| Wednesday 13 June 2007 - Welcome drinks reception |
Venue : Hilton Parsippany |
18:00–19:00 Early registration
19:00–20:30 Informal drinks and hors d'ouvres (Hilton Hotel Atrium) |
| Thursday 14 June - Presentations |
08:00–09:00 Further registration
07:30–09:00 Breakfast (meeting room)
09:00 Welcome and introduction
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SESSION 1: PSE developments and directions
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PSE update: new technologies, new customers, new operations
As more and more companies in different process sectors adopt Advanced Process Modeling, PSE is expanding its operations around the world to meet their requirements. PSE CEO Costas Pantelides provides an update on technology and commercial developments.
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Costas Pantelides, PSE CEO |
SESSION 2: gPROMS technology – gPROMS v3.1 preview & developments
Following the major release of gPROMS version 3.0 last year, version 3.1 adds graphical features, key new solution capabilities and other significant 'under the hood' advances. |
| gPROMS v3.1 ModelBuilder. v3.1 philosophy and key features, with demonstration of new graphical display capabilities, new pre-configured result presentation in reports, enumerated domains and other usability-enhancing kernel developments.
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Costas Pantelides, PSE |
| gPROMS v3.1+ Modeling and solution capabilities. Significant new developments such as gSTART initialization capability, non-uniform grids and automatic solution of high-index DAEs.
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| 10:30 - 11:00 Refreshments |
| gPROMS v3.1+: Advanced techniques for model validation. Well-validated first-principles models are the key to high-accuracy predictive modeling. PSE is investing considerable R&D effort into advanced techniques for model validation, as well as related areas of research.
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Alejandro Cano, PSE |
| SESSION 3: Advanced Process Modeling applications |
APM in detailed design of Fluidized Bed Reactors
Many techniques used for high-accuracy modeling of Fixed-Bed Reactors can be applied to Fluidized Beds, using devices such as multi-dimensional population balances to account for different particle residence times. Modeling of a pyrolysis gasification process is described.
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Zbigniew Urban, PSE |
Using gPROMS to understand reaction kinetics
Ineos is using gPROMS to develop Langmuir-Hinshelwood-Hougen-Watson (LHHW) type kinetic models and surface chemistry models. The advanced optimization features of gPROMS are being used for this work.
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Jeff Logsdon and Marty Sanborn, Ineos |
| 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch |
Refinery conversion operations – the next generation of models
BP is working with PSE to implement a set of refinery reactor models that will represent the state-of-the-art in optimization of design and operation of refinery conversion processes. The systematic approach to conversion of legacy code to first-principles validated models of units such as hydrocrackers is described.
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Jeff Zalc, BP |
SESSION 4: Model-Based Innovation applications
MBI techniques are helping to integrate experimental and modeling effort.
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Overview of model-driven innovation at UTC Power
UTC Power has adopted modeling on a large scale in order to reduce the need for physical testing and to accelerate design and development of fuel cell systems. Ram Ramaswamy describes how modeling is applied to enhance the company's competitive advantage. |
Ram Ramaswamy, UTC Power |
High-fidelity modeling of polymerization reactors
PSE has been developing a new generation of polymerization process models which represent a step increase in the description of product quality over current techniques, especially when co-polymerization of several co-monomers is involved. |
Zbigniew Urban, PSE |
| 15:30 - 16:00 Refreshments |
SESSION 5: New developments in Advanced Process Modeling
APM is continually being applied to new application areas, sectors and stages of the process lifecycle.
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Advances in membrane process modeling
Membrane process modeling is not well catered for in standard flowsheeting tools, and companies have traditionally resorted to FORTRAN modeling to fill the gap. APM techniques now make it easy to create, validate and deploy such models. |
Sean Bermingham, PSE |
gPROMS and CAPE-OPEN – integration of legacy models made simple
A new gPROMS CAPE-OPEN socket has made it possible to integrate models from a variety of sources into gPROMS. The developments are illustrated with proprietary legacy FORTRAN models of power generation components – taken from the Virtual Plant Demonstration Model (VPDM) project – into a gPROMS "whole plant model". |
Costas Pantelides, PSE |
| 17:00 Finish |
18:00 Meet for drinks, Hilton bar
19:00 PSE 10th Anniversary Dinner (finish 22:00) |
| Friday 15 June 2007 – Optional seminar |
| Following the very successful seminars at the London Annual Meeting in April, we will be holding a similar in-depth technical session on Reaction System Modeling at the Americas User Meeting. |
| 08:30–09:30 Continental breakfast |
| 09:30–12:30 Seminar: The State-of-the-Art in Reaction System Modeling |
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PSE Senior Consultant Alejandro Cano leads a review of the state-of-the-art in reaction system modeling, followed by a round-table in-depth discussion and question-and-answer session.
This seminar is suitable for experienced practitioners of reaction system modeling as well as those who wish to gain an understanding of the technical issues involved.
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Alejandro Cano, PSE |
