PVTsim for OLGA

PVTsim by Calsep
Calsep a Danish alliance partner
Founded in 1982
Specialists in PVT and fluid properties
calculations
Ensures most updated PVT calculation
methods for OLGA users

PVTsim
On the market since 1991
Developed for process, reservoir and
laboratory engineers
More than 200 installations worldwide

PVTsim 15 main window

PVTsim OLGA Version

Limited version of full PVTsim package

additional modules available through Calsep

Use PVTsim to

characterize fluids

tune characterized fluid to saturation points

mix fluids by volume, by weight or on molar basis
do flash calculations
calculate phase envelopes
calculate various fluid properties
make OLGA fluid property tables (.tab files)

Basic Models in PVTsim

Equation of state (EOS)
Soave-Redlich-Kwong - Peneloux (SRK-P)
default EOS
Peng-Robinson - Peneloux (PR-P)
Soave-Redlich-Kwong (SRK)
Peng-Robinson (PR)

Water mixed with hydrate inhibitors

EOS with Huron and Vidal (1979) mixing rule

C7+ Characterization Procedure

Pedersen et al, 1984 - estimate distributions of
mol fraction, density and molecular weight

Based on above estimates

Calculate properties of carbon number fractions
Tc , Pc ,acentric factor needed by EOS

Group the carbon number fractions

TBP-fractions + estimated carbon number fractions of
plus fraction into a user defined number of pseudo
components (default 12)

Estimate Molar Distribution

Estimate Density Distribution

Estimate Molecular Weight

Molecular weight versus carbon number fraction

MWN = 14 CN - 4
MWN : Molecular weight
CN : Carbon number fraction

Transport Properties

Viscosity
Corresponding states principle (CSP) - default method
Pedersen et al, 1987
Lohrenz-Bray-Clark (LBC)
same 1964
Thermal Conductivity
Pedersen et al, 1987

Transport Properties cont.

Surface Tension

Gas/oil: Weinaug & Katz 1943

Gas/pure water: API Technical databook, 1983
Oil/pure water: API Technical databook, 1983
Gas/salt water & oil/salt water: Firoozabadi & Ramey, 1988

OLGA Tables Content

General specification
Pressure, temperature, total water mass fraction, gas mass fraction,
water vapor fraction of gas,

Physical properties for each phase

density
density derivatives
enthalpy
heat capacity
entropy
viscosity
thermal conductivity
surface tension

OLGA Tables - Water Flashing

Complete three-phase flash is always performed when water

and other aqeous components(MeOH, MEG etc.) are present,
i.e. full miscibility.

For two-phase tables two liquid phases are lumped into one
liquid with average fluid properties.

OLGA Tables - Water Flashing cont.

Water properties from EOS

Density and viscosity corrected for salts

References

Search in pvtdoc.doc in the PVTsim directory

Characterization

Pedersen: Ind. Chem. Process Des. Dev., 1984, 163 - 170

Mixing rule
Huron, M. J. and Vidal, J.: Fluid Phase Eq. 3, 1979, 255.

Transport properties
Weinaug, C. F. and Katz, D. L., Ind. Eng. Chem. 35, 1943, 239.
Lohrenz, J.,, Bray, B. G. and Clark, C. R.
J. Pet. Technol., Oct. 1964, 1171-1176.
Pedersen et al: Chem. Eng. Sci. 42, 1987, 182-186
Pedersen et al: J. Can. Pet. Tech, 1988
Firoozabadi, A. and Ramey, H. J., Journal of Canadian Petroleum
Technology 27, 1988, pp. 41-48.

PVTsim - Composition Input

PVTsim - Characterized Fluid

PVTsim - Mixing Fluids

PVTsim - Recombining Fluids

PVTsim - Phase Envelope

TEST 4

BHS OIL

C10+

6000

Crit P

5000

4000

3000

2000

1000

0
-100

100

200

300

400
Temperature/F

500

600

700

800

900

PVTsim - OLGA fluid table file input

Specify a sufficiently wide region of P and T.

Account for occasional peak (high and low) values.
e.g.Tmin could be -10 C
Pmin should be 0.5 Bara

Example

Extract of fluid table

Fluid tables - Check the Results!

Check the fluid tables for discontinuities and strange
tendencies as function of P and T e.g.
Gas mass fraction
Densities
Derivatives of hydrocarbon liquid density

Check the single phase regions in particular (gas

mass fraction equals 0 or 1)
Use the plotting facility in the OLGA 5 GUI

OLGA 5 fluid plotting (open a

.tab file)

Densities as function of P at 200 Bara