PSE Wins Hydrocarbon Processing Award for Olefins Technology
- #AdvancedProcessModelling--Process Systems Enterprise (PSE), the Advanced Process Modelling
company, is the first winner of the newly-established Hydrocarbon
Processing Best Automation & Modeling award. PSE won the award for its
new CrackingMonitor virtual multisensor technology, which combines plant
data and high-fidelity models of ethylene cracking furnaces to improve
operation by producing accurate real-time measurements for key
operational variables.
CrackingMonitor, a core component of the company’s new gPROMS Olefins suite, addresses the challenges of obtaining critical measurements and performance information in the harsh environment of a cracking furnace. Because reliable, real-time measurement of key variables is highly problematic, it is difficult to achieve fine control of production rates, resulting in lost profit. By providing better and more timely information on quantities such as ethylene and propylene yield and tube metal temperatures, CrackingMonitor enables tighter furnace control, resulting in potentially multi-million dollar annual profit improvement with no capital expenditure
CrackingMonitor utilises PSE’s unique Dynamic State Estimation technology coupled with a high-fidelity mathematical model to reconcile plant data and model predictions in order to calculate a consistent, accurate set of real-time performance metrics. It also accurately monitors coke build-up over time along the furnace coil, making it possible to optimise furnace cell operation to control coking rates.
The 2017 Hydrocarbon Processing Awards event, which honoured the downstream energy segment’s innovations as voted for by the publication’s readers, was held on the last night of the International Refining and Petrochemical Conference in Vienna, Austria.
Steve Hall, PSE’s Director of Engineering Solutions and manager of CrackingMonitor’s initial deployment on a large-scale Middle Eastern plant, says “As far as we know, this technology is the first of its kind, and has the potential to be a key component of the olefins Operational Excellence toolset in the future. It is a very practical example of applying digital technologies to improve operations”.
Mark Matzopoulos, head of PSE’s Chemicals, Petrochemicals & Refining business, adds “The underlying technology can be applied to any complex operation – for example, furnaces, catalytic reactors and spray dryers –as a means to determine KPIs in real time and calculate variables that cannot easily be measured. We are working with a number of companies in different sectors to implement virtual multisensor technology”.
ContactsPSE
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Kate Burness, +44-20-8563-0888
[email protected]
http://www.psenterprise.com/news/pr170609
Automation & Modeling prize for ground-breaking furnace ‘virtual
multisensor
LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#AdvancedProcessModelling–Process Systems Enterprise (PSE), the Advanced Process Modelling
company, is the first winner of the newly-established Hydrocarbon
Processing Best Automation & Modeling award. PSE won the award for its
new CrackingMonitor virtual multisensor technology, which combines plant
data and high-fidelity models of ethylene cracking furnaces to improve
operation by producing accurate real-time measurements for key
operational variables.
CrackingMonitor, a core component of the company’s new gPROMS Olefins
suite, addresses the challenges of obtaining critical measurements and
performance information in the harsh environment of a cracking furnace.
Because reliable, real-time measurement of key variables is highly
problematic, it is difficult to achieve fine control of production
rates, resulting in lost profit. By providing better and more timely
information on quantities such as ethylene and propylene yield and tube
metal temperatures, CrackingMonitor enables tighter furnace control,
resulting in potentially multi-million dollar annual profit improvement
with no capital expenditure
CrackingMonitor utilises PSE’s unique Dynamic State Estimation
technology coupled with a high-fidelity mathematical model to reconcile
plant data and model predictions in order to calculate a consistent,
accurate set of real-time performance metrics. It also accurately
monitors coke build-up over time along the furnace coil, making it
possible to optimise furnace cell operation to control coking rates.
The 2017 Hydrocarbon Processing Awards event, which honoured the
downstream energy segment’s innovations as voted for by the
publication’s readers, was held on the last night of the International
Refining and Petrochemical Conference in Vienna, Austria.
Steve Hall, PSE’s Director of Engineering Solutions and manager of
CrackingMonitor’s initial deployment on a large-scale Middle Eastern
plant, says “As far as we know, this technology is the first of its
kind, and has the potential to be a key component of the olefins
Operational Excellence toolset in the future. It is a very practical
example of applying digital technologies to improve operations”.
Mark Matzopoulos, head of PSE’s Chemicals, Petrochemicals & Refining
business, adds “The underlying technology can be applied to any complex
operation – for example, furnaces, catalytic reactors and spray dryers
–as a means to determine KPIs in real time and calculate variables that
cannot easily be measured. We are working with a number of companies in
different sectors to implement virtual multisensor technology”.
Contacts
PSE
Kate Burness, +44-20-8563-0888
[email protected]
http://www.psenterprise.com/news/pr170609
