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OLI Course Introduction
OLI Course Introduction
OLI Course Introduction
Thermodynamic Frameworks
Phase Selection and Manipulation
Names Manager and Units Manager
Calculation Objects
Plotting, Reporting, Customization tools;
Water Analysis charge and pH
reconciliation
Corrosion Analyzer
Corrosion Analyzer is a module within the OLI
Studio. A separate license enables this module.
Highlights include:
Studio ScaleChem
ScaleChem was OLI Systems standalone,
upstream software. This software is now a
component within the OLI Studio. Studio
ScaleChem can perform the following operations
within both OLI thermodynamic frameworks
(Mixed Solvent Electrolytes and Aqueous) and
special databases:
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The Navigator Pane displays streams and calculation objects in a branched hierarchy. Below this is the
Action Pane, which lists all the objects of Studio modules enabled by a clients OLI license. The Calculation
Status and Output bars are on by default but can be hidden. Clients will mostly work in the Description /
Definition area, which is contextual - changing depending on which object a client is working on.
Menu Bar
Notable features within the menu bar are explained below. View, Window, Help are options
File
This File menu contains standard
options like New, Save, Print, etc.
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Edit
Streams
Calculations
The Calculations menu
contains all the calculations
found in the Actions pane, as
well as more specific
calculation types.
Chemistry
Clients can adjust the chemistry of the software in this menu
Selecting Model Options opens a submenu with that allows clients to
make advanced changes to the chemistry of the software.
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Tools
This menu item contains several features.
Component Search allows clients search for species in the OLI database.
Names Manager
Names Style: clients select how to Search Criteria: clients determine Names Dictionary: clients can
view chemical names i.e. by
how the software searches for
rename components with this tab
Formula, Display Name or the OLI components. The default option is or import dictionaries used by OLI
convention (TAG names).
to search by all available names.
software.
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Navigation Pane
The Navigator Pane or tree level contains the list of streams and calculations that are active within a file.
This view contains the icons and names of each action in a hierarchical tree. The Description/Definition
pane changes depending on the level that is highlighted. A plus sign next to an object in the stream level
indicates that that stream or object has substreams or branches. There are three main levels here.
Filename A star next to a filename indicates that it has not been saved
Global Streams Level Provides the broadest view of Navigator objects
Stream Level Chemistry is entered at this level.
Calculation Level Most calculations (except mixing blocks) are
subordinate to streams and appear as substreams. Certain streams (i.e.
ScaleChem objects) have embedded calculations.
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Action Pane
This view contains selectable action icons. Each icon represents either a new stream input or new
calculation. Additional actions will appear depending on what kind of stream we are working with.
After adding an item from the action pane, the action appears as a stream in the Navigator menu.
Depending on the item selected, additional actions may appear in the actions pane. Items can also be
selected from the menu bar.
Calculation Types
Once a client selects or highlights an object, object-specific calculations become available in the Actions
bar. Stream and Water Analysis objects each have s specific set of calculations. The calculation available
within a Water Analysis object is called a Reconciliation. Available Stream calculations are:
Single Point calculations
compute the properties for a stream at one set of conditions.
Clients choose from isothermal, dew point, bubble point, precipitation point, or custom.
Multiple Point or Survey calculations
are a series of single-point calculations in which
independent variables such as temperature adjusts with `each calculation (e.g., a temperature survey).
Up to two variables can be adjusted simultaneously, and a third can be fixed (e.g., pH or bubble point
pressure/temperature). There are several examples of multiple point calculations in the TOT manual.
Chemical or Stability Diagrams,
also known as real-solution Pourbaix diagrams, plot
the phase stability region across a two-independent-variable range. An example would be Calcite
stability when a pH and CO2 vary.
Corrosion Rate calculations
compute the general and localized corrosion rates of metals
and alloys. They contain both single- and multiple-point calculations
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