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Refining

Fired heaters, columns and steam, measured against their best runs.

Refineries track barrels closely and energy loosely. A fouled heater, a leaking steam trap or a column run too hot wastes energy every hour. Kernopy puts that number next to the operating data.

One moment on site

The data was there. Nobody could use it in time.

Today Found weeks later

Heater H-101 loses a point of efficiency as the convection section fouls. The outlet temperature still holds, so nothing alarms.

With Kernopy Found in minutes

Kernopy tracks fuel per barrel against the heater's own best runs, shows the loss each hour, and the day a cleaning pays back.

Live view

A reading on top. What it draws underneath.

Each stage shows a live value from its controller and the power it draws right now. Fired heater is drifting, so it is highlighted. Values are simulated.

Simulated feedFired heater now: 2660 kW
What gets measured

Numbers your team argues about today, measured instead.

Example figures for a mid-sized site. Kernopy calculates yours from your own controllers and meters.

Fuel per barrel0.92 Nm³against the heater's best run
Heater efficiency−1.0 ptsince the last clean
One failed steam trap₹950/hruntil it is found
What we read

Signals your systems already produce.

Kernopy reads them from the controllers, meters and building systems you already run. Nothing gets replaced. Each signal gets one name and one meaning, then flows into every dashboard, alert and report.

Fuel gas flow and compositionHeater outlet and stack temperaturesExcess O₂Column pressures and temperaturesSteam flowsProduct rates

Energy per barrel by unit

Each unit's fuel and steam tied to what it processed.

Heater and steam-trap loss

Slow losses found while they are still small.

One data model across units

Every tag named once, used the same way everywhere.

Book a walkthrough

Bring one line or one plant room. Leave with its data working.

Send us the machines, controllers and building systems you want to start with. In the first session we map them, connect a pilot and show energy, efficiency and downtime as live numbers.

Book a walkthrough
connect@kernopy.com
Or walk the 3D site first

Offices in Siliguri, India and Lewes, Delaware.