Once Keynes is fully satisfied that Cadworx delivers more value than PDS did, it intends to begin using Cadworx fully for smaller projects of approximability five to 10 pipelines. (Andrei Merkulov - stock.adobe.com)
Case Study

Transitions to Gain Greater Design Flexibility and Satisfy Interoperability Requirements

Keynes Planungsgesellschaft is a German engineering and construction services company operating since the 1960s, focusing on all phases of plant planning. These range from maintenance projects covering the replacement or repair of small numbers of pipelines to larger projects involving upgrades and equipment retrofits and associated piping to even more complex, large-scale projects involving 500 to 3,000 pipelines. This case study focuses on the transition and Keynes’ experience of moving from PDS to Hexagon’s Cadworx Plant Professional software.

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The “Quest” Carbon Capture and Storage process: (1) The Hydrogen Unit produces hydrogen for the conversion of bitumen to synthetic crude oil. (2) The CO2 is removed from the “syngas” by contacting it with activated amine. Afterwards the CO2 is separated from the amine. (3) The purified CO2 stream is then compressed by a MAN Diesel & Turbo RG90-8 type compressor in eight stages to a discharge pressure of 130 bar. (4) This is sufficient to send the compressed CO2 about 60 kilometres via an underground pipeline to a wellhead. (5) The dense phase CO2 is injected 2.3 kilometres below the surface into a saline rock formation for permanent storage. (Picture: Shell Canada)
Compressors

CO2 Capture with Integrally–Geared Centrifugal Compressor

Oil sands have become a major source of unconventional oil: Canada produces around 1.25 million barrels per day from oil sands. Extracting the oil, nevertheless, causes CO2 emissions. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a new approach to hamper emissions from bitumen extraction. Compressor specialist MAN took the challenge of providing technology for the Quest CCS Project.

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