OLI Systems has just
launched a new CO2 Transportation App to improve CCUS* process design
and asset reliability. OLI is a digital chemistry specialist working in
upstream and downstream oil and gas to provide chemistry and corrosion
insights, combining plant data with process engineering expertise. The
new CO2 app is to address the needs of the embryonic carbon capture and
storage industry which will need to transport CO2 over long distances,
from industrial emitters to sequestration sites. Corrosion avoidance
requires an understanding of the behavior of dense phase CO2, said to
be ‘complex and unpredictable’. This forces operators to make difficult
choices, operating in sub-optimal conditions or risking pipeline
failure. The app models impurities, such as H2S, NOx, SOx, and H2O, in
dense phase CO2 transportation conditions, predicting corrosive phases
or solid formations in CO2 pipelines. The app is said to ‘democratize’
first-principles-based predictive models through a simple user
experience, helping organizations understand and optimize CO2
transport. More from OLI.
In a separate announcement, OLI Systems has signed a downstream joint venture with Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions to ‘accelerate digital transformation in the oil and gas industry with water chemistry insights’. OLI is to provide its expertise in electrolyte-intensive applications in refining to Veolia’s team of field engineers and experts in refining and petrochemicals. Target applications include crude distillation units, FCC, hydro processing and water stripping, leveraging OLI’s ‘comprehensive chemical property database and rigorous thermodynamic models’. More from Veolia.
* Carbon capture, use and sequestration.
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