TINA is a collaborative project between IFP Energies Nouvelles and TOTAL. Objectives are to develop CAPE-OPEN Unit Operations in the field of flow assurance. Therefore, two different kinds of Pipe Unit operations have been developed:
Static pipe
- Flow under steady-state conditions is solved through the whole pipe
- Fully compositional calculations are performed
- 2-phase and 3-phase hydrodynamic correlations are used
- Thermal exchanges with the surrounding environment are taken into account
- Several pipe insulation options are available
Transient pipe
- DFM: Drift Flux Model
- NPW: No Pressure Wave model
- Main features
- Mass, momentum and energy balances are solved
- Models are fully compositional
- 2 phase and 3 phase hydrodynamic module has been developed to ensure continuity and derivability of hydrodynamic functions for robust calculations
Furthermore a Simple Transient PI (Productivity Index) module has been developed that correlates the well production rate to the drawdown.
TINA applications have been validated within Aspen Hysys, Aspen Plus, PRO/II, COFE and IndissPlus especially for transient calculations, with also different CAPE-OPEN Thermodynamic Systems such as MultiFlash, Simulis Thermodynamics, TEA.