Product category:
Process Monitoring and Optimisation
News Release from: Invensys SimSci Esscor | Subject: ROMeo
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 July 2005
New on-line process optimisation
solution
SimSci-Esscor has announced the release of version 4.0 of the ROMeo plant modeling and optimisation software solution for use in refineries, petrochemical plants, and other process facilities
The SimSci-Esscor unit of Invensys Process Systems has announced the release of version 4.0 of the ROMeo plant modeling and optimisation software solution for use in refineries, petrochemical plants, and other process facilities With version 4.0, the ROMeo software is now integrated within SimSci-Esscor SIM4ME common modeling environment
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 8 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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This environment provides a consistent user interface, common data model, consistent thermodynamics, and common software modules across different simulation applications to increase productivity while minimising training requirements.
Utilising patented technology, version 4.0 of the ROMeo software enables users to employ a focused strategy of data re-use across the full range of simulation applications -- from steady state process design to dynamic simulation and optimisation.
This includes the ability to open a PRO/II process model from within the ROMeo application, allowing users to take existing off-line models on-line for performance monitoring and optimisation while retaining equity in previously developed models.
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Commenting on this capability, Tom Fiske, Senior Analyst at ARC Advisory Group, stated, "Effective use of modeling and optimisation solutions offers manufacturers a powerful means to improve the economic performance of their plants.
In addition to optimising their physical processes, companies also need to optimise their workflow and maximise their modeling efforts by reusing data to ensure that decisions made during different lifecycle phases and with different modeling tools are based on a consistent representation of their plant".
The version 4.0 release also features a true modular "sub-flowsheet" capability that simplifies collaboration.
This capability allows ROMeo software users to build models in a modular and hierarchical manner.
Users can manage multiple independent models as sub-flowsheets or import one flowsheet into another.
Utilising sub-flowsheets, modeling teams can work independently on small sections of a flowsheet for model development or troubleshooting purposes within independent workspaces.
Other capabilities include a new reciprocating compressor model, new column pressure drop calculation models for various tray configurations, a new case comparison utility that enables side-by-side comparisons, and other productivity enhancing features.
"The ROMeo solution allows users to analyse their plant's behavior and optimise performance based on a wide range of operational and economic conditions," said Alastair Fraser, vice president of Invensys Process Systems SimSci-Esscor unit.
"With the version 4.0 release, we can provide process plants with a powerful solution that is easy to maintain and provides a seamless transition from our offline to online modeling environments.".
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