Why can’t the engineer just set up a column to run at optimum conditions and hold that until rates change?
A. If a single individual were to be assigned to monitor a given distillation column 24/7 , optimum conditions could probably be maintained. In the real world such intensive monitoring is hardly ever achieved. DistillationMizer™ was developed for this very reason. It automates the normal monitoring that human experts might do if they were sufficiently available and if were affordable to engage them in intensive process monitoring. There are fluctuations that occur in column operations involving changes in feed rates, feed composition, ambient temperatures, prices for fuel and materials separated in the column , and so forth . In addition, inefficient moves are made in process operations in response to any or all of these potential fluctuations and over time departure from optimum operations inevitably occurs. DistillationMizer™ stands watch over distillation columns and keeps prompting energy efficient moves in order to save your company money round the clock.
