Aromatics producers today face ever-increasing pressure to increase revenues and decrease operating costs while responding to changing feedstock and changing economics. Honeywell and UOP, LLC have combined their respective process control and petrochemicals domain expertise to offer a new way to improve aromatics plant performance.
The integrated Honeywell/UOP solution can help users overcome the challenges associated with process monitoring, advanced control and optimization. Solutions integrating UOP’s process knowledge into Honeywell’s industry-leading Profit® Suite advanced control and optimization software and systems are the key to improved petrochemical operations.
The combination of Honeywell’s layered approach to online control and optimization, coupled with UOP’s remote rigorous modeling and expert consultancy (Remote Performance Management), provides a cost-effective, secure and easily maintainable solution that covers all aspects of an optimization project from design and implementation, to operation and after-market support.
Honeywell combines optimization applications with other key Experion components to provide a truly integrated enterprise-wide automation solution. Bi-directional information flow between operational assets and production planning resources improve business agility, ensuring that the plant is correctly aligned to process the right feed and produce the most profitable products. Profit Suite applications make use of ASM concepts to provide improved operator effectiveness using advanced visualization tools. They are also fully integrated with asset effectiveness tools that provide performance monitoring and diagnostic capabilities vital to the long-term viability of optimization solutions.
Honeywell and UOP’s optimization solutions take advantage of over 30 years of process automation experience in the Aromatics and Petrochemical industry to deliver an unsurpassed return on investment in the following areas: