Planning and engineering method, software tool and system for process plant

• Main Authors: Benjamin Lutz, Henning Lenz, Gerrit Wolf, Oliver Drumm
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 17.08.2016
• Subjects: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION ORPROCESSING OF GOODS; CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; CONTROLLING; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS; PHYSICS; REGULATING; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINSTCLIMATE CHANGE

A flowchart of a process plant is compiled by linking graphical process objects representing operator-controllable and observable facilities of the plant when planning a process plant. The process in the process plant is simulated with reference to simulation models assigned to the graphical process objects during a simulation phase. Simulation models include energy consumption models that describe the electrical energy consumption of the respective facilities to be described as a function of measurable or known process variables in the plant and hence enable simulation and optimization of the automation with respect to electrical energy consumption and energy efficiency. After optimization, a functional plane of the plant is formed by connecting functional module icons in a project stage. Each process object is corresponding to an automatic functional module describing the automatic function of the process object. The automatic functional modules are supplemented by energy consumption functions, and show spe