ProPlan is a production planning simulator. The product is an extremely powerful, yet user-friendly application that facilitates the optimization and planning of plant operations. An economic analysis together with flexible planning of products and or capacities may be conducted for the complete plant. ProPlan is OPC compliant and web enabled making it easy to access from anywhere in the world and integrate with third party applications.

The software utilizes a graphical user-interface. ProPlan simulates plant operations by performing block-by-block calculations to determine all streams (e.g. feedstock, naphtha, oils, and blended products) flowing between the various units of the plant (e.g. splitter, crude unit, FCC). The simulator uses non-linear equations to predict yields, product properties, and the consumption of utilities. Profitability is maximized employing the powerful LINDO optimizer using the LP (linear programming) and NLP (non-linear programming) algorithms. This determines the optimum operating conditions and allocation of components to finished products, subject to user-specified quality concerns. The objective function of ProPlan is to maximize the profit of the production plant.

• Overall powerful optimizer for global optimum

• Report generation for each submodel, pooled components, utilities, Internal rate of return, Overall profitability, expense and profit charts and graphs, summary etc

• Product and feed blender to optimize feed purchase and product sales and overall profitability

• Short learning curve, full developmental capability for user to build and modify models.

• Extensive library of process submodels for refining, petrochemical and chemical industry.

• Web enabled

Graphical User-Interface. A clean graphical user-interface assists plant modeling. The interface provides a convenient directory tree and means to develop flowsheets, enter data and constraints, and review the results of the simulation. The input forms are structured so that data for crude assay, streams, all blocks, and utilities may be intuitively entered.

Crude Assay Database. The flowsheet is integrated with the HPI crude assay database as well as any other commercially available database. The HPI Assay Library presents crude oil assay data for 243 assays from around the world. HPI Consultants Inc have developed this database. ProPlan Data can be copy/pasted from Excel. Crude assays can be imported directly from excel or exported back to excel. Similarly data entry can be done via cut and paste options.

Feed Properties and Crude assay integration

User friendly. requires a short learning curve. Other conveniences include a relatively low cost investment, concise, browser-friendly block-by-block reports, stream and property profiles, and a complete online user manual. Flowsheeting is Windows compliant with click and drag-and-drop features.

 

Unit Operation Equation Editor

Blend Optimizer. Powerful feed and product blend optimizer to optimize the feedstocks as well as the products to meet the constraints and maximize the profitability of the plant. Each product can handle up to 12 constraints or specifications per product making it an even more powerful solution for meeting tighter environmental specs.

Blend Optimizer

Capacity Planning: User can specify the capacity of each unit operation and ProPlan will limit the production to the capacity of the unit

Financial Analysis: Reports are generated for often-used factors like Return on Investment (ROI), Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and more. This makes ProPlan even more convenient for financial assessments.

 

ProPlan has a library of 30 process models including most refinery and petrochemical units such as crude unit, reformer, BTX unit, paraxylene and more. New units can be easily created using existing units as a template. Non-linear equations for the new unit can be easily defined and added to the submodel library. This allows ProPlan the flexibility to be used for any continuous production plant.

• One-shot glance of the economics of the entire plant (Sales and Operation). 

• Detailed expense and revenue analysis of complete plant. 

 

 

• Graphical Illustration in the form of Pie Charts useful for investment decisions

• Exporting capabilities to database packages, ERP, and Microsoft Offic

Production Planning: Versatile tool for Production planning operations. Helps evaluate changing feedstock and profitability of different products to be in tune with ever changing requirements of the process industry.

Feasibility reports and Configurations: Ideal for conducting feasibility analysis and reports for existing or new plants/units. Various configurations can be quickly and accurately tested using the easily customizable software to determine the feasibility and ideal configuration of the plant.

Revamp Studies: Determine whether a revamp would be economical and profitable and will also suggest which revamp would be ideal for that plant. The user can easily add a new proposed unit & determine the feasibility of that unit within the existing configuration

Optimization: Suggest the ideal ranges of operation of the existing units in a plant limited only by operating feasibility. Based on the chosen ranges ProPlan will carry out profit optimization for the entire complex.

Utility Expenses: Determines the utility expenses for individual unit operations separately in tabular format and also gives a graphical representation of the same.

Impact of Proprietary technology: Demonstrate the economic impact of a technology developed or an improvement in existing technology or operation.

Training and Learning: Promote better understanding within the organization about the impact of various units in the plant and highlight the economics and interaction of various units in the plant.