Corporation

ppPLUS models all organizations as they can be found in corporate structures. The Corporation is the Brand, defined by the Entities they are operating in. A Corporation can only be created on top of an Entity, the "Holding-Entity". A Corporation is not essential for the modeling, but should be created, when certain criteria are met, like: publicly listed, public funding, major group of entities or other.

A Corporation can only be created based on a Legal Entity, which is not already linked to another Corporation.
Available Entities will be listed for selection as the Main Holding Company. If an Entity is not showing on the list, make sure, the Entity can be a Shareholder in addition to not being already allocated.

Shortname / Name

Name of Corporation

Country / Location

Copied from the Entity. Detailed location information should be managed in the Entity.

Stock exchange

The Stock Exchange is defined in the Main Holding Entity (see Entity)

Client

Internal Client Management. Use the default "Master".

Industry

Select the predominant industry the Corporation is operating in. Contact the Sysadmin, if a different Industry-Category is required.

	Industry	Description
	Chemicals	General manufacturer of Chemical Products
	Industry Other	Industrial company with Chemicals Activities
	Integrated Energy	Integrated Up- and Downstream Corporation
	Investor	Major Investors or Stock Exchanges where Entities are traded
	Logistics, Pipelines	Logistic, Supply Chain, Pipelines, Tankfarm operators
	Other	Other organizations or institutions
	Petrochemicals	Predominantly Petrochemicals Corporation
	Processor	Chemicals Processors and Customers
	Recycling	Recycling corporations
	Renewables	Corporations in the Renewables Industry
	Refining	Corporation with predominantly Refining actitvities
	Technology	Technology Providers
	Trading	Trading companies for Refining- and Petrochemical Products
	Upstream	Upstream company with some Refining or Chemicals Assets

Unit of Measure / Currency

For later quantity-, energy-, and financial consolidation.

Subsidiaries

Subsidiaries show all the direct- and indirect Subsidiaries of the Main Holding Entity of the Corporation.
Percentages shown are the Equity share percentages of the direct Shareholder.
Step by Step Subsidiaries of any Entity can be viewed in the Shareholding Module of Entities.

  Entity

Entities represent the registered legal entities in the market. Entities can have Shareholders or have Subsidiaries.

Entity Short

Identifying shortname of the Entity

Entity Name

The legal registered name of the Entity

Virtual

It may be necessary to define Virtual Entities V, in situations, when the real Entity-Setup is unknown, or for purposes of creating a virtual shareholding entity, to combine two entities, see Technology Owner

Address information

Capture accurate localisation data

Latitude/Longitude

Codes to map the location of the Entity.
The Geocodes can be obtained from (Google-) maps. The function is available when Entity Name, City and Country are entered. Click Button "Get Geocode", which will open a new tab with Google-Maps, showing the location based on the information provided.
Copy the Latitude-/Longitudes codes into the dialogbox opened.

Registration Number

The official registration number of the Entity in the respective government registry.

Stock Exchange

If the Entity is publicly traded, select the main Stock Exchange Entity, where the stocks are listed.
New Stock Exchange Entities can be created, using Industry "Investor"

Share Indice

Stock-Exchange registration number. ppPLUS will display the Shareprice (using Google), based on the combination of Stock-Exchange and Index-Number.

Logo

Select logo of the Entity/Corporation. If logo is not available, email to SysAdmin.

Operator

The Entity may not be the responsible Operator of its manufacturing/production. Select the Operator-Entity, if it is known.

Client ID

Internal grouping of Entities by Client. (use the default: Master)

Category

• Main Ops/Holding - Entity is the Main Operation company or Holding Entity of a Corporation.
• Operations - Entity is an Operator: Manufacturer or Other.
• Project - Entity is currently in a project-stage.
• Start-Up - Entity is in the process of starting up.
• Technology Provider - Entity’s main business is to produce/license Technology.

Industry

Select Industry the Entity is operating in. This can be different from the Corporation the Entity belongs too. Also Entities inside a Corporation can have different Industry-Categorizations

	Industry	Description
	Chemicals	General manufacturer of Chemical Products
	Industry Other	Industrial Company with Chemicals Activities
	Integrated Energy	Integrated Up- and Downstream Corporation
	Investor	Major Investors or Stock Exchanges where Entities are traded
	Logistics, Pipelines	Logistic, Supply Chain, Pipelines, Tankfarm operators
	Other	Other organizations or institutions
	Petrochemicals	Predominantly Petrochemicals Corporation
	Processor	Chemicals Processors and Customers
	Recycling	Recycling corporations
	Renewables	Producer of Renewable products
	Refining	Corporation with predominantly Refining actitvities
	Technology	Technology Providers
	Trading	Trading companies for Refining- and Petrochemical Products
	Upstream	Upstream company with some Refining or Chemicals Assets

Unit of Measure (UoM) / Currency

Default Unit of Measure or Currency for consolidation of the quantities, energy values, and financial values

Status

Public

If deselected, results and information will not be shown in all the Views

Shareholder

Select to allow Entity for shareholding in other companies or be the main holding company of a Corporation

Disable Logo

License rights may prohibit to show the Logo of the Entity or Corporation. Select to suppress Logo in Views of related Corporations/Sites/Assets etc.

