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AVEVA Process Simulation

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formerly SimCentral

Design sustainable processes at the speed of the market

AVEVA Process Simulation is an innovative, integrated platform that helps you develop
the process side of your digital twin so your teams work smarter while designing a
sustainable world. AVEVA Process Simulation helps engineers create value in every
phase of the plant lifecycle, from concept to ongoing operations.
Overview

In chemical and energy organizations, public Business value

commitments to net zero emissions and circular
y Digital transformation: Integrate process
economy goals are creating unprecedented demands for
engineering with the digital twin
sustainable products, processes, and plants. Engineering
departments span the globe and respond to changing y Lifecyle simulation: Reuse one simulation across all
conditions in markets and regulatory agencies. A new engineering phases
generation of engineers is entering the workforce. Plants y Faster adoption: Replace dozens of point solutions
are more complex and more tightly integrated. Legacy with a single, easy-to-use interface
process simulators are ill-suited to these challenges.
y Multi-discipline collaboration: Change the
AVEVA Process Simulation is designed to equip the engineering workflow with concurrent use by
next generation of engineers to create the process process, utility, control, and mechanical engineers
portion of the digital twin. Engineers collaborate across y Attract and retain talent: Make engineering less
disciplines to explore all dimensions of a potential design about button pressing and more about creative
and quantify the impact on sustainability, feasibility, problem solving
and profitability. AVEVA Process Simulation is the first
simulation platform to move beyond linear, wasteful
workflows to enable a circular and sustainable world.

Conceptual design
Fast evaluation of design alternatives
Flexible specifications
Continuous solving

Optimal design FEED

Integrated modeling of interacting systems
Automated population of engineering
Optimal equipment database

Lifecycle Optimal set-point Detailed engineering

Simulation
Seamless dynamics from the same model
Design for controllability
Fast troubleshooting

Reduced downtime Start-up

Operator Training System
DCS logic integrated into simulation

Operations
Predict problems before they occur
Train a highly competent workforce

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AVEVA Process Simulation features
With legacy tools, even small projects require multiple,
specialized simulators. Engineers waste time learning
interfaces and transferring data, introducing errors
along the way.
Switch modes at any time in any direction
A unified modeling environment improves user
experience, IT accessibility, cross-tool integration,
and time to proficiency, combined with a lower cost of
ownership. Like a smartphone for process engineers,
AVEVA Process Simulation unifies many uses into a
single, integrated platform to design and optimize a
process plant.

AVEVA Process Simulation impacts the daily work of your

entire team with a transformational approach to process
simulation. AVEVA Process Simulation meets the needs of
new engineers, process experts, and their managers with
features and workflows built for three key qualities: ease
of use, solution power, and adaptability.

y Steady state and dynamics

· Change modes any time and in any direction

between flow-driven steady state, pressure-driven
rating, and dynamics

y Sustainability is built-in

· Greenhouse gas calculations are available in the

economics library. Solar, wind, and hydrogen
models are also available in the renewables library

y Open modeling

· See, understand, and customize model equations.

Write new models with no programming

y Enhanced equation-oriented

· State-of-the-art numerics allow efficient calculation,

especially when there are many recycles and
design optimization

y Open platform

· Expand into new areas of simulation and integrate

with new technologies with built-in Python scripting

y Real-time data

· Automatically input real-time data from operations

through the native connection with the PI System

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Application areas

Chemical processes Renewables and sustainability

AVEVA Process Simulation is ideal for chemical process Design renewable power generation networks for
simulation, especially complex systems with many wind turbines, solar panels, electrical distribution, and
recycles, where conventional simulators perform poorly. hydrogen electrolysis. AVEVA Process Simulation easily
Some of the features for chemical processes include: handles the dynamic nature of renewables.

y A process library with distillation columns, reactors, y Track greenhouse gas emissions from the earliest
heat exchangers, compressors, and other common design concept using the same workflows you use to
unit operations analyze and optimize profitability and efficiency
y Fluid thermodynamics methods, including SRK, SRKM, y Evaluate the effect of green hydrogen processes on
Predictive SRK, PR, PRM, NRTL, electrolyte NRTL, the heat and material balance of an existing facility
UNIQUAC, UNIFAC, Wilson, Hayden O’Connell, IF97, y Explore design alternatives for electricity and
and more added each release hydrogen storage to enable better decision making in
y Interface with the thermodynamics data manager to conceptual design
define custom components
y Use simulation-independent fluid objects, which
can be defined with custom components and reused
throughout your organization
y Easy-to-use optimization tools improve process
design and offer opportunities for sustainability
enhancements, such as better cooling and
heating systems to minimize greenhouse
gas emissions
y Integrated dynamic simulations offer better
distillation column relief load calculations
Evaluate design options for renewable power generation networks

