Conceptual Design Support Tool For Subsea Equipment Processing System

Conceptual design is a critical process where initial design of equipment drawing
which exhibiting ideas to the stage of creating a number of alternate solutions for the
designated problem. This process generates Design Concepts and the supporting
analysis in order to help determines the feasibility of each of the alternative
solutions. This thesis will focus on the Conceptual Design Support Tool for Subsea
Processing Equipment, or known as CDST. This design tool is created with the
purpose of assisting the designers. This tool is the only design tool known for
supporting the oil and gas domain. In this project, the author is emphasizing on
enhancing the current capability of the design tool by adding new design concepts
into the design tool database. The methodology of project involves preliminary
research work regarding the domains related to this project, familiarization of the
support tool, a deeper study in subsea processing equipment, researching and
identifying new design concepts and validating the concepts, embedding the
validated concepts into the concept library, and the capability demonstration of the
new enhanced design support tool. A comparison between morphology chart
generated by CDSTsped and CDST are conducted in which focusing on Two-phase
Separator and Three-phase Separator. A total of 24 new design concepts are
embedded into the concept library. The concept variants are for both phase of
separator increased dramatically from 36 to 2100 of concept variants for Two-phase
Separator and from 108 to 18900 of concept variants for Three-phase Separator.