Legislative, economic and environmental drivers are making it imperative for most manufacturing companies to optimise fuel and power utilisation and minimise fuel-related emissions. With varying seasonal and operational demands, a wide choice of tariff structures and emissions related costs, the task of ensuring minimum cost steam system operation has never been more complex.

ProSteam is a Microsoft® Excel add-in for modelling steam utility systems. It provides facilities for determining the thermodynamic and transport properties of steam and water and utility system models such as gas turbines, steam turbines, de-superheaters, boilers etc.

Powerful and flexible

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The advanced features of ProSteam make it easy to create a detailed model of your site's utility system. A ProSteam model will not only enable you to make decisions regarding operating policies, but also to evaluate the cost and benefit of different co-generation configurations, control strategies and energy contract options and to calculate the break-even point of power generation at varying gas and electricity prices, turbine loads etc. From determining site utility demands and energy related emissions to on-line steam balancing and open loop optimisation ProSteam will help you achieve minimum cost utility system operation.

	Model your utility system for analysis and simulation
	Establish battery limit utility purchases
	Determine heat and power requirements for plant sizing and costing
	Undertake "What-If?" analyses to check on alternative operating conditions
	Optimise steam level and quantity usage
	Undertake sensitivity analyses of proposed changes and identify optimum solutions
	Compare the effectiveness of alternative heat recovery projects
	Identify the REAL cost of steam
	Use live plant data to model, monitor and optimise the current system
	Use other Microsoft Excel Add-Ins in conjunction with ProSteam to support specific optimisation and scheduling capabilities

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