Flaretot

The integration of Flaretot with KBC software portfolio offers a comprehensive simulation solution to manage the design, revamp and auditing of oil and gas flare networks to ensure safety, efficiency and emissions reduction. 

Offshore oil and gas construction platform with flare
Flaretot screenshot Radiation Contour Chart

Integrated Flare System Design

Flaretot is a rigorous network simulation tool featuring advanced blowdown analysis, facilitating the rapid design and rating of flare systems. When integrated with Petro-SIM and Multiflash, it offers engineers precise calculations for efficient system monitoring and reporting, preventing undersizing, ensuring safe operations, and avoiding fugitive emissions. The tool’s comprehensive auditing and vessel blowdown calculations allow engineers to quantify unplanned emissions and ensure compliance with safety and environmental regulations. ​

Flaretot Screenshot Offshore FPSO Relief Valve Specification

Oilfield Flaring

Integrating Flaretot with the KBC Integrated Asset Modeling solution offers a comprehensive, multiscale view of subsea production and topsides processing facilities. This allows for precise flare system design from the project’s early stages, minimizing design changes throughout its lifecycle. With thorough flare analysis, engineers can enhance upstream operations, monitor equipment, and analyze flaring to reduce emissions, supporting net zero objectives. 

Flaretot Screenshot Flare Network

Flare Management in Downstream Operations

Flaretot plays a crucial role in refining by enabling precise design and optimization of flare systems, ensuring safe and efficient operations. This tool not only helps in monitoring and controlling emissions but also provides insights into the evolution of the plume in the atmosphere, allowing for better environmental management. Additionally, Flaretot’s capability to simulate noise distribution across facilities helps in mitigating noise pollution, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and enhancing the overall safety and environmental performance of the refinery. The integration of Flaretot with Petro-SIM offers a holistic solution for refinery-wide process optimization and emissions reduction, further supporting sustainable and efficient refining operations.

Integrated and Holistic Flare System Design

Flaretot provides engineers with a safe, reliable and accurate flare system solution for seamless operations and sustainability.

Optimize Efficiency

Through rigorous first-principles modeling and integration with KBC simulation software and field data, Flaretot empowers engineers to accurately simulate entire processes, ensuring optimal sizing and operation of relief valves, flare system networks, and pressure vessels during blowdown events. This results in enhanced system design and streamlined operations.

Safety & Compliance

The integration of Flaretot with KBC production, process and energy modeling software solutions, enables the creation of a detailed digital twin of a single unit or an entire facility. This allows for accurate dynamic and steady-state simulations of operating scenarios, ensuring safety, regulatory compliance, and reduced environmental impact.

A Single Platform

KBC integrated process and production simulation platform offers a robust, user-friendly ecosystem that brings together comprehensive production and process modeling with flare analysis tools into a single solution. This provides the foundations for the deployment of accurate digital representations of the asset, offering insights for optimal design and operations.

From Multiscale Process Models to Real-time Data Reporting

Flaretot comprises several design modules for flare and safety calculations.

Multiscale Process Model
Advanced Thermodynamics
Relief Load
Blowdown Process
Flare Radiation
Noise Monitoring
Pollutant Dispersion
Data Integration, Visualization and Reporting

Simulate from one unit to full facility

Achieve accurate representation with Flaretot of the production and processing facilities in steady states, and life of field mode, at different levels, from the single unit to the entire asset.

Model fluids using Multiflash software

Accurately model reservoir fluids, natural gas, chemicals, fuel oils, bio-fuels, CO2, Hydrogen, Steam etc. with advanced thermodynamics and flow assurance modeling capabilities powered by Multiflash.

Size relief devices accurately

Generate relief load calculations for fire, gas blowby and tube rupture. Accurately simulate and size relief devices to protect vessels, piping, equipment and heat exchangers. Calculations integrate with network sources for network relief loads and relief valve sizing.

Predict liquid dropout & avoid thermal shocks

Accurately predict the blowdown process of pressure vessels, estimate the liquid dropout and cooling of the fluids and the facilities to avoid excessive thermal shocks.

Forecast impact on assets & facilities

Calculate the evolution of the flare radiation and plume of pollutants over time from multiple flare points and based on current ambient conditions, to accurately predict and mitigate the environmental impact of flaring. 

Estimate operational noise levels

Estimate the noise produced by flares, control valves and piping with Flaretot.

Identify source location & intensity to reduce impact

Calculate the combined pollutant dispersion from any number of flares and manage flared or flame-out conditions.

Actionable insights with real-time data and monitoring

Seamlessly integrate real-time data, and user-friendly and customizable reporting for compliance, safety, and environmental auditing purposes, as well as real-time monitoring and management of the facilities.

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Maria Guerra

Simulation Services and Support Team Lean EMEA

Our expert on Flaretot

Process safety is an integral part to chemical process engineering. Any plant modification from capacity expansion, yield increase of valuable products, heat integration, use of new and renewables feedstocks as well as new and cleaner processes must ensure that materials, plant workers, nearby population and the environment are protected in case of any event.

Flaretot is a flare network design and simulation program that expands its calculations upstream to the relief loads, the process safety valves and rupture disks and downstream of the flare with the radiation profiles and its impact in the structure’s temperature, contaminant dispersion profiles and flare noise.

Flaretot provides increased efficiency in the analysis of process safety as it's contained in a single tool to allow owner operators, engineering companies as well as equipment manufacturers to focus on environmental protection.

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