Oil Refinery Facility- Fire Fighting Water System Verification

The client, an engineering firm, contracted IPS to execute a computer simulation of the Fire Fighting water system in support of the design of an expansion of the production units.
The simulations were executed to determine the following:

• The hydraulic profiles of both existing and new water lines
• New water flow rates for both existing and new and distribution lines
• New distribution line sizes
• Required system pressures for the design and specification of new water pumps

IPS used the fluid flow package associated with licensed commercial process simulation software to perform the Fire Fighting water modelling runs.
Detailed inputs including pipe lengths, number and types of pipe fittings, pipe sizes and elevation changes, pipe material and roughness, etc. were input to the program to obtain accurate hydraulic profiles for the entire system.
Multiple runs were performed for the purpose of optimizing system design.
IPS flow diagrams (PFD) prepared via the simulation software were the final project deliverables.