PSE Americas User Meeting 2005

Wednesday 26 – Thursday 27 October at the Hilton Newark Airport, Newark NJ

Picture of the Hilton Newark Airport hotel

Process Systems Enterprise is pleased to invite you to the third annual PSE Americas User Meeting, to be held at the Hilton Newark Airport Hotel, on Wednesday 26 and Thursday 27 October 2005. The event is open to both existing and prospective users of PSE’s gPROMS software and ModelCare model-based innovation services, as well as to personnel and researchers from universities.

PSE is a world leader in Advanced Process Modeling, a technology that uses high-accuracy process models to speed up innovation, improve designs of processes and products, enhance existing operations and improve the effectiveness of experimental programmes. PSE’s technology has brought significant advances in modeling in application areas such as reaction engineering, crystallization, complex separation processes such as reactive distillation and absorption and fuel cell component and system design.

The USA is PSE’s largest market, and our customer base already includes major companies such as Dow Chemicals, United Technologies, BP Chemicals, Innovene, Procter & Gamble, UOP and Honeywell, several of whom will be presenting. We also welcome key South American customers to this event for the first time.

For companies who do not currently employ Advanced Process Modeling technology and would like to learn more about this powerful tool for enhancing profitability, the User Meeting provides an ideal opportunity to find out more, and speak to people who are already benefiting from it. The meeting will show the potential for Advanced Process Modeling to create and release value across the process and related industries, and in particular how APM is applied to innovation. It will also showcase PSE’s gPROMS software, and present experience from customers describing how they are creating value in their organizations using PSE’s technology and services.

The User Meeting is the first event organized in North America since PSE opened the PSE Americas office in Morristown earlier this year. To celebrate, we will give delegates a flavor of our locale with an evening New York harbor dinner cruise, featuring a cocktail hour and dinner buffet.

New York Harbor evening cruise

Provisional Agenda

The two-day meeting will take place over Wednesday 26 and Thursday 27 October, with the conference cruise and dinner held on the Wednesday evening.

The following is the provisional agenda for the meeting. The full agenda will be published shortly. Regularly-updated details of the meeting can be found in the User Meeting Centre of the PSE website. Note that the order of proceedings is subject to change.

Day 1 Wednesday, 26 October 2005

09:00 – 09:30 Registration and coffee

Morning sessions

Introduction & welcome

Session 1 – PSE update

PSE Managing Director Prof. Costas Pantelides provides an overview of recent developments within PSE, and future directions. He also describes how PSE’s policy of Continuous Innovation is helping both to maintain PSE’s lead in Advanced Process Modeling technology and to drive innovation and enhancement in the process and related industries.

Session 2 – gPROMS developments and directions

Focus on the forthcoming gPROMS v3.0 – what users can expect to see and how it will enhance the productivity and scope of their modeling activities. Plus other recent developments in gPROMS family components and technologies, demonstration of gPROMS models running within process simulator environments, and outline of future product plans.

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

Afternoon sessions

Session 3 – Advanced Process Modeling key application areas

PSE Consultants and customers describe application of Advanced Process Modeling (APM) using gPROMS to complex technology areas:
– Reaction engineering
– Crystallization
– Rate-based / non-equilibrium complex separation processes
- Design and performance of activated sludge processes for waste water treatment

Presentations will include examples of the linking of Advanced Process Models and Computational Fluid Dynamics models for enhanced accuracy, where appropriate, and new approaches to working with laboratory and plant data to enhance the predictive capabilities of models.

17:15 End of sessions

18:00 Coach leaves hotel

18:45 – 22:00 Evening cruise, New York harbor

Day 2 Thursday, 27 October 2005

09:00 start Registration and coffee

Morning sessions

Session 4 – Advanced Process Modeling for Innovation

Advanced Process Modeling is a key technology for speeding up innovation of both processes and products, by reducing the need to build physical test or pilot plant apparatus and focusing the direction of experimental programs. This session describes some examples, including presentations from customers working in these areas:

– Innovation in Fuel Cell component and system design
– Innovation in LNG storage
– Innovation in heat-integrated distillation technology

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

Afternoon sessions

Session 5 – Innovative use of modeling

PSE customers describe how they are using Advanced Process Modeling to add value in imaginative and innovative ways, in areas where rigorous modeling has not been applied before.

Session 6 - Crystallization Focus Session

14:00 – 15:00 Presentation by Dr Sean Bermingham

15:00 – 16:30 Round-table discussion

16:30 Finish

Conference fees

Fees for the conference are the following:

Early bird registration up to 1st October : US Dollars $250

The Academic rate, available to personnel and researchers from bona-fide academic institutions, is half of the above

The registration fee includes all meals and refreshments from the start of the conference, as well as the New York cruise.

Registration

Please use any of the following methods to register for the User Meeting:

If you would like to register by email, click here.
If you would like to register by mail or by fax, please download the PDF registration form from our website.
If you would like to register by telephone or have any queries, please contact the event organizer Kate Burness on +44(0)20 8563 0888 or the PSE Americas office on +1 (973) 993 1850.

We accept most credit cards when registering by mail or fax.

Venue Location

The conference will take place in the Hilton Newark Airport Hotel. The hotel is situated conveniently close to Newark Airport, to allow easy access for those travelling by air and avoid the need to rent a car.

The address and contact details are:

Hilton Newark Airport
1170 Spring Street
Elizabeth
New Jersey
07201-2114

Tel: +1-908-351-3900
Fax: +1-908-351-9556

See map below or click here for further instructions.

Reservations

Please contact the Hilton hotel direct to make your room reservation. We have negotiated a special rate with the hotel so, it is important to state that you would like to book your room at the PSE event rate. The hotel runs a free shuttle service to and from the airport which you can arrange with the hotel.

Please feel free to pass this invitation on to any of your colleagues who may wish to attend. In the meantime, if you need further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We look forward to seeing you there!