Invensys enhanced refinery optimisation software

Invensys Operations Management has introduced refinery-wide optimisation solutions that complement its existing portfolio of SimSci-Esscor hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) offerings. The company is now offering a yield accounting solution and an off-sites solution integrated with planning and scheduling systems.

The company’s recent acquisition of Spiral Software also means that Invensys Operations Management’s SimSci-Esscor solutions will now fully support and optimise the entire refining value chain, from crude trading to supply-chain distribution, including life-cycle modeling from design to start-up to performance optimisation. With this acquisition, Invensys is now able to offer a full-span optimisation solution.

The Invensys Yield Accounting solution is designed to streamline data transfer between off-site software and yield accounting software to ensure that the correct information is being used. It then converts that process data into reliable operating information by using built-in data reconciliation algorithms. Using the software is said to increase accuracy and reliability for receipt, shipment and process data; identify gross errors; correct inaccuracies; and reduce or eliminate losses.

The company has also released an off-sites solution that integrates planning, scheduling and off-sites systems to its SimSci-Esscor ROMeo optimisation software. This allows refineries that already have blend operations and optimisation practices in place to leverage these two sources of information, ultimately improving efficiency and profitability.

The newly acquired Spiral knowledge-management software will provide accurate and timely crude oil information across an enterprise, from ranking crude oils in trading to optimising refinery processes and maximising reliability.