Shareholding

Introduction

The equity holders of the individual Entities can be assigned in the Shareholding-Function, Navigation-Bar: Equity.
Shareholding can only be created upwards. Select the Entity and define its Shareholders.

Create / Edit

Shareholding can be modeled by periods, historically and forward. Please make sure, the sum of the Shareholding-% by period does not exceed 100%.
Shareholding for a period can be below 100%.
ppPLUS allows to also include the percentage of shares listed on a Stock-Exchange. (See below: Multiple Shareholders)

Shareholder

Shareholder for selected Entity. Dropdown only lists Entities, which have the tag "Shareholding" in Entity-Settings.

Percentage

Number between 0.1 and 100

From

Beginning date of Shareholding. If date is unknown, the best assumption should be made and commented in the Comment Field.

To

Default is December 2050, can be overwritten.

Consolidation

The Consolidation method is related to the Financial Consolidation, which can also be used for consolidation of the product portfolios.
Type of Consolidation by the Shareholder:

Unknown - Consolidation method not known
None - Shareholer does not include results of Entity in the Financial Consolidation
Equity - Shareholder consolidates the result (Profit/Loss) as per Equity
Proportionate - Shareholder consolidates each line of the Balance Sheet as per Equity
Full - Shareholder consolidates the full result of the Entity

Multiple Shareholders

Applicable, when the Entity includes several Shareholders. Most likely, when the Shareholder is a Stock Exchange.

Description

Comments on Periods and certainty of the data.

Entity Subsidiaries

List shows the direct Subsidiaries of the Entity. Next level indirect Subsidiaries can be viewed, where a drilldown arrow is visible.
Multilevel Subsidiaries can be viewed from Corporation Level.

Interests Map

Introduction

The Interests Map is a dynamic display of the Site/Entity and its shareholders or subsidiaries. By clicking on the markers you can select to move to the next level of shareholders or subsidiaries or view the Mass Balance (Graph or List) of a site.

Legend explanation

Markers	Status	Action
Entity Marker	The Entity Marker shows the location of the Entity being mapped. Entities can be of various nature, for example a controlling company, an investor, a wholly owned-subsidiary or a stock exchange.	Click on the Entity marker to see a pop-up with a link to the Entity Details, showing full deatils of this Entity..
Refinery Chemicals Feedstock Project Utilities Research Renewables Logistics	Pins of various colours show locations of Operating Sites associated with the Entity. These can be filtered on or off by using the filter list at top right of the map.	Click on a pin to access Site Production Summary and Mass Balance information.
Subsidiary Marker	The Subsidiary Marker shows the location of a subsidiary interest.	Click on a Subsidiary Marker for a pop-up menu with a link to full information about this entity, and a link which sets this subsidiary as the focus Entity of the map.
Investment Marker	The Investment Marker indicates an investor or stock exchange.	Click on an Investment Marker for a pop-up menu showing investment summary, a link to further details about the entity, and an Interests Map of this entity.

  Site

The Entity's operations, it's manufacturing, logistics, admin or research functions are modeled in Sites.

Favourite

Sites, together with the related Entity can be selected as Favourites and will appear on the Home-View for Quick Access. (requires Authentification) The selected Favourite-Site can be removed by selecting the -Symbol in the Favourite-Widget on the Home-View.

  Site Indicators

Sites can have individual Indicators, which describe major performance indicators in operations and environment.
New Indicators can be defined in Indicators. Please contact Sysadmin to create a new KPI.

List

The List shows the most recent Indicators for the Site.

Create / Edit

Sites can have individual Indicators, which describe major performance indicators in operations and environment.
New Indicators can be defined in Indicators.

Indicator

Indicator as created in Indicator Module.

Scenario

Indicators can be defined by a Scenario. (Contact Sysadmin to create different Scenarios) Actual Scenario can be a result of an achievement. Outlook for a future planning.

Period From

The Period, (Year/Month) when the organization is planning to achieve the Indicator Value.

Period From

The Period, (Year/Month) until when the Indicator is valid.

KPI Value

The target-value. The Unit of measure of the Indicator is defined in Indicators.

