Optimize Plant Utilities to Reduce Energy Consumption

·       Reduce the risk involved in making decisions that need to consider utility prices, equipment availability and constraints, efficiency and utility demand

·       Optimize utility variability by adopting a consistent methodology to model, simulate and analyze energy management business processes

• Instruction on basic topics
•  Discussion about the general approach and the key elements for successful simulations
•  Observe how the product features contribute to efficient utilities management through instructor-guided demonstrations
• Hands-on workshops provide students with many opportunities to use the product and to apply concepts learned in seminar sessions

Develop Utilities Flowsheet

·    Demonstrate how to access and navigate within the Aspen Utilities application.

·    Discuss the different utility blocks, streams and port types that can be used in flowsheeting

·    Workshop: Build a simple Utilities Flowsheet

Expand and Complete the Flowsheet

·    Discuss the deaerator, flash drum, steam valve, desuperheater and pump specifications in detail

·    Workshop: Expand the simple flowsheet by adding additional utility blocks

Microsoft Excel Interface

·    Use the Excel interface

·    Build a graphical representation of a flowsheet in Excel

·    Discuss how to link and enter simulation data

·    Workshop: Link given simulation variables to the model

Define Utilities Optimization Problem using Excel 

·    Define the optimization problem

·    Use the Excel to set up the optimization problem

·    Workshop: Add availability and demand profiles

Optimize the Flowsheet

·    Recognize the difference in operating cost between the base operating mode and the optimized operating mode and determine what has changed

·    Show how to launch Optimization Error Diagnostics, run the Presolver Error Check and review simulation messages

·    Workshop: Optimize the flowsheet

Multi Period Optimization (Demo) 

·    Show how to use the model to develop a production plan for the next 24 hours

·    Run Multi Period Optimization to establish the optimum loads on the utility equipment

·    Workshop: Run Multi Period Optimization to establish the optimum loads on the utility equipment

Setting Up Operation Constraints

·    Show how the performance of a piece of equipment changes with load

·    Identify and explain optimization limits for blocks and streams with Aspen Utilities

·    Workshop: Setting up Optimization Limit within an Aspen Utilities flowsheet

Using Emission Models 

·    Show how to use emission models to track NOx

·    Workshop: Setting up Optimization NOx Limit

Evaluating CO2 emissions 

·    Show how to use emission models to track CO2

·    Workshop: Setting up Optimization with CO2 emission penalty

Setting Up of Gas Turbine and Wind Turbine

·    Review of Gas Turbine and Wind Turbine models

·    Workshop: Demonstration of Gas Turbine and Wind Turbine

Review of Automation

·    Review of automation (VBA) of Aspen Utilities Planner

·    Workshop: Demonstration of automation capabilities

Introduction to Data Reconciliation

·    Identify and explain data reconciliation basics

·    Discuss the different method in Data Reconciliation

·    Setup data reconciliation for gas turbine model via Excel interface

·    Workshop: Reconciliation against given plant data