ESPtoy Documentation
(Version: 2 March 2018)
Copyright 2018 Burney Waring
Copyright 2018 Burney Waring
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You have the ESPtoy!
ESPtoy is an educational software toy, created by me, Burney Waring (copyright 2018).It is free for non-commercial use, but not for commercial use. See the License information.
The Latest version of this documentation will be online.
Latest Version of ESPtoy to download: http://waringworld.com/esptoy/
Before installing, have a look here:
http://waringworld.com/esptoy/
What is ESPtoy?
I have taught a wide variety of Petroleum Engineering courses to thousands of engineers, on topics such as Production System Optimization, Integrated Modeling, Gas Lift, and Electric Submersible Pumps (ESPs).And, I wrote a book that I think you would enjoy, called Practical Optimization of Petroleum Production Systems, which you can purchase from Amazon.
More about me here and here.
During my time teaching, I found it is very difficult to teach how dynamic systems (such as ESPs) react to changes. I did my best with whiteboards and slide decks, but it was very difficult and sometimes I failed. For this reason, I created ESPtoy.
[ I created a similar program for Shell in 1999(!) that some people have requested from me over the past few years(!!). ESPtoy is better. :) And it will run on Windows 10. ]
This is not an engineering model that can be used for design and analysis, but it does (mostly) behave the way an ESP system world work and can be useful to understand amp charts, upthrust, downthrust, the effect of viscocity and specific gravity changes, pump-off, gas volume fraction, how to troubleshoot ESP wells, how to operate them, the benefits of redesiging them, ... You get the idea.
ESPtoy is meant to be fairly realistic, but is not accurate in the sense that you can use the data from it for engineering purposes.
Remember this is a work-toy. Have fun with it. Then go use a real ESP analysis and design tool to do actual work. For example: one, two, three.