Document

Hyperlink to document or website, which describes and documents the Indicator.

World Sites Map

Introduction

World view of all the Sites created in the system.

Legend explanation

Markers	Status	Action
Refinery Chemicals Feedstock Project Utilities Research Renewables Logistics	Pins of various colours show locations of Operating Sites associated with the Entity. These can be filtered on or off by using the filter list at top right of the map.	Click on a pin to access Site Production Summary and Mass Balance information.

  Asset

The Sites' Assets model the manufacturing plants, storage facilities, research, utility or admin functions required for the processing of the products. Each Assets has at minimum 1 Unit, which further defines the functionality of the Asset.
Technologies applied in the manufacturing process define the structure of the Assets.

Category

Typically an Asset has the category Processing, but can also be defined as a Utility, Research or Admin Category.

Location & Geo-Codes

Additional information on the location of the Asset. The Asset may also reside outside the boundaries of the Site.
The Latitude(s), Longitude(s) fields allow to precisely place the location of the Asset inside the Site.

Square Meters / Startup Date

Useful for cost-allocation calculations or determination of depreciation periods.

Technology

The Asset configuration may be determined by the Technology used in the process.
A Licensor can be selected, if it is different from the Technology Owner.
The Technology cannot be changed or removed, if an Asset-Unit has been linked with a Technology-Unit.

Utilization Planning

Selector will determine, if future capacities (Utilization) is calculated on the Asset- or Unit-Level. (for future implementation)

Unit of Measure

Determines the Unit of Measure for the consolidation of the Asset-Capacity

  Asset Unit

Asset Units represent individual pieces of equipment, like furnaces or other chemical reaction units. Units allow to split the Assets (Plants) into separate processing Units.
Assets (Plants) can be configured accordingly to the Technology setup chosen.

Quantity

Units can be created individually or grouped by the number existing in the plant.
Example: A plant consisting of 6 different furnaces, can either be configured with 1 Furnace-Unit, Quantity: 6; or alternatively with 6 Furnace-Units (Quantity: 1). This allows to apply different utilization-calculations (for future implementation).

Category

Units can be categorized as In- or Out- Units, or both. This allows for simpler selection in the modeling process.
Example:A furnace is a typical Input-Unit, a product-fractionator an Output-Unit.

Supply Site

Asset Units can be used to create the supply-chain-linkage between Sites. The dropdown allows to select the source (Site) of the imported feedstocks (raw materials).

  Product-Structure

Products in ppPLUS are modelled in a hierarchical structure, organizing products by industry or origin and various product-categories.

  Segments

Segments represent the industries, ranging from the refinery feedstock, agricultural products, forestry sourced materials, mining metals and minerals, to downstream sectors, such as pharmaceuticals, automotive, steel, glass, paper, with broader categories of refining products, as well as chemcial products encompassing organic, mineral and polymer products.

  Main-Families

Main-Families split up the Segments by individual chemical product type, structure and/or origin.

  Sub-Families

Subfamilies add an additional product speciation based on function, usage, chemical form, structure or functionality.

  Main Products

Main Products group the Sub-Products (the actual product). Main Products allow also to select a generic product, if the Sub-Product is not known. Example: You can choose Polyethylene, which is a placeholder for LLDPE, HDPE, LDPE or Other.
The table of Sub-Products to the right shows all the linked Sub-Products of the Main-Product and identifies the Default-Sub-Product for the processing-steps if the specific Sub-Product is not known. Each Main-Product requires one Sub-Product.

Categorization

Each Main-Product is organized in 3 Categories:
Segments: Segmentation into Feedstocks, Refining, Chemicals and other follow-up stages.
Product Main Families: Dividing the Segments into major Families, like Chemicals -> Aromatics, Polymers...
Product Sub Families: Further categorzation of the Main Families: Polymers -> Commodity Plastics, Engineering Plastics...

Status

Unit of Measure

The Main- (and Sub-) Products default Unit of Measure, when the product is selected for the modeling.

Physical State

Selection of the Physical State of the Product.
3 different Physical States are possible: Gas / Liquid / Solid

Value Chain

Value Chains link Products derived from a specific Building Block. A Main-Product can either be a Building Block or be a part of a Value Chain. ppPLUS allows to link a Main-Product to two different Building Blocks.
A Main-Product cannot be a Building Block and be a part of a Value Chain.
Example:
Ethylene -> Building Block
Ethylbenzene -> Linked to Building Block I: Ethylene and Building Block II: Benzene

Building Block

Main-Products can be defined as Building Blocks, to identify the Key Products for consolidation and avoid double count.
Example: Ethylene (= Building Block) and Polyehtylene.

  Sub Products

Sub Products represent the actual product which is required for modeling.

