Flow assurance, built into the model
Erosion, hydrate and wax risk screened straight off the pipelines you already solved.
Screened from the model, automatically
Every pipeline's velocity, temperature and pressure comes from the converged solve — no re-keying the hydraulic profile into a separate flow-assurance tool.
Erosional velocity (API RP 14E)
Each pipeline's actual velocity is compared to the API RP 14E erosional limit — the ratio the pipeline solve already computes — flagging lines that run hot on erosion before they thin the wall.
Hydrate formation risk
The inlet temperature is checked against the hydrate-formation temperature at line pressure, so a cold, high-pressure gas line that risks plugging is flagged with its subcooling margin.
Wax deposition risk
Give a pipeline its wax-appearance temperature and any line running below it is flagged — the classic waxy-crude deposition screen, on the same converged model.
Ranked, plant-wide roll-up
Every pipeline lands in one severity-ranked table with an overall status — the alarms first — so the risky lines surface without hunting through the stream table.
One data model with the process
Change a compressor discharge or a feed rate and the velocities, temperatures and pressures move — and the flow-assurance flags move with them. One model, live consequences.
Why this is different
A legacy flow-assurance study is a separate application, run days after the process model, on hand-copied pipeline conditions. Because MaximaLabs's simulator, upstream hydraulics, and screening layer share one unified data model, the erosion, hydrate and wax flags update the instant the process changes — the same pipeline solve that gives you the pressure drop gives you the risk.
Honest by design
- ✓Screening flags: API RP 14E erosional velocity (from the pipeline solve), a log-linear natural-gas hydrate-formation correlation, and a wax-appearance-temperature comparison — order-of-magnitude, not a design deliverable.
- ✓The hydrate check is a correlation, not a CSMGem/Multiflash equilibrium — replace it with a rigorous hydrate model and measured inhibitor data for design.
- ✓The wax check compares temperature to a user-supplied WAT — it does not model deposition rate, gel strength, or restart pressure.
- ✓This is a steady-state screen of each pipeline's operating point, not a transient multiphase (OLGA-class) flow profile with slugging and holdup dynamics.
- ✓The solver produces every velocity, temperature and pressure; this layer only compares them to published thresholds — it never invents a process number.
From flowsheet to flow-assurance screen in one place
Open the Flow Assurance panel on any solved simulation and read every pipeline's erosion, hydrate and wax status — ranked, with the alarms first.
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