STRATEGY FOR TECHNOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT EXPLORATORY STAGE OF COMPLEX ANALYSIS PROCESSES IN PLANTS OF INDUSTRIAL GASES

Abstract

The objective of the work has been to set a strategy that assures the technology assessment and contributes to strengthen the exploratory stage of the Complex Analysis of Processes for the intensification of industrial gases plants, so that it allows to contribute, already in that stage of the analysis, to overcome the limitations of efficiency that prevail in the facilities in operation. Losses of financial resources are considered and the economic evaluation of the modifications
proposed as a result of the application of methods for operation and design control is carried out. By means of the validation and generalization of the strategy in four plants, technology deficiencies and losses of financial resources associated to these are identified and corrected; the degree of technological assimilation is determined, by means of the results of the application of methods for control the operation and design in each stage, air circulation cycle and heat exchanger network
and the parameters, variables and indicators that should be considered in the assessment of these technologies are defined. The strategy offers solutions to limitations that still prevail in the applied methodologies, favours the reduction of the terms in an intensification strategy and consequently the researching and development cost, consolidating the excellence, the innovation and the anticipation in the Technology Management of Companies.