In the United States, the volatility of raw materials and energy costs prove challenging to chemical manufacturers. Chemical manufacturers must meet the challenge of a rapidly growing global demand for production, while production costs are increasing due to rising feedstock prices.

One way for chemical manufacturers to ensure profitability is to foster innovation through the use of asset lifecycle solutions. Bentley's solution for chemicals meets this challenge with a comprehensive suite of solutions for the entire lifecycle of chemical assets.

Bentley's Solution for Chemicals

The Bentley Solution for Chemicals comprises of the following solution areas:

• Front-end Engineering and Design (FEED) Solution
• Plant Creation Solution
• Project Collaboration Solution

They collectively address the requirements for designing, building, operating, and maintaining chemical facilities.

Front-end Engineering and Design (FEED) Solution

The Front-end Engineering and Design (FEED) Solution is where process engineers optimize the selection of their processes and reflect their best design practices as well as their operating experience from similar plants.

The FEED Solution is based on:

• AXSYS.Process
• AXSYS.Integrity 
• PlantWise

Collectively, these Bentley products provide the ability to:

• Automatically generate process flow diagrams
• Automatically generate preliminary P&IDs
• Develop process data sheets
• Automatically generate preliminary 3D plant layout
• Generate preliminary cost estimates
  
  

Plant Creation Solution

The Plant Creation Solution is based on Bentley’s proven tools for 2D (logical) and 3D (physical) plant design:  AutoPLANT and PlantSpace Design Series.

These are complemented by Integrated Engineering tools for Piping and Structural analysis typically found in AutoPIPE, RAM and STAAD Pro.

Project Collaboration Solution

The Project Collaboration Solution is based on ProjectWise to fully manage project documents as well as support collaborative demands from global implementation of design projects, and using ProjectWise Navigator XM to allow assembly, review and navigation from disparate design data sources to support construction management of projects. Lifecycle Asset Data Management Solution is based on ProjectWise Lifecycle Server.

Read about the BE AWARD Winners and Nominees in Chemicals:

• Projen’s GlaxoSmithKline condenser project
  Projen’s GlaxoSmithKline condenser project involved the replacement of forty 12-year-old glass condensers tightly housed in nine chemistry pilot plant (CPP) modules at the R&D center in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.
  
• Tessenderlo - The Tessenderlo Group has achieved enormous time savings by integrating its AutoPLANT/PIDA/eDM system, consisting of a specific interface (PIDA) on top of an AutoPLANT database to link bidirectional design drawings, data and project documents.
  
• AMEC - Faced with expanding the processing capacity of an existing polymer processing plant, the international engineering and services company AMEC sought a 3D plant modeling application — Bentley AutoPLANT proved to be the optimum design solution.