Transform weeks of manual overpressure analysis into hours of automated precision
Pipeline safety is non-negotiable. A single regulator failure can impact thousands of customers, damage equipment worth millions, and create life-threatening safety hazards.
Traditional manual overpressure analysis is time-intensive, error-prone, and difficult to scale across large networks. Moreover, for operators, the challenge isn’t just ensuring adequate overpressure protection across thousands of regulator stations; it is also proving to regulators that robust overpressure protection is in place and effective.
Synergi Gas addresses these challenges through comprehensive hydraulic modeling and automated analysis capabilities. As a robust hydraulic analysis tool, Synergi Gas offers flexible modeling options for regulators and regulator stations, ranging from simple configurations to complex, detailed setups.
Why choose Synergi Gas for overpressure protection?
With DNV’s Synergi Gas, Regulator Station Module, and Regulator Station Impact Assessment Service (RSIA), you gain the complete toolkit for overpressure protection analysis:
- Enhanced network safety: Identify and mitigate overpressure risks before they become incidents
- Regulatory compliance: Easily demonstrate compliance with pipeline safety standards, like the PIPES Act 2020, through comprehensive, audit-ready reports
- Operational efficiency: Automate complex, repetitive analyses, reducing manual workload and freeing engineers for higher-value tasks
- Stay ahead of the curve: Adapt to evolving regulations and network complexities with a flexible, scalable solution built on decades of DNV’s technical expertise
Accurate regulator station modeling
Synergi Gas enables you to simulate how your system responds to various overpressure conditions while providing the flexibility to model regulator stations according to your analysis requirements. From simple to highly complex regulator stations, you can model all critical components—regulators, relief valves, piping, and blowoff valves—to reflect real-world conditions.
The software ensures consistent hydraulic calculations across all analysis types while maintaining the flexibility to scale from individual station analysis to system-wide assessments.
Precision and efficiency in station analysis
The Regulator Station Module (RSM) extends Synergi Gas functionality, specifically for detailed analysis of regulator stations. RSM enables comprehensive modeling of regulator stations and their upstream/downstream components with specialized capabilities:
- Comprehensive equipment catalogue: Build regulator stations using an extensive library of regulators, relief valves, and piping for accurate asset representation
- Overpressure protection verification: Analyze whether overpressure protection equipment is appropriately sized and configured to prevent unsafe pressure increases
- Automated compliance reporting: Generate detailed, regulator-specific reports that serve as regulatory documentation while reducing manual workload
- Streamlined data management: Integrate seamlessly with your Synergi Gas warehouse for improved data consistency and reduced compliance preparation time
Rapid, reliable regulator station impact assessment
Synergi Gas’ Overpressurization (OP) Service provides specialized analysis based on a calibrated Synergi Gas model of your distribution system. Send your Synergi Gas models to DNV, and we will generate the output reports. The service systematically evaluates the overpressure impact of regulator failures across your entire network:
- Fail-open scenario simulation: Automatically simulates each regulator “fail open” event, quantifying downstream pressure impacts and identifying potential hazards.
- Impact ranking and visualization: Ranks regulator stations by risk severity, enabling targeted mitigation and strategic capital planning. Managing regulator station risk: Mitigating overpressure and outage risks in pipelines
- Time and resource savings: Transforms analysis that once required days or weeks into hours or minutes, freeing engineering resources while reducing calculation errors
- Actionable insights: Uses detailed impact data to prioritize station upgrades, redesigns, or increased surveillance based on consequence severity.
System-wide analysis capabilities
For operators managing large distribution systems with thousands of regulators, comprehensive manual analysis becomes practically impossible. Synergi Gas, enhanced with RSM and RSIA, provides the scalable solution needed for enterprise-level overpressure protection analysis.
The integrated approach ensures both individual station adequacy and system-wide impact are thoroughly evaluated. Engineers can understand complex pressure interactions across the network while identifying stations that pose the most significant overpressure risk to downstream customers, supporting proactive mitigation planning and regulatory compliance across the entire distribution system.
Enhanced capabilities with risk assessment integration
While Synergi Gas excels in hydraulic analysis and overpressure assessment, it also integrates with DNV's Synergi Pipeline risk management platform, providing operators with comprehensive risk assessment capabilities. This integration combines the detailed hydraulic consequences calculated by Synergi Gas with probability analysis to provide complete regulator station risk profiles.