Optimize chemical processes for sustainability and performance Explore green hydrogen processes within a larger facility

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Process utilities Flare networks
Process utility engineers can use a single simulation for AVEVA Process Simulation’s flare library provides
cooling water or steam balances, then change mode to an easy way to evaluate multiple relief scenarios
perform a piping flow network analysis and dynamic and immediately see back pressure predictions.
simulation. The capabilities include: Flare networks are evaluated in the same software
environment as chemical processes and process utilities
y A steam library with boilers, steam turbines, for easy coordination of engineering changes. The flare
extraction turbines, desuperheaters, and condensers library includes:
y A cooling water library with supply, return, pipes,
pumps, and exchangers y Relief valves, tail pipes, and flare stacks.

y A transient Flow library for water hammer and y Robust flare network solutions, especially with
pressure surge analysis multiple stacks and crossovers.

y Fluid thermodynamics methods such as steam (IF97),

cooling water, other heat transfer mediums

Dynamic simulation of complex flare networks

Integrate utilities analysis in a single simulation

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Online simulation
Automatically input real-time data from operations y Replicate process conditions in the digital twin to
to your process simulation model through a native identify problem areas and help with troubleshooting
connection with AVEVA PI System. Bring your y Leverage real-time simulation and AI models to
simulations online with operations data and build a predict equipment failure and required maintenance
digital twin for your process plant. using advanced analytics
y Monitor KPI’s that can’t be measured in a plant
y Calculate emissions for sources lacking
instrumentation (soft sensing)

Steady state
simulation

Real-time Dynamic
engineering AVEVA Unified simulation
Engineering
data

Online Greenhouse
simulation AVEVA gas
PI System
calculations
AVEVA
Process
Simulation
CapEx and
Flare OpEx
design calculations

Clean Chemical
energy process

Utilities

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The AVEVA advantage
AVEVA powers digital transformation for industrial AVEVA™ Unified Engineering
organizations. AVEVA Process Simulation is a key
AVEVA Unified Engineering is the new standard for
part of the AVEVA industrial software ecosystem
capital project engineering and design collaboration.
and benefits from a deep portfolio of infrastructure
It integrates all process simulation and engineering
platforms and process solutions.
(1D, 2D, 3D) data in one single data-centric hub on
AVEVA’s secure cloud environment. Bi-directional
AVEVA™ Connect
information flow allows you to execute concurrent,
AVEVA Connect is our common cloud platform, multi-discipline engineering for greater control over
providing a central location to securely access the change across the entire project.
broadest and deepest industrial software-as-a-service
(SaaS) portfolio on the market. AVEVA software in Learn more: aveva.com/en/products/unified-engineering
the cloud powers sustainable growth, enabling you to
transform faster, reduce costs, and easily scale. AVEVA™ Unified Learning
AVEVA Unified Learning delivers engaging training
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programs for competency-based experiential learning,
so your operators perform better in less time. It provides
AVEVA™ Flex
cloud access to our vast portfolio of training and
Achieve faster return-on-investment and remove simulation applications including Operator Training
traditional barriers to software adoption with a flexible Simulators (OTS) and virtual reality. Leverage your
subscription program. The AVEVA Flex subscription investment in process simulation to quickly build a
program spans any mix of cloud, hybrid, and on- high fidelity OTS.
premises solutions with simplicity in the license
purchase, usage, and management. Learn more: aveva.com/en/products/unified-learning

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Simulation platform Integrated engineering and design

One single platform instead of A single, data-centric platform for
multiple point solutions, with discipline engineers to work together
interactive process and on, keeping all 1D, 2D and 3D
control engineering AVEVA Unified engineering data in one place
Engineering

Accurate and mature design deliverables

Efficient collaboration and automated updates
Bi-directional data flow
Digital twin data model

AVEVA Process Simulation is a key element of Unified Engineering

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Success stories

Covestro Federal University of Campina Grande

Owner Operator / Chemicals Academic
Pushing boundaries is a key theme at Covestro, The Federal University of Campina Grande attracts
one of the world’s largest polymer companies. By thousands of students from throughout Brazil and
standardizing one process design, engineering, and the world seeking education in modern technology.
simulation tool, Covestro cuts cost and inefficiencies Understanding the steps of process modeling, from the
across its process lifecycle. mathematical equations to the simulation application, is
fundamental for a comprehensive education.
Learn more:
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Promon Engenharia
EPC / Oil and Gas, Power
Promon, an energy plant solutions provider in Brazil, Watch the Demo
needed flexible, scalable engineering and simulation
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tools to reduce time spent on engineering and simulation-demo-video
installation. By implementing digital twins based
on AVEVA Unified Engineering and AVEVA Process
Simulation, it reduced engineering hours by 15% and
implemented projects 60% faster.

Learn more:
aveva.com/perspectives/success-stories/promon-engenharia

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