Process Control
Controlling hydrocracker reactor temperature
Avoid safety incidents and runaway reactions
Faster plant testing and modeling
Automated technology performs both open-loop and closed-loop testing simultaneously
Set vapor velocity setpoints profitably
Use Clifftent principles to account for operating limit tradeoffs and risk to substantially improve financial performance
Dynamic real-time optimization increases ethylene plant profits
This project resulted in a $12.5 million/yr profit increase and one-month payback
Fieldbus enables single-loop integrity with control-in-the-field
Benefits include device and process health monitoring that enable establishing asset management and predictive maintenance practices
Determining plant equipment performance during transient conditions
Steady-state performance algorithms can be modified to improve accuracy
HP Control: What constitutes a real-time application?
I recently heard computer programs, mainly of the simulation variety, described as working in real time in service of the unit operators, inferring product properties and other unmeasured constraints ..
HP Control: Are there any good APC training programs out there?
I have written several articles and editorials warning about the failure rate of advanced process control (APC) applications. See for example my January 2006 editorial,1 which also references related ..
Increase product value through process modeling
Using a rigorous refinery-wide simulation, a refiner moved more low-value products into value-added end products
Accurately predict radiation from flare stacks
Using this technique can take the guess work out of design calculations and improve costs
- Carbon capture tops agenda at GPAE Conference 2025 6/17
- INEOS to cease phenol production at German site, cites high European energy costs and CO2 tax policy 6/17
- Petrobras signs $892 MM in contracts to complete RNEST Train 2 refinery expansion 6/17
- China's May refinery throughput at 9-month low on plant overhauls (1) 6/17
- bp completes turnaround work at 250,000-bpd refinery in Washington (U.S.) 6/17
- Japan's Eneos restarts 77,000-bpd Kawasaki CDU after unplanned shutdown 6/17