Sub-Product Name

Industry specific name.

Abbreviation

Abbreviation of the product for referencing.

Alternative Names

Listing of alternative names, the product is also known as.

Tags

Tag fields for additional information.

Link

Hyperlink to external Internet-Site which provides best information on the product.

Status

Identifiers

Industry categorization organizations (see links on organization icons)

• CAS Chemical Abstracts Service (US)
• EC / ECHA European Chemicals Agency (EU)
• IUPAC International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Secretariat: US)

Chemical Formula

Chemical formulas subscript characters can be edited with sub tags. This field can be left blank.

Molecular Weight

Molecular Weight is a measure of the sum of the atomic weight values of the atoms in a molecule. The exact value is entered for Sub-Products of know molecular composition, e.g. C6H6 in case of Benzene. In case of complex mixtures such as Crude Oil types, or Sub-Product with a Molecular Weight distribution such as most Polymers, the default value 1 is entered.

Freezing Point

The Freezing Point, which is the Temperature at which a Sub-Product solidifies under cooling, can be entered, but it is mostly relevant for Crude Oil, Oil Fractions and Liquid Fuels, since it is a critical determinant of the flowability and temperature usage window. This field can be left blank.

Boiling Point

The Boiling Point is the Temperature at which a liquid Sub-Product vaporizes when heated up. It provides an indication about the Physical State of the Sub-Product depending upon environmental conditions such as Temperature and Pressure. This field can be left blank.

Melting Point

The Melting Point is the Temperature at which a solid Sub-Product becomes liquid when heated up. It provides an indication about the Physical State of the Sub-Product depending upon environmental conditions such as Temperature and Pressure. This field can be left blank.

Specific Gravity

The Specific Gravity of Crude Oil types is automatically calculated from the API value and required for Mass Balance calculation purposes, so that it is required for this class of Sub-Products; for any Sub-Product else than Curde Oil types, Specific Gravity is optional and the field can be left blank, but an informative Density value can be entered instead.

API Gravity

API Gravity is required for Crude Oil types (Liquid Feedstocks) as it is used to determine the Specific Gravity required for Mass Balance calculation purposes.

Sulfur Content

Sulfur Content is an informative value for many Feedstock types in all physical states (such as Coal, Crude Oil, Natural Gas), Refining Fractions and often Liquid Fuels. It should be entered if known but the field can also be left blank.

  Processes

A Process is identified according to its specific function such as the transformation, conversion or modification of a defined feedstock or of various inputs, a specific type of reaction, polymerization, refining or industrial process.

Name

The Process Name is displayed at the top of the page after it is created in the Process field.

Process Categories

ppPLUS differentiates between below main Process categories:

• Feedstock Handling
• Inorganic Reactions
• Organic Reactions
• Functional Monomers Polymerization
• Unsaturated Monomers Polymerization
• Waste Treatment
• Refining Conversion Processes
• Refining Finishing Processes
• Other - Temporarily unallocated Processes

Description

A short description of the Process providing a moderate level of details to explicitly describe the role and function of the Process.

Link

When relevant a hyperlink to a document from which the bulk of the information details provided in the Description are originating from.

  Technology Types

A Technology Type differentiates more specifically the mode of operation of a specific Process or the type of conversion, transformation or modification effectuated. For example within the Process Category: Crude Processing, one finds the following Technology Types: Gas Oil SeparationPlant, Crude Desalting, Crude Stabilization, Crude Oil Receiving, Atmospheric Distillation and Vacuum Distillation. By the same token Polyethylene Polymerization Processes are differentiated between Polymerization of Ethylene according to the Gas Phase, High-Pressure, Loop Reactor Slurry, Solution, and Stirred Tank Reactor Slurry Technology Types. A technology Type is described according to the following criteria.

Process

The Process, to which the Technology Type relates, is automatically presented.

Description

A description of the Technology Type, providing a sufficient level of details to explicitly describe the role and function of the Technology Type, which can be edited in html format and with hyperlinks inserted into the text. In case of multiple sources a referencing format such as shown here^[1],[2] is recommended.

1. First source of reference
2. Second source of reference

Link

When relevant a hyperlink to a document from which the bulk of the information details provided in the Description are originating from.

Picture

Widget shows a representative picture of the Technology Type such as a block flow diagram, a process flow diagram or a photo of a production plant.

Copyright Picture

A legend, citation and a hyperlink to the source of the picture can be added in the Copyright field.

Video

Widget shows a representative video of the Technology Type such as a webinar, a process simulation or a film about an existing production plant.

Copyright Video

A legend, citation and a hyperlink to the source of the video can be added in the Copyright field.

