Electric utilities are facing unprecedented grid complexity. Aging infrastructure, increasing distributed energy resources (DERs) and rapidly changing load patterns are making it harder to maintain reliable operations using traditional grid models.

Modeling and Optimization

Estimate capital expenditure from concept to detailed design. Aspen Capital Cost Estimator delivers fast, reliable project budgets for engineering teams.

Suite of solutions to operate real-time natural gas and liquid pipelines and optimize storage.

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.

Frequent changes in refinery operating conditions cause planning models to fall out of sync with actual conditions, making them less reliable. At the same time, updating these models is complex, often forcing refineries to turn to expensive third-party consultants.

Maximizing energy efficiency and minimizing CO2 emissions remain critical goals for the process industries. Now you can leverage pinch technology from within the process simulation environment to identify opportunities to significantly lower energy use and reduce your carbon footprint.

Global hydrogen demand is forecast to increase dramatically to 2050. Dozens of nations around the world have established hydrogen roadmaps or policies that are fueling the adoption of hydrogen that will help adhere to net-zero policies. To adhere to these policies, a significant amount of capital investment will be needed to satisfy increasing hydrogen demand.

Operational teams and engineers understand their processes intimately, yet converting that expertise into actionable operational and advanced process control (APC) strategies can be complex. Moreover, a lack of understanding of APC actions often leads to constrained APC controllers, and in some cases, to APC being disabled altogether, resulting in lost benefits.

Shell recently completed a pilot evaluation of Aspen Unified Planning™ (AUP) and Aspen Unified Scheduling™ (AUS) at the Pernis and Moerdijk manufacturing complexes. The objective of the project was to simplify and streamline the deployment of newer software versions to enhance the efficiency and usability of its planning and scheduling tools.