The company said that it has leveraged and integrated multiple technologies from its portfolio to deliver different aspects of real-time business operations management to the refining industry.
The system leverages Invensys Operations Management’s SimSci-Esscor ROMeo optimizer and Wonderware Intelligence enterprise manufacturing intelligence (EMI) applications. The backbone of Invensys’ On-line Performance Suite, ROMeo software is a unified modeling environment for off-line and on-line optimization and is being used to optimize operations in refineries, petrochemical and chemical plants worldwide.
According to the company, the Wonderware Intelligence EMI application acquires critical process and optimal performance data from the ROMeo optimizer and models and aggregates it with data acquired from other operational data sources, including laboratory information management systems, enterprise resource planning systems, manufacturing execution systems and refinery process historians, to provide deeper insight and tracking of refinery performance.
In addition, the Wonderware Intelligence software can calculate and make readily available unique and extremely valuable key performance indicators to all plant personnel, allowing operators and executives to measure the real-time financial impact of the optimizer through flexible web-based dashboards.
Invensys further claimed that the optimization system allows incremental, scalable deployment, all within a common architecture that helps ensure rapid ROI and the ability to grow as the benefits grow. It is the closed-loop optimization of individual units and naphtha pools, as well as the refinery’s utilities and hydrogen systems.
