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TARO

Plant-wide optimisation for the downstream industry

Taro is a powerful RAM simulation tool that has been specifically developed for the
modelling of refining and petrochemical plants. The production efficiency in these plants
is a complex interaction between reliability, blending and yield rules, flow routing and
intermediate storage options.

• Return on investment • Usable


Taro allows users to investigate different design alternatives that The Taro interface and reports are designed to be intuitive and
include financial aspects and cost/benefit analysis. useful to industry professionals focusing on representing reality in
the most recognisable way possible.
• Optimising
Identification of system constraints and quantification of drivers for • Long experience
system downtime allow users to optimise the design. Taro has been developed for more than 20 years to solve problems
faced by our consultants working with major companies worldwide.
• Extensive Continuous efforts into addressing industry specific problems have
The simulator allows users to capture a wide range of conditions made Taro uniquely well suited for the downstream oil and gas
and configurations, such as flaring and time varying flow rates, to industry.
accurately model real life systems.
• Extendable
• Flexible Taro can be run through scripts and the results can be exported to
The simulator allows users to set up very complex configurations different output formats, allowing users to create highly customised
using powerful Boolean logic. input structures and to post-process and present the results in any
imaginable way.
Predicting the performance
Plant-wide performance analysis can help users make the right Key features of Taro:
design decisions by quantifying the performance of systems,
leading to the optimisation of through-put and utilisation. • Discrete event driven simulation - a very powerful platform
• Extensive flow modelling capability including recycling, divergent
Improving process unit reliability and optimising asset and convergent flow
management are ways to increase unit and plant utilisation. For • Highly intuitive graphical user-Interface - asset view, reliability block
large, complex and flexible plants especially it is not a trivial diagram view, grid views and symbol view
task. Add to the equation the desire to decrease tank sizes • Equipment catalogue - build your own custom equipment
and inventories and the challenge becomes even greater. Taro catalogue for future studies
can be used to provide decision support for a large range of • Multiple feed stock supply with discrete and/or statistical
production related optimisation tasks and has been extensively distributions to model feed variation
used by DNV GL consultants for more than 20 years. • Intermediate product streams and routing issues
• Demand profiles to control flow during operational conditions
The simulation package can capture all the inter-related • Unit overcapacities - maximum capacity v. normal throughput
parameters that have an impact on system performance. • Unit turndown capabilities - minimum flow/slowdowns
• Storage tanks defined as feed, intermediate and export assets
Taro predicts the performance of a system using simulation • Storage tank operating rules such as called-up, suppress bulk
techniques. An “Event-Driven” algorithm is used to create transport and event-triggering
life-cycle scenarios of the system under investigation accounting • Bulk transport modelling with modelling constraints related to
for its reliability, maintainability and operating policies. berthing, storage tanks and ship availability
• Ships defined by size, frequency, probability of delay, travel time
The simulator is inherently incorporated with a specially • Planned events with Gantt chart view to easily assess overlaps
designed algorithm to analyse the impact of each individual • Unplanned events with more than ten different failure and repair
scenario on how the system performs. By studying performance distributions
results and how they respond to altering specific parameters in • Conditional logic - powerful Boolean logic enables most
the design or its logistics, it is possible to optimise the system operational scenarios to be modelled
with respect to given constraints. • Operating logic - operational flexibility to deal with refinery
• Operations & Maintenance modelling with resources constraints
By considering key parameters e.g. unit reliability, unit capacity • Spares optimisation analysis
/max (re-run) capacity and buffer storage, accurate estimations • Life-cycle cost analysis with revenue profile calculation based on
of production efficiency can be determined. The simulation probabilistic estimate of production, discount factor, capital ex-
package can capture all the inter-related parameters that have penditure and operational expenditure
an impact on plant performance. • Criticality level indicating production loss related to equipment,
system and unit reliability
• Interactive graphical and tabular output with drill-down facility
• Extendable and easy to manipulate set of results
• Results viewer application exported and used without the need of
license
• Production statistics
• Plant/unit statistics and utilisation
• Multi-customer contract shortfalls analysis (size and frequency)
• Plant shutdown analysis (size and frequency)
• Powerful dynamic animation
• Multi core processing for fast calculation performance
• Batch run - to run multiple studies using each core of the multicore
processor, suitable for Sensitivity Analysis
• Automation scripting (Excel Macro support)

DNV, [email protected], www.dnv.com/digital. All rights reserved. November 2022

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