Mol chooses technology for refinery simulation

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Sep 21, 2001

Hysys refinery software solutions from Hyprotech selected by Hungarian oil and gas company as key enabling technology for underpinning process improvement

Hyprotech and KBC have announced a contract with the Hungarian oil and gas company Mol to utilise Hysys Refinery simulation software for their refineries and oil and gas exploration production facilities throughout Hungary.

Hysys Refinery, the result of an alliance between Hyprotech and KBC Advanced Technologies, provides groundbreaking technology to support studies, benchmarking and sustained economic performance covering the full scope from unit operations to refinery-wide applications.

Mol's immediate objective is to apply this industry-proven technology to refinery distillation in order to provide better information about the product yields and qualities that are attainable.

Especially appealing for Mol was the ability to easily set the scope of the model to encompass any number of processing units including product blenders.

With a model of the whole refinery, they will have the means to evaluate and track key economic and environmental variables within the refinery supply chain, so that one unit is not optimised at the expense of another.

With this in mind, Hysys Refinery provides Mol with individual process unit model knowledge that is propagated across all steps of the manufacturing process giving various refinery and R&D departments a consistent picture of the operation.

Gabriella Szalm? director of Mol's research and development department, commented: "With our move to Hysys Refinery, we will greatly expand the capability of our traditional design simulator to optimise refinery operational performance - starting with separations and energy.

In the near future we are planning to include reactor models for even greater benefits.

This technology broadens the possibilities of things we can tackle now that we could not do before.

Cesc Batlle, president of Hyprotech's European and Middle East operations commented: "This contract demonstrates our long-term commitment to providing advance process simulation solutions to ensure profit improvement based on these simulation capabilities".