Source: KBC
Visual MESA® Energy Management System (EMS) version 7.3 is an advanced real-time, model-based, energy digital twin suite of applications. This latest release helps petroleum refining, petrochemicals and other energy-intensive industries drive reductions in both energy costs and emissions. It facilitates decision-making by combining real-time plant data with rigorous first-principles modeling. Built for complex, multi-facility environments, version 7.3 enhances flexibility, cloud readiness and connectivity to support energy cost reduction and decarbonization initiatives. This release improves the scalable, multi-objective optimization and optimal scheduling tools used to drive real-time performance and enable sustainable, autonomous operations. Enhanced API compatibility with the this company’s Acuity™ Industrial Cloud Suite enables secure, scalable workflows for cloud-based multi-site energy management. External systems now trigger multi-period optimization (MPO) schedule runs to broaden forecasting and real-time optimization strategies. The platform also features a number of new modeling and forecasting capabilities, including an expanded simulation and optimization blocks library to optimize industrial clusters in real-time and evaluate transition options, and an intuitive, role-based user interface for forecasting and multi-period optimal energy scheduling. An updated internal historian and libraries address vulnerabilities for improved security. Visual MESA EMS v7.3 supports the shift from centralized, fossil-based systems to distributed, electricity-intensive architectures that include renewables and energy storage. By creating a digital twin model of the energy system, the software enables automatic, data-driven decisions that balance cost, decarbonization and operational priorities. The same energy system model applies from design to operations, in either open- or closed-loop configurations, to facilitate autonomous forecasting, optimal scheduling and real-time optimization. All energy sources from renewables and conventional fuels to power or products storage options can be modeled, managed, and optimized within a unified system. — KBC Advanced Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Yokogawa Electric Corp., Walton on Thames, U.K.