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Pavilion Refining Solution

Pavilion Technologies is a world leader in providing control and optimization solutions to the refining industry. Pavilion’s applications help leading oil refineries significantly improve product quality, reduce off-spec product, and meet regulatory reporting requirements, resulting in millions of dollars per year in reduced costs and increased revenues.

Refining Industry Challenges

Despite the continuing increase in demand for gasoline and other refined petroleum products, the number of operating refineries has actually decreased over the last few years. Installation of new equipment or modifications to existing equipment to provide the necessary capacity expansions are hampered by burdensome permitting processes by federal, state, and local authorities. Increasing regulations on environmental emissions, as well as new fuel specifications to reduce sulfur and eliminate MTBE, place additional burdens on producers. To remain competitive, refiners must maximize their production capacity with their existing equipment and at the same time develop more flexible production to quickly respond to changing market and regulatory conditions.

Pavilion’s Refining Solution

Pavilion’s Refining Industry Solution consist of multiple industry specific applications, powered by Pavilion8 technology. Pavilion8 is an integrated software suite providing modeling, control, monitoring, analysis, visualization, and integration capabilities. Pavilion8 applications control and optimize the most critical manufacturing processes and are the key to taking business operations to the next level. Learn more about Pavilion8

Pavilion’s Refining Solution applications cover a wide range of processes within the refinery and include:
  • Gas Plant Control
  • Continuous Reformer Control
  • Hydrocracker Control
  • FCC Main Fractionator Control
  • Distillation Column Control

The applications can be used individually to address specific business drivers – like energy reduction or increased production - or in combination for greater total value and profitability. Pavilion’s solutions are proven to deliver a faster time to value and greater sustained value with lower maintenance costs than traditional linear control solutions.

In addition to our Model Predictive Control (MPC)-based solutions, Pavilion is a world leader in helping customers address their environmental issues. Our predictive emissions monitoring (PEMs) models have been certified by the EPA and used extensively in the refining and petrochemical industries to meet emissions monitoring requirements for NOx, acid rain, and other regulations. Pavilion also provides a complete environmental monitoring and control application to provide real-time information as well as summary reports for various governmental regulatory agencies.

Refining Solution Benefits

Pavilion’s Refining Solution provides tangible benefits to our customers to allow them to achieve their business objectives. Whether the application is controlling a distillation tower or optimizing gasoline blending, our ValueFirst customer engagement approach guarantees predictable results within the following ranges:

Accelerate Revenue
  • Increase production 2-10%
Reduce Costs
  • Reduce octane giveaway 1-5%
  • Reduce transition times 10-20%
  • Reduce product variability 20-50%