MOSCOW (MRC) -- Siemens and Bentley Systems will develop the first petrochemical digital twin in Indonesia for Chandra Asri, the country’s largest integrated petrochemical complex, said Hydrocarbonprocessing.
With over 27 year footprint, the latter is set to double its capacity in the next five years to tap into the robust domestic and regional economic growth. The development and implementation of this digital twin will take place in phases, from 2020 – 2025. FKA Global is the systems integration partner and will provide digitalization services, maintenance and further enhancement of the solution post-implementation.
The digital twin of Chandra Asri’s integrated petrochemical complex in Cilegon City will show and visualize digitalized data about the plant assets and the engineering data. Therefore analog plant data are transformed into an automated digital twin framework. This reduces risks of error. The information will henceforth be accessible through one integrated digital platform, ensuring data accuracy, consistency and integrity, as well as ease-of-maintenance.
AssetWise from Bentley Systems and COMOS from Siemens will form the foundation of the digital twin solution. AssetWise is an asset performance software that provides informed decision support and management of change from capital planning through proactive asset maintenance. COMOS is an integrated plant management and lifecycle software that integrates engineering, automation and operations data, with a customizable blueprint for brownfield plant data enablement. In addition, Bentley’s engineering design tools, OpenPlant and ProSteel, will be used to model and maintain piping and structural information for both brownfield and greenfield projects. Together, the joint solution will maintain data integrity and accuracy throughout the lifecycle.
As mRC informed earlier, Chandra Asri Petrochemical (CAP) has reached on-spec output at its 400,000 tons/year linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) unit following several weeks of facing technical difficulties that severely affected the availability of the grade.
CAP began conducting a trial production at its newly expanded polyethylene (PE) plant in Cilegon in March 2020 to produce metallocene PE grade (MLLDPE). The company expanded PE capacity in 2019 by adding one more production line that pushed the total output to 736,000 tons/year. CommoPlast was informed that the newest 400,000 tons/year high density polyethylene (HDPE)/ linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) swing line would be utilized for the MLLDPE trial production purpose.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, May LLDPE shipments to the Russian market rose to 31,290 tonnes from 30,450 tonnes a month earlier, production increased. Overall LLDPE shipments to Russia totalled 153,080 tonnes in the first five months of 2020, down by 5% year on year. Production and exports increased by 2 times.
CAP is the largest integrated petrochemical company in Indonesia and operates the country’s only world-scale size Naphtha Cracker. The CAP plant is strategically located in Banten province, providing convenient access to key customers.
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