At ACHEMA 2018 KBC – a Yokogawa-Company will be showcasing its latest solutions for managing Energy Efficiency across the Chemicals industry, demonstrating how customers can achieve multi-million Euro savings in the short-term.
Management energy efficiency sits at the core of variable cost reduction. Where energy systems often constrain the process (e.g. major compressors limited by turbine drives, unit throughput limited by process furnace) energy-related bottlenecks can significantly constrain throughput of high margin processes. This represents many millions of $s in unnecessary costs or production losses / giveaways.
Co-Pilot-Program
With a track record of over 1000 process-heat integration energy improvement studies across the process industries and over 80 installed real-time utility system optimizers in place – both open and closed loop – KBC is at the forefront of energy management across bulk chemicals and petrochemicals, fertilizers, pulp & paper and food & beverage industries.
In particular, KBC will be showcasing the KBC Co-Pilot ProgramTM for Energy and Sustainability. The KBC Co-Pilot program leverages the cloud and epitomizes the way in which Operational Excellence-as-a-Service is delivered for real-time performance gap closure, with the following customer benefits:
- Fewer facility slowdowns through closer performance monitoring
- Increasing the asset’s gross revenue by identifying opportunities to increase throughput
- Boosting margins by increasing the production of higher value products and / or minimizing the quality ‘giveaway’
- Knowledge transfer from KBC experts to the customer’s engineers
- Minimizing operating expenses by energy saving and reduced maintenance costs
Overcoming conventional barriers
KBC’s energy management seamlessly addresses all aspects – energy supply, demand and recovery. Our approach overcomes traditional barriers to energy saving, utilizing the following methodology and tools:
- Rigorous process simulations, to monitor performance and determine optimum operating targets considering both process and energy performance
- Proprietary Best Technology (BT) EnPIs (Energy Performance Indicators), to generate targets and track energy performance in a consistent way whilst normalizing feedstock and yield effects
- Site-wide energy management and optimization of utilities to deliver all the results and recommendations to the right people at the right time, to achieve effective delivery of the benefits
- Cloud-based model assurance, performance management and expert troubleshooting, with Co-Pilot to address and rectify complex issues in real-time
Talk to a KBC representative and learn more about our energy management solutions at info@kbc.global or visit us at our ACHEMA booth E16 in hall 11.1. By the way, dates and information about Yokogawa at this year’s Achema can be found at www.yokogawa-achema.de
