Safety Is Everything

It is important for every company to use the most advanced technology available for fire safety design to safeguard personnel and facilities. Through our work for more than three decades significant contributions have been made to improve safety in the industry, to reduce the negative impacts on environment from the oil and gas activity, and to contribute to large economic savings by use of advanced and accurate methods for design.

Our utilization of the most modern CFD and FE technologies for practical purposes has shown very useful and beneficial for the industry. Safety is a matter of collaboration and for many years major oil and gas companies have enhanced safety through technology development with us.  As a result our tools are continuously being improved based on input from the industry itself, and the experience from use in daily operation.

Computational Industry Technologies AS, ComputIT, is a specialist company working internationally in the field of environmental and reactive flows. Our focus is on CFD-based turbulent flow and combustion using Kameleon FireEx KFX^® for both analysis and design. KFX^® is probably the most advanced CFD code for gas dispersion, flare and fire simulation, and is gradually becoming an industry standard in this respect.

Services

Our fire safety approach is unique and visualisation is emphasized as an important part of our analyses. We offer consultancy services in the area of fire safety, combustion, environment and flares for all kinds of oil and gas platforms, FPSOs, onshore process plants and combustion devices in general:

Fire safety design - simulation of all kind of fires and gas dispersion by KFX^® for personnel safety, escape route analysis/ design, etc

Fire safety design - fire simulations for safe and optimum design, including structural fire response analysis and optimum design of passive fire protection for facility integrity

Fire safety design - simulation/ analysis/ design of active fire protection systems for fire mitigation by deluge, mist, monitors, etc

Flare analysis - flare simulation by KFX^®, including also ignition, start up, radiation, soot and noise analysis

Environment - simulation and analysis of combustion in burner equipment/ flare tips, for optimum and environmentally friendly design

Ventilation/ HVAC, turbulent flow impact on for instance helicopter operation, applied thermodynamics

KFX^® handles all kinds of hydrocarbon fires; jet fires, spray fires, pool fires including also LNG dispersion and fires.  KFX^® is commercialized by ComputIT.

ComputIT also have a close cooperation with Aker Solutions for structural fire response analysis and the streamlined interface between KFX^® and the finite element code Usfos provides a unique feature for optimum and safe design.

Market and experience

The main market of ComputIT is the international oil and gas industry, and in particular the offshore sector that we have been working closely with for about thirty years. We have been involved in most offshore fields in the Norwegian sector, in a lot of Gulf of Mexico projects, as well as for installations in Africa, in Middle East and in the New Foundland area. Similar analyses have been carried out for onshore plants in several European countries, in Korea and in Taiwan. In addition we have also been engaged by governmental bodies for investigation of fire accidents. For instance was Professor Bjørn F. Magnussen of ComputIT engaged as a technical fire expert witness after the Piper Alpha accident.

Our onshore activities are not only related to safety but also to industry applications as combustion devices, burners, furnaces and incinerators, and include for instance waste combustion and fluidized bed.

Company Philosophy

Our philosophy is to develop and apply scientifically based methods to solve industrial problems, and through this philosophy significant contributions have been made to improve safety in the industry, to reduce the negative impacts on environment from the oil and gas activity, and to contribute to large economic savings by use of advanced and accurate methods for design.

Collaboration with the Scientific Community & Industry

ComputIT's services also include contract research and the company has continuously ongoing R&D programmes funded by the industry and it collaborates with universities worldwide. In this respect, the Eddy Dissipation Concept (EDC) by Professor Bjørn F. Magnussen of ComputIT/ NTNU represents a major contribution to the scientific world of numerical combustion. He was also awarded the Statoil Research Price for major contributions to the Norwegian oil and gas industry. The EDC is implemented in most international CFD codes dealing with turbulent combustion.

Both the KFX^® development and industrialization are done in collaboration with StatoilHydro, Total, ENI-group, ConocoPhillips, Gaz de France, BP, Sandia National Laboratories, engineering companies, risk management companies and universities worldwide. ComputIT has also been engaged by governmental bodies for investigation of fire accidents.

For more information: www.computit.no

For contact: computit@computit.no