Technologies

Widget lists the Technologies belonging to the Technology Type.

  Technologies

Technologies in ppPLUS are modelled in a hierarchical structure, organizing Technologies by the Type of Process, the industry they belong to, the type of inputs or feedstock, or the transformation, modification or conversion effectuated by the Technology.

Process Categories

Processes are organized in various categories depending on either the type of feedstock or input, the type of conversion, modification or transformation effectuated by the Process, and/or the industrial segment to which the Process belongs. The system is flexibly designed to be extended to various conversion industries beyond refining and chemical processes.

Processes

Within Process Categories, Processes are identified according to their specific function such as the conversion of a defined feedstock or input, a specific type of reaction, specific polymerization or refining processes, and more. The system is flexibly designed to accommodate various conversion and manufacturing processes throughout industrial sectors.

Technology Types

Within a Process, a Technology Type differentiates more specifically the mode of operation of a specific Process or the type of transformation, conversion or modification effectuated.

Technologies

A Technology is typically assigned to a specific Owner, Licensor or Equipment Manufacturer. Technologies are used for creating models of Assets and Production Sites.

Technology Unit

A Unit is a piece of equipment within a Technology that is effectuating a specific conversion, modification or transformation. For a Technology to be usable is creating Asset models, it must have at least one Unit to which the input(s) or feedstock is(are) fed to and from which one or more product(s) or output(s) is(are) produced.

Name

Name of the Technology, typically a combination of the Name of the Technology Owner and Process type of Brand. This is generally self-defined.

Brand

Official Brand from the Technology Owner, that can be associated with a Trademark.

Process

Selection of process according to the broad definition of Chemical Conversion or Combination/Separation Processes applied to Products.

Owner

Selection of the legal Entity of the Technology Owner. If the Technology is owned by 2 or more different parties (Entities), it is recommended to create a (virtual) Entity as a Joint Venture of the Technology Owners.

Location / Map

Geo-Marker opens map showing the global locations, where the Technology is licensed/deployed in Non-Virtual Sites and the Asset/Plant has production.

Available for licensing

Activate, if the Technology is available for licensing.

Link

Link to a document, or the website of the Technology Owner, where the Technology is described.

Picture

Widget shows a representative picture of the Technology Type such as a block flow diagram, a process flow diagram or a photo of a production plant.

Copyright Picture

A legend, citation and a hyperlink to the source of the picture can be added in the Copyright field.

Video

Widget shows a representative video of the Technology Type such as a webinar, a process simulation or a film about an existing production plant.

Copyright Video

A legend, citation and a hyperlink to the source of the video can be added in the Copyright field.

Technology Units

Widget lists the Units created for the Technology

Technology Licensees

Widget lists the Legal Entity and the Site (Manufacturing Location), where the Technology is in use, licensed to.

  Technology Units

A Technology-Unit is a chemical processing or transformation equipment of the Technology, as defined in the Technology Configuration.

Shortname / Name

Shortname and Name, describing the Technology Unit.

Hyperlink

When relevant a hyperlink to a document from which the bulk of the information details provided in the Description are originating from..

Description

A description of the Technology Unit providing a sufficient level of details to explicitly describe the role and function of the Unit, which can be edited in html format and with hyperlinks inserted into the text. In case of multiple sources a referencing format such as shown here^[1],[2] is recommended.

1. First source of reference
2. Second source of reference

Picture

Widget shows a representative picture of the Technology Type such as a block flow diagram, a process flow diagram or a photo of a production plant.

Copyright Picture

A legend, citation and a hyperlink to the source of the picture can be added in the Copyright field.

Video

Widget shows a representative video of the Technology Type such as a webinar, a process simulation or a film about an existing production plant.

Copyright Video

A legend, citation and a hyperlink to the source of the video can be added in the Copyright field.

  Mass Balance

The Mass Balance report consolidates, in Metric Tons per Annum, Imports, Production and Consumption quantities of a Site. The report allows to analyze the product portfolio of an operation (Site).
Various drilldowns are available to understand the underlying processes and chemicals conversions.

Balancing

The Balancing-Indicator shows if the Import and Sales Quantities of the Site is in balance.
Unconsumed Imports or overstated Production lead to Imbalances and require further adjustments.

  Mass Balance Visualization

The ppPLUS Visualization Tool allows to display the Mass Balance of a Site in a graphical format. The tool provides a visual representation of the Mass Balance, which is easier to understand and analyze than the tabular format.

Transaction Categories

The visualization tool provides several categories to a) suppress or b) highlight the transactions in the graph.
The categories are defined in the Connector Categories and can be selected in the Mass Balance Visualization tool.
Please note: Production categories (Connectors) are only visible, if that Production is not consumed, i.e. it is available for sale (Market).
Relationships between 2 Processing Assets are shown and can be managed with the Consumption transaction.

