PSE Japan User Meeting 2006

Provisional agenda

19—20 September 2006
British Embassy New Hall, Tokyo

This is the provisional agenda for the 2006 PSE Japan User Meeting.

Session 1 – gPROMS Version 3.0 Japan launch

PSE Managing Director Prof. Costas Pantelides provides an overview of gPROMS technology, and describes the new capabilities of gPROMS v3.0 , a major upgrade to the technology-leading gPROMS Advanced Process Modelling (APM) environment.

Refreshments

Session 2 – Model-Based Innovation

Prof. Pantelides provides an overview of the emerging technology of Model-Based Innovation (MBI) and how it is being used to accelerate process design and improvement, in areas as diverse as pharmaceuticals, bulk chemical production, gas-to-liquid (GTL) production and fuel cell development. He also describes the role that MBI techniques can play in quantified risk management.

PSE customers describe how they are applying APM within their organisations to increase their knowledge base and gain competitive advantage through the use of high-quality predictive information.

Mr Kubo describes applications of gPROMS Advanced Process Modelling in the design and development of chemical processes, and how these help MCC to remain leading innovators in the Japanese and worldwide chemical industry.

AIST uses gPROMS for research and development activities in the emerging technology of Heat-Integrated Distillation Columns (HIDiC), a technology that can save up to 60% of distillation energy costs.

Mr Iuchi describes how Maruzen Petrochemical, a key customer of PSE’s Consulting services in Japan, uses APM as a key component of a re-engineering effort to reform R&D processes for research, design and production. He describes a cross-section of applications where modelling has helped to enhance production significantly.

Mr Morozumi describes the application of APM to pyrolysis of polymerising compounds of cracking heavy oil in Internally Circulating Fluidised-bed Gasifier (ICFG) equipment, using particle population balances.

Session 4 – Model-Based Innovation

Model-Based Innovation is being used to fast-track process and product innovation and development, as well as to bring new levels of understanding to complex processes.

Model-Based Innovation in the Pharmaceutical industry

MBI techniques first applied within the chemical industry are now finding application in many other sectors. Hear how major UK and American pharmaceutical manufacturers are beginning to apply MBI to enhance primary production processes such as lactose crystallisation and to improve scale-up of processes generally.

Model-Based Safety Engineering

Model-based techniques are increasingly being used both to engineer safety into process design and operations, and to investigate what went wrong and why in the case of accidents. This presentation describes the application of modelling to safety design and risk analysis, and the analysis of last year's fatal Texas City Refinery accident in the US.