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Advanced Process Control for Plants

Advanced Process Control (APC) can increase plant performance by optimizing control concepts, modeling processes, and adjusting control loops. This allows operating parameters to be collected, analyzed, and evaluated to find optimization potentials and fix disadvantageous target values. Software-based modeling and control solutions can then be delivered along with consulting to implement multi-variable predictive control. For a phenol plant customer, Siemens implemented APC in two steps - tuning existing controls and developing a multi-variable model for a distillation column. This provided benefits like keeping critical concentrations stable, reducing energy and additive usage, and sustaining optimizations through combined automation and process expertise.

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Advanced Process Control for Plants

Advanced Process Control (APC) can increase plant performance by optimizing control concepts, modeling processes, and adjusting control loops. This allows operating parameters to be collected, analyzed, and evaluated to find optimization potentials and fix disadvantageous target values. Software-based modeling and control solutions can then be delivered along with consulting to implement multi-variable predictive control. For a phenol plant customer, Siemens implemented APC in two steps - tuning existing controls and developing a multi-variable model for a distillation column. This provided benefits like keeping critical concentrations stable, reducing energy and additive usage, and sustaining optimizations through combined automation and process expertise.

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Advanced Process Control (APC)

Plant performance on a new level

Status Quo Our Solution Your benefit

• Interdependencies of process factors often • Collection, analysis and evaluation of


lead to high fluctuations of operating process parameters with optimization Increase of throughput
parameters potential
• Thus a necessity is born to fix a • Optimization of the control concept Increase of quality
disadvantageous target value in order to • Plant tests and model building
operate the plant with a sufficient safety
margin • Software-based/ lab-scale modeling Reduced consumption of
• Control loop adjustment resources and energy
• Consequently, operation deviates from its
designated mode which causes (e.g. dynamic models)
inefficiencies and unrealized profits • Delivery of necessary hard- and software Reduction of operator intervention
• Consulting, Engineering and
Implementation in PCS7
Support of start-up, load and product
• Installation and Commissioning changes
• Trainings
Optimized control

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Advanced Process Control (APC)
Plant performance on a new level

Project • The customer produces approx. 650,000t / a of phenol at a plant in


information Germany
• The aim was to increase the automation of the plant and to reduce energy
and material consumption
Challange • APC project parallel to the migration of the process control system
• Long time constants (8 hours to reach steady state)
• Difficult model formation due to strong coupling of the different parts of the
plant (columns); Thus difficult to include interfering factors

Siemens • Implementation of automation in two steps:


solution • Tuning of the existing basic automation (PID controller)
• Development and implementation of a model-predictive multi-variable
control for a column in a column network
• Training of plant personnel and EMSR managers

Benefit • Critical head concentration can be kept stable


for our • Savings in energy requirements and additives
customer • Sustainability of optimization through combination of automation and
process know-how

Frei verwendbar © Siemens AG 2019

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