Presentation: AVEVA Process Simulation Updates

Simulators have been present in the Process Industry for many years. Steady-State for design and Dynamic for engineering studies and operator training simulators. Usually different software packages exist for steady-state and dynamic.

AVEVA Process Simulation (APS) offers an integrated environment where the same model (digital twin) can be used for both purposes in offline and online mode. It can be used for typical process mode flow driven heat and material balance and fluid mode pressure driven for hydraulic and rating calculations. In dynamic mode can be used for control validation and operational analysis around multiple steady-state conditions and as a "light" Operator Training Simulator. Its model writing capability allows domain experts to implement their own models in an efficient manner.

APS can be connected through PI to real-time and historical plant data and via data reconciliation can be used for process monitoring and soft sensors. For example it can provide accurate key process performance indicators that in conjunction with analytics can produce early warnings for rotating equipment fault detection. This is a concrete AI application where first principles models are directly combined with data driven models via the PI database to accurately predict future behaviour.

AVEVA is fully committed to the continuous improvement of APS. New features in all areas (equipment, thermodynamics, numeric, GUI, interfaces) are implemented and more and more successful applications especially in new areas (renewables for example) are reported by our users. In the future APS will support also dynamic models online where the full power of the PI system will be used to combine transient plant and model data for look ahead capability

In the presentation I will be discussing new features of APS implemented in recent releases, our development roadmap, current usage status and our strategy for the future.