A "New" Way of Training and System Staging

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• A "New" Way of Training and System Staging

THiNK Simulation
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• Applications

• Staging Tool
• Logic Verification
• Controller Ranges
• Operator Interface Refinement
• Improved Operating Procedures
• Operations Troubleshooting

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• Control System
• Startup Problems

Without Checkout
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• Control System
• Startup Problems

With Checkout
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• Process Simulator

3 Basic Parts

• Model
• Interface
• Control Processor

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• The Model -- THINK

• Simultaneous Equation Solver
• Mass and Pressure Flow Network
• Real Time or Faster
• Low, Medium and High Fidelity

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• Interfaces Available

• Allen-Bradley PLC5's
• Bailey Infi-90
• Foxboro IA
• Honeywell Plantscape
• ABB
• GE-FANUC
• OPC server/client and others

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Hardware Layout

• DCS Controls

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• Applied Areas

• Recovery Boilers
• Fluidized Bed Boiler
• Power Boilers
• Chlorine Dioxide Plant
• Bleach Plants
• Batch and Continuous Digesters
• Steam Headers
• Kilns
• High Temperature Furnaces

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• Simulator Training Uses

• Normal Operations
• Startup/Shutdown Sequences
• Process Upset Recovery Procedures
• System Interlocks and Alarm Settings
• Improved Awareness of Process Dynamics

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• Simulator Advantages

• Model Easily Updated
• Multiple Uses
• Accepted by Operators

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• THiNK

Thermal Hydraulic Integrated NetworK
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• Advanced Solution Methods

• First Principles
• Modified Finite Element Method
• Conservation of Mass, Energy and Momentum
• Crash Proof Simulation Numerics

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• Advanced Dynamics Modeling For

• Two-Phase Flow
• Subcooled Fluids/Superheated Vapor
• Track Multiple Components
• Chemical Reactions
• Separation of Components

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• Build Process Simulation with THiNK

• Equipment Libraries
• Drag Drop Model Building
• Built-in Mass, Energy, and Momentum Conservation
• Easy to Maintain

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• THiNK Models

• Flexible Graphical User Interface
• Model Fidelity Varies with Needs
• Re-configurable for Training, Checkout, or
  Process Design

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• Appropriate Simulation for Process Plant

• Power
• Pulp and Paper
• Chemical/Specialty Chemical
• Discrete Manufacturing
• Continuous and Batch

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• THiNK in Check-out and Training

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• THiNK in Process Optimization

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• THiNK Approach

• New simulation technology
• Low price performance ratio
• Minimizes risks associated with
• - control system commissioning
• - plant operation.

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• THiNK Summary

Definition Thermal Hydraulic Integrated
NetworK is an advanced, first principles,
precision simulation engine and is used for
modeling boilers, piping networks, turbines,
condensers, and heat exchangers commonly found in
process plants. It solves the time and spatially
dependent thermal hydraulic equations for the
conservation of mass, momentum, and energy using
a modification of the Finite Element Method
(FEM). THINK uses an implicit method for
integrating the equations in time to allow large
simulation time steps for real or faster than
real time simulation. .Applications Task-specifi
c simulators for control system checkout, process
plant optimization, and operator training in
manufacturing, chemical, pulp and paper,
specialty chemical, and energy industries.
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• THiNK Demo
• for demo email demo_at_microfusionlab.com
• or call 770-475-5770

• Tank and Level
• Desuperheater
• Species Separation
• Steam Headers