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Refinery Optimization Advantages Experience Success Stories

Our management team averages more than 20 years experience in the field of control and optimization. The consulting staff have an average of over 10 year's experience in model predictive control, modeling, simulation and optimization. In addition to the advanced technology experience, our consultants are extremely skilled in evaluating the performance and operability of chemical and refining processes. With experience on over 30 Fluid Catalytic Cracking Units and 40 Ethylene Units we have the capability to assist our customers in quickly improving the performance of these processes.

AMT's capabilities include control and optimization implementation on a wide range of chemical, refining processes and polymer processes, working on all available computer platforms and DCS systems using the industry leading technologies for control and optimization.

Experienced consultants deliver benefits reliably from both higher levels of application performance and better long term performance. AMT provides services tailored to meet our customer’s needs in order to achieve maximum benefits throughout the life of their applications.

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APC consultants


AMT's Advantages

  1. Highest quality staff available
  2. Significant experience with APC and RTO technologies and applications
  3. High quality results with efficient project execution
  4. Flexible working relationship
  5. Full project execution through to consulting support
  6. Ability to expand to handle larger scale implementation or maintenance programs
  7. A variety of approaches to system maintenance
  8. AMT's significant experience allows us to complete engagements quickly and effectively

As a technology independent company, our customers can count on receiving an objective recommendation that matches their requirements with the available technology and services strategies.

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Experience Counts

Summary of experience

  1. AMT staff have implemented advanced multivariable control systems on all major refining process units including distillation, cracking, reforming, alkylation, heavy oil processing and auxiliary processes – over 100 multivariable controllers in all.
  2. With more than 40 multivariable control applications and nearly 20 optimization applications on Ethylene plants our experience is unsurpassed.
  3. Multivariable control of Gas Processing facilities can deliver substantial benefits. Our staff have implemented control applications in the gas processing industries, including LNG, NGL and refinery gas plants.
  4. AMT staff have implemented advanced control solutions in oil and gas production, both onshore and offshore.
  5. A significant number of very successful applications have been implmented in the chemical and polymer industries on a variety of production units.
  6. Professional and consulting services have been provided for advanced process control and optimization benefit studies, performance audits, strategic studies and training courses.
  7. AMT's consultants have also managed large scale programs with multiple plants, applications and a range of technologies where involved.
Our extensive application experience is shown in the table below.

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Project Services
     
Refining Processes Chemical and Petrochemical Processes 
     
Crude Distillation Units Ethylene Plants 
  Furnace Pass Balancing Pyrolysis Furnace Severity Control
  Column Control/Inferentials Hot Fractionation Control
  Crude Switching/Feed Maximization Charge Gas Compressor Constraint Controls
Fuels Vacuum Units  Cold Box Refrigeration and Cold Separation Controls
Lubes Vacuum Units Feed Maximization System
  Viscosity Control Furnace Optimizer/Rigorous Optimizer
Delayed Cokers  Ammonia Plants 
  Furnace Controls Primary and Secondary Reformer Control
  Column Composition Controls H2 to N2 Ratio Control
  Drum Switch Impact Minimization Reaction and Refrigeration Section Controls
Fluid and Flexi Cokers  OXO Alcohols 
FCCU including RCCU's  Reactor Section by Grade
  Reactor/Regenerator/Main Fractionator Product Finishing and Separation Controls
  Severity/Feed Maximization Aromatics Units 
  Gas Plant Controls Reformer and Regenerator Controls
Hydrotreating Product Separation
  Naphtha/Diesel/Gasoline treatment Liquid/Liquid Extraction Controls
Hydrocracking Units  BTX and Toluene Conversion Controls
  Reactor WABT Paraxylene Units 
  Feed Maximization and Conversion Control Conversion and PX Purification
  Fractionation/Gas Recovery Controls Product Separation
Alkylation Units  Production Maximization
  HF and SF alkylation Ethylene Oxide/Ethylene Glycol Units 
  Feed Maximization Reaction Section Controls
  Distillation Control Primary Separation Controls
Naphtha Reformers Evaporators and Product Separation Controls
  Severity Control/Coke Balance Control (CCR's) Alpha Olefins 
  Product Fractionation Controls Superfractionator Controls
Hydrogen Reformers  Catalytic Distillation
  Reformer Furnace Firebox Control Ethyl Benzene
  Hydrogen Balance and Network Control Reaction
Refinery Gas Plants Distillation Section
  Distillation inferentials and control Styrene Monomer
  Feed Maximization/Fractionator Controls Reaction
Catalytic Polymerization Distillation and Recovery Sections
  Reactor Temperature Control Speciality Rubber
  Product Separation Control Feed Maximizaion
Sulphur Units Product Recovery
  Amine treatment  
  Claus Process  
     
Gas Processing Facilities   
     
Liquified Natural Gas Processing  
  Refrigeration and Fractionation Control  
  Throughput Maximization  
Liquified Petroleum Gas Processing   
  Refrigeration and Fractionation Control  
  Throughput Maximization  
Air Separation Unit  
  Refrigeration and Fractionation Control  
  Rapid transition control and pipeline management  
     
     
Consulting Services 
Control System Performance Audits   
  Application Post Audits  
  Application Performance Reviews/Audits  
  Maintenance Requirements Evaluations  
Benefit and Strategy Studies   
  Refinery or Facilities Wide Benefits Analysis  
  Refinery or Facilities Wide APC Strategies  
  Single Unit Focused Benefits and Strategy Studies  
  Online Application Benefits Assessments  
Training Courses   
  DMC Intermediate and Advanced Level Training  
  Aspen SmartStep Workshop  
  Aspen Watch Workshop  
  Profit Controller Training  
  Regulatory Control System Design, Analysis and Tuning  

 

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