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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 version has enabled better project collaboration: “Conceptual models are easy to use and enable Evonik’s process engineers to describe solids equipment without being solids experts, allowing them to model and optimise entire processes.”
First introduced in aspenONE V8 software, AspenTech’s Activation capability in Aspen Plus and Aspen HYSYS enables process engineers to do instant analysis of heat exchangers, energy, and economics without specialist knowledge of these engineering disciplines. This unified engineering environment enables engineers to work more efficiently and achieve better results within tight project timelines.
The new Activation capabilities in V8.4 software include: Activated EDR, an all- new Activation capability to optimise heat exchanger design and operation.
From within the new Aspen Plus and Aspen HYSYS engineering environment, users can do rigorous heat exchanger design and view heat exchanger status to perform revamp studies and debottlenecking.
Activated Energy, which automates pinch analysis for non-experts, adds the ability to group process units in a flow diagram and optimise energy across the grouping. Activated Energy also identifies optimum design modifications for energy savings and automatically recommends lower cost utilities that are available.
Activated Economics – powered by AspenTech’s proprietary costing engine and the process industry’s only cost
estimation software, Activated Economics in V8.4 adds cost overlays to process flow diagrams, annual updates for cost estimation, and enhanced features for upstream safety standards.
For its part, Invensys is tackling the cost of plant testing and commissioning with SimSci APC 2014, the new version of its SimSci advanced control software. The company says this version shrinks testing and commissioning time by up to 50 per cent – as well as improving control and plant performance.
Ease of use has been a key driver for Invensys and SimSci APC 2014 modernises the graphical user interface while retaining the rigorous and robust calculation engine from the company’s Connoisseur APC offering.
Enhanced natural workflow The new SimSci APC 2014 software is structured around an enhanced, natural workflow that includes full support for model case file development and a connection wizard for faster integration to any distributed control system and programmable logic controller, including the company’s Foxboro I/A Series DCS and its new Foxboro Evo process automation system. The software will be even more tightly integrated in future releases of the Foxboro Evo system (Fig. 1).
SimSci APC 2014 software extends the capabilities of traditional APC offerings to garner more control over the process. Director, a powerful new feature, allows the control engineer to build custom calculations or add custom supporting controller functions that augment the user’s experience.
Natural workflows speed model building, configuration and deployment, and additional features make the software suitable for a complete APC project implementation. l
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