What is the cost of poor design or operation?
What will your company lose if the plant you are designing is inadequate? Or over-designed? Or if it operates perfectly at steady-state but cannot cope with transitions? How much money will be lost through inappropriate control system design? Or poor controller tuning? Or inability to cope with transient phenomena? How much money will be lost due to delayed start-up caused by control system errors? How much downtime could be saved by training operators to handle upsets with confidence?
Or looking at it the other way, how much more revenue could you be generating by addressing these problems?
Simulation helps you predict the future
Dynamic simulation allows you to predict how a plant which is still on the drawing board will react to disturbances, feedstock changes, how it will cope under differing operational conditions. You can ensure that the design will be fit-for-purpose well before major expenditure items are committed.
Dynamic optimisation allows you to design a plant and its control system to behave optimally under a range of disturbances, meaning that both equipment design and control settings can be optimised together. This removes a significant amount of the iteration which currently makes simulation prohibitive in terms of cost and time requirements.
Steady-state simulation and optimisation allow you to investigate and optimise equipment design and steady-state operation. This saves money by reducing inefficiency and allows operation closer to equipment constraints, providing a potentially critical competitive advantage.
Simulation decreases costs
and increases
revenue
These are activities which can be carried out at Conceptual and detailed design phase of projects, allowing significant savings at future stages. The cost of configuring and running a simulation is a tiny fraction of the capital and future operational savings which can be achieved.
Likewise with existing plants, carefully applied simulation can remove the need for additional capital investment and reduce plant down-time.
Dynamation experience
Dynamation has experience in applying simulation and control expertise in conceptual and detailed process design, control design and validation, pre-commissioning control system testing and operator training, as well as a number of related areas.
This has been gained through many years’ work in project environments.