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OPTIM - Olefins Production Throughput Increase & Maximization Control System
 The constraints in the Cracked Gas or Ethylene or Propylene compressors should not diminish
your potential to increase plant production. Due to ever-increasing global demand for
ethylene, the opportunity from increased production is greater than before. This is not the time
for an Olefins plant to lose production from unplanned shutdowns or turbomachinery constraints.
Let us show you how CCC successfully solved the unique challenge faced by other Ethylene
producers
Major Benefits
- Increase in reliability and availability
of compressors
- Eliminate shutdown from
compressor surge, high liquid level, discharge pressure, temperature, and overspeed
- Expanding the operating envelope of
Cracked Gas and refrigeration compressors in a safe, reliable manner
- Maximize plant's operating revenues and profitability
- Plant startup is faster and less stressful
- Process startup can take place with
fewer furnaces on line than before
- Reduce flaring of toxic gases
- Totally integrated controls will automatically stabilize any process upsets
- Minimize operator intervention
- Cracked Gas and refrigeration compressors operate safely during severe process disturbances
- Easy adaptation to changes from process revamp, turbomachinery rerates, and instrumentation
Does your Olefins Plant suffer from lost production and loss of revenues as a result of the following problems?
- Production is constrained due to Cracked Gas
compressor limits?
- Refrigeration capacity is limited due to the
constraints on Propylene or Ethylene compressors?
- Plant is subjected to unplanned shutdowns due
to surge related problems on compressors?
- Experiencing unplanned shutdowns due to high
liquid level, temperature, pressure or over speed
trip problems on refrigeration compressors?
- The Cracked Gas compressor does not operate
safely during furnace trips or failure of discharge
MOV?
- Suffering from periodic plant upsets leading to
manual operation of various control loops?
- Frustrated with loss of production revenues
due to conservative controls and wider safety
margins?
- Having manpower shortage from repeated
manual operations?
- Process startup is stressful and challenging
with excessive flaring of toxic pollutants?
- Compressors cannot sustain major
process upsets and result in
recurrent unplanned shutdowns?
CCC's New OPTIM is the Solution to Your Problems - a Reliable, Proven Solution
Innovative Olefins Production Throughput Increase &
Maximization Control System (OPTIM) featuring:
- FAST ACTING adaptive constraint control response (patent pending)
- ADVANCED multivariable control techniques
- PURPOSE-BUILT hardware platform
- INTEGRATED Turbomachinery Control System
- Stringent CONTROL system DESIGN
Remarkable R.O.I.
Every psi increase in inter-stage or final stage discharge pressure results in an
estimated production increase of 1%. One (1) psi decrease in cracked gas compressor suction pressure results in an estimated
production (or yield) increase of 0.75%.
For a world-scale Ethylene cracker with a nameplate rating
capacity of 800,000 t/y (1.8 billion pounds/year),
potential benefits per psi increase in
compressor margins are:
$6.8 million* increase in production revenues
*) Assume price of $850 per Metric Ton
$2.0 million** increase in operating profits
**) Assume an operating margin of around 30%
Want to know more about the OPTIM System? Please download:
 brochure (269KB)
Read about CCC expertise in constraint controls technology which was leveraged to develop new solutions for addressing the challenges in Olefins plants. The solution was shown to overcome the major problems experienced by ethylene producers. The newly developed fast acting adaptive control response of advanced ITCS is capable of minimizing the excursions of critical variables on a compressor, turbine or its associated process. The turbomachinery control system at Olefins-1, Petrokemya (Jubail Industrial City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) was retrofitted with CCC's OPTIM during the May 2003 turnaround ( >>> more )
For additional questions on these products please contact CCC satellite office near you
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