Make fast, accurate, and profitable decisions about plant operations, feedstock selection, market responses, and production decisions Aspen PIMS is the worlds leading petroleum and petrochemical planning system featuring cuttingedge optimization technology. An intuitive interface with enhanced reporting and parametric analysis make it easy to view, analyze, and report alternatives, guiding users to the optimum solution. Since 1984, Aspen PIMS has facilitated better feedstock selection, downtime planning, and risk and inventory management to optimize profitability. Now Aspen PIMS includes assay management, making it easier than ever to add, modify and re-cut assays, helping refinery planners deliver more accurate plans to yield greater profitability. Aspen PIMS Advanced Optimization (PIMS-AO) empowers users with state-of-the-art non-linear functionality and enhanced modeling capabilities. The PIMS-AO model offers the best balance between available feedstocks, product requirements, and process unit capacity, while evaluating a more complete set of input parameters and optimization objectives.
Aspen PIMS helps improve refinery operations by:
Adding flexibility to feedstock selection Extending production runs Providing rapid response to changing market Maintaining the highest value-added product mix
The Challenge: Creating Profitable Plans
in a Volatile Market To achieve maximum profitability, planners must be able to make fast, accurate, and optimal planning decisions about feedstock selection, process runs, and product mix while taking into account numerous other factors, such as changing market demands and price volatility.
Enabling faster problem-solving
Modeling crude distillation columns with greater accuracy Sharing targets and assay data with scheduling applications Achieving a global optimum (by eliminating local optima) for product volumes, costs, and prices
The AspenTech Solution: Dynamic Planning
for Optimum Results Aspen PIMS is a scalable planning system that helps companies optimize feedstock selection, product slate, plant design, and operational execution. Users can even link a number of single-plant models to generate a complex multi-source, multi-plant, multi-market, multi-period plan.
Additionally, Aspen PIMS-AO allows the use of both linear and
non-linear modeling and constraints to create an accurate representation of their plants and operations. Users familiar with Aspen PIMS can quickly leverage this functionality to take advantage of its increased modeling and analysis capabilities. Industry-leading Aspen PIMS and Aspen PIMS-AO also share production targets, assay data and sub-models, blend model libraries, optimum recipes, and more with Aspen Petroleum Scheduler to create powerful synergies among planning and operations to reduce margin leakage.
Aspen PIMS Aspen PIMS delivers a competitive advantage with optimization features that enable both professional and less-skilled planners to perform at an expert level, providing short response times with reliable, well-vetted solutions. The unparalleled visibility and reporting with hot links enables the development of new work processes that take full advantage of the wealth of information available.
Ensure the Optimum Solution
Aspen PIMS advanced optimization quickly identifies the optimum solution while providing sufficient detail on alternative solutions. Aspen PIMS-AO reveals local optima and the highest value global solution. It also provides a convenient way to automatically vary selected feedstock purchase costs or product sales prices and monitor any aspect of the solution as these variables change. Aspen PIMS-AO even lets users optimize a combination of several objectives by setting primary, secondary, and tertiary goals for a solution. For example, while a solution would normally only maximize the economic objective, Aspen PIMS-AO can be set up to provide a balance between the economic objective while maximizing total crude unit throughput and minimizing the purchase of a particularly risky imported crude.
New analytical tools enable planners to better analyze the
solution space and effectively choose feedstock.
Non-Linear Model Flexibility
Aspen PIMS-AO offers users great flexibility in the types of equations that can be used, such as adding non-linear equations to models or inserting new non-linear terms into existing equations. Users need only provide the non-linear constraints in equation form; the system then builds the required derivatives, eliminating many potential modeling errors. The new equations or non-linear terms can reference existing Aspen PIMS variables or define new ones. Users can also attach non-linear unit models natively and optimize.
Aspen PIMS also includes an XLR Viewer that provides an
improved ability to analyze infeasibilities and resolve issues that may cause execution problems.
Aspen PIMS Function
Benefit
Global Optimization Finds global optimum while identifying potential locally optimal answers
Eliminates necessity for multiple runs; solves for local optima
and global optimum to increase margin
Uses open equation formulation
Identifies the solution that maximizes overall profitability
Supports use of non-linear tools to run what-if
scenarios
Validates solution and enhances planning confidence
Solution Ranging Provides unique visibility into the entire solution space and the range of its validity for feedstocks, unit capacities, and product slates Identifies the optimal range of values for each analyzed variable Describes deviations from the base optimal slate
Ensures accuracy and consistency across
business processes Reduces crude slateeliminates risky crudes from feedstock slate while reducing the number of crude types Improves inventory management, tank management, and crude scheduling Improves downtime planning Improves risk management capability
High Performance Computing
Uses multiple CPUs on a single computer to run multiple scenarios in parallelincreasing both number of scenarios and speed
Increases speed of response with an unprecedented level
of confidence Allows the evaluation of more scenarios in less time Reduces case stack run times
Goal Programming Defines secondary and tertiary objectives in addition to the primary objective for a solution
Addresses operational requirements that are difficult
to quantify
Sets a maximum percentage economic deviation or
change in goal
Imposes non-economic goals that improve plan acceptance
and execution Provides insight into economic cost of operating decisions Produces more consistent and stable plans over time
Sharing of Targets and Assay Data
Easily shares targets and assay data with scheduling systems
Prevents margin leakage and increases collaboration among
planners and schedulers
Enhanced Analytics Powerful output to Microsoft SQL Server allows for sharing of enterprise data and leverages Microsoft SQL Servers reporting capabilities
Provides enhanced decision support and ability to
compare alternatives Streamlines reporting capabilities and ability to share information
Empower Your Company to Succeed
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