Sustain Operation Excellence by Upgrading OTS for FCC Unit
Joint oral contribution to Aspentech’s Users Conference Optimize 2019 held in Houston, TX (USA) in May 2020.
INGENO: Inprocess Generic Operator Training Simulators
Generic Operator Training Simulators are extremely powerful training tools for acquiring the generic knowledge required by students and plant operators to understand the way complex producing units are operated from the plant control room consoles.
Sustaining Operational Excellence
For more than a decade, refinery panel operators at Preemraff have been coached on safety and operation excellence by hands-on training with an operator training simulator (OTS). The fluidised catalytic cracker (FCC) at the Lysekil Refinery was the first refinery unit for which an OTS was built.
Supporting the development of plant operators’ competence
Plan and follow-up operators’ professional development by digitizing and centralizing in a single training environment all new and old learning material.
Steam Networks Operation Assurance
The steam network is responsible to provide heat and power to the different units of the complex. Usually, all the efforts are focused on maintaining steam production and improving it to the maximum, leaving aside the important role that the network plays in keeping the overall plant production.
Lifecycle Modelling: Using Simulation Models from Engineering Design to Plant Operations
Plant operators need deep training before the greenfield plant is started-up. Moreover, companies need to diminish potential operational problems related to the equipment sizing, control logic and safety systems by performing early analysis during the engineering design phases.
Dynamic Flare Load Analysis
Dynamic Blow Down Study to investigate the adequacy of an existing flare system and to analyse different blow-down options. The scope of the integrated dynamic process simulation model includes a number of process unit sections as well as the flare header.
Anomalies Detection with UniSim Design
Inprocess oral contribution to Honeywell’s EMEA Users Conference held in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), in October 2019.
Three birds, one stone: Using Digital Twins
Inprocess oral contribution to Aspentech’s Users Conference Optimize 2019 held in Houston, TX (USA) in May 2019.
Development of two new OTS for the CCR and CDU refinery units, and upgrading of the existing OTSs for the FCC and the MHC units
Development of two new Operator Training Simulators, as well as the upgrading and modernization of two existing simulators that have become obsolete.
