Solvent & Materials
Circularity
Amine, antifoam, filter cartridges, spare parts and reclaimer waste are materials the plant buys and later disposes of. The faults that waste them can be diagnosed early. The platform finds them, prices them, and turns them into proactive maintenance, so equipment lasts longer and less is replaced.
Case studyFrom the platform’s engines on the reference train. The 64% comes from the industrial case study, submitted for peer review.
Heat above 127 °C and build-up of heat-stable salts shorten the life of the amine. Both are tracked as root causes, and solvent life is priced on its own: reclaim, replacement and disposal. Longer life avoids new amine at one end and waste at the other.
Foaming is the most often reported fault in amine units. It carries amine out and drives antifoam use. Absorber and stripper foaming look the same at the treated gas, but not at the two pressure drops, so the response goes to the affected column.
The Optimise tool is not allowed to raise amine losses or trigger a new fault. Antifoam is one of the three handles it sets, so dosing follows the plant’s condition rather than habit.
A fault caught early is fixed with a cleaning or an adjustment, not a new pump seal or tube bundle. The Plan tool raises work before failure and flags faults that keep coming back, so the cause is removed, not just the part. Less repair means fewer spare parts, fewer filter cartridges and longer equipment life.
The tools that do it
What it is not
See where solvent life, amine losses and fouling are heading on real plant data.
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