Long distance multi-phase pipeline study:
Client:
- Rally Engineering Inc. / Statoil Hydro
Narrative:
- Client wanted to analyse options for long distance transport of steam and bitumen-water multiphase flow to a central processing facility (CPF)
Services provided:
- Preliminary pipeline routing studies; Central CPF feasibility; CFD models for the transport of steam; CFD model for emulsion (multiphase) transport; Preliminary experiments on bitumen-water emulsion on a 4” pipeline test facility
CFD Analysis of cooling of Canadian Crude Oils in Storage Tanks:
Client:
BP Pipelines (North America) Inc.
Narrative:
To provide engineering consulting to produce a computational flow dynamics analysis of the cooling of Canadian-sourced crude oil in storage tanks at Manhattan, Il.
Service provided:
Complete computational analysis using of the tanks using Ansys Fluent with and without mechanical agitation. Optimal crude levels and tank uniformity was established
Heating & Mixing Analysis for 250 KBBL Crude Tank, Enbridge Hardisty Merchant Terminal:
Client:
Stantec/Enbridge Pipelines Inc.
Narrative:
Client required assurance that crude dispatch from a tank farm can be dispatched within a specified period even under periods of extreme weather.
Service provided:
Complete computational analysis to determine the cooling characteristics of a crude storage tank capable of holding 250,000 barrels of crude over a wide range of environmental conditions and different fill levels. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was used to calculate the transient cooling process taking into account the variation of crude properties with temperature as well as buoyancy effects. The tank contents consisted of straight diluent.
Improving the Husky Lloyminster upgrader's loop1 and loop2 Amine system reliability and integrity management: .
Client:
Husky Lloydminster Upgrader
Narrative:
The Husky Lloydminster Upgrader (HLU) commissioned VP-SPEC Technologies Inc. in May 2006 to perform an independent study of the equipment deterioration within the Loop 1 (L1) & Loop 2 (L2) Amine Systems. The main objective of this study was to provide recommendations that will significantly improve the reliability and integrity management of these two amine systems.
Service provided:
The Project Workflow was implemented in six distinct steps:
- Analysis for Potential Causes of deterioration using historical information, inspection reports, and equipment failure analyses.
- Identification of significant equipment problems in the L1 & L2 Amine Systems.
- Determination of actual causes by analysing process data, inspection results, and executing
- Corrosion & Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations.; Amine regenerator column
- Model development for deterioration.
- Application of model to anticipate deterioration
- Recommendations to improve the reliability & integrity management of the L1 & L2 Amine System
Feasibility for polysilicon reactor development using novel route: .
Client:
IOSIL Energy Corporation, Albuquerque NM 87102, USA.
Narrative:
- Phase1: Proof of concept studies and identification of computational parameters for polysilicon deposition on a laboratory
- Phase 2: Additional parametric studies on validated model
Service provided:
- Phase1: Proof of concept studies and identification of computational parameters for polysilicon deposition on a laboratory unit were carried out. The mechanism of deposition was delineated and reasonable agreement between experiments and numerical modelling obtained.
- Phase2: Additional parametric studies are required to improve the model based on experiments. Specifically, multi-parameter optimization based on different experimental runs with different precursor concentrations, pressure and flow conditions in order to improve model prediction.