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Keeping Feedstock Flexible to Improve Margins

In this article we outline how to improve margins through feedstock flexibility.

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Enhanced Unit Monitoring Enabled by Digital Twin

Understand how a process digital twin drives agility and convergence in understanding actions across the whole business. The key inputs used for a process digital twin, key tasks performed and how KPIs are calculated. Includes a case study of a pilot process digital twin at Saudi Aramco. Published in Hydrocarbon Engineering and co-authored by Saudi Aramco.

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Process Digital Twin Automated Reporting Reduces Combustion Emissions

This whitepaper examines how Petro-SIM® simulation software can use emissions data generated by three different compressor drivers on a floating, production, storage and offloading vessel to balance process limitations with business performance.

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Mercury Model Validation

Predicting solubility of Mercury in natural gas systems and petroleum fluids with Multiflash® Software.

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PACE Plays a Key Role in Air Liquides Drive for Operational Excellence

Multivariable Model Predictive Control helped Air Liquide for more than 20 years to control Air Separation Units. Platform for Advanced Control and Estimation was selected to be the new standard Model Predictive Control platform.

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Scaling Value Capture with Digital Twins

An Integrated Asset Model operationalized by real-time data to be used for business-wide situational awareness and decision-making requires digital twins. The kind of digital twin, and how big and fast it will deliver value is key for integrated asset and supply chain optimization. Starting at the foundational molecular level different digital twins cover various aspects and serve distinctly different purposes. Connecting these digital twins, in a scalable way is an assured way of achieving sustainable value capture

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Manage Energy Cost and Carbon Digitally

The pursuit of energy efficiency remains the easiest and lowest risk source of energy cost reduction and decarbonization. Digital energy management systems kick start and stewards a facility’s energy transition with advanced digital technology to identify, implement and sustain cost and carbon performance.

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Outlook for Energy Management in Refining, Petrochemical and Chemicals

Findings of this global energy survey show there is a desire to increase operational efficiency, empowering owners to stay competitive in their pursuit of decarbonization. However it is needs to be addressed through real-time data, site-wide digital twins, and proprietary analytics capability.

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Buy Time Digitalize and Transition

Digital transformation approaches result in a fundamental shift in asset portfolio ‘production core’ and is the only way to lead to a more resilient or sustainable future.

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Mitigating Corrosion with a Digital Twin

How data-driven engineering helps engineers to identify ways to improve predictions of corrosion.

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Risk Thresholds Driving Alternate Business Models

This whitepaper outlines how Remote Operating Centers are an opportunity to benefit safety and profit. Redesigning the organization around value and knowledge, supported by the application and adoption of technology transforms a business with collective optimization.

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Creating a Seamless Digital Patchwork

Joining data sources, people and processes together is critical for digitalization. With the latest advancements in digital technology, it is now possible to create a seamless patchwork that supports rapid acceleration toward the single multi-purpose digital twin vision.