Copyright 2005 Confidential property of

TECHNIP Benelux B.V. / Pyrotec Division

August 2005


TECHNIP Ethylene Simulation Software
SPYRO

Product Overview


In today's tightening market situation, it is increasingly important for ethylene producers to respond
swiftly to changing market conditions and to operate their facilities in the most cost effective manner
possible. In ethylene plants, selection of feedstocks and operation of the cracking furnaces have the
greatest impact on a plant's profitability. Thus it is important to have the best available tools easily
accessible in order to help find the most advantageous way to operate the cracking furnaces.

To date, the most important tool for ethylene producers is SPYRO

, the core of TECHNIPs

Ethylene Furnace Program Set, consisting of the following programs and modules:

SPYRO

: TECHNIP's proprietary ethylene yield prediction program. The rigorous kinetics yield
model is used for the prediction of the effluent composition at the exit of the radiant coil and the
coke deposition rate along the coil;
TES

: the transfer line exchanger simulator for the cooling of the cracked effluent and
generation of high pressure steam;
FIREBOX

: the radiant box simulator for radiative and convective heat transfer in rectangular
ethylene furnaces;
CONVEC: the convection section simulator, for the heat transferred from the hot flue gas flow
to the cold process flows;
Visual EFPS: a user-friendly interface to create, execute and evaluate Furnace simulation
cases on the PC platform.

Several add-ons to SPYRO

are available:

HGO (Heavy Gas Oil) extension: extends the kinetic scheme to heavy gas oils up to C
42
;
ISO extension: the simulator for laboratory scale coils.

Over the years, production facilities have successfully applied SPYRO

(+additional modules) for:

Feedstock selection;
Furnace operability studies;
Optimisation of operating conditions;
Recycle stream evaluation;
Vendor design evaluation and selection.


In addition to these off-line programs, On-line SPYRO

in RTO and SAPC (SPYRO

in APC) are
available for on-line application of SPYRO

technology.

Copyright 2005 Confidential property of
TECHNIP Benelux B.V. / Pyrotec Division

August 2005


TECHNIP Ethylene Simulation Software
On-line SPYRO

in RTO and SAPC (SPYRO

in APC)


On-line SPYRO

simulates the steady-state cracking process inside the radiant coil(s) of a steam
pyrolysis furnace in ethylene plants. It is based upon a fundamental kinetic scheme of more than
3000 total reactions, representing a chain reaction mechanism of 128 molecular species and 20
radical species. On-line SPYRO

is designed for use in RTO applications for Real-Time

Optimization of ethylene plant operations. SAPC is designed for use in APC applications for
Advanced Process Control of ethylene plant operations.

The fundamental basis of the SPYRO

program allows accurate prediction of parameters as:

Effluent yield composition / Cracking severity
Tube Skin Temperature
Coke Build-up
Heat Flux
Absorbed Duty
Coil Pressure Drop
Coil Outlet Temperature

FEEDS

Feed stocks from ethane up to heavy gas oil can be modelled in the SPYRO

program.

COILS

Given the basic geometry of the pyrolysis reactor, SPYRO

can simulate the performance of nearly

any type of pyrolysis coil in commercial use today. The furnace geometry is configured by
TECHNIP for each RTO / APC project in the pre-commissioning stage.

For more information about SPYRO

or additional Ethylene Furnace simulation modules for off- or

On-line application, please contact your Pyrotec representative at the address below.

TECHNIP Benelux B.V.
PYROTEC Division
P.O. Box 86 Tel: +31-79-3293 457
2600 AB Zoetermeer Fax: +31-79-3292 573
The Netherlands E-mail: SPYRO@Technip.com