FlowPlus™

FlowPlus™ is a tool for designing, analyzing, and optimizing oil and gas pipeline systems. It includes a full-featured multi-phase flow model that accurately analyzes single-phase and multi-phase flow through pipeline systems. The software is capable of modeling both gathering systems and transmission pipelines, and incorporates such equipment as producing wells, valves, pumps, compressors, heaters, coolers, and separators. It can also retrieve pipeline data directly from a PipeCraft ™ database.

Key Features

• Simulates single-phase and two-phase flow in oil and gas pipeline networks.
• Uses accurate mechanistic correlations to calculate flow patterns, liquid hold-up, and frictional pressure drop over the full range of inclination angles.
• Reads pipeline data from PipeCraft asset databases.
• Uses powerful network solution algorithm which converges for looped and branched pipeline networks of almost limitless complexity; finds a solution where other programs fail.
• Provides easy-to-use graphical interface for building pipeline models.
• Characterizes fluid properties by using either an equation of state or user-supplied property tables.
• Provides customizable SI and English units sets.
• Provides customizable output reports and graphs.

Integration with PipeCraft

FlowPlus provides a convenient link to pipeline information that is already stored in an asset database. Instead of having to create their flow models from scratch, as with most flow simulation software, FlowPlus users can extract existing asset information from a PipeCraft database. They then only have to add process data such as pressures, temperatures, and flow rates in order to complete their model and run a simulation.