OLI Engine + Alliance Partners
OLI as a property method in commercial flowsheet simulators
Add OLI as a property method
There is no need to switch from your preferred flowsheet simulator to rigorously calculate the electrolyte sections of your flowsheet. There is an advantage to staying with a UI that you know, with features that are powerful and tailored to your work process.
By adding the OLI Engine to your commercial simulator, you can combine the rigor of OLI’s electrolyte approach with your preferred flowsheet simulation package. When you need an electrolyte model within your flowsheet simulator, OLI recommends one of our joint Alliance Partner products.
By specifying OLI as a property package within any of our Alliance Partner products, you can accurately account for the electrolytes in your system. This technology uses the same OLI Engine that is used in OLI standalone products.
Summary of options
OLI values our relationship with each of our Alliance Partners
OLI Engine in Aspen Plus / HYSYS
OLI's specialty product fits well within AspenTech's comprehensive suite of engineering tools, adding value to Aspen Plus' electrolyte capabilties when tough electrolyte problems occur. AspenTech has made their portion of our joint product standard with every license, so clients only need to purchase the OLI Engine in Aspen Plus / HYSYS to get access to the OLI property method. Aspen OLI products have access to both the MSE and AQ frameworks, making a full range of OLI modeling capability possible.
OLI Engine in UniSim Design
Honeywell has implemented OLI as a property method within UniSim Design. This work includes access to the OLI MSE and AQ model. Please contact either your Honeywell account manager or OLI to evaluate this joint product.
OLI MSE Engine in PRO/II
SimSci was OLI's first Alliance Partner in a relationship that spans decades. Clients currently can use OLI simulation on a limited basis (AQ model for a subset of components) when they purchase Pro/II Electrolytes from SimSci. PRO/II clients are now able to include OLI's full databank and OLI's MSE model in their Pro/II package. Please contact your PRO/II account manager or OLI to get started on using OLI MSE in PRO/II.
OLI Engine in gPROMS
When gPROMS is your simulator of choice, check this joint product that brings electrolyte rigor to the gPROMS system. Please contact either your gPROMS account manager or OLI for more details.
OLI Engine in IDEAS
OLI brings chemistry to IDEAS mass, energy, and momentum balances for hydraulic / thermodynamic systems. This joint product plugs into IDEAS Gold. Please contact your IDEAS account manager or OLI for an application screening.
One flowsheet simulation practice when working with electrolytes is to use the pure component H2O to represent an aqueous process stream. Then, offline of the flowsheet, some approximation of the behavior of the stream can be estimated or calculated.
It is not necessary to work this way, and it will lead to the wrong answer! The wrong answer is worse than no answer at all. Electrolyte chemistry can be complex and challenging to understand and predict, especially for real industrial systems containing many components and operating over broad ranges of temperature, pressure, and concentration.
Simplified aqueous modeling and computational approaches using approximations are usually useless - or worse - dangerously misleading, when applied to real world applications.
Which partner does OLI recommend?
OLI remains steadfastly "simulator-neutral." We are grateful to our Alliance Partners and we value each of their unique characteristics. We do not see a particular company or product as an advantage.
We can sincerely say - we recommend them all!
Your simulator is not listed?
If your simulator is not on the list
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Contact either your simulator company, or OLI, and we can explore the feasibility of OLI as a property method there.
If you have a proprietary simulator
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Take a look at OLI Engine, Developer Edition to add OLI to your calculation capability.
