Benefits of Dynamic Simulation

Steady state simulation allows you to perform design and rating calculations. Dynamic simulation allows you to also model transients, thus helping you to better understand how your plant behaves in real life. This helps to improve design, operation, and profitability.

Using dynamic simulation, operators can be trained to handle any situation, control strategies can be studied studied, and the plant can be operated with more confidence, safety, and ease. It is much easier and cost effective to perform a test using a dynamic model, since operation of the real plant need not be impacted.

Dynamic simulation also allows startup and shutdown operations to be simulated, which can be very valuable when training operators or testing control strategies.

Dynamic models strive to be more rigorous and realistic than steady state models.

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