Petro-SIM 7.1 New Hydraulic Options
Hydraulics Subflowsheet
- Petro-SIM allows you to solve simple or complex hydraulic networks using Maximus as engine
- Maximus is a modern, purpose built tool for compositional thermal hydraulic steady state simulations of pipeline networks, including reservoirs, wells, chokes, flowlines and a wide range of processing equipment.
- Maximus offers the following main features
- Great functionality and ease of use
- Rigorous physics
- Allows large a complex networks to be simulated in detail
- New features in Petro-SIM v7.1 include:
- Improved performance/speed with multithreading when Multiflash is used as thermodynamic package.
- Additional Maximus unit operations:
- Simple separator
- 2 phase separator
- 3 phase separator
- FloWax operation

New Maximus palette
Note: This feature does require an additional license beyond the standard Petro-SIM license.