ProPlan is a production planning simulator. The product is an extremely powerful, yet user-friendly application that facilitates the optimization and planning of plant operations. An economic analysis together with flexible planning of products and or capacities may be conducted for the complete plant. ProPlan is OPC compliant and web enabled making it easy to access from anywhere in the world and integrate with third party applications.
The software utilizes a graphical user-interface. ProPlan simulates plant operations by performing block-by-block calculations to determine all streams (e.g. feedstock, naphtha, oils, and blended products) flowing Between the various units of the plant (e.g. splitter, crude unit, FCC). The simulator uses non-Linear Equations to predict yields, product properties, and the consumption of utilities. Profitability is maximized employing the powerful LINDO optimizer using the LP (linear programming) and NLP (non-linear programming) algorithms. This determines the optimum operating conditions and allocation of components to finished products, subject to user-specified quality concerns. The objective function of ProPlan is to maximize the profit of the production plant.
