Question
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To what extent do you see the deployment of digital approaches to maintain and operate facilities while leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) in the restructured operations of the petrochemical industry?
Mar-2023
Answers
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Philippe Mège, Axens, philippe.mege@axens.net
Digitalisation of process operations has developed thanks to data transfer technologies, sensors and soft sensors generating data, and IA, especially with machine learning tools, building systems that learn from data. This leverages process expertise, resulting in digital twins designed to optimise asset operation, thus securing the business decision. That ensures reliable operation and allows us to anticipate maintenance, which reduces its cost, and compare actual performances vs forecasted ones.
This applies to catalysts and also equipment like heaters, compressors, and heat exchangers. Such tools are available in the Axens Connect’In digital application. Several machine learning tools have already been developed and used by operators for octane prediction, recycle gas purity estimation, heat exchanger network optimisation, or generating soft sensors to get streams analysis not directly measured.
Jun-2023
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