DATACON - Data Reconciliation

DATACON® turns real-time process data into consistent and reliable business information. It uses statistically sound techniques to reconcile flow, temperature, and composition measurements to satisfy material and energy balances around each unit in a process plant.

DATACON also detects gross errors in measurements, pinpoints the error locations, and confirms the presence or absence of measurement redundancy. DATACON now offers full and automated linkage to data historians, plant databases, and directly to distributed central systems (DCS).

Key Benefits

Typical plant balance reduced from 2-3% to 0.1%
Balanced plant data for performance monitoring, management reporting, and technical applications
Targeted instrument maintenance program based on reports from DATACON
Reduced instrument maintenance costs
Reduced instrument capital costs
Improved plant yields
Reduced operating costs due to lower processing losses

Key Capabilities

Analyze on-line plant data, tracks equipment performance, and detects instrument errors or malfunctions
Track equipment performance over time including; catalyst activity, compressor efficiency, and heat exchanger fouling
Identify instruments that need recalibration or repair—timely detection and correction of instrument errors minimize operational problems and off-spec product
Design safe, reliable, and cost-effective plant controls for both new and retrofitted plants
DATACON performs plant data reconciliation based on an advanced, sum of weighted least squares optimization technique, subject to a set of heat and material balance equality constraints
DATACON’s reconciled process data allows PRO/II to provide outstanding operational decision support and process

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