Economic Calculations
Monitor™ economic calculations answer common questions about the
cost of fouling, the benefits to be gained from cleaning and help to develop an
optimum cleaning strategy.
Cleaning Economics Reports
Monitor™ Cleaning Economics calculations determine the effects of cleaning exchangers in
the Network. These are shown in tabular form
and include:
the cost of removing exchangers for cleaning the savings that could be made by cleaning selected exchangers the optimum cleaning cycles for each exchanger and for user-defined groups of exchangers.
In
addition, one of the standard spreadsheet reports
is the Fouling Cost Summary which shows the additional costs that have been
incurred over a range of cases for the furnace to make up the duty lost.
Economic Data Required
The
Cleaning Economic calculations require the following data:
Globally:
The Fuel Cost and the Furnace Efficiency are used when generating all economic reports. The Length of Plant Run is only used in the optimum cleaning cycle report. Fuel Cost expressed in $ per unit of duty. The default value is the Solomon value for fuel oil. Furnace Efficiency. The fuel cost is divided by this value to obtain the total cost of the fuel. Length of Plant Run expressed as number of days between plant shutdowns. This is used in the optimum cleaning cycle calculation.
For each exchanger:
Date Last Cleaned. This is used in the optimum cleaning cycle report. Days to Clean. The number of days that an exchanger will be out of service when it is removed for cleaning. This is used in the optimum cleaning cycle report. Cleaning Cost. The fixed costs (man time, cleaning materials, etc.) associated with removing and cleaning an exchanger. This does not include additional costs incurred by the reduced Network duty. This cost is used in the optimum cleaning cycle report. Clean Fouling Factor for the exchanger when returned to service after cleaning. This is used in the Cleaning Economics calculation and the optimum cleaning cycle report.
How Cleaning Economics are Calculated
Fouling factors are first calculated for a selected Case. These are used to calculate temperatures for all exchangers and at the furnace inlet.
Cost of removing exchangers for cleaning
The Network is solved and the furnace run-up temperature calculated with each exchanger in turn bypassed. This determines the effect of removing the exchangers for cleaning in terms of lost enthalpy at the furnace inlet, also expressed as $/day. The program also calculates the amount by which the throughput would have to be reduced in order to maintain the furnace inlet temperature at its previous level.
Savings from cleaning
The fouling factor of each exchanger in turn is then set to its clean value and the Network is solved to obtain the increase in duty that this would produce at the furnace inlet. This is shown as extra throughput which could be achieved and $/day.
Optimum cleaning cycles
The above results are then used, along with fixed costs, to calculate the optimum cleaning cycles for each exchanger. The optimum cycle is that which minimises the annualised cost of fouling. By default, each exchanger is cleaned in turn. Combinations of exchangers to be cleaned in addition to individual exchangers are defined in the User Defined Cleaning Economics Combinations Window.
Flexible Output
MONITOR's
output capabilities are extensive.
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You can export the PFD drawing to PowerPoint so that you can use it in a presentation.
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You can get results tables displayed directly on the screen.
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You can have a summary of Reconciliation, Fouling and NFIT runs for a range of cases.
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You can plot results from a range of cases to view trends.
You
can get the results of the current case displayed as a table directly on the screen.
You can export these results to Word or to a Text file.
Input Data Reprint
To
enable you to check all your data, Monitor prints it all out at the start of
the main results output.
The
network data include:
Case data
include:
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Reconciliation
Monitor uses measured plant temperatures and flowrates to calculate heat exchanger fouling factors.
The Data Reconciliation calculation identifies inconsistencies in the input
data and enables you to obtain a more consistent set of data for the fouling calculation.
Reconciliation
output shows the duties calculated from the supplied flowrates and temperatures for each side of target
exchanger and the differences between them. It also shows the differences between the target and calculated temperatures of
the products of target mixers.
The
same data are then shown after the reconciliation has been completed. The
table shows by how much feed stream temperatures and flowrates and
splitter ratios have been changed to achieve a reconciled data set.
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Fouling
After
a reprint of the input data, the fouling report shows tabular results for each type of heat exchanger in
turn, followed by results for all other types of unit operation in turn.
Finally, the temperatures, pressures, flows and properties are presented for all the streams in the Network.
Heat
exchanger results include:
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Normalised Output
Normalisation
is the technique Monitor uses to remove the effect of the changes in external parameters,
such as crude and product variations, to determine a true picture of the
degradation of network performance due to fouling alone.
The
calculated fouling factors from each case are superimposed onto the feeds
from a selected base case and the resultant temperatures reported.
Normalisation
output includes:
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Cleaning Economics
Cleaning Economics
calculations determine the effect of cleaning exchangers in the Network
and an optimum cleaning cycle for each exchanger.
Cleaning
output includes:
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Splitter Optimisation
Splitter
Optimisation determines splitter product ratios which maximise the heat recovery of the Network.
This minimises the required furnace duty for the Network.
Optimisation
output includes:
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Calculation Histories
This
report summarises the Reconciliation and/or Fouling and/or NFIT results
for all cases within a range you select. It
is particularly useful for troubleshooting data errors.
The
report here shows a range of Data Reconciliation results, including some
failed cases.
You
can choose to display all cases or just failed cases.
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Plotted Output |
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For
monitoring over a time period, by
far the most meaningful form of output is that presented in graphical
format.
There are a number of standard, predefined reports.
You may also define your own reports to include the parameters, units and/or streams that you require.
The
data for the selected report are written to a text file which is then
opened automatically in Excel.
A plot is created for each set of data in the spreadsheet. You may
then modify and save the workbook or copy plots or data into other
applications.
The
standard reports are:
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Reconciliation
This report compares results for data reconciliation over the range of Cases.
It shows:
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Heat Transfer
This report contains heat transfer data for all the exchangers in the Network and any normalised furnace inlet temperatures.
For each exchanger
there are plots for:
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Fouling Cost
This report shows the additional costs
incurred when a furnace makes up the duty lost because of fouling.
The spreadsheet plots the following on separate worksheets:
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Stream Temperatures
This report shows the temperatures of all streams in the Network.
Feed
streams, product streams and internal streams are presented separately and are plotted on separate worksheets.
Compare
this plot of the actual furnace inlet stream temperatures with the
normalised plot abov. This shows the benefit of normalisation to
give a more meaningful presentation of the true effect of fouling.
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Weight and Volume Flow Rates
These
two
reports show the weight and volume flowrates of all streams in the
Network. Feed streams, product streams and internal streams are
presented separately and are plotted on separate worksheets.
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Weight
Flowrates
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Pressures
The pressure at the inlet and outlet of each exchanger is listed on
this report along with pressure drops. The plots for each exchanger are on separate worksheets and show:
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User Defined Spreadsheet Outputs
If
none of the standard spreadsheet reports meets your requirements, you may define your own reports.
You may
specify a
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