Aspen Online Deployment™
Deploying process models to improve plant operations
Aspen Online Deployment enables the use of models in plant operations for a wide range of real-time process monitoring, soft sensor, and operator advisory applications. Models are executed on a periodic schedule using conditioned on-line plant measurements. Model predictions are published to the historian to populate operator displays, or tracked for trend analysis.
Features
- Integrated with AspenTech’s aspenONE® Engineering applications: Ensures seamless compatibility with the Aspen Plus®, Aspen HYSYS®, and Aspen Custom Modeler® families of products.
- Automatic periodic execution: Executes steady-state process models without any programming.
- Built-in data conditioning and steady-state detection: Ensures model predictions are based on reasonable inputs.
- Easy links to model variables: Uses a simple copy/paste workflow to create links to process model variables. The variables can also be imported directly from Aspen Simulation Workbook™.
- Easy links to plant data tags: Browse tags from any OPC, CIM-IO, or Aspen Process Data server; create links by dragging and dropping tags onto model variables.
- Compatible with Aspen Process Data clients: Integrates with products such as Aspen Process Explorer and Aspen Web.21; enables customers to monitor and analyze online model predictions and from the desktop or custom web pages.
- Aspen Production Control Web Server: Monitors the application through a prepackaged web interface.
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Benefits
- Customers have reported significant benefits from deploying models into operations using real-time systems including:
- $20M annual savings in upstream operations through online monitoring
- $4M annual savings in an exchanger fouling monitoring application for a VDU
- $1M annual energy savings and $1M in additional capacity resulting from an on-line crude preheat performance monitoring application
- 10% profit increase from an FCC monitoring application
- Months of saved labor by avoiding the need to use Visual Basic programs to accomplish these types of results