Transaction (Connector) Management

Category	Symbol	Import	Production	Consumption
Default	D	Standard (Default) category	Standard (Default) category	Standard (Default) category
Side-Stream	S		Product flows, which are not for direct commercialization (Feature is not yet fully implemented)
Off-Stream	O		Selecting Off-Stream category will suppress the arrows for production of products, which are waste streams or similar.
Lightgrey	G	Color to categorize minor product flows	Color to categorize minor product flows	Color to categorize minor product flows
Red	R	Red color connector	Red color connector	Red color connector
Blue	B	Blue color connector	Blue color connector	Blue color connector
Green	G	Green color connector	Green color connector	Green color connector
Inner Asset	I		Highlights product flows within the Asset, no color categorization available	Highlights product flows within the Asset, no color categorization available

  Utilization

The Utilization-Module is a forward planning tool for short- and long-term planning by Asset.
The platform provides the facilities to plan in detail future output, based on the Mass Balance Models which have been created before. Multiple categories are available to include in the modelling all the internal and external factors, which impact the sites operation.

  Margin Center

The ppPLUS Margin calculations integrate the Mass Balances, Scenarios, Utilization Rates and Price Sets calculating a Financial (Margin) Model. The Margin-Dashboard calculates the USD Values for Revenues and Imports and resulting Margins.

See the explanations of Scenarios and Utilizations for the basics to create a Performance (Margin-) Model of the targeted operation.

1. Contact ppPLUS to set up your own Client-Profile
2. Select of create a Mass Balance of a Site
3. Create Utilization-Rates for the periods you want to create the Financial Outlook.
4. Create the Import-/Production tons by rolling out the Mass Balance tons into the Utilization tons
5. Use or upload a Price Set for the planned Periods

In the Price Set Center you can Upload and Analyze Price Sets. Contact ppPLUS to support you in generating Price Sets.
Price Sets are linked with Price Versions, created by the Client.

Clients can manage own Price Versions (Price Sets), which can be flexibly used and managed for analytics and Margin Model generation.

The Margin Dashboard provides a US-Dollar Performance View (or different currencies, depending on the Price-Set) of the production outlook and the pricing- and costing views.

  Scenario Management

ppPLUS structures Mass Balance data-models in Scenarios. Scenarios are linked to the Clients. All Scenarios in the default client ppPLUS are public. Other clients can decide to manage their data in protected Scenarios.

Scenarios allow a very flexible data modelling. ppPLUS differentiates between Annual Scenarios and Monthly Scenarios.

Forward Planning

Forward planning can be simply achieved, by creating future monthly Utilization-Rates and rolling out the Scenarios.
This will calculate future outputs (by month) by multiplying Capacity * Utilization-%. The Utilization allows to model variances to the capacity (or any source Scenario), like Shutdowns, strategic factors etc.

  Mass Balance Chart

The Mass Balance Chart displays, in Metric Tons per Annum, the Imports and Outputs of a Site

  Imports

With the Import-Function Feedstock (Raw Materials) are imported into the site for consumption and processing. Any material (raw materials), which are coming from outside need to be imported through an Import Asset.
The Units of the Import Asset can link to an external Supply-Site.

  Production

The Production function models the production of intermediate- or final-products.

  Consumption

Consumption models the processeing of intermediate Products. ppPLUS differentiates between several categories of Consumption:

Asset to Asset Consumption

The Supplying Asset is a different Asset than the Consuming Asset.

Inner-Asset Consumption

The Supplying- and Consumption Asset is the same.

Inner-Asset Consumption with Balancing Production - Process Consumption

This transaction creates automatically the matching Production. This Consumption-Transaction cannot be edited individually.
Process-Transactions also allows to add additional information to the process.

  Indicator

Indicators allow to assign values to a wide variety of performance categories, like Nelson Index, Employees, CO₂-Neutrality, etc. For each Indicator the Unit of Measure is defined and the period.

Category

Indicators can be categorized into: Entironment, Finance, Information and Performance

Scope

KPIs can be defined for individual levels of organization. (Currently only level Site is operational)

Unit of Measure (UoM)

Unit of Measure for Indicators can range from a number (Integer) to quantities (Barrels, Tons, ...).

Range

Indicators can be set and presented as a scale, with Minimum- and Maximum Value. The defintion of the Top- or Botttom- as well as Medium Value can be described in the Descriptioin Fields

Definition

Definition and Formula of the Indicator.

Document

Link to external site or document, explaining the KPI.

