Main recent references in Refining and Petrochemical Processes
Customers
OMVIn progress
- Customer: OMV
- Field / Site location: Schwechat, Austria
- Simulation Scope: OTS
Liquid Cracking Plant (Linde) - Control System: Honeywell TDC3000 emulation
- Comments / Benefits: Certification program for operator training
- Delivery date: In progress
Petrochemical Corporation of Singapore (PCS)In progress
- Customer: Petrochemical Corporation of Singapore (PCS)
- Field / Site location: Jurong Island, Singapore
- Simulation Scope: OTS
Liquid Cracking Plant(Stone and Webster) - Control System: Honeywell TPS TDC3000 (Link)
- Comments / Benefits: Certification program for operator training
- Delivery date: In progress
BASFIn progress
- Customer: BASF
- Field / Site location: Antwerp, Belgium
- Simulation Scope: OTS
Naphtha Cracking Plant (Linde and ABB Lummus) - Control System: Honeywell TPS TDC3000 (Link)
- Comments / Benefits: Certification program for operator training
- Delivery date: In progress
Marun PC2006
- Customer: Marun PC
- Field / Site location: Iran
- Simulation Scope: OTS
Ethane - Propane steam-cracker (Linde) - Control System: Yokogawa CS3000 (Emulation)
- Comments / Benefits: Certification program for operator training
- Delivery date: In progress
PETRONAS - EMSB2005
- Customer: PETRONAS
- Field / Site location: Malaysia
- Simulation Scope: OTS
Propane & Naphtha steam cracker (ABB Lummus) - Control System: Honeywell TDC3000 emulation
- Comments / Benefits: Operator training
- Delivery date: 2005
TOTAL2005
- Customer: TOTAL
- Field / Site location: Donges Refinery, France
- Simulation Scope: OTS
Utility Boiler simulator:Steam and fuel gas networks of boilers - Control System: Honeywell TDC3000 emulation
- Comments / Benefits: Operator training
- Delivery date: 2005
BP2005
- Customer: BP
- Field / Site location: Cherry Point Refinery, USA
- Simulation Scope: OTS
CDU/VDU - Control System: Honeywell TPS GUS (Link)
- Comments / Benefits: Operator training
- Delivery date: 2005
TOTAL2004
- Customer: TOTAL
- Field / Site location: TOTAL refinery
- Simulation Scope: OTS
Blending unit involved in manufacturing of gasolines, gas oil and fuel oils. Last stage before products leave the refinery. The simulator may work stand-alone or connected to an optimization tool. - Control System: RSI SIMCON proprietary.Communication via OPC with the optimization tool
- Comments / Benefits: Operator training and optimization tool
- Delivery date: 2004
OMV2004
- Customer: OMV
- Field / Site location: Burghausen, Germany
- Simulation Scope: OTS
Naphtha steam-cracker (Combination of process licensors) - Control System: Honeywell TPS TDC3000(Link)
- Comments / Benefits: Operator training for new operators
- Delivery date: 2004
Rio Polimeros2004
- Customer: Rio Polimeros
- Field / Site location: Brazil
- Simulation Scope: OTS
Ethane-Propane (ABB Lummus) - Control System: ABB Advant MOD300 (Link)
- Comments / Benefits: perator training before start-up
- Delivery date: 2004
TOTAL2004
- Customer: TOTAL
- Field / Site location: Donges refinery, France
- Simulation Scope: OTS
Highly integrated distillation unit. Crude Switch Model. - Control System: Honeywell TDC3000 emulation
- Comments / Benefits: Operator training and Engineering purposes
- Delivery date: 2004
TOYO ENGINEERING CORPORATION2004
- Customer: TOYO ENGINEERING CORPORATION
- Field / Site location: Bandar Assalouyeh - Fourth Aromatic Plant
- Simulation Scope: OTS
The Plant has been split in 7 simulators:- Hydrogenation of pyrolysis gasoline
- Prefractionation and Hydrotreatment of gas condensates
- Continuous Catalytic Reforming
- Separation of Reformate and Aromatics
- Extraction of Benzene and Toluene (Krupp Uhde )
- Disproportination and Transalkylation Units (Toray)
- Xylenes isomerization
- Control System: Emulation of YOKOGAWA CS3000 DCS
- Comments / Benefits: Huge Simulator modelling the whole Plant.Use of the simulator for initial training of plant operators before refinery start up.
- Delivery date: 2004
Petrochemical Unit2004
- Customer: Petrochemical Unit
- Field / Site location: New 1-butene Unit
- Simulation Scope: OTS
Ethylene dimerization by a liquid-phase process using a soluble catalyst system - Control System: Emulation of YOKOGAWA CS3000 DCS
- Comments / Benefits: Providing engineers and operators with experience prior to commissioning. Startup and shutdown procedures. Unlimited variety of what if situations. Dynamics of heat exchanger fouling due to oligomer formation. Operation of distillation columns to ensure polymer-garde product specification. Emergency situation, fire case.
