Chemical & Petrochemical Industry
AFT in the Chemical & Petrochemical Industry
Hydrocarbon Processing, Hot Water, Absorber Systems, and more
Through design and construction, operation and maintenance, a chemical plant can see the gamut of design decisions. Whether your plant exists only as a file, or if it's coming up on its 50th year of operation, AFT software can eliminate design uncertainty to make the right design choice the obvious one.
AFT In Action
AFT Fathom Helps Reduce Power Consumption by 40% at Petrochemical Plant
Company: Ingenero Technologies
Problem: Excessive pressure drop across control valves led to significant operating costs. The client was unsure where design and operating anomalies may be occurring.
Product Used: An AFT Fathom model was calibrated for the physical system within 5% error. It was used to identify and size replacements for flow elements and control valves.
Solution: The study of the petrochemical facility revealed excessively large pressure drops. By correcting them, the client reduced power consumption by 40% and saved more than 300,000 dollars per year in energy costs. The model provided insight inconceivable by plant data analysis alone.
Cooling System Surge Analysis with AFT Impulse
Company: CB&I Inc. (McDermott)
Problem: Design a gasification system serving an LNG off-loading terminal using waste heat from nearby power plant. The new design had to avoid interfering with existing plant cooling system.
Product Used: An AFT Impulse model was benchmarked against steady-state data. Model revealed vacuum conditions under several scenarios, such as pump trips.
Solution: CB&I (McDermott) redesigned and simplified a new LNG heating water system to avoid vacuum pressure potential revealed by AFT Impulse.
Ingenero Solves Pipe Failures in Mixed Bed
Polishers Using AFT Impulse
Company: Ingenero Technologies
Problem: Failure of mixed bed polishers (MBPs) during valve operations damaged piping. At any given time 2 of 9 MPBs were under repair, reducing power generation and causing lost production time.
Product Used: AFT Impulse was used to model the valve operations.
Solution: The precise operational step causing the surge failures was revealed, allowing mitigation by adjusting the valve sequence timings.
Troubleshoot
Design
Accurately simulate component-system interactions prior to constuction to ensure cost-effective and efficient designs
Import
Avoid redundant model building by importing GIS, PCF, EPANET, or CAESAR II Neutral files
Export
Automate data transfer with the Excel Export Manager, organizing your model's results exactly how you want them
Engineers of all levels and background use AFT pipe flow analysis software to model and analyze their piping and ducting systems. Here are the top 5 ways AFT can help you:
1. Size pipes, rotating/reciprocating equipment and valves
2. Save energy and improve equipment reliability
3. Solve operational problems
4. Mitigate waterhammer
We help engineers improve safety by predicting waterhammer/surge transient pressures, evaluating potential operational changes to mitigate waterhammer, and enabling engineers to size and locate surge suppression devices. Read More...