  All Imports

Report lists all Imports into Sites. The Report can be filtered, to allow various analysis, like Refining-Processing-Capacity.
Links open the site for Imports of a particular Site, or show details of the Product.

Criteria

Entities and Sites Imports will be included, if they meet below criteria:

• Entity must have status "Active" A and "Public" P.
• Site must have status "Active" A or "Locked" L and "Public" P.

  All Production

Report lists the Production of intermediate- and final products by the Sites. The Report can be filtered, to allow various analysis, by Country, Product....
Link opens the Mass Balance Production.

Criteria

Entities and Sites Production will be included, if they meet below criteria:

• Entity must have status "Active" A and "Public" P.
• Site must have status "Active" A or "Locked" L and "Public" P.

  Hydrogen/Ammonia/Syngas Production

The Hydrogen Module combines all the elements of ppPLUS related to the Hydrogen Product-Family (Main-Products: Hydrogen, Ammonia, Syngas) and the Hydrogen Value Chain.

Module

The Module-Page shows the details of the Hydrogen-, Ammonia- and Syngas product and links its sub-products. Select from the Navbar, which product-details you would like to see. The Technologies listed on the right are relevant for all 3 products.

Hydrogen is also defined as a Building Block product and a range of products is a part of the Hydrogen-Value-Chain, listed in the table.

Technologies

The module lists here all the technologies, which are modelled for production processes in ppPLUS. More technologies may already be included in the Technology-List, but not yet applied in a Site-Production-Model.
The Technology-Details show all the Assets (Plants), where the Technology has been deployed.

Production List

The report shows all the production in the system of Hydrogen, Ammonia and Syngas.
The report can be filtered by Sub-Products (Green-, Blue-Hydrogen, etc) and Country. Select the Geo-Marker, to view ALL the manufacturing locations of the product.
Alternatively you can select the Hyperlink under Site to view directly the Production-Table of the Site, providing furhter details, also on the Technology used.

Communicator

The Communicator includes all Communicator Entries, which are linked to Hydrogen, Ammonia and Syngas products, and Sites which produce these products as well as Technologies, which are deployed in these Sites. The table also shows all Communicator entries which contain the hashtags: #hydrogen, #ammonia or #syngas.

Criteria

Entities and Sites Production will be included, if they meet below criteria:

• Entity must have status "Active" A and "Public" P.
• Site must have status "Active" A or "Locked" L and "Public" P.

  Sustainability

The Sustainability Module concentrates all data and activities around the initiatives of the industry to implement initiatives of the Energy Transition.

Communicator

The Communicator shows all messages and updates with the category "Sustainability" and hashtags "#sustainable"

Map and Listing

The Map and the Table categorize and list the Sites with an Sustainability Indicator.

Indicator	Description	Rating	Rating	Rating
	Operation is using renewable feedstocks or replacing in part Hydrocarbon feedstocks	Implementing initiatives to move to introduce Bio- or other renewable feedstocks, like waste recycling	Partial usage of renewable feedstocks	Significant or complete usage of renewable feedstocks
	Rating the extent of the usage of renewable energy in the processes	The operation's' energy is starting or planning to use energy from renewable sources	The energy consumption of the operation is coming from renewable sources	Operation is utilizing significant amounts of energy from renewable sources
	Valuation of the processes for efficient methods to reduce CO2, like circular processes and other	Implementing initiatives to move to introduce Bio- or other renewable feedstocks, like waste recycling	Parts of the operation apply circular processes or other efficient CO2 reducing measures.	Complete circular system or the company has implemented initiatives which are an example in environmental efficiency.

Markers used in the Map

Refinery

Chemicals

Feedstock

Project

Utilities

Research

Renewables

Logistics

  Solutions

Solutions - The Market Place for Services and Products by ppPLUS Partners for the Industry.

To start

Contact ppPLUS to enter into an agreement, allowing to create Solutions on the platform. Once the agreement is signed, your status will be "Expert" and giving you access to a Media Container, to store your documents and images required to describe the Services you are planning to offer.

Creating and Editing

Create your first Service from your Expert-Profile

Category

• Analytics: Services and Tools, which are helping customers to analyze their own data or data from the ppPLUS platform.
• Organization: Providing support for organizational structuring, Governance or knowledge you can provide on particular organizations or companies.
• Performance: Training and Tools supporting clients in improving their operations performance
• Training: Services for any kind of Training
• Miscellaneous: Any other type of category

Sub-Category

• Materials: Services, which are provided via a document or tool, but may include Consulting
• Consulting: Predominantly Services, which are delivered via online or on-site consulting

Primary Industry

Select the appropriate Categories and an Industry, if your Services are especially targeted at a specific industry.

Summary

Provide summary description of your Service. This is the first information potential customers can see. Maximum of 300 characters are available.

