ProBot™
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ProBot™
ProBot™ is a Microsoft® Excel®-based application designed to automatically monitor and provide expert advice on the performance of a process, a sequence of unit operations, or a specific equipment item. As the most experienced engineers retire they take their years of hard-won knowledge with them so their accumulated expertise is forever lost. ProBot is one way to retain it.
ProBot is a repository of experience used to suggest remedial steps when the monitored item's performance deviates significantly from expectations. ProBot is connected to a data historian, for example, or a DCS which provides the information needed to run a simulation, and which also contains the performance metrics needed to compare with the simulated or expected performance. To assess the expected performance, ProBot™ uses the ProTreat® and SulphurPro® simulators whose solid engineering-science basis makes them fully predictive with a track record of high accuracy and reliability. For a more in-depth exposition, see the rationale behind ProBot's development. For a quick summary, look here.
OGT's consulting team is ready to help you connect ProBot into your system and start reaping the benefits of on-line monitoring, and the early detection of faults and conditions that, undetected, may lead to potentially catastrophic equipment failure, outages, and huge lost revenue and unrealized profits. A ProBot license includes a fixed number of consulting hours to help you connect ProBot into your system.
ProBot is currently being used at a group of refineries in the USA and it is undergoing field trial at several other plants in Canada and the USA. Application to an operating SRU is detailed here.
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For the sulphur plant shown here, the spreadsheet below shows sample ProBot output for the first catalytic converter stage:
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