Plant Management
Plant management solutions are homing in on all aspects of the process, from design to logistics.
Taking the heat out of trouble-shooting
T 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
Fig. 1. SimSci APC 2014 allows faster integration to any distributed control system and programmable logic controller.
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