- Delivery date: 2004
Syncrude Canada Limited2004
- Customer: Syncrude Canada Limited
- Field / Site location: Canada
- Simulation Scope: OTS
LC Fining - Control System: Honeywell TDC3000 (Link)
- Comments / Benefits: Operator training
- Delivery date: 2004
PETROBRAS2003
- Customer: PETROBRAS
- Field / Site location: Repar Refinery - Curitiba, Brazil
- Simulation Scope: OTS
Extension and customization of FCCsimulator developed for Replan Refinery:- Feed treatment
- Reaction section
- Separation section
- Gas Recovery Unit
- Control System: Emulation BAILEY INFI90
- Comments / Benefits: Petrobras engineers are customizing the HDT/HDS simulator from that delivered to Replan Refinery using Delta V connection via OPC
- Delivery date: 2003
BASF – YPC Company Limited2003
- Customer: BASF – YPC Company Limited
- Field / Site location: New Integrated Petrochemical Site - Nanjing , Jiangsu province - East – Central China
- Simulation Scope: 3 OTS
- Ethylene Oxide / Ethylene Glycol
- LDPE
- Propionic Acid
- Control System: Partial Stimulation of Emerson DeltaV DCS
- Comments / Benefits: Provides a replica of the plant behaviour that enables operators to be familiar with the processes and their different phases such as normal start up, normal shut down, emergency shut down.
- Delivery date: 2003
AXENS / AXENS North America2003
- Customer: AXENS / AXENS North America
- Field / Site location: Various refinery sites in USA,Chile, Japan, Korea, Hungary
- Simulation Scope: POS
Prime G+ process licensed by Axens:- Selective Hydrogenation Unit
- Deep Hydrodesulfurization with minimum octane loss
- Control System: RSI SIMCON proprietary
- Comments / Benefits: Advanced training tool for main process interactions. Evaluation of process options and carrying out of predictive simulations
- Delivery date: 2003
Motiva Enterprise2003
- Customer: Motiva Enterprise
- Field / Site location: USA
- Simulation Scope: 3 OTS
Sulfur Recovery Unit - Control System: Honeywell TPS GUS (Link)
- Comments / Benefits: Operator training
- Delivery date: 2003
ANCAP2002
- Customer: ANCAP
- Field / Site location: ANCAP refinery Montevideo, Uruguay
- Simulation Scope: POS and OTS
Octanizing (Axens Licensed)- Regenerative Catalytic Reforming Unit - Control System: RSI SIMCON proprietary
- Comments / Benefits: POS: helps users to take decisions regarding operation. OTS: study of catalyst regeneration system - protection devices of the unit -Identify and react to emergency and unsafe situations, etc.
- Delivery date: 2002
Pemex2002
- Customer: Pemex
- Field / Site location: Madero refinery, Mexico
- Simulation Scope: OTS
Refining Units- Atmospheric Distillation Unit
- Crude Oil distillation/Vacuum Distillation Unit
- Delayed Coking
- FCCU
- Continuous Catalytic Reforming
- Naphtha HDS
- Claus Sulphur Unit (Claus Combustor™)
- Sulfur Recovery
- Control System: Siemens Teleperm XP and Honeywell (Link)
- Comments / Benefits: Operator training
- Delivery date: 2002
SINCOR2001
- Customer: SINCOR
- Field / Site location: Jose Plant, Venezuela
- Simulation Scope: OTS
Heavy Oil Upgrader- Atmospheric Distillation Unit
- Vacuum Distillation Unit
- Delayed Coking (Foster Wheeler)
- Naphtha and Distillate Hydrotreater (Axens)
- Mild Hydrodrocraking of Heavy Distillate Cuts (Axens)
- Hydrogen Manufacturing Unit (Krupp Uhde)
- Claus Sulphur Unit (Claus Combustor™)
- Amine Units
- Sour Water Stripping
- Tail Gas Treating Unit (Resulf™)
- Utilities
- Control System: Partial Stimulation of Foxboro I/A Series using Foxboro's FSIM package
- Comments / Benefits: Huge Simulator modelling the whole refinery complex.Use of the simulator for initial and periodic training of plant operators
- Delivery date: 2001
GASCO2000
- Customer: GASCO
- Field / Site location: Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E
- Simulation Scope: OTS
Debutaniser section- Debutaniser column
- Debutaniser overhead drum with reflux and expedition pumps
- Debutaniser reboiler pumps with fired furnace and six passes
- Debutaniser bottom pumps and condensate exchangers
- Control System: Partial Stimulation of Yokogawa CS3000 DCS
- Comments / Benefits: The simulator is based on the real control of the Process worked out by Yokogawa. Familiarising operators with the Yokogawa CS3000 DCS.
- Delivery date: 2000
TURKMENBASHI1999
- Customer: TURKMENBASHI
- Field / Site location: Turkmenbashi Refinery, Turkmenistan
- Simulation Scope: OTS
Continuous Catalytic Reformer (UOP) - Control System: Emulation Foxboro
- Comments / Benefits: RSI SIMCON delivered 6 weeks training course on CCR simulator to prepare operators for Unit commissioning
- Delivery date: 1999
PETROBRAS1998
- Customer: PETROBRAS
- Field / Site location: Replan Refinery, Paulinia, Brazil
- Simulation Scope:
- OTS: Crude Oil Distillation Unit
- OTS: FCC Unit (Kellogg Orthoflow design) : reaction and separation sections
- OTS: HDT/HDS Unit
- Modules: Desalter
- Modules: Debutaniser
- Modules: Atmospheric Column
- Modules: Centrifugal Compressor
- Modules: Furnace
- Control System: Emulation FISHER SR90
- Comments / Benefits: First simulators created with INDISS™.The simulators are maintained by Petrobras engineers trained by RSI SIMCON engineers.
- Delivery date: 1998
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