Modern plants are nowadays subject to continually rising demands with regard to the protection of the environment and technology. For this reason, it is important for their effectiveness that they are operated according to state-of-the-art technology.
In order to be able to manage them profitably, it is not only necessary for the statutory guidelines to be adhered to but also for costs to be kept as low as possible.
In order to meet these points, optimisation measures within the operational sequence are often unavoidable. Our working team has a lot of experience, in this connection, in the use of modern and efficient automation concepts. Simulation technology is a useful tool when planning and implementing these systems in new plants or plants that have to be expanded. The effectiveness of special concepts can be calculated by simulation model development kits such as Simba (ifak) as early as during the planning stage. For this reason these simulation programs are used long before the implementation of new operation and control systems. The aim, in this case, is to use only systems which have already proved themselves during the modelling stage. Thus, it is also ensured that normal plant operation is not disrupted.
After implementation simulations models offer also advantages: It is possible, for example, to show evidence of modification in performance through new control concepts. The model thereby replicates the process that is running and then calculates the behaviour that the plant would have exhibited without the modernisation measures. As a result, it can be proved how effective a new concept actually is in operation.
Our team has already been working for several years with simulation technology in the management of wastewater. In so doing, several projects have already been successfully implemented, and the functionality of our concepts has been proved with the help of modelling.
