GreenTwins - Lifecycle Digital Twins of Green Process Plants to Support Fast and Cost-Efficient Climate Action (co-founded by the European Union)
Introduction: The main objective with the EU project is to develop high fidelity simulators that could efficiently support the global community converting from use of fossil to sustainable fuels in an accelerated manner. Simulators will play an important role in different development and operational stages for new energy plants, from early concept development, technical/economical de-risking, design, start-up as well as throughout years of operations. Technology gaps with current commercial simulators need to be closed. In particular, development of simulator unit operations crucial in green energy systems like electrolysis and a variety of reactor models are focused. Also, implementation of high-performance thermodynamic property packages is essential to ensure fast, robust and accurate simulator performance. The Green Twins models are for both steady state and fully dynamic purposes.
Specifically: As part of the GreenTwins EU project, BPT has developed custom models for lifecycle usage covering both steady state and dynamic features in detailed analysis of full scope green methanol plants. This includes development and testing of new electrolysis unit operation as well as methanol reactor model, both being key components in any green methanol plant. These unit operations works fully integrated with industry standard process simulators like HYSYS, UniSim and Petro-SIM. The models has been tested versus litterture data, experiemtal data and partly or fully operational plants. The lifecycle usage includes conceptual design, detail enegineering, control system check-out, training simulator and online performance monitoring.