Software keeps sulphur plant designs on track

Enersul uses Plant-4D software as part of its consultancy services to the sulphur industry.

A worldwide technological leader in the handling and processing of sulphur, Enersul offers a full range of integrated services to the sulphur industry ranging from production to consumption.

Because of the complexity of the processes, Enersul faced several challenges in its design build process including bottlenecks in time and man-hours, much of which occurred during the internal quality assurance and quality controls processes that check datasheets, piping and instrumentation drawings (P and ID) and line lists.

Another challenge Enersul faced was the element of human error such as the failure to catch inconsistencies or inaccuracies early on.

Enersul selected CEA's Plant-4D, a data-centric design software solution specifically for plant engineering.

Plant-4D was interoperable with the company's primary design build process software, Autocad (CAD), and allowed Enersul to fully customise its CAD interface.

Plant-4D transitioned all the CAD information into mathematical data.

It also allowed customised and seamless transitions from P and IDs and 3D modelling to Isogen spool drawings.

For example, Enersul can change the high-level for a water tank and Plant-4D will automatically update its water level symbology on the P and IDs, reducing inconsistencies on the drawings and ensuring a dynamic parameter set regardless of changes.

This creates an internally consistent drawing, regardless of edits, which complies with the original specifications, safety parameters and constructability issues.

Plant-4D has helped Enersul manage the front-end logic, programming, and customising for the design build of its projects.

The company also has established a full tracking system for all changes that maintains the time and place of the change, with intuitive user-friendly indicators of the specific changes.

After realising the benefits of completely customising its internal application of Plant-4D to its P and IDs and knowing that specifications are ever-changing, Enersul decided to dedicate a full-time person to customisation.

The company thinks this new approach will yield significant savings in the long term and allow the full utilisation of Plant-4D's benefits.

With more than four projects completed using Plant-4D, the Enersul team approximates a 15 to 20% increase in productivity and accumulative time savings to draft P and IDs for its clients' projects.

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