Process Manufacturing Optimization
Looking for a place to start? These use cases may spark an idea of how you can use TrendMiner to improve your processes.
Specialty Chemicals Industry
Optimizing Melting Cycle Times for a Chemical Crystallizer
When engineers found deviations in quality, they used TrendMiner to compare batches. With this insight, they realized the melting cycle was ending too early.
Personal Care Chemicals Industry
Comparing Batches Using Live Monitoring for Variances
Process experts used TrendMiner’s monitoring system to compare batches and learn optimal parameters for pH, moisture, and percent of unsulfated matter.
Petrochemicals Industry
Preventing Flare Spikes & Environmental Burdens
When a faulty valve caused unwanted flare spikes and environmental concerns, engineers used TrendMiner to find the root of the problem.
Specialty Chemicals Industry
Gaining Better Performance from a Heat Exchanger
Engineers cut costs, saved time, and improved efficiency using TrendMiner to validate the ability to raise an arbitrary temperature of gasses in a baghouse.
Various Industries
Reducing Energy Use in a Continuous Distillation Process
Process experts used TrendMiner to identify inlet and steam flow timeframes and help control steam loss in a two-part filtration process.
Specialty Chemicals Industry
Predictive Maintenance: Monitor a Catalyst’s Useful Life
Using TrendMiner features, chemical engineers can forecast the normally unpredictable useful life of a catalyst bed for more accurate production scheduling
Specialty Chemicals Industry
Gaining Uptime by Reducing Coking in Vaporization Units
When a plant suffered from coking problems and shutdowns as its product cooled, engineers used TrendMiner to determine how to keep the factory operational.
Chemicals Industry
Avoiding Waste Gas Emissions Across Multiple Processes
Engineers used TrendMiner to find the root cause of waste gas emission spikes quckly, which improved safety and helped the company achieve net-zero operations.
Petrochemicals Industry
Identifying the Correct Oil-Well Bean-Up Profile
When an oil company needed to figure out the flow rate from a well, it used TrendMiner monitoring to keep the wells operational and prevent sudden shutdowns.
Water/Wastewater Industry
Correlating Wastewater Quality with Live Process Data
This chemical company used TrendMiner to find a hidden relationship between organic acids and wastewater quality after a certain timeframe.
Water/Wastewater Industry
Detecting and Reacting to Pipe Network Anomalies
Engineers at this wastewater treatment plant learned using TrendMiner why its pH levels were higher after a partial pipe replacement project.
Water/Wastewater Industry
Reducing Pump Shutdowns with Live Monitoring and Alerts
Because pumps are such a critical part of the water treatment process, engineers needed a better way to know which pumps were online and which had failed.
Water/Wastewater Industry
Finding the Right Time to Clean Aeration Elements
Engineers used TrendMiner to learn when to clean the aeration elements used in biological wastewater treatment despite a high variance of variables.
Petrochemicals Industry
Monitoring Fouling of a Pygas Stripper in a Steam Cracker
Before engineers used TrendMiner to determine when it needed to clean its Pygas stripper column, shutdowns to maintain it ran in the millions.
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Chemicals Industry
Developing Energy Models for Condition-Based Monitoring
Engineers used TrendMiner to create linear energy models that could be used to set up soft sensors to so they could monitor for periods of excessive steam.
Chemicals Industry
Preventing Shutdown in a Polyethylene Reactor
Even when the cause was human error, process experts were able to determine why the reactor was shutting down unexpectedly.
Petrochemicals Industry
Creating Prescriptions from Root Cause Analysis
A drop in sulfur recovery could have environmental and regulatory implications, so engineers used TrendMiner to save this solution for the future.
Chemicals Industry
Calculating Steam Balance to Monitor & Alert for Deviations
Before starting a root cause analysis to set up new monitors and alerts, engineers used TrendMiner to calculate steam balance.
Metals & Mining Industry
Optimizing a Conveyor Belt to Reduce Energy Usage
Mining engineers used TrendMiner to learn the relationship between the throughput of its underground conveyor belt and energy consumption.
Water/Wastewater Industry
Creating an Energy Management Dashboard
Using TrendMiner, process experts concerned with wastewater treatment can display the energy consumption of each unit in their plant.
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