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Operational excellence through innovative technology
CSoft Technologies solves communications problems through software to record shift
notes and track safety and quality incidents
Soft Technologies was established
two decades ago to meet
a need in plant operations for a central
repository containing all the data
associated with operator communications
for each shift and each position
- from field operator to plant
manager - with interfaces to plant
data historians, lab systems, work
orders, and priority alarms.
The result was CNotes, an electronic
shift notes and communication
system that eliminates paper
logbooks and spreadsheets. Webbased
and available from any PC or
mobile device at the site, CNotes allows
every user to see how the entire
plant system is performing.
" Our flagship product CNotes is a
unique industry-leading tool for safe
and efficient plant operations, as evidenced by its use by some of
the premier petrochemical firms, " says CSoft Partner Murad Ajani.
Meanwhile the company's plant management dashboard CFlow
is an incident investigation solution. It enables end-to-end reporting
on all information related to work processes and incidents,
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and provides a complete audit history. Customer Steve Long, HSE
Director with Total Safety, explains: " CFlow is an integral part of our
safety management system. On a daily basis, incidents and corrective
actions are tracked to closure. It is an excellent tool that allows
us to fully capture the critical information associated with safety
and quality incidents. "
CNotes and CFlow are becoming standards as more companies
are looking for solutions that provide best practices in the industry,
the company notes. " We develop integrated solutions that present
real-time actionable data in a meaningful context across an entire
organization for tangible business value, " says Executive Director
Amit Banerjee.
(l-r) Amir Ajani, Amit
Banerjee, and Murad Ajani
of CSoft Technologies
Another customer, Tony Human, Training Supervisor, Texmark
Chemicals, says: " It has been my pleasure to be a client of CSoft
Technologies for the past ten years. We are using the CNotes and
CFlow enterprise solutions. I am very satisfied with both solutions.
Not only are the products economical but the personalized service
I receive is outstanding. I recommend this company highly. "
" While it is important to deliver high-quality services and products,
we never lose sight of the most important aspect: clients and
their objectives, " says CSoft Founder and CEO Amir Ajani. " Our
team of talented professionals engages each client to understand
what problems they are trying to solve rather than trying to push
the client into a solution that might not address the actual issues. "
www.csofttechnologies.com
Process simulation challenge to students
Simulation software company Chemstations invites budding experts to test their skills
managing dynamic gas flows in the 2017 Process Simulation Cup
hemstations is happy to announce the continuation of our
Process Simulation Cup competition for 2017 (PSC2017). A
worldwide contest open to students eager to show off their process
simulation skills, the Cup has an entirely new challenge this year.
PSC2017 problem description: Biogas can be fed to block-type
thermal power stations (CHP) to produce heat and electricity required
on-site for a fermentation plant. Surplus electricity is exported
to the national grid. This local use of the biogas does not require
expensive gas cleaning, but has the disadvantage that the storage
capacities for both gas and electricity are extremely limited. Hence,
a control structure is required to handle surplus production of gas
and limits in the intake capacity of the national grid.
Two possible disturbances to steady-state operation of the CHPs
are evaluated. Scenario 1 considers a slow but continuous increase
in the fermenter's gas production, while in scenario 2 a sudden
shutdown of one of the three CHPs is simulated. The goal is to optimize
the controller settings so that the amount of gas sent to the
flares is minimized (scenario 1) and an opening of the safety valve
is avoided or at least kept as short as possible (scenarios 1 and 2).
In the reference case, all controller parameters are left in their
default settings (PB = 100% / TI = 1 min / TD = 0 min). This leads to
an accumulated loss of gas of 36.2 kg via the flares. The safety valve
does not open at any time.
Your objective is to find controller parameters so that even less
gas must be burnt in the flares.
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Tune the controllers to minimize the amount of gas flared or vented
Interested students can find more details at the website below,
including contest rules, FAQs, and detailed instructions for participation.
Practitioners are welcome to participate, but will not be included
in the student competition. Chemstations invites everyone
to challenge themselves and compete for bragging rights to the top
simulation skills on the planet. www.process-simulation-cup.com
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