Optimizing chemical processes requires input from multiple disciplines – engineering, costing, safety and environmental. Evaluating these factors early in the design lifecycle significantly improves the quality of the design and reduces time spent collaborating across teams.

In the fast-paced world of specialty chemicals and polymers, rapid design and development are critical to stay ahead. Process simulation technology has evolved to streamline these processes, delivering accelerated product launches and efficient scale-ups.

Leveraging process modeling tools is vital for accelerating the journey to market for new products, or for optimizing the margins of existing processes.

Accurately modeling the solids section of a process is critical to product quality. Commonly, the solid and fluid sections of a process are modeled separately, making troubleshooting and optimizing inefficient and time-consuming. Additionally, solids are described by distributed properties rather than concentrated properties, which adds an extra level of complexity. These difficulties often lead to neglected or over-simplified solids modeling.

Leading chemical companies across the globe face more competitive pressures with volatile market conditions and a rapidly changing workforce pushing the demand for increased sustainability and profitability. Digital twin software offers new levels of operational excellence through enterprise-wide insights that drive improved business operations.

With dynamic market conditions, tight profit margins and stringent emission targets, process industries are facing a dual challenge of achieving ambitious sustainability goals while meeting growth targets. Companies must chart a course to rapidly overcome these challenges in a volatile market.

In this session from OPTIMIZE™ 21, learn how how Polymer Digital Twin models built by Equinox Software and Services Pvt. Ltd. (EQNX) helped build capabilities at a Greenfield Polymer manufacturing facility. The Digital Twin Process models using Aspen Plus® were deployed prior to the plant commissioning, helping the Operations team to quickly build capabilities for Polymer manufacturing enabling agility, collaboration and profitability from the first day of operations of the integrated refinery, petrochemical and polymer complex.

Sustainability remains top-of-mind for most executives as they work to balance environmental concerns with business performance. Digital solutions have emerged as a key enabler to help companies make progress toward their sustainability goals.

While most chemical companies have sustainability initiatives in place with varying reliance on digital technologies to achieve these goals, challenges remain. What are the key enablers to eliminate emissions and waste, extend material use and regenerate natural systems? How do new innovations accelerate this effort?

Today, it’s more important than ever to perform rigorous optioneering to find the best solutions for improving process efficiency and asset flexibility. In this webinar, AspenTech’s experts will show how the new Aspen Multi-Case™ dramatically accelerates the evaluation of design and operating scenarios, provides visual tools for selecting the best alternatives and improves overall agility and collaboration across the engineering team.