About Blue Nickel
Blue Nickel Solutions is a specialist company in the processing industry. We are multi-disciplinary and well versed in process and systems engineering. Blue Nickel Solutions launched in 2005 and although we may be a relatively new company, the quality of products and services that we offer is unparalleled. The dedication that we put into our projects and levels of success obtained in each project have allowed us to collaborate amongst others, with some of the major mining industry players such as Anglo American Platinum, Impala Platinum, Xstrata Alloys and General Electric.more ...
Process Optimisation
Data mining and analysis gets combined with sound process engineering principles when conducting an insightful audit of your plant's processes to review how effectively the plant is operating and to identify opportunities for improvement. We give close consideration to process stability, the roll of the operator, instrumentation, control system logic, equipment efficiencies and operational costs.
Advanced Process Control
The objective of advanced process control is to push the plant as close as possible to the operating region or limit where maximum potential profits are realised. A two step approached is followed to achieve this. Firstly the process is stabilised, after which optimal setpoints are continuously calculated to steer the process for optimal performance. Numerous technologies are utilised as part of our advanced process control solutions like model predictive control and other advanced control techniques, process modelling and simulation, and online optimisation algorithms.
Process Performance Monitoring and Reporting
Only once you know there is a problem in your process can you fix it. Our reporting solution integrates and utilises the latest technologies to rollup large quantities of process data in meaning full summaries that are easily accessible. Sub optimal process or equipment performance is then rapidly identified through state of the art reporting and dashboard interfaces. Tailoring our reporting solution for control loop performance monitoring, environmental monitoring and instrumentation validation has proved to be extremely successful.
Data Systems Engineering
Transformation and analysis of data, real-time and off-line is central to what we do. To assist with this we have developed a powerful calculation and data validation engine that seamlessly integrates with any database or control system to perform complex data manipulation tasks in real-time. Together with off-the-shelf data mining packages for off-line analysis, the data processing systems that we implement are unparalleled in terms of functionality and efficiency.
What we do:
Unique Solutions in the processing industry:
- Process optimisation
- Advanced process control
- Process performance monitoring & reporting
- Data systems engineering
- Research & development
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