Plant Management
Fig. 1. SimSci APC 2014 allow faster integration to any distributed control system and programmable logic controller.
Taking the heat out of trouble-shooting
Plant management solutions are homing in on all aspects of the process, from design to logistics. With valuable results, says Eugene McCarthy.
Lösungen zur Betriebsleitung zielen auf alle Prozessgesichtspunkte ab, von der Entwicklung bis zur Logistik. Mit guten Ergebnissen, findet Eugene McCarthy.
Les solutions de gestion de l’usine tiennent compte de tous les aspects des processus, de la conception à la logistique. Avec des résultats intéressants, déclare Eugene McCarthy.
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he latest plant management solutions are focused on helping users to optimise energy use, improve economics, make overall plant operations more efficient,
and improve personnel performance. Take, for example, version 8.4 of Aspen
Technology’s aspenONE software. The new version has an activated heat exchanger design and rating capability, updated energy economics, and new reactor models for refinery-based users. Although new to the market, early users
are already reaping the benefits across a range of different process applications. “AspenTech’s new Activated Exchanger
Design and Rating brings a new level of ease to trouble-shooting heat exchanger operations in processes. Activation makes any exchanger
issues very apparent during the process simulation. I am confident this new capability will be of immense value to my process engineering colleagues – and to me – on a day- to-day basis, helping us to operate our processes more efficiently, at lower energy cost and with greater operating reliability,” said Jacobus Kloos, a process engineer with Dow. Jay, Gulotta, a process engineer with
Ambitech, is also impressed: “The new delayed coker unit adds another rigorous reactor model to the Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining reactor suite that I can easily tune and adjust to match plant data. The robust solver provides a stable model guaranteeing accurate results.” For Dr Hans-Rolf Lausch, head of
computer aided process engineering (CAPE) & automation, Evonik Industries, the new
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