Dense-phase CO₂ pipeline transport — a PENG-ROBINSON process flowsheet
Supercritical/dense-phase CO₂ loses pressure to pipe friction over a 150 km trunk-line run, gets restored by an intermediate pump station (the fluid stays liquid-like above its critical pressure, so this is a pump — not a compressor), then runs a second 150 km segment — the CCUS transport leg between capture and injection.
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- Rigorous PENG-ROBINSON thermodynamics, solved by the same engine every simulation runs on.
- 2 unit operations modeled: 2× Pipe2, Boost.
- Focus areas: CO2 pipeline, Dense-phase CO2, CCUS, Darcy-Weisbach, Transport.
- Thermodynamics
- PENG-ROBINSON
- Components
- co2
- Unit operations
- 2× Pipe2Boost
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from flowsim.sdk import FlowSimClient
client = FlowSimClient()
example = client.get_example("co2-pipeline-transport")
sim = client.create_simulation(example["title"], example["flowsheet"])
result = client.run_and_wait(sim["id"])
print(result["status"]) # "converged"
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