ACHEMA-2015 has provided with an opportunity to update our customers on Modcon latest developments in process analyzers and optimization solutions for process industries.
Modcon representative has shown two important presentations themed:
“Integrating spectroscopic methods in refineries” and “Paying less for a barrel” .
The practical value of achema world forum for the process industries comes from turning live plant measurements into information that operators can use. In continuous industries, laboratory data remains important, but it represents a sample taken at a particular moment. Online analysers add a different capability: they show how the process is changing between laboratory samples and provide the frequency of information needed for control, optimisation and early detection of abnormal conditions.
In industry engagement, the analyser specification is only part of the job. Reliable results also depend on how the measurement is installed and operated. That means checking sample representativeness, pressure and temperature, phase behaviour, stream composition, response time, hazardous-area requirements, calibration method and integration with the plant DCS or control system. Even a good analyser can give misleading results when the sample arrives late, changes phase or is conditioned in a way that alters the property being measured.
Our engineering work brings together process analysis, industry collaboration, technical knowledge exchange and emerging applications around the actual process objective. The right arrangement may use direct in-situ measurement, an engineered sample conditioning system, optical or thermal-conductivity sensing, NIR analysis, or integration of several measurements into a wider optimisation strategy. Live analyser data can also improve the quality of information available to APC, digital twins and industrial AI by giving these systems current composition and quality data instead of relying only on inferred values.
For achema world forum for the process industries, the final configuration should be checked against the project datasheet and the full operating envelope. The aim is straightforward: a measurement that works under real plant conditions, can be maintained without drama and gives operators information they can use.
This article considers World Forum as part of the wider discussion on achema–2015 world forum for the process industries, with emphasis on practical process-industry applications and operating requirements.
