Process simulation
Petro-SIM is the leading process simulation and optimization platform for driving excellence in facility performance and organizational productivity. At the core of Petro-SIM’s technology, rigorous simulation models generate dependable results in an intelligent, user-friendly environment. Petro-SIM is the go-to simulation platform for upstream, midstream and downstream refinery and petrochemical processes.
Benefits
Petro-SIM is a rigorous decision support tool. Its unique open platform architecture promotes exceptional levels of integration and collaboration between project teams.
It allows date-based simulations and scenarios to be fully developed, making it a uniquely effective predictive and analytic tool. It closes the loop between monitoring and planning, allowing for real-time comparisons of plans, actuals and simulations.
For upstream oil and gas, Petro-SIM is the only purpose-built simulation software that can ensure facility processing capabilities meet long term reservoir needs.
In oil refining and petrochemicals, Petro-SIM works in tandem with our world-leading SIM Reactor Suite to create the only proven simulator capable of scaling from reactor units to entire refinery petrochemical facilities.
In other industries, Petro-SIM supports plug-ins for other 3rd party simulation tools.
Key features of Petro-SIM include:
- Addresses each phase of the lifecycle of a facility
- Integrates processes, pipelines and utility systems within a single environment, including highly detailed sizing and rating models for unit operations
- Built to work in real-time, for monitoring unit health and profitability
- Allows superior collaboration and version control, and the ability to build in your own design standards and checks
- Contains all the infrastructure to connect and manage messy real-world data, including historian connections, data validation and reconciliation
- Supports data and model analytics, with all simulation calculations stored in a database for historical analysis and datamining
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