The PRO/II program has the power and flexibility you need to model all of your refinery processes and is the simulator of choice for the world's leading refining companies. PRO/II modeling capabilities address a wide range of applications from crude oil characterization and preheating to complex reaction and separation units. PROVISION provides an intuitive environment for building and modifying a full range of PRO/II models.
Benefits
- Lower capital and operating costs
- Improved plant design
- Greater plant profitability and product quality
- More flexible plant models
- More productive process engineering
- Reduced learning curve for complex plant models
- Typical benefits $.05-$.50 per bbl throughput
- Five to fifteen percent reduction of capital or engineering costs
Refinery Process Features
- Characterization of crude oil, shale oil, and tarsands to match any oil assay
- API, ASTM, TBP, RVP, refinery inspection properties, and flash point specifications on intermediate as well as end products
- RON/MON predictive blending methods
- Rigorous distillation models using Inside/Out and SURE algorithms
- Simulation of crude preheat trains, crude and vacuum stills, coker fractionators, FCCs, hydrocracker fractionators, gas plants, and sour water strippers
Applications
- Designing new processes
- Evaluating alternative plant configurations
- Modernizing and revamping existing plants
- Assessing and documenting compliance with environmental regulations
- Troubleshooting and debottlenecking plant processes
- Optimizing and improving plant yields and profitability
Processes
- Crude and vacuum distillation
- Gas plants
- FCCU
- Hydrocracking
- Reforming
- Hydrotreating
- Alkylation
- Isomerization
- Amines
- Sour water stripper
- Lubes processing
- Coking