Description

Provide a detailed description of your services in a free format. This can include links, lists, tables, images. Maximum of 10000 characters available. Images: Upload images in your Media-Centre and copy the link, using the Image-Icon in the taskbar of the description-field.

Icon

If no image-link is provided, a default image will be displayed. But it is highly recommended, to generate an image which visually describes your service and differentiate it from the others. ppPLUS is recommending to use the same image-size as LinkedIn is using for articles: 1200 x 644 pixels

Video

A Video can be added to the Solution via uploading to the Media-Container and pasting the link into the field. Contact the SysAdmin, if the video-size is too big.

Link for documents (PDFs)

PDF Files linked here, best from the Media-Container can be added here to provide additional information to the customers.

Keywords

The Keywords, or short sentences in this field are visible with the Service and used for first searches. It is important to specify here clearly what your Service offers, where it can help.

ppPLUS References

Solution Services can be directly linked with ppPLUS Objects: Entities, Technologies, Main Products. Others Objects will be included later.
The Details Views for these Objects provide the Object-Reference, which needs to be copied into this field.

Users of ppPLUS can check directly from an Entity, Technology or Main Product, if an Originator is offering a Service especially for this Object.

The format is hashtag/Object-Abbreviation/ObjectID, examples:

• For the Entity Saudi Aramco, the Object-Reference is #E9.
• For the Main Product Crude Oil, the Object-Reference is #PM43.

Each Detail-View provides the Reference-Code needed, as shown here:

Solutions

2 Fields to provide a description, how your Service can support the customers. This is only an internal field to help the Search function.

Internal ID

Internal field for Clients to link the ppPLUS-Product/Service-ID with your internal ID for admin purposes.

Solution Process: Creation/Edit/Release

1. Create: New created Services are stored with the Status "Initiated"
2. Review/Edit: Review the content of the new Service.
   Please note, the grey sections, are only visible to you and the SysAdmin. New Edits will not change the status from "Initiated".
3. Release: Request the release for display in the Solutions-Module with the blue button.
   The SysAdmin will be informed, a notification sent to the Service-Originator and a message is shown in the Solutions-Communicator.
   The SysAdmin will release the Service, when it meets ppPLUS-Service-Guidelines.
   Please note: Any new Edits from your site will set the status back to "Initated" and you need to request "Release" again.
4. Suspend/Delete:
You can suspend the Serivce from displaying in the Solutions-Module or remove it from your list by selecting "Delete"

  Refinery Analysis

Refinery Analysis provides a comprehensive picture on their processing capacities and their Nelson Complexity Index.

Content

• Communicator Includes all Communicator Entries of Refinery Sites and Entries with #refining or #refinery.
• Refinery Imports lists the processing capacity of Crude Oil or other Products (Imports) of Refineries and displays them geographically by country.
• Refinery capacity by country groups Refinery processing capacity of Crude Oil by country and displays the Refineries by market.
• Nelson Complecity Index The table lists all the Refineries, which have the KPI "Nelson Complexity Index" set.

Criteria

Entities and Sites Imports will be included, if they meet below criteria:

• Entity must have status "Active" A and "Public" P.
• Site must have status "Active" A or "Locked" L and "Public" P.

  Notification Board

The Notification Board provides an overview of reactions to your Communicator Messages or when you have been mentioned.

List

• Message: Showing the Icons, which indicate, if comments have been added to     Communicator Messages created by you or you have been mentioned     in a Message.
  Click on the Icon to mark the Notification as Read and the Counter next to your Profile Picture will be reduced by one.
• Sender: Originator of Comment or Message.
• Category: Displaying the Communicator Message Category (Technology, Entities, Sites)
• Entity: Legal Entity or Technology Owner.
• Object: Technology or Site Name.
• Title: Title of Original Message. Clicking on it will open the Communicator Message, togehter with the Thread.
• Select: Opening PopUp of Original Message.
• Date: Date of Message creation.

  Communicator

The Communicator is a message and discussion tool for individual objects (Corporations, Entities, Sites, Products & Technologies) in ppPLUS.
Create Communicator messages in the Views of the individual objects. The messages for Corp./Ent./Sites are combined with sub-categories.
Comment on existing messages and start a discussion.
Reply to comments in the messages.
In each entry (Message/Comment/Reply) you can mention another user @ who will receive a Notification.

• Create Message: Create Message in the respective section (Views) by clicking the Comment Icon in the Nav-Bar.
• #-Hashtags: can be used to categorize the Message. A dropdown displays standard-hashtags which are already defined.
• Discussions: Comments can be expanded into discussion-threads.
• @-sign: Using the @-sign you can mention another user, who will receive a notification.