Software helps optimize crude purchasing decisions
New assay management functionality in Aspen PIMS software helps optimize crude purchasing decisions and increase profitability.
The assay management enhancements to the refinery planning application help streamline work flow for feedstock selection.
Traditionally, refinery planners maintain their own assay libraries and use disparate technologies, which can lead to inaccurate and inefficient planning. The new functionality from this firm allows planners to add, modify, and recut assays directly in Aspen PIMS, enabling them to quickly evaluate more scenarios with greater accuracy, the company says.
Assay management capabilities allow users to import assay data from external sources and more efficiently manage their crude feedstocks. Guided, automated work flows help increase productivity, while alerts notify planners for the next step in the process to shorten their learning curve.
Source: Aspen Technology Inc., 200 Wheeler Rd., Burlington, MA 01803.
New corrosion control systems
New engineered system approaches available to the industry utilize VpCI chemistry to control corrosion.
The CorroLogic family of systems, services, and products is especially designed to control corrosion in a variety of applications within the most aggressive corrosive environments such as:
1. Aboveground storage tanks. System fils the interstitial spaces of double bottom tanks. Data from the real-time corrosion rate monitoring equipment that is installed in each tank, along with the VpCI, proves the long term effectiveness of this solution, the firm notes.
2. Cased pipeline casings. The company developed a product that is applied as a liquid into the annular space between the carrier pipe and the casing and quickly sets into a gel, as well as the equipment and process for application of the product.
3. Insulated pipe. Corrosion under insulation is addressed. This firm's engineers have worked with a large manufacturer of corrosion rate monitoring systems to develop equipment capable of producing real-time measurements at the surfaces of insulated pipe as well as developing special equipment and processes for application of VpCI chemistry.
Source: Cortec Corp., 4119 White Bear Parkway, St. Paul, MN 55110.
