With ever-changing operating conditions—including different feedstock—today’s process plants are challenged to meet growth and sustainability targets as many critical KPIs cannot be measured on a real-time basis. While process simulation models can be deployed online to provide operators real-time visibility to optimize performance, there is a common misconception in the industry that this approach is complicated and difficult.

LNG plants worldwide face unique operational challenges due to their complex process configurations, including refrigeration systems, compressor surge risks, lengthy startup and shutdown sequences, emergency operating scenarios and stringent safety requirements.

In a world of finite natural resources and exponentially increasing energy demands, gas pipeline companies are faced with increasing obligations to optimize the operation and management of gas pipeline and storage systems while complying with safety and environmental regulations. These systems also continue to grow significantly in both scale and complexity.

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Like many utilities across the US, Michigan-based Consumers Energy is navigating significant change.

Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC), a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), operates the Al Zour refinery—the world’s largest grassroots facility with a processing capacity of 615,000 barrels per day.

A leading petrochemical company with one of the world’s largest, most sophisticated integrated petrochemical complexes, Borouge was looking to gain greater visibility over processes to accommodate feed fluctuations and better coordinate operating conditions across multiple units.

With global demand for propylene on the rise, Saudi Aramco—one of the world’s largest integrated energy and chemicals companies—set out to optimize its Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) reactor units to increase propylene production.

CCREMC, an Electric Cooperative serving 25,400 members in southeast Indiana, recognized the need to adapt and scale to meet its growing member base and infrastructure demands.