Monitoring Unit Performance in Petro-SIM 6

Petro-SIM provides an enriched, comprehensive approach to unit performance monitoring through its core capabilities enhanced by integration with other KBC software products. Building on Petro-SIM’s native integration to data historians, industry-first relational database integration, purpose-built utilities, and superior reporting capabilities, Petro-SIM unit performance monitoring provides the complete, integrated solution to maintain improved performance. In addition to covering a comprehensive set of refinery and petrochemical units, Petro-SIM’s solution stages several levels of performance monitoring that subsequently adds even more value to your processing facility.

By using Petro-SIM’s platform technology or enhancing it with the integration of a SIM Reactor Suite kinetic reactor model, you can develop engineering calculation-based unit performance monitoring applications that go beyond simply monitoring individual measurements to attain a much more holistic picture of the unit performance. You can create a process model that is representative of your process unit and link it directly to your lab and process historians.

Petro-SIM Based Process Monitoring allows you to

• Perform material balances and data quality checks using a standardized approach that is based on KBC’s best practices.
• Automatically calculate key performance indicators on a routine basis, storing results in a Petro-SIM database.
• Validate the performance of unit models and LP submodels routinely building confidence in those models to be used for improving unit performance.
• Track unit, kinetic model, LP submodel performances over time, and monitor trends. Use Petro-SIM reporting to produce standard reports that help you focus more time on analysing information and acting on that information rather than on data mining and manual calculations.

Heat Exchanger Monitoring

Petro-SIM’s HX monitor utility allows you to analyse the performance of a heat exchanger network, calculate fouling, and quantify the benefit of cleaning so you can effectively and economically manage your preheat train. Heat exchanger fouling in preheat trains can cause increased energy cost, lost production, and increased pressure drop. HX Monitor addresses this challenge, helping you to achieve lower energy costs and increased throughput as a result of better analysis and decision-making capabilities.