The primary objective of a chemical plants utility operation is to provide steam to the process units with power generation normally as a secondary objective. Honeywell’s energy management solutions for chemical companies are designed to unlock savings potential throughout the energy generation process and help plants deliver steam and energy at the lowest possible cost. Honeywell’s Unified Energy Solutions (UES) are a portfolio of advanced control and optimization applications that enhance process regulatory and control systems in process steam and heat production as well as electricity generation. The solution offers a low cost, high return alternative to expensive boiler retrofits that reduces the cost of energy generation and improves operational efficiency.
In industrial chemical complexes, the UES solution directly helps to stabilize the supply of steam to a multi-header steam distribution network and multi-steam turbine facility so that process units always have sufficient steam as demand varies.
The UES solution optimizes processes under constraints imposed by technology and the environment, and helps plants dramatically reduce emissions and improve overall process efficiency by about 1-3%. Process optimization functions cover combustion process, both heat and power load allocation, and electric power delivery. Additional benefits include reduced heat and power production costs, increased effective boiler operation range, optimized flue gas emissions, higher production capacity utilization, improved transient states control, extended life of production assets and reduced maintenance.