Pro-Plan Pulp Mill & Recovery Optimization System
Pro-Plan is a scheduling and optimization system that determines maximum plant production rates consistent with constraints on:;product demand and stocks ;process unit throughputs ;raw material supply ;availability of steam, etc. ;by-product processing ;Pro-Plan was initially developed by Procex for the Pulp and Paper Industry, but is applicable to any process industry where intermediate stocks and storages are significant, and individual processes are competing for resources.
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Windows XP/2000/NT
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Pricing
Module
80,000 to 120,000
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Additional Product Information
The Pro-Plan Pulp Mill & Recovery Scheduling System is a short to medium term scheduling and optimization system to determine the maximum Pulp Mill production rate consistent with constraints on:
pulp demand and storages,
digesters, washers, bleach plants capacity,
washer dilution factors,
weak black liquor storage,
evaporator throughput,
white liquor supply,
steam availability, and
plant area shutdowns.
It will also calculate the appropriate production rates for evaporators, recovery boilers, recausticizers and lime kilns to achieve and maintain the optimum levels in WBL, SBL, Green Liquor and White Liquor storages.
It is intended as an aid to mill co-ordinators, and Pulp Mill, Recovery and Recaust. operators to determine the most appropriate production rates for maximising production and minimising rate changes. Pro-Plan couples paper machine and pulp dryer demand with pulp mill and recovery production optimization.
With no constraints, the model will calculate production rates to achieve and maintain the levels in the pulp silos and liquor storages that will best cope with unplanned shuts upstream or downstream of each storage.
This is based on the probability of plant downtime upstream and downstream of each storage.
If there is a mismatch in pulp demand and minimum or maximum production, best use will be made of the available capacity in the storages to maintain production.
Constraints include white liquor supply, black liquor processing, steam availability, or plant throughput. Interactions and plant bottlenecks may change from day to day.