Flaresim

Flare Radiation Analysis

Rev 2.2

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Flaresim Overview
Used in the Design of Flare Systems for

Offshore oil platforms

Gas plants
Refineries
Chemical plants

Assist professional engineers to

Evaluate thermal radiation & noise from flares
Evaluate temperatures of exposed surfaces
Evaluate flare gas dispersion

Flaresim can analyse complex flare systems

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Flaresim Overview
A user friendly interface
Data entry in a mixture of units
Program driven by menu & toolbar
Context sensitive help

Flaresim output is highly customisable

Summary or detailed
l output
Graphical output where appropriate
Standard format exports
p
for further use
(html, xls, csv)

Licensing is either standalone or network

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Flaresim Features
Global calculation options
Fluids, Environments, Stacks
Flare Tips
Receptor Points
Receptor Grids
Assist fluids
User creates as many
instances of each as
required
i d
Copy option for Fluids and
other objects

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Fluids
Defined from Properties - Composition
Component library with most common components
User extendable

E i
Environments
t
Wind
Atmosphere
Background

Single direction or wind rose

Radiation and Noise Attenuation
Solar Radiation and Noise

Stacks
Orientation and dimensions
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Tips
Selection of types
Pipe Sonic - Liquid burner - Combined HP/LP

Seal Types
Fluidic - Molecular

Methods for F factor

User defined Natural Gas Kent Tan Cook High
Efficiency Generic Pipe Modified Chamberlain

Combustion noise methods

Acoustic efficiency Low Noise reference
Standard reference User reference

Location and dimension definition

References a Stack and a Fluid
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Receptor Points
Location
Properties
Emissivity - Absorbtivity
Area Ratio Mass / Unit Area
Mass
Mass Cp
p In
Initial
t al Temperature
emperature

Define constraints for sizing

Max
M Radiation
R d
Max Noise
MaxTemperature
p
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Radiation Calculation
8 methods to calculate incident radiation

Strict API
Flaresim API
Integrated Point Source
Integrated Diffuse Source
Integrated Mixed Source
Brzustowski
Multipoint Brzustowski
Chamberlain

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Noise Calculation
Two basic sources
Combustion noise
Jet noise

Each source has a frequency distribution

Overall noise is the combination of the sources

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Temperature Calculation
Exposed surface heat balance between
The thermal radiation incident at the specified point
Heat losses by radiation and convection

T
Temperature
profile
fil
Net heat received
Heat capacity of the material at the specified point

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Calculation modes
System Rating
Known stack length
Calculated radiation, noise and temperature

Stack S
Sizing
z ng
Sizing to meet radiation, noise and temperature constraints
Constraints defined at receptor points
Minimum and maximum stack len
length
th user defined

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Tip Results
Gas exit velocity and Heat
release
Stack and tip
p pressure
p
drop
p
Purge gas requirements
Combustion gas composition
Table & graphs of
Noise spectrum
2D/3D flame shape
Tables & graphs (JPG,
(JPG PNG,
PNG WMF,
WMF BMP or EMF)
can be exported individually
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Receptor Point Results

Thermal
h
l results
l
Incident radiation
Final temperature
Temperature profile
table and graphic

Wind rose

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Receptor Points Results

Noise results
Total and Average value
Frequency distribution
Spectrum
table and graphic

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Receptor
p
Grids
Defines a rectangular area with multiple receptors
Thermal results
Radiation Isopleths
Temperature Isopleths

Noise results
Average
A
or A
A-weighted
i ht d value
l Is
Isopleths
pl ths

A plot overlay can be defined

Multiple graphical formats (DXF, JPG, PNG, BMP, WMF)

A graphical report can be customised

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Receptor
Grid Results

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Receptor
Grid Results

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Shields
Reduce the radiation at the receptor points
Types according to transmissivity:
Solid
Water
W t screen
User defined

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Shield Effects

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Gas Dispersion Calculation

Jet Dispersion Model
Flame out conditions
Prediction close to the flame
Concentration
C
i of
f flammable
fl
bl gas

Gaussian Gas Dispersion Model

Flared gas or combustion products
Prediction at greater
reater distance from flare
Concentration of uncombusted gas or pollutants

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Jet Dispersion
Results

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Gaussian
G
i
Dispersion Results

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References
Over 100 companies worldwide are using
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Flaresim.
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Aker
Bechtel
Brown & Root
Chiyoda
Foster Wheeler
Fluor Daniel
Kvaerner John Brown
M.W. Kellogg
Snamprogetti
Technip
Worley
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Gas Companies
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Abu Dhabi Gas
Liquefaction
BP Amoco
British Gas
QGPC
Occidental
Mobil
Total

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Flare
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Vendors
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Airoil Flaregas
Argo Flare Services
GBA
Halliburton
Hamworthy
Mactronic
National Airoil
Optima Solutions
Samia srl

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FLARESIM
The reference in flare radiation analysis

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