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Core Elements: OLI Flowsheet: ESP

OLI Flowsheet: ESP is an electrolyte-based process simulator that performs mass, energy and species balances for industrial applications. It contains over 30 generalized units that can be configured into over 100 unit operations. ESP utilizes the OLI Engine, which predicts properties of multi-component, multi-phase systems using accurate activity and fugacity coefficient predictions developed over 45 years of research. Common applications modeled in ESP include water purification, oil and gas production, and power generation processes involving electrolyte systems.

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Core Elements: OLI Flowsheet: ESP

OLI Flowsheet: ESP is an electrolyte-based process simulator that performs mass, energy and species balances for industrial applications. It contains over 30 generalized units that can be configured into over 100 unit operations. ESP utilizes the OLI Engine, which predicts properties of multi-component, multi-phase systems using accurate activity and fugacity coefficient predictions developed over 45 years of research. Common applications modeled in ESP include water purification, oil and gas production, and power generation processes involving electrolyte systems.

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OLI Flowsheet: ESP

OLI Flowsheet: ESP is an electrolyte-based, steady-state process simulator. It performs energy-, mass-, and
species-balance for industrial and research applications. The tool has thirty generalized units that can be
configured to over one-hundred units and unit operations. It is a one-of-a-kind software, developed by electrolyte
specialists to support fully electrolyte applications within a flowsheet environment. ESP is also the most complete
flowsheet implementation of OLI’s electrolyte thermodynamics technology.

Core Elements
The core elements of OLI Flowsheet:
ESP are the ESP Blocks and the OLI
Engine.

✓ The ESP blocks contain


electrolyte-specific features for pH
control, membrane purification,
mass transfer limitation, and other
important chemical engineering
mechanisms.

✓ The OLI Engine predicts


equilibrium states of multi-phase
(gas-oil-water-solid-interface)
systems.

ESP Blocks
The simulation blocks within ESP are optimized for electrolytes. The block calculations, which are varied, are
designed to for efficient data input, review, and manipulation. Specialized blocks, such as membrane, crystallizer,
and mass-transfer limited towers, provide the user with first-principle predictions for these separation
technologies. A generalized list of ESP blocks are provided below.

Conventional Multi-stage Specialized Control Other


Mixers Absorbers Reactors Feedback Compressors
Splitters Strippers Neutralizer Feedforward Pumps
Separators Distillation Precipitator Valve/manipulator Energy Transfer
Heat Exchangers LLE Extractor Crystallizer Sensitivity Calculator
Filters Saturator Autoclave
Settlers Dehydrator
Membrane
Electrodialysis
Electrolyzer

OLI Engine
The OLI Engine is the product of a 45+ year applied research effort to predict the properties of multi-component
(ions & molecules), multi-phase systems. Such a goal requires accurate prediction of activity and fugacity
coefficients. Peer-reviewed, state-of-science theories that predict activities are the centerpiece of the OLI
Engine. OLI Engine features include.

• 80 elements chemistry – expandable to new species


• Oxidation –reduction reactions including reaction limited states
• Rate-limiting kinetic reactions
• Hydrocarbon pseudocomponents
OLI Flowsheet: ESP

OLI Engine features (continued):

• Supercritical phases
• pH and alkalinity reconcilation
• Solid Phase editing
• Activity coefficient models
o Strong Electrolyte (AQ) to 30 molal
o Mixed Solvent electrolyte (MSE) to fused-salt and miscible liquid limit
• Equation of State range: -0 to 1500+ atm and -50C to 90% of Critical T

Common Applications
ESP is used in a myriad of applications because of the chemistry breadth covered by the OLI Engine and because
of the ESP block versatility. Therefore, ESP is used in water-purification & processing, oil and gas production,
steam generation, power generation, and utility water. The list below are some example plant applications that
are commonly modeled with ESP.

• Wet/dry flue gas scrubbing and oxidation • Crude tower overhead desublimation
• Sour water stripping • Glycol regeneration
• Autoclaves • Chlor-alkali generation
• Claus plants • Forward osmosis
• Benfield Process • Potash processing
• Amine sweetening and regeneration • Pond evaporation and lithium isolation
• Seawater desalination • Urea production
• OTSG water purification and blowdown • Multiple Effect evaporation

Capabilities
✓ Flowsheet simulation with Streams are carried on a true-species basis and all speciation is considered
speciation for the range of conditions
✓ Comprehensive databank The complete OLI databank has coverage for the electrolyte chemistry of 80
elements, and several thousand aqueous organics, hydrocarbons, and solid
phases
✓ Sensitivity Analysis (2017) Scan the sensitivity of output variables on adjustable input parameters or
species.
✓ Controllers Simple to complex controllers, nested recycles, and flow/component
manipulate blocks are used to make converging on the steady-state solution
more quickly.
✓ Calculator (2017) Interface to Excel for user-supplied calculations
✓ Mass Transfer Limited The user has the ability to set the overall transfer efficiency, individual
tower species mass transfer coefficients, or utilize the list of four column and
sixteen packing types.

Included with OLI Flowsheet: ESP


OLI Studio: Stream Analyzer For in-depth chemistry studies of your electrolyte chemistry

www.olisystems.com 240 Cedar Knolls Road, Suite 301, Cedar Knolls, NJ USA 07927
+1-973-998-0240 [email protected]

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