Verticals
Different plants.
Grounded in the same physics.
Find operating headroom. Understand energy trade-offs. Spot equipment issues earlier. Explore how Orbital applies physics-grounded AI to the decisions your operation faces every day.
Shared physics.
Your plant’s operating data.
Orbital combines physical principles with the behaviour of your own units, so insights stay connected to the process your team knows.
From changing feed to the unit’s operating limits.
Refining
Find headroom on today’s feed.
Feed changes. Catalysts age. Exchangers foul. Orbital uses live operating data to help engineers understand the unit’s current state and assess where performance can improve.
See how today’s conditions change the room available within unit constraints.
Explore the effect of operating changes on competing process objectives.
Identify changes in equipment and process behaviour for your team to investigate.
Where It Applies
Catalytic Reforming
Crude Distillation
Hydroprocessing
Steam & Utilities
Petrochemicals
See the effect of a change before you make it.
Changing feed, product requirements and tight operating limits create trade-offs across the train. Orbital learns the behaviour of individual units to help engineers evaluate the next operating decision.
Understand the train.
Evaluate the next move.
Assess changes in product quality and energy demand when grades or feed conditions shift.
Explore how a change in one part of the train affects performance elsewhere.
Investigate unexpected behaviour
Bring operating data and process context together to support troubleshooting.
Where It Applies
Propylene Oxide & MTBE
Olefins
Ammonia
Grade & Feed Transitions
Energy, throughput and the conditions connecting them.
LNG
Understand what’s limiting your train.
Ambient temperature, feed composition and exchanger condition all affect liquefaction performance. Orbital connects these changing conditions to the energy and throughput decisions your team needs to make.
Assess compression and refrigeration demand in the context of current operating conditions.
Explore how changes propagate through pretreatment, refrigeration and liquefaction.
Monitor deviations that may affect efficiency, reliability and available headroom.
Where It Applies
Liquefaction Trains
Refrigerant Compression
Cryogenic Heat Exchange
Feed Variability
Upstream
Spot equipment issues before they escalate.
Orbital supports production teams with early anomaly detection and condition monitoring, helping engineers understand changes in equipment behaviour and focus their investigation.
Earlier understanding.
Better-informed investigation.
Detect departures from normal operation
Look for emerging anomalies in the equipment’s own operating data.
Follow changes in rotating and process equipment performance over time.
Give reliability teams more context
Connect unusual signals with operating conditions to guide the next investigation.
Where It Applies
Production Equipment
Rotating Equipment
Process Equipment
Condition Monitoring
Focused on production equipment. Well logging, well surveillance and subsurface analytics sit outside this scope.
Explore the evidence
Tested on real processes.
Customer experience and process simulations offer different kinds of evidence. Explore the setting behind each example.
Customer Perspective
Petrochemicals
From a PO/MTBE pilot to a wider partnership.
In a published customer testimonial, Mark Holden describes a PO/MTBE pilot that supported knowledge retention, problem solving and decision making—and an expansion of the partnership.
Read the customer’s account in Applied Computing’s partner and customer perspectives.
Process Simulation
Refining
Annual savings identified in a hydrotreater simulation.
A study using a simulation of the Reliance Jamnagar refinery explored energy reduction while maintaining product quality.
Modelled opportunity, rather than reported savings realised in a live deployment.
Process Simulation
Distillation
Efficiency improvement in simulated distillation.
A DWSIM study evaluated energy optimisation in an alkylation process producing octane and dodecane.
A process-specific simulation; not a measured grade-transition result.
Each example reflects its stated process and evaluation setting. A technical briefing can help establish what is relevant to your facility and how an opportunity could be assessed.
Start with your operation
One unit.
A useful first conversation.
Bring a process challenge your team knows well. We’ll discuss where Orbital may fit and what would be needed to evaluate it.
Your unit, objectives and operating constraints
The available data and relevant applications
A practical next step and how to assess value
Start with a conversation. No plant data upload is needed here.