Fluid Components Catalog
The Fluid Component Catalog allows you to define types of components to be used in the Fluids Tab of the Reservoir Node.
You can add or delete catalog items directly in the dialog with the 
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button to save the catalog item. Select the Load button to load the selected component item.
The following components are already defined in the system and cannot be deleted or modified:
- C: Carbonate Gasoline
- C+: Heavy Component
- C1: Methane
- C2: Ethane
- C3: Propane
- C4: Butane
- C5: Pentane
- CO2: Carbon Dioxide
- Diesel
- H2S: Hydrogen Sulphide
- iC4: Isobutane
- Jet
- N2: Nitrogen
- Paraffin
- Residual: Residual Gas
- S2: Sulphur
Components are further defined as liquid or gas, depending on whether they are obtained from oil or gas - a facility with only oil incoming can produce e.g. liquid C4 but not gas C4. the only facility type that can convert a liquid incoming fluid into outcoming gas is a Gas Plant.
Components are closely linked to Connectors and Connections defined at the facility level: the way to introduce a component into the routing is by adding a component out connector in the Image Sub-Tab.
- Default Condensation: Volume ratio between gas and liquid phases for the currently selected component. This will be the default factor used by Gas Plants unless a different factor is entered in the Gas Conversion tab.
Engineering Data Book, published by the Gas Processors Suppliers Association, Twelfth edition, 2004. figure 23-2) are obtained applying theoretical calculations, using an approximation with the equations for ideal gasses and based on values obtained in laboratory, at certain temperatures and pressures. So, they should be used only as approximate values, with no pretension of being correct for any gas plant process.