Improving reliability and productivity of plants based on non-Stamicarbon technologies
Stamicarbon offers consultancy, products and services for non-Stamicarbon plants, optimizing the performance of urea plants and providing reliable solutions for sustainable plant operation.
These services are as follows:
Digital Services
Digital services for plant optimization allow you to effectively train employees, improve plant safety and boost productivity.
These solutions for non-Stamicarbon plants include:
- Remote guidance
- Process monitoring
- Automatic plant optimization
- Process simulation
Process Monitor
The Process Monitor calculates the plant’s key performance indicators (KPIs) and Soft Sensor Key Variables and presents the data via customizable dashboards. Using these dashboards, operators can take actions to maximize efficiency and increase production.
Technology Training Simulator (TTS)
Stamicarbon can provide generic and plant-specific simulators for urea and granulation plants, as well as the adjacent technologies, such as for ammonia, nitric acid and UAN plants. Our high-fidelity TTS is based on proven thermodynamics and accurately reflects the behavior of the plant over its complete operating range, which is not possible to achieve with medium- or low-fidelity simulators.
Advantages of an TTS:
- Well-trained personnel
- Faster startup
- Less unplanned shutdowns
- Faster upset recovery time
- Higher on-stream time
- Lower emissions
High-pressure equipment replacement
Replacement of any high-pressure (HP) vessel in urea synthesis is an opportunity to debottleneck the process. Stamicarbon’s HP equipment from E-type material allows for extending the lifetime of the most critical equipment, reducing maintenance and improving plant reliability. We offer:
Stamicarbon offers plant assessments before replacing HP equipment to determine whether a particular subject of replacement is a bottleneck. Based on that, Stamicarbon can implement modifications to increase process performance and apply a new design and dimensional provisions of the new vessel.
Inspections and plant maintenance
On request, we can offer tailor-made inspection plans for the critical equipment in your urea plant, as well as inspections of high-pressure piping. Amongst others, specific eddy current methods and inspection procedures are developed to assess the corrosion in bimetallic and titanium stripper tubes.
Eddy current tests of duplex heat exchanger tubes made of materials other than E-type can also be offered with the same high accuracy and reliability.
Learn more about our inspections:
Safety Equipment
Radar level measurement
Radar level measurement replaces radioactive level measurement in non-Stamicarbon plants, reducing health, safety, and environmental risks associated with the use of radioactive sources.
Stamicarbon can install the radar instrument in new HP equipment or replace radioactive level measurement in existing equipment. Radar level measurement is suitable for high temperatures, making it also applicable in ammonia stripping plants.
Stamicarbon can perform replacement and repair of other equipment, including:
• HP piping
• HP valves
• Liquid dividers
• HP mixing tees
