Zeeland Refinery Bridges Gap in Planning and Scheduling with Aspen Technology
May 07 2019 - 10:32AM
Business Wire
Oil refinery to deploy Aspen GDOT software
aiming to maximize profit generation
Aspen Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AZPN), the asset
optimization™ software company, today announced that Zeeland
Refinery, a joint venture between Total and Lukoil in Western
Europe, will deploy Aspen GDOT™ dynamic optimization software.
Aspen GDOT will initially be deployed on the middle distillate
production units across the refinery and will help Zeeland Refinery
to drive more consistent product quality, increasing middle
distillate production and advancing energy efficiency.
The dynamic coordination of APC (advanced process control) for
multiple process units by Aspen GDOT can help optimize all planning
and scheduling opportunities to drive higher than previously
expected profitability in operations.
Nathalie de Muynck, general manager at Zeeland Refinery said:
“By implementing Aspen GDOT with our existing AspenTech APC
platform we can realize additional optimization capabilities that
will further improve profit generation, therefore delivering
significant value to our shareholders.”
John Koumoutsakis, senior vice president of sales at Aspen
Technology added, “We look forward to helping Zeeland Refinery
further improve its operational efficiency by deploying Aspen GDOT.
With changes to regulations such as the IMO 2020 Marine Fuel
Specifications that demand lower sulphur emissions from marine
fuel, the need to align planned performance with actual performance
is key to improving productivity levels.”
About Aspen GDOTAspen GDOT™ dynamic optimization
technology is a key part of AspenTech’s Unified Production
Optimization solution that enables customers to improve refinery
margins by integrating planning, scheduling objectives and
economics with actual operations in a closed loop. Aspen GDOT
optimizes broad envelopes of refineries like the middle distillate
system, naphtha processing, residue processing and H2 networks by
coordinating several APC controllers for multiple process units in
real time. The patented data reconciliation technology available in
Aspen GDOT keeps models aligned with the actual performance of
units.
About Zeeland RefineryZeeland Refinery is a joint venture
of oil companies Total and Lukoil and is located in Vlissingen in
the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands. The refinery has an
annual production capacity of 11.5 million ton of fuels and raw
material for the petrochemical industry. It is one of the largest
employers in the region, offering work to 420 employees and 300
employees at its daily maintenance contractors.
About Aspen TechnologyAspen Technology (AspenTech) is a
leading software supplier for optimizing asset performance. Our
products thrive in complex, industrial environments where it is
critical to optimize the asset design, operation and maintenance
lifecycle. AspenTech uniquely combines decades of process modelling
expertise with machine learning. Our purpose-built software
platform automates knowledge work and builds sustainable
competitive advantage by delivering high returns over the entire
asset lifecycle. As a result, companies in capital-intensive
industries can maximize uptime and push the limits of performance,
running their assets safer, greener, longer, faster. Visit
AspenTech.com to find out more.
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