Aspen Polymer Production Control™

The most complete control solution for polymers production

Efficiently managing on-grade production and grade transitions is critical to profitability. Aspen Polymer Production Control provides full automation and dynamic optimization of product grade transitions while delivering significantly improved product quality. As a result, companies can lower costs, produce less waste, increase production, and achieve specification faster to deliver increased margins. Aspen Polymer Production Control is a core element of AspenTech’s aspenONE™ Advanced Process Control applications.

Features

Full non-linear model-predictive control
- Constraint ranking: Ranks targets and limits for different variables so that under certain conditions, the optimizer will prioritize higher ranked constraints first.
- Variable dynamics support: Adjusts model dynamics online in real-time, including dead times.
- Gain constrained dynamics: Provides accurate modeling of non-linear gains across the entire operating space.
- Reduced modeling complexity: Captures all relationships in a single model per controlled variable. All parts of the solution reference the same model.
Integrated transition management: Fully optimizes the complete range of transitions including those with:
- Reactor configuration changes (series to parallel, parallel to series)
- Catalyst and donor changes
- Large. simultaneous changes in multiple product-quality targets
- Multiple reactors in series
- Variable dead times and dynamics
Integrated recipe management
- Change reporting
- Recipe value downloading
- Role based security: Allows particular features in Aspen Process Recipe to be secured by user roles.
- Flexible item types: Defines and maintains parameters, item types, and parameter associations.
- Recipe item parameter ‘”matrix” view: Provides the ability to view all control recipe items
- Embedded calculation engine from Aspen Calc