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1. Developing HYSYS Material Stream

1.1. Component and Fluid List Selection
Select the Fluid Components of the stream and Fluid Packages

Figure 1: Fluid Component

Figure 2 : Fluid package

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1.2. Stream Composition and Operating Parameters
Provide Stream Composition of Material Stream and Operating Parameters (Pressure, Temperature, Flow
rate, Vapour fraction, etc) for which the Bulk modules to be calculated.

Figure 3: Stream composition

Figure 4: Operating conditions

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1.3. Fluid Properties
Note the mass density of the fluid calculated at the operating conditions.

Figure 5: Fluid Properties

1.4. Property Table

In Attachment tab, click on Analysis option and Create which shall open a new window of ‘Available Stream
Analysis’. Click on Property Table and select Add.

Figure 6: Property Table

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1.5. Property Table- Independent variables
In Property Table window, Name the table suitable.

In Independent Variable option

1) Variable 1, Temperature select Lower Bound the operating temperature of the fluid and Upper
Bound as 1 degree higher than Operating Temperature. Select # of Increment as 1.
2) Variable Option 2, Pressure select Lower Bound the vapour pressure of the fluid at operating
temperature of the fluid and Upper Bound as maximum Surge pressure estimated / Piping design
pressure. Select # of Increment as 10.

Figure 7: Property Table- Independent variables

1.6. Property Table – Dep. Properties

In the same Design tab, Click on Dep. Prop (below the Connections option) and click Add which will open
another window Variable Navigator.

Scroll through variables and Select Mass Density and Click OK

Click on Calculate at the bottom of the tab.

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Figure 8: Property Table – Dep. Properties

Figure 9: Property Table – Dep. Properties (Mass Density)

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1.7. Property Table – Performance
In performance tab, select the Table option, where you can find the Temperature, Pressure and Mass
Density data at Operating Temperature and 1 degree higher temperature.

Figure 10: Property Table – Performance (Table)

In the same tab, click on Plots and View Plots to see graph of the Density v/s Pressure at different
temperature.

Figure 11: Property Table – Performance (Plot)

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2. Bulk Modulus calculation
2.1. Bulk Modulus (K)) 1
The bulk modulus can be formally defined by the equation

Where is pressure, is volume, and denotes the derivative of pressure with respect to volume.
Equivalently

Where ρ is density and dP/dρ denotes the derivative of pressure with respect tto
o density. The inverse of the
bulk modulus gives a substance's compressibility.
compressibility

2.2. Calculating dp and d

dρ
1) As per the Property Table – Performance (Table) mentioned in Figure 10,
Note down the minimum and maximum ximum pressures (PHigh and PLow) and corresponding Mass Densit
Densities
(ρHigh and ρLow) (ignore the Vapour phase and 2 phase L-V values)
2) dP = PHigh - PLow
3) dρ = ρHigh - ρLow

2.3. Calculating Bulk Modulus

Where,

K is Bulk Modulus (Pascal)

ρ is Density at operating conditions (kg/m3) (Calculated in Figure 5)

dP is Pressure difference (Pascal)

dρ is density difference (kg/m3)

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