Optimization and improvement of the overall performance of an industriale plant

Abstract

The aim of our work is to enhance the overall performance of an industrial plant , the fact that can be achieved by reducing the energy consumption and augmenting the safety of the plant. In the work we have considered a petrochemical plant where the distillation columns are considered as the major part since 40% of the energy consumed in a petrochemical plant is allocated in the distillation column. To improve the energy saving we deal with two methods the first is the use of design modification and the second is a new strategy based on artificial intelligent ( fuzzy logic approach). To enhance the safety in the considered palnt we propose the application of an integration frame between HAZOP and SIL studies for a fired heater the equipment that is considered as the main source of explosions in any petrochemical plant since in the fired heater the crude is heated to reach a high degrees of temperature in order simplify the product separation in the distillation column. Many recommendations and results are included in thesis