Linde Advanced Operations Services – LAOS

Reduce OPEX While Increasing Reliability by Improving your Operations

Linde Advanced Operations Services (LAOS) combines vast operational expertise with extensive know-how in the latest advanced automation and digitalization developments to bring you customized solutions for your process plant. These solutions lower energy costs, increase product yields, enable faster start-ups and reduce maintenance cost. By capturing best practices for plant operations in software, our solutions pave the way for safe and reliable operations, help to fill the experience gap through our operational expertise and significantly reduce operator workload.

Available for both greenfield and brownfield assets, the LAOS portfolio spans consulting services, advanced automation solutions and 24/7 remote support – increasing levels of autonomous operations with the added bonus of lower OPEX and emissions throughout the asset lifetime. Over 30 years of experience with critical infrastructure assets and facilities enables us to build robust, reliable and sustainable solutions based on mature software platforms that comply with the highest IT security requirements.

Proven Services and Solutions to Improve Your Operations

Over the last 30 years, we have provided services and solutions for the efficient production and distribution of air gases, green, blue and grey hydrogen (H₂), carbon dioxide (CO₂), liquefied natural gas (LNG), olefins and sustainable fuels at 300+ sites across 80 countries.

Our offerings:

• Advanced Automation Solutions
• Asset Management Solutions
• Remote Asset Support Services
• Advanced Operations Consulting

Our proven solutions play an indispensable role in the success of our global customers across industries as diverse as metals, oil & gas, chemicals, electronics, industrial gases and energy, including green hydrogen. Deployment in our own operating plants continually tests and proves the value of these technologies, giving us – and our customers – the benefit of long term solutions that deliver value to operations.

Our Advanced Automation Solutions

Based on our mature Advanced Automation Platform, we support our customers with the following:

Automatic Plant-Start Up – Delivering fast and reliable plant / process unit start-up without exceeding equipment operating limits, helping to fill the experience gap with less experienced operators.

AI Plant Control – Self learning, robust model predictive control (MPC) to automate plant load or feed changes and optimize steady-state operations even in the case of highly non-linear processes and wide operating envelopes.

Site Production Optimization – Maximization of your site profitability by continually optimizing asset production modes based on fluctuating demand and product pricing as well as varying feed and energy availability, composition and costs.

Specific Solutions for Steam Crackers

Based on our Linde Virtual Furnace (LVF) platform, we provide:

• LVF Executable Model – First-principles kinetic model of the cracking furnace as plugin for third-party advanced process control (APC) , real-time optimization (RTO) and simulation applications

• LVF Scenario Simulator – Optimization of production planning and feed purchase by simulating ethylene, propylene and C4+ production with different conversion rates, feedstocks and furnace loads

• LVF Realtime Advisor – Continuous calculation of coil outlet temperature for each furnace to achieve optimal product yields taking feed flows and composition into consideration.

• LVF Coil Monitor – Continuous generation of cracking coil temperature profiles using thermal cameras to maximize furnace run length and avoid coil overheating.