Aspen PIMS: Solving Refinery Planning Problems

Course ID : RPA201

Duration In-class (в days) : 5 days

Duration Online : 5 days

Сurriculum : in-class, Virtual Instructor-Led Training - ONLINE

Price : $3 225

Overview

This course will help you prepare for the certification exam and the exam fee is waived with this course.

To provide an intensive problem-solving workshop designed for the experienced Aspen PIMS user. Detailed emphasis is placed on reviewing Aspen PIMS modeling techniques and troubleshooting errors and warnings in models.

Audience for this course

This course is designed for planners who need to maintain or build Aspen PIMS models.

Participants will typically know how to use Aspen PIMS but would like a more detailed understanding of the inner workings of the Aspen PIMS system and would like to review examples of how to solve more difficult problems.

Objective

This course is oriented toward the practical aspects of refinery operations and planning.
Challenging class problems have been designed to illustrate advanced modeling techniques which are used to solve real planning problems. Students learn how Aspen PIMS table entries impact the model at the matrix level.
This course also covers approaches to debugging and troubleshooting an Aspen PIMS model. One of the workshop sessions leads the student through analytical steps required to debug a model.

Prerequisites for this course

This course is recommended as a follow up to RPA101 Aspen PIMS: Introduction to Refinery Planning
Attendee should have a good understanding of refinery operations and of the basics needed to operate Aspen PIMS

Outcomes

Learn how to correctly use intermediate level PIMS tables
Develop more sophisticated Aspen PIMS models and understand how the matrix structures are generated
Perform basic economic evaluations
Develop troubleshooting skills to analyze and solve model problems

Outline

Distributive Recursion: Understanding rules for 999 resolution, error distribution coefficients and error vectors built by Aspen PIMS; non-convergence problems and solutions
Matrix Structure: A study of the Aspen PIMS matrix to understand rules for column name, row name and coefficient construction
Miscellaneous Tables: Introduce some of the tables used for additional modeling and constraining capabilities
Crude Architecture: Demonstration and explanation of how Aspen PIMS automatically builds submodels for atmospheric and vacuum distillation and explanation of their structure
Deferred and Swing Cuts: Explains how to model deferred and swing cuts on the crude unit models
Complex LP Structure: Explains several techniques for implementing additional and more sophisticated LP structures; use of tables ROWS, BOUNDS and PROCLIM along with E, L and G rows; create specification rows in submodel tables, etc.
P-Rows: Use of P-Rows for additional report writing flexibility
Blending: Introduce non-linear blending tables and advanced blending structure
Economics: Review of relation between Marginal Cost and Revenue Curves, Marginal Values, Incremental Values, Break Even
Workshop: Provide the student with hands-on experience in solving problems such as using control rows to impose a variety of constraints; adding complex process units and the necessary recursion structure; using P-Rows for report writing; adding swing cuts; resolving model errors and infeasibilities; analyzing good and bad situations

Certification Exam