Viridis develops customer specific models for various petroleum catalyst processes by utilizing customer data or in-house catalyst testing data. Models are built and delivered in Matlab/Simulink® environment that give the customer a direct access to various physical and chemical processes in the system. As a first step the reaction chemistry is developed and incorporated in the base model. Then different components in the customer specific refinery are incorporated into the final model (such as distillation columns, reboiler, separator etc.) to simulate the process performance.
Such models are extremely useful to the customer not only during start-up and emergency/normal shut-down processes, but also when the process encounters non-optimal operating/feed conditions. Simple simulations and parametric studies with these models will allow the user to perform the desired corrective actions with minimal loss in operational efficacy.