Great article on RefinerLink today: Improving Heat Exchanger Monitoring
"Heat exchanger monitoring is critical to driving optimal refinery performance by reducing operating cost and maximizing refinery yields. By focusing on the basics and utilizing every piece of data available process engineers can improve heat exchanger monitoring."Full article here
I agree with the author, Steve Pagani, that "Heat Exchange, just like Distillation, is the bread and butter of refinery process engineering." One way of doing that is with ROMeo's Performance Monitoring product is known as Automated Rigorous Performance Monitoring (ARPM). ARPM is a comprehensive monitoring solution for the oil and gas processing, refining, petrochemical and chemical industries. The product uses real-time plant data and rigorous simulation models to extract validated process, equipment, and heat exchanger performance information. Integration with Wonderware Intelligence EMI (Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence) allows ROMeo’s industry proven results to quickly be visualized on Wonderware Intelligence’s web-based dashboards, displaying key performance indicators and other important operations information.
You can use ARPM to bring in your process data, reconcile that raw data, then use that information to track the performance of your heat exchanger over time. I have seen this used to pinpoint when maintenance is required, to determine equipment failure, or to process bottlenecks.
"Heat exchanger monitoring is critical to driving optimal refinery performance by reducing operating cost and maximizing refinery yields. By focusing on the basics and utilizing every piece of data available process engineers can improve heat exchanger monitoring."Full article here
You can use ARPM to bring in your process data, reconcile that raw data, then use that information to track the performance of your heat exchanger over time. I have seen this used to pinpoint when maintenance is required, to determine equipment failure, or to process bottlenecks.
