculations, database integrations and performance dashboard/API development for prediction of mineral scaling and design of operating windows using REST APIs to access OLI Engine in the cloud. Custom software development and process design services are available as optional services from OLI.

 

Key technology capabilities

  • Automate electrolyte calculations for research and engineering teams to raise productivity
  • Integrate electrolyte calculations with operations databases (e.g., Pi ) to analyze operations
  • Develop KPIs, IOWs, dashboards to manage operations with OLI’s consulting services.

 

Key simulation capabilities

  • Full phase equilibrium calculations – vapor, brine, oil & multiple solid phases
  • Quantitative partitioning of acid gases & volatile fatty acids in the vapor-brine-oil phases.
  • Mix and separate capabilities to model production facilities
  • Simulation of fluid production from reservoir
  • Computation of phase mass balance, scale tendencies, scale mass of production fluids in the production line
  • Process-oriented, allowing step-by-step visualization of the application
  • Database that covers non-standard and exotic scales

 

Sample process applications

  • Mitigate operational risk by prediction of evaporative scaling of NaCl
  • Improve design by prediction of reservoir saturation in dolomitic reservoirs
  • Improve design with gas-lift injection, effects of gas composition, hydration on scaling
  • Optimize design by mixing multiple waters at a gathering location, varying flow rates
  • Improve operations by simulating seawater injection, ion-stripping

Automation of electrolyte calculations, database integrations and performance dashboard/API development for process simulation – energy, mass and species balance – and design of operating windows using REST APIs to access OLI Engine in the cloud. Custom software development and process design services are available as optional services from OLI.

 

Key simulation capabilities

  • Energy, mass, species balance
  • pH control, membrane purification, mass transfer limitation (ESP Blocks)
  • Multi-phase systems (OLI Engine)
  • Controllers
  • Specialized ESP blocks and 100+ unit operations designed for electrolytes; RO membrane
  • Flowsheet simulation with speciation, sensitivity analysis, diffusion, mobility and permeability calculations
  • Effects of temperature, salinity, and speciation on viscosity, osmotic pressure, diffusivity constants, and other critical transport properties.
  • Effects of temperature, salinity, and speciation on viscosity, osmotic pressure, diffusivity constants, and other critical transport properties.

 

Sample process applications

  • Mitigate operational risk by prediction of evaporative scaling of NaCl
  • Improve design by prediction of reservoir saturation in dolomitic reservoirs
  • Improve design with gas-lift injection, effects of gas composition, hydration on scaling
  • Optimize design by mixing multiple waters at a gathering location, varying flow rates
  • Improve operations by simulating seawater injection, ion-stripping

Foundational capability to create custom chemistry models that can be used by other OLI Cloud APIs to enable electrolyte chemistry calculations for a broad range of industrial applications. The API uses the same first principles-based models and property database capabilities that are currently available in the OLI Windows platform.

 

Key technology capabilities

  • Automate development of chemistry models for electrolyte calculations with the OLI Engine
  • Enable access to these models through REST APIs with the OLI Engine

Key simulation capabilities

  • Develop complex chemistry models using the unparalleled electrolyte property database and thermodynamic models for electrolyte chemistry calculations including chemical stream analysis, mineral scaling, aqueous corrosion and process flow / process simulation.

Key simulation applications

  • This API is a key enabler of electrolyte chemistry based calculations with the OLI Cloud APIs for chemical stream, mineral scaling, aqueous corrosion and process flow over a very broad range of operating conditions in industrial applications.

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