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 KBC is the leading provider of process modeling and
refinery-wide simulation technology to the oil industry. Our tools enable
our consultants to provide timely and accurate simulation for our clients,
often identifying areas for improvement through improved crude selection,
accurate modeling of individual reactor process units, enhanced planning
and scheduling, and maximized investment in existing hardware. These models
provide a valuable tool for developing accurate LP vectors, monitoring
unit performance, optimizing operations and training.
The use of up-to-date and accurate crude assay information
lies at the heart of KBC’s simulation tools. KBC recognizes the importance
of accurate crude oil quality data, and KBC simulation tools are based
on the very latest information including a Crude Assay Database, CADB,
comprising over 340 crude oils and condensates is offered within the Crude
Assay Management System (CAMS), a PC package for interactive graphical
analysis of the CADB. CAMS and CADB are also offered integrated into our
refinery-wide flowsheets.
KBC Profimatics Reactor Models cover all critical process
units, from the simplest to the most complex refineries in the world.
To achieve this accuracy, a fundamental first principles’ approach
has been applied throughout development. This suite of industry-leading
decision support tools are the result of over twenty years of development,
based on hundreds of customer installations and thousands of man-hours
of use by KBC’s consultant and refiners worldwide.
The standalone models are designed to simulate a single
process unit and emphasize ease of use, set up, and rapid development
of multiple cases. They are easily linkable to a plant database to import
calibration data. Up to fifty calibration or predict case runs may be
initiated with a single mouse click. The models are available standalone
and embedded in HYSYS.
KBC’s proprietary Petrofine was the first refinery-wide
simulator designed with sophisticated crude synthesis techniques, linking
kinetic-based conversion units with rigorous distillation and separation
units, converging process recycles and blending to product specifications,
Petrofine has robust, non-linear optimization capabilities to maximize
profits while maintaining real-life equipment and process constraints.
KBC consultants have implemented profit improvements using Petrofine and
our on-site experience at hundreds of refineries over the years. Crude Assay Database and Management System (CADB/CAMS) KBC simulation tools are based on the very latest
information including a Crude Assay Database, CADB, comprising over
340 crude oils and condensates, offered within the Crude Assay Management
System (CAMS), a PC package for interactive graphical analysis of the
CADB. CAMS and CADB are also offered integrated into our refinery-wide
flowsheets.
KBC Profimatics Models KBC Profimatics offers the most advanced, complete
set of refinery process models and solutions available in the industry
today. KBC technology is currently licensed to over 600 users at more
than 300 sites. Our models are proven on a wide variety of process equipment,
vendor designs, and economic drivers. They'll help you take your profits
to their highest potential.
Distillation Simulates and optimizes primary fractionation systems
for refineries. Primary model calculations include crude pre-flash columns,
crude atmospheric units, naphtha splitters and stabilizers. Proven with
over 15 years of KBC consulting studies performed on refineries worldwide,
models can self-tune to match actual column performance, including accurate
representations of tails. Models predict all of the key refinery properties,
such as metals, sulfur, and cold properties.
Visbreaking Simulates and optimizes visbreaking and thermal cracking
systems for refineries. Models characterize atmospheric and vacuum feedstocks,
rigorously define furnaces, heat-balance fractionation, and predict
both product blending and fuel oil stability. Using the economics package,
models can also assess operating strategies and determine the effect
of planned plant modifications
Furnace Simulates a general refinery furnace. Models perform detailed heat balance and pressure drop calculations. Results also determine whether vaporization occurred and the furnace duty. Blending Simulates and optimizes blending systems in a refinery.
Flexibility allows any feed stream to contribute to any product, automatically
optimizing results. Using key flow rates and product property characterization,
the model calculates product value to maximize profit.
Fluid Catalytic Cracking
Catalytic Reforming Simulates and optimizes semi-regenerative, regenerative
(cyclic) and continuous regeneration reformers that produce gasoline
orchemicals. The model simulates up to five reactors with dehydrogenation,
cyclization, isomerization and cracking reactions for each carbon number
up to C-14. The process heaters, feed-effluent exchanger, separator
and recontactor, if present, are also simulated. The reactors are in
heat and material balance. Catalyst activity is modeled in each reactor.
Hydrocracking Simulates and optimizes commercial hydrocracking
units. All major hydrocracker configurations, operations and reactions
are modeled. The model accounts for catalyst deactivation and can be
used to monitor catalyst activity decline or to make run-length projections.
The model evaluates the effect of feed rate, feed quality, recycle rates
and desired conversion level to predict yields, product qualities, hydrogen
consumption and required reactor temperatures.
Hydrofluoric Acid Alkylation Stratco Sulfuric Acid Alkylation Cascasde Sulfuric Acid Alkylation Three models (one for each of the process types)
that enable users to analyze the operation of an alkylation process
unit. Each model simulates and optimizes the reactor and fractionation
system providing heat-and material-balanced operating conditions.
Naphtha / Distillate VGO Hydrotreating Resid Desulfurization Three models, one for each of the process types.
The Naptha/Distillate Hydrotreating model simulates and optimizes fixed-bed
hydroprocessing units processing naphtha, kerosene and/or diesel range
stocks. The Vacuum Gas Oil Hydrotreating model simulates and optimizes
a fixed-bed hydroprocessing unit processing light gas oils, heavy gas
oils or deasphalted oil. The Resid Desulfurization model simulates and
optimizes a fixed-bed residuum hydrotreating unit, feeding either atmospheric
or vacuum unit bottoms.
Delayed Coking Simulates and optimizes a delayed coking unit. For
specified feed and operating conditions the program determines resulting
product yields and properties and overall unit operating economics.
Yields of C4 and lighter components are determined together with yields
and properties of light and heavy gasolines (or total naphtha), light
gas oil and heavy gas oil. The amount of volatile combustible material
(VCM) in the coke is also calculated. Brochures for REF-SIM - Naptha Reformer Operations Simulations. Brochures for VIS-SIM - Visbreaker Operations Simulations. Brochures for HTR-SIM - Hydrotreating Operations Simulation. Brochures for HCR-SIM - Hydrocracking Operations Simulation. Brochures for FCC-SIM - Fluid Catalytic Cracking Units Simulation. Brochures for DC-SIM - Delayed Coking Operations Simulation. Brochures for CADB & CAMS - Crude Assembly Database and Crude Assembly Management System. 
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