For example, the case with low incoming temperature (low seabed temperature) will result in highest crude oil heat exchanger load, on the other hand, the case with high seabed temperature will often govern compressor power sizing. This often comes from uncertainty in subsurface reservoir prediction, changes in production blending strategy, and many other reasons. This summary table is required to determine which case will be selected to establish H&MB and operating ranges for equipment sizing.īackground: One problem that I usually found in my Process Engineering career is that there are significantly high number of operating cases to be considered. Below table is what I aim to establish from running various cases in HYSYS in one equipment processing scheme. Perhaps, this might be beneficial for others who have similar problem like me. The goal of this writing is to document and share what I have tried to automate HYSYS modelling for my project.

Sooner or later, this will come to you so let’s start learning how to automate it as the first step! I cannot imagine how near-future young engineers can possibly come up with similar dirty hands experience that I have in the past as they can come with no knowledge and software will do almost everything for him/her.

As an experienced process engineer, we put less and less effort to conduct any equipment sizing nor process calculation. The engineering software starts changing from spreadsheet-based to proprietary tool based which automatically links HYSYS directly to the software. I have observed both small and big companies encouraging their employees to put all repetitive work into automation mode. Starting with automation tasks, this expands significantly in the past few years on all working aspects. Let’s think about how it can and will happen. It sounds scary and does not relate to you currently. Importance: With the coming of AI and computer technology advancement, you might hear the quote that there will be no almost jobs for human in the next 10 years.

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