OPT FOR SECURITY AND PERFORMANCE
Improve the security and performance of your plant with alarm management, performance supervision, asset supervision, web-based data visualisation, optimisation, advanced control, and tuning with the new TaiJi tool.
Rethink your working methods and obtain immediate results thanks to our services, trainings, and consulting expertise. Manage changes intelligently with our proven solutions.
certified service providerBusiness cases, some examples:
• Optimization in a liquefaction of natural gas plant to increase production (Oil & Gas)
• Optimization and equipment performance validation in a refinery (Petrochemical)
• Optimization and troubleshooting at start-up (Petrochemical)
• Optimization of a chemical plant (Chemical)
• Optimization of a steam plant to reduce costs and improve performance (Energy, Pulp & Paper)
• Control strategies design for a cogeneration plant in a pulp mill (Energy, Pulp & Paper)
• Optimization of a deinked plant (Pulp & Paper)
• Training and tools in a mining plant (Mining & Metallurgy)
• Optimization of a mining processing plant (Mining & Metallurgy)
Gas Business Case
Atlantic Liquified Natural Gas Company
Atlantic Avenue
Point Fortin,
Trinidad & Tobago
Industry type: Liquefaction of Natural Gas, train 1
Top Control mandate
• Obtain the maximum from the process
• Increase production rate
• Improve stability and operation
Investment by Atlantic Liquified Natural Gas : 137 000 $us
Top Control intervention
• duration : 3 weeks
Top Control engineers met the production and operation teams to define their objectives and targets.
They then analyzed the processes, the control strategies, control schemes and operation approach.
Each unit was optimized accordingly to goals defined.
- Optimization
- New control strategies
- Equipment;
- Loop performance;
- Loop tuning
Results
Production increase : 1.5 %
Benefits : 20 000 000$us/y
Other improvements: production is more stable, operation is easier, personnel now have the tools to sustain the performance obtained.
Other consequences: the same approach ahs been done with trains 2 and 3 and the same results were obtained.
Refinery Business case
Refinery on the West Coast in USA
Industry type: Refinery
Top Control mandate
• Optimize regulatory control before adding MPC
• Validate control strategies and equipment performance
Investment by Refinery : 105 000 $us (service, design, tool)
Top Control intervention
• duration : 6 weeks
Top Control engineers met the production and operation teams to define their objectives and targets.
They then analyzed the processes, the control strategies, control schemes and operation approach. Control strategies were validated. Instruments and valves were tested during normal operation.
•Loop tuning software
• Control strategies
• Process optimization
• Loops optimization
- Equipment
- Loop performance
- Loop tuning
Results
Benefits : Payback = 3.5 months
Petrochemical business case
Shanghai SECCO Petrochemical Co Ltd.
Shanghai Chemical Industry Park
Xihe Road, Shanghai 201507 China
Industry type: Ethylene plant
Top Control Mandate
Investment by Shanghai SECCO : 77 000 $us
Top Control intervention
duration : 5 weeks
Top Control engineers met the production and operation teams to define their objectives and targets.
They then analyzed the processes, the control strategies, control schemes and operation approach.
Each unit was optimized accordingly to goals defined.
- Optimization
- New control strategies
- Equipment
- Loop performance
- Loop tuning
Results
Production increase; stability and reliability improved.
Benefits : undisclosed
Chemical Business case:
Uniboard (Div. Unires)
970 Rue de l'Echo
Val d'Or, Qc J9P 6L1
Industry type: Chemical Plant (formaldehyde)
Top Control mandate
· Obtain the maximum from the process
Investment by Unires : 19 000 $cdn
Top Control intervention
· duration : 15 weeks
Top Control specialist met the production and operation teams to define their objectives and targets.
They he analyzed the processes, the control strategies, control schemes and operation approach.
Each unit was optimized accordingly to goals defined.
- Optimization
- New control strategies
- Equipment
- Loop performance
- Loop tuning
Results
Production increase, stability, reliability. Variability has been reduced. Plant now runs in automatic.
SFK PATE S.E.N.C.
C.P. 7100
4000, chemin St-Eusèbe
Saint-Félicien, QC G8K 2R6
Industry type: Co-gen plant in a kraft pulp mill
Top Control mandate
· Reduce energy costs
· Balance automatically electrical demand, electrical production, steam generation
· Improve stability and operation
Investment by SFK : 25 000 $cdn (service, design)
Top Control intervention
· duration : 3 weeks
Top Control engineers met the production and operation teams to define their objectives and targets.
They then analyzed the processes, the control strategies, control schemes and operation approach. Control strategies were designed to maximize benefits while respecting contract clauses (peak period, electricity consumption). Competitors suggested expensive and complex black boxes algorithms. We proposed to program everything with basic functions using their DCS.
· Control strategies
§ Fuel management
§ Boiler management
§ Optimization
§ Electricity generation/Electricity consumption
· Process optimization
· Automation
· Loops optimization
§ Equipment
§ Loop performance
§ Loop tuning
· Report, recommendations
· Training for operation, engineering and maintenance teams.
Results
Benefits : Payback = 2 months
They can now modify themselves goals and limits in their DCS.
Pulp Mill Business Case
SP Newsprint Co.
709 Papermill road
Dublin, GA 31027
U.S.A.
Industry type: Pulp and Paper (Deinked plant)
Top Control mandate
• Reduce sheet breaks
• Improve pulp quality
• Improve stability and operation
Investment by SP Newsprint : 12 000 $us
Top Control intervention
• duration : 1 week
Top Control engineers met the production and operation teams to define their objectives and targets.
They then analyzed the processes, the control strategies, control schemes and operation approach.
Deinked plant was optimized accordingly to goals defined.
- Control strategies
- Optimization
- New control strategies to maximize quality and limit production
- Process optimization
- Loops optimization
- Equipment
- Loop performance
- Loop tuning
- Report, recommendations
Results
Benefits : Payback = 1 week
Sheet breaks on paper machines have been reduced by 43% and these results have been verified again after 6 months.
Mining processing plant Business case
Xstrata Nickel - Mine Raglan
Canada
Industry type: Mining Processing Plant
Top Control mandate
• Obtain the maximum from the process
• Increase production rate
• Improve stability and operation
• Improve personnel technical skills
Investment by Xstrata : 219 000 $cdn
Top Control intervention
• duration : 15 weeks
Top Control engineers met the production and operation teams to define their objectives and targets.
They then analyzed the processes, the control strategies, control schemes and operation approach.
Each unit was optimized accordingly to goals defined.
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Control strategies
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Optimization
- New control strategies
- Process optimization
- Loops optimization
- Equipment
- Loop performance
- Loop tuning
- Report, recommendations
- Training for operation, engineering and maintenance teams.
Results
Production increase, stability, reliability
Benefits : 7 000 000$cdn/y recurrent
