QuantityWare BCS covers crude oil and natural gas products. The Supported Products Manual provides detailed information which products are supported.

The Supported Standards Manual for BCP and BCG then contains detailed support information for each single product group (e.g. LPG, Gasoline, Asphalt, LNG etc.).

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Due to strong industry demand, QuantityWare has defined a development strategy for 100% hydrogen quantity conversions, which is published in note 000106. See the BCS Supported Products Manual for this new product support.

Read the FAQ for natural gas / hydrogen mixtures for support of natural gas – hydrogen mixtures.

The first release of a 100% high pressure hydrogen quantity conversion solution – as part of QuantityWare BCG 3.0 – has been delivered as an Advanced Development (AD) with note 000100 in July 2022,

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Read the natural gas – hydrogen mixtures FAQ for all details.

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Anhydrous ammonia is an important base chemical. It is globally utilized for fertilizer production; also, it’s capability for LHC (Liquid Hydrogen Carrier) usage is widely discussed – see note 000106 for details.

A national standard document from Measurement Canada, based on experimental data, is available for the liquid phase anhydrous ammonia product. The experimental data is defined in “The Thermodynamic Properties of Ammonia, by L. Haar and S.J. Gallagher, Journal of Physics Chemistry Ref. Data, Volume 7, No. 3, 1978.”

In a Consulting Document (PDF),

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The American Petroleum Institute (API) defines the following quantities in e.g. API MPMS Chapter 12.1.1, which can be mapped to a distinct SAP Dimension ID (DIMID):

• GOV – gross observed volume <-> SAP DIMID GRSVOL, All UoM w/o standard temperature
• GSV – gross standard volume <-> SAP DIMID GRSVOL, All UoM with standard temperature assigned
• NOV – net observed volume <-> SAP DIMID VOLUME, All UoM w/o standard temperature
• NSV – net standard volume <-> SAP DIMID VOLUME, All UoM with standard temperature assigned
• GSW –

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QuantityWare BCP supports ISO 91:2017 since 2010.

How do I identify the relevant conversion groups?

The QuantityWare ISO 91:2017 Consulting Paper provides detailed Petroleum Measurement Cockpit selection options such that you can easily identify all ISO 91:2017 compliant conversion groups.

If you have installed BCS 3.0A CSP02 or BCS 3.0B CSP01 (released September 2021), you may select one of the new ISO 91:2017 template conversion groups for crude oil, products and LPG.

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QuantityWare BCG supports quantity conversions for dry natural gases and LNG, as well as NGL quantity conversions.

To a limited extend, wet energy transaction quantity value and test heating value entry are supported. Read QuantityWare Note 000059 for all details.

For simple wet energy and wet heating value calculations, as defined for SAP PRA wet gas calculations, a remote consulting document, which includes ABAP function module examples for customer specific wet gas calculations – as part of a Generic Customer Development (GCD),

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QuantityWare BCG supports dry natural gas (high and low pressure processing), LNG and NGL.

Thus, industrial gases are generally not covered – such gases define a second highly complex area of quantity conversions besides natural gas flow calculations. See the BCS Supported Products Manual for details. However, a straightforward ideal gas approach may be sufficient for your industrial gas business processes:

Ideal Gas Solution for Nitrogen – Example:

If you simply require data capture of low pressure nitrogen volumes and masses,

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Ethylene quantity conversions are not supported with BCS 3.0.

QuantityWare has analyzed API MPMS 11.3.2.1 – Ethylene Density and the referenced IUPAC-88 ethylene EOS paper (Thermodynamic Properties of Ethylene from Freezing Line to 450 K at Pressures to 20 MPA – M. Jahangiri et al.) and could not identify an implementation guideline for software developments therein. See BCP Supported Standards Ethylene Section.

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