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 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900
Temperature/°F
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