ScaleChem: Studio or Standard?

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OLI Studio: ScaleChem is software developed in conjunction with OLI's Produced Water Group consortium, and released in December 2012. OLI Studio: ScaleChem is a new product and it is the planned, eventual replacement for ScaleChem Standard, part of OLI's Original Software products. ScaleChem Standard is still 100% supported by OLI Technical Support, but this software has been moved to the category "maintenance mode only" with the 9.2 release.

Development of OLI Studio:ScaleChem was needed because MEG and MeOH applications required OLI's MSE (Mixed Solvent Electrolyte) framework, which was not present in ScaleChem Standard. If you are using ScaleChem Standard with either MEG or MeOH as a key component, OLI urges an immediate switch to Studio ScaleChem.

Reasons for switching from ScaleChem Standard to OLI Studio: ScaleChem include:

REQUIREMENTS WERE SET BY INDUSTRY

- OLI Studio: ScaleChem was steered by input from 3 oil and gas majors (Produced Water Group) and requirements for the new code were set by a steering committee from these companies.

PROGRAM FEATURES

- As OLI Studio: ScaleChem was being designed, new features such as contour plots and saturation with a brine (rather than water) were added to the product. Also, many features in the UI were optimized for ease of use.

DATABANK IMPROVEMENTS

- Improvements to oilfield chemistry for updates and improvements to OLI parameters will be done in the OLI MSE model only, and therefore in Studio ScaleChem only.

TRAINING

- Beginning in 2014, AQSim is using only OLI Studio: ScaleChem in both the Chemistry in Brine Production class and the ScaleChem Basics class. This decision is consistent with OLI's decision to phase out ScaleChem Standard, which is in maintenance only mode


Studio ScaleChem Validation

Two validation documents are available for comparing ScaleChem Standard to OLI Studio: ScaleChem

* ScaleChem calculation comparisons File:PWG-12-Rel-001 CalculationComparisons-V1.pdf
* Case Studies: ScaleChem Standard versus Studio ScaleChem File:PWG-12-Rel-002 CaseStudies-SCversusSSC.pdf



ScaleChem Conversion Facility

OLI recommends the migration of ScaleChem Standard to Studio ScaleChem. To assist in that effort, there is a ScaleChem Standard conversion facility available within Studio ScaleChem which allows the import of a ScaleChem Standard case into the Studio.