Why do it?

• sound engineering practice, as the design should assess the transient operation of processes, systems, plants, not only their steady-state operation
• practical, as it can solve engineering problems that otherwise are difficult to or cannot be solved
• reliable and accurate, once the simulation is validated
• economical:
  • substantially less expensive than a pilot installation
  • optimization
  • errors avoidance
  • reduction of commissioning time (e.g.: controllers preliminary tuning, operators pre-training, etc.)

Applications

• feasibility studies
• design
• implementation and comissioning
• operation and troubleshooting
• modernization and upgrading
• training

Approach

• definition of the process, system, plant to be simulated
• collection and definition of design basis and input data
• development of mathematical models
• development and validation of simulation model
• simulation run
• analysis, conclusions, recommendations