Advanced Control Solutions
Capstone Technology has successfully implemented hundreds of advanced control applications across a variety of process industries. Contact us today to discuss your advanced control and optimization challenges.
Applied Advanced Control Solutions
Pulp & Paper
Continuous Cooking
- Pulp quality prediction and control
- Digester operations stabilization
- Species, grade change prediction, & control
Brown Stock Washing
- Pulp cleanliness prediction and control
- Weak black liquor solids control
- Inventory management prediction and control
Recovery Boiler
- Consumed air control
- Combustion stability prediction and control
- Boiler throughput maximization control
Paper Making
- Paper quality prediction and control
- Grade transition control
- Machine speed optimization
Refining
Crude Unit
- Charge maximization
- Product quality prediction and control
- Heater firing controls/pass balancing
Catalytic Cracker
- Charge maximization
- Product quality prediction and control
- Severity control
Hydrocracker
- Reactor conversion control
- Weighted average bed temperature (WABT) control
- Main fractionator distillate quality prediction and control
Vacuum Distillation Unit
- Maximize feed rate
- Product quality prediction and control
- Reduce specific energy consumption
Gases/Chemicals/Energy
Air Separation Unit
- Product quality control
- Pipeline pressure control
- Rate transition control
- Energy minimization
Cement Kiln
- Free lime quality control
- Temperature profile stabilization
- Product quality soft sensors
- Specific energy minimization
- Automated product cooler controls
Biomass Boiler
- Biofuel utilization optimization
- Greater capacity swing capability
- Increased thermal efficiency
- Decreased ash fuel loss
Real-time Optimization
Energy Management
- Multi-boiler steam header control and cost optimization
- Fuel mix optimization (oil, gas, biomass, waste fuels)
- Real-time electrical power production planning
- Boiler, turbine, energy system process and cost modeling
- Plant hot water system control and optimization
Chemical Plant Cost Optimization
- Plant wide modeling and offline analysis of throughput potential
- Rapid plant and quality model development technology
- Linear and non-linear optimization capabilities
- Integrated process and sensor fault detection and reconcilliation
- Steam and utilities plant energy coordination and optimization