Steam & Energy
Energy Efficiency
Reboiler steam is the largest running cost of an amine unit. The digital twin measures it honestly, names the faults that push it up, and searches the settings you approve for the lowest steam that still treats the gas to specification.
Case studyIndustrial MDEA gas treating unit, 13 days of one-minute data. Savings are steady-state potential from the model, awaiting a plant trial.
Steam per tonne of feed moves every time the feed changes. Steam per tonne of acid gas removed follows the work the unit is actually doing. The platform trends both, and ranks ten signals against the honest one, so the strongest bar shows where to look first.
Exchanger fouling, reboiler scaling, over-stripping and poor steam supply all raise steam quietly, for months. Each is a named fault with its evidence, and the excess energy it causes carries a cost per hour.
In the case study the unit was stripping harder than the gas needed. Cutting steam and circulation together held the lean loading and the treated gas on specification. The twin found this move without being told to look for it.
The Optimise tool searches lean circulation, reboiler steam and antifoam inside the ranges you approve. The winning point is then run through the full fault diagnosis. Without that check, 43% of proposals would have raised a fault, a warning or an extra amine loss.
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See steam per tonne of acid gas, and the saving the Optimise tool finds, running on real plant data.
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