PiControl APC and MPC - advanced process control can increase plant profits by 4%
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The chemical industry, petrochemical industry, oil and gas and other manufacturing processes are full of distillation columns. The chemical distillation process to separate various components is a very energy intensive process and requires a lot of reboiler heat duty and also cooling in the form of cooling water or other cooling medium for producing reflux in the upper part of the distillation column.
It is possible to reduce the energy requirements of a distillation column easily by 3% to 7% with the use of advanced process control APC inside any DCS or PLC.
It is also possible to increase the production capacity of a distillation column by 2% to 5% by the use of advanced process control APC.
Unfortunately many APC projects - advanced process control projects are too expensive. The APC software and technology are too complicated or there is not sufficient skilled and experienced manpower available on site in the control room for these projects to be feasible and become a reality.
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This is because most of the major companies selling APC advanced process control or MPC model predictive control sell these projects at a very high cost which is affordable only by the largest and the richest companies in developed and rich countries. Many of these small companies and companies in regions where the euro and dollar are very strong compared to the local currency, these projects remain infeasible or not doable because of lack of funding, manpower and resources. PiControl Solutions (www.picontrolsolutions.com) has amazing APC and MPC technology allowing you to implement a powerful advanced process control system right inside your own existing plant DCS or PLC. No new hardware or software are needed. PiControl has implemented successfully such projects in many DCSs and PLCs from several vendors worldwide.
Such APC can be implemented in Honeywell, Emerson, Yokogawa, ABB, Foxborough, Allen Bradley, Siemens, General Electric to name a few. The APC can be implemented in any of the DCS or PLC from any vendor worldwide. The APC can be applied to any process in the chemical, petrochemical, polymer, electric power, fertilizer, for pharmaceutical, oil refining, gas compression, LNG - to name a few, really any manufacturing plant can benefit.
If your process has more than 10 or 20 PID control loops and you are using significant amount of any amount of heating and cooling and if you are in a or if you are in a market where if you can increase production rate will help you increase profit, then PiControl can help you maximize your production rate, minimize your utilities and help you increase your profit margins by 2% to 7%.
Typically achieving a 3% to 4% increase in profit margin because of reduced utilities and higher production rate are easily possible.
