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Valero
Company
Energy Corporation
Name
Crude
Petroleum
Oil Production
Refining
Challenge:
Improve
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consistency of stock switches on
Solution:
the furfural unit
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Solution:
Benefits:
Aspen DMCplus for improved
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management of stock switches
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Benefits:
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Improve productivity by 75
percent, switching all stocks
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within a two-hour window
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Reduce product downgrades by
more than $400M/year
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control of the RDC interface level, predicting and reacting to level changes,
and correcting changes due to disturbances.
Aspen DMCplus facilitated significant productivity improvement in the time
required to complete stock switches. In fact, all stock switches under Aspen
DMCplus control are now completed within two hours rather than the average
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In addition to shortening the switch time, Valero also improved control of the
heater firing duty, enabling them to maintain unit operations within environmental limits. Aspen DMCplus allows Valero to push charge rates closer to
limits without violating constraints, significantly reducing the standard
deviation of fired heater operation.
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