Aspen HYSYS pipe

modelling options

Wim Van Wassenhove, Aspentech

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 Summary of available Pipe options and
licenses

 Pipe segment
– Standard feature in HYSYS
– Optional add-on license to use OLGA 2-phase, or 3-phase correlations in the
Pipe unit
 Compressible Gas Pipe
 Pipe included in Valve (shortcut option for Dynamics)
– Requires HYSYS Dynamics license
 PIPESYS
– Requires separate PIPESYS license
 Links to Pipesim and Prosper/Gap
– Requires HYSYS Upstream license
 Aspen Hydraulics
– Requires HYSYS Upstream and/or HYSYS Upstream Dynamics license
 Link to OLGA
– Requires HYSYS Upstream Dynamics license

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 Capabilities

 Three main capability differentiators

– Steady State vs. Dynamic modelling (SS / DYN)
– Single line piping vs. Network modelling (SL or NET)
– Single phase vs. multiphase modelling (SP or MP)
 Assess your needs in terms of these capabilities
– See table on next slide

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 Capability overview

Operation SS/SL/SP SS/SL/MP SS/NET/SP SS/NET/MP DYN/SL/SP DYN/SL/MP DYN/NET/SP DYN/NET/MP

Pipe segment X X X X
Compressible Gas Pipe (*) X X X
Pipe included in Valve X X
Pipesys X X
Link to Pipesim, Prosper/Gap X X X X
Aspen Hydraulics X X X X X X X X
Link to OLGA X X X X X X X X
(*) Only gas phase calculations
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 HYSYS Pipe Segment

 Part of standard HYSYS Steady State & Dynamics for

modelling process piping and transport pipelines
 Needs feed and product streams, plus an Energy stream
 Represents “multi-segment” single line
 Segments can be pipes (different lengths, elevations,
diameters), or fittings
7 8 9
6

5
1 2 3
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 HYSYS Pipe Segment

 Limited network capabilities

 For a single pipe you can specify 2 out of Pin, Pout & Flow
 Alternatively, give all 3 (Pin, Pout & Flow) and it will calculate
Length (for single segment only)
 For a single branched system of 3 pipes could specify, say, P1 &
the 2 flows
 Calculates P2
 Set mixer to equalize pressures, therefore P3 = P2
 Calculates P4 and then P5
P1 P2
flow
P5
P4 P3
flow
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 HYSYS Pipe Segment

 Limited network capabilities

 A typical gathering network will have well flows that depend
on the back pressure of the network and a discharge
pressure.
 Limited network models can be done with Adjust blocks to
balance pressures (use Simultaneous Adjusts)
 A network that gathers more than five wells is usually slow
to solve. Could do more wells with some flows fixed

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 HYSYS Pipe Segment

 Can model single phase and multiphase

– Wide choice of multi phase correlations (see documentation
for details)
 Can model heat loss in detail
– Can estimate heat transfer coefficient with Fluid + metal + 1
layer of insulation
– Ambient medium can be Air,
Ground or Water
– Alternatively enter a coefficient
for pipe, or for each segment
– Or, specify heat loss

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 HYSYS Pipe Segment

 Runs in dynamics, but does

not consider phase slip
 Option to use OLGA 2-phase
or 3-phase correlations in
PIPE
 The pipe model
can predict
typical slug length
and frequency

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 Compressible Gas pipe

 Part of standard HYSYS Steady State & Dynamics

 Represents single line piping, no fittings
 Can only model single phase vapour
 Can model the momentum balance
– Suitable for pressure surge calculations
 Simple heat loss model
 There is no reason to use this in Steady State
– The pipe segment will do a better job
– Only use in steady state as a start for dynamic model
 Only do this if in dynamics the momentum balance is required

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 Pipe included in valve

 Only works in dynamics

 Used to add piping pressure loss with minimal effort
 No multiphase correlations
 No elevation profile possible

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 PIPESYS

 Third party product from

Neotech (SPT Group)
 Represents single line piping
and includes fittings
– No advantage over pipe
segment for in-plant piping
(e.g. less fittings)
– Alternative to PIPE for
modelling transmission
pipelines
 Not in main unit operation
palette
 Use Flowsheet > Add
Operation… then select
Extensions and PIPESYS
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 PIPESYS

 More flexibility in the definition of the piping elevation

profile compared to Pipe segment
 Can specify:
– Horizontal distance
along pipe from
Origin
– Run for each pipe
– Length of each pipe
 And
– Rise (-ve = fall)
– Elevation relative to
Origin
– Angle of pipe
 In PIPESYS, com-
pressors, pumps,
heaters, coolers can also be included in the pipe run.

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 PIPESYS

 Can model single phase and multiphase

– Wide choice of multi phase correlations
– Can specify different correlations for horizontal, vertical and
inclined flow (currently not in Pipe Segment, will be in V7.3)
 Can model heat loss in detail
– Fluid + metal + multiple layers of insulation
 Slug size estimation for pigging operations
 Pipeline cool down calculation for shut in pipe
 Can also use OLGAS correlations in PIPESYS
 Same network limitations as standard HYSYS PIPE unit

examples
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 Links to Pipesim and Prosper/Gap

 Part of the HYSYS Upstream Option

 Useful if you already use one of these tools
 Only the link is provided!
 Tools provide capability to model single and multi phase
flow networks

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 Aspen Hydraulics

 Requires an additional license

– HYSYS Upstream in steady state
– HYSYS Upstream Dynamics
 Aimed at modelling pipelines and pipeline networks
– Limited choice of fittings (valve, swage)
– Full range of fittings available in V7.3
 Can model heat loss in detail
– Fluid + metal + multiple layers of insulation
 2 and 3 phase transient analysis
 Pipeline cool down calculation for shut in pipe

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 Aspen Hydraulics Steady State

 Topology
– Straight Run
– Convergent Branched
– Looped/Divergent
 Unit Operations
– Pipe Segment (with/without Heat Transfer)
– Valve
– Mixer/Tee (Calculates Flow Direction and Pressure Drop)
– Swage
– Full range of fittings in V7.3
 Composition Tracking
– Fully Compositional Model using an Equation Of State
– Black Oil

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 Aspen Hydraulics Transient

 Topology
– Straight Run
– Convergent Branched
– Looped/Divergent
 Solver Technology
– ProFES Two Phase Transient
– ProFES Three Phase Transient
Liquid Holdup Profile During Pigging
– Two Phase Pigging Model
– Slug Prediction
 Terrain Induced
 Flow Induced

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 Aspen Hydraulics

 Use Flowsheet > Upstream Operations …. To display the

Upstream palette
 Select the Aspen Hydraulics icon

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 Aspen Hydraulics

 This creates a sub-

flowsheet for the
Aspen Hydraulics
calculations
 Along with a palette of
unit ops allowed in
Aspen Hydraulics

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 Aspen Hydraulics
Unit Operations

 Pipe (Single segment)

 Complex Pipe (Multi-segment)
 Swage
 Valve
 Tee-junction (Mixer)
 Tee-junction (Splitter)
 Orifice
 Bend

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Aspen Hydraulics

P specified

Typically use valves

with unspecified
Pressure drop to give
correct degrees of
freedom

P calculated

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 OLGA Link

 Requires the HYSYS Upstream Dynamics license

 Aimed at modelling pipelines and pipeline networks
 2 and 3 phase transient analysis

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