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Narwal Twin / introducing

A self-calibrating digital twin of your plant — that publishes the top optimizations available right now, in dollars per day.

GPU-accelerated chemical process simulation, running headless and continuously re-calibrated against live plant data. One ranked board for operations. The same engine for design studies. Every team — engineering, economics, design — looking at the same numbers.

01The problem

Your plant generates millions of data points every second. The models you use to make decisions don't keep up.

DWSIM and Aspen are rigorous — and rigid. Wall-clock time per run is measured in minutes to hours. Tuning a model to live plant data is effectively a full-time job. By the time it's calibrated, the plant has drifted.

The result: most plants run on weeks-old assumptions. Economics is checked weekly. End-of-run is estimated. Heat exchanger cleaning is on a calendar, not on physics.

≈ 1×per week
Frequency at which most plants re-check economic optimum against market prices.
FTE
Effort required to keep a plant-wide simulation model continuously calibrated by hand.
±weeks
Typical confidence on end-of-run dates derived from manual scenario planning.
02The solution

Chemical process simulation, rebuilt for the way modern plants actually run.

A deterministic, GPU-accelerated engine running headless 24/7. It subscribes to your historian, continuously re-tunes itself against live data, and exposes its output through both a structured API and an optional natural-language layer. The math is rigorous. The interface is convenient. The model is always current.

Continuous calibration loop PLANT Historian / OPC UA Pressure · temp · flow · comp Lab analyzers Composition · density Market prices Feed / product · live Weather forecast Ambient T · cooling water NARWAL TWIN / ENGINE GPU SIM CORE Distillation · HX CALIBRATOR Live tune ↻ 24/7 SCENARIO SWEEP Multi-param · parallel LLM LAYER Plain-language Q&A CALIBRATING OUTPUT TOP-10 / $ PER DAY 01 · CDU pumparound+$18,400 02 · Debutanizer reflux+$11,250 03 · HX-204 clean wk32+$ 7,820 04 · Naphtha cut point+$ 6,140 05 · HX-118 bypass+$ 4,210 06 · ... 07 · ... Σ captured +$71,940 /d live · all teams eng economics ops ↻ continuous re-calibration
Live plant data & market prices flow into the engine. The GPU sim core runs continuously; the calibrator keeps the model aligned with reality; scenario sweeps explore the optimization space; the LLM layer makes the result accessible. Output: one ranked board, every team, same numbers.
03What the board feeds

Four things that become routine — instead of quarterly projects.

Each ranked entry on the Top-10 board is generated by one of four continuous workflows, running in the background against a model that is always current.

01 · ECONOMIC

Real-time margin optimization

Optimal setpoints re-checked against current feedstock and product pricing on a continuous loop. Not weekly. Not monthly. Continuously.

02 · TURNAROUND

End-of-run prediction

Multi-parameter scenario sweeps run in the background, producing a calculated turnaround date with confidence bounds — not a calendar guess.

03 · MAINTENANCE

Predictive HX cleaning

Heat exchanger cleaning scheduled based on live fouling trajectory and forecasted weather over the coming months — physics, not fixed intervals.

04 · WHAT-IF

On-demand scenario exploration

Any process engineer can ask "what happens if…" in plain language and get an answer in minutes, against a model that reflects today's plant.

04Two modes, one engine

Same engine. Two questions: what should we do tomorrow, and what should we build?

The Top-10 board is what continuous mode looks like. But the same GPU-accelerated engine also runs in study mode for process design — and the speed differential changes what's practical to explore.

Mode 01
Continuous · operations

For plants already running.

The engine runs 24/7 against live data, continuously re-calibrating and publishing the Top-10 $/day board. Engineering owns the model; economics consumes the ranking; operations and management see one shared picture of the plant.

Live data · 24/7 · Top-10 $/day · Always current
Mode 02
Study · process design

For plants being designed, revamped, debottlenecked.

The same engine sweeps hundreds of design cases in the time a handful used to take. Design teams explore the full space — column sizing, exchanger areas, reflux ratios, feed sensitivities — instead of pre-narrowing to a base case.

Sweep at scale · Sensitivity studies · Side-by-side trade-offs

Same calibration discipline. Same rigorous output. Same optional LLM layer for asking questions in plain language. The 100× speed differential simply changes what's worth attempting.

05Why now

Three things changed. Five years ago, none of this was possible.

01 · Compute

GPU acceleration is cheap.

Rigorous process simulation now runs at speeds that make autonomous, continuous re-calibration feasible — not just possible in theory.

02 · Interface

LLMs got reliable.

Natural-language access to a deterministic engine removes the scripting bottleneck. Engineers ask questions; the math stays rigorous underneath.

03 · Data

Plant data is reachable.

Historians, OPC UA, cloud connectivity — the integration that took six months in 2018 takes days in 2026. The model can finally subscribe to reality.

06What ships today

Starting where the simulation pain is biggest — and the margin opportunity is largest.

The current engine accelerates the unit operations that dominate refinery and petrochemical wall-clock time. These two are deliberately first: they sit on the critical path of nearly every economic and turnaround decision.

Live today

  • Distillation columnsFull rigorous tray-by-tray modeling, GPU-accelerated. Live
  • Heat exchanger networksIncluding fouling models for predictive cleaning. Live

On the roadmap

  • Complex reactorsHydrocrackers, polymerization — rigorous kinetic modeling. Next
  • ElectrolysersSupporting electrified and hybrid chemical processes. Next
100×
Wall-clock benchmark

Lower wall-clock time than DWSIM on equivalent distillation and heat exchanger problems — the speed differential that makes continuous re-calibration and scenario sweeps practical, instead of hypothetical.

07Who it's for

One engine. Three teams owning the same numbers.

Narwal Twin is built for the people who actually make plants run and the people who design them — engineering, economics, and design — working off the same rigorous, dollar-quantified picture.

Process engineering

Owns the model.

The process engineering manager and team validate the calibration, sign off on each unit operation, and decide when to expand scope. They get a model that is *accurate* and *current* — without the full-time-job tradeoff.

Process technologists become the daily power users, running what-if scenarios in plain language instead of driving a desktop simulator.

Economics & planning

Consumes the board.

The Top-10 $/day board replaces stale weekly LP runs with a continuously updated view of margin opportunities — the moment market prices move, the ranking updates.

Operations leadership and plant management look at the same board: one ranked list everyone agrees on, instead of competing optimization studies.

Process design

Sweeps the design space.

Design and revamp engineers — at owner-operators, EPCs, and licensors — use the same engine in study mode to explore hundreds of cases instead of pre-narrowing to a base case.

Sensitivity studies, side-by-side trade-offs, and feed variation sweeps that used to need overnight runs now finish over coffee.

08Get in touch

Run Narwal Twin against one of your columns or HX networks — see the calibration.

The fastest way to know whether this fits your plant is to point it at real data. Tell us about your unit and we'll set up a walkthrough.

Narwal Technologies
Chemical-process digital twins
For refineries & specialty chemicals
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