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PSE Seminars 2010

Hotel Riviera, Daejeon, Korea

28 September 2010

 

Provisional agenda

Venue

Hotel Riviera Yuseong

Hotel Riviera, Daejeon

Note that this agenda is subject to change.

Morning session

09:30–10:00 Registration
10:00–10:40 Presentation: What is gPROMS? An overview of the principles, key features and capabilities of gPROMS, showing how it provides advanced process modelling capabilities within an engineering flowsheeting environment.
10:40–11:20 New capabilities for distillation design. A detailed look at how gPROMS brings significant advances to the modelling of distillation and absorption operations: including optimal feed tray location, easy initialisation of complex distillation flowsheets, non-equilibrium operation and column dynamics.
11:20–12:00 Integrated whole-plant design optimisation. A real industrial case study showing how simultaneously optimising the design of a petrochemical process involving a complex multitubular reactor and over 10 distillation columns (two with reaction) and numerous recycles resulted in elimination of two distillation columns.
12:00–14:00 Lunch
Whole plant design optimization

Whole-plant design optimisation

 

gPROMS Flare

gPROMS Flare

 

gPROMS Solids

gPROMS Solids

 

 

gPROMS Fuel Cell

gPROMS Fuel Cell

Afternoon session
The afternoon focuses on PSE's engineering solutions aimed at engineers in different fields, in three parallel sessions.
Parallel session 1 – gPROMS for Safety: gPROMS Flare & depressurisation
Description New techniques and software are available that are creating a revolution in safety system design. This seminar describes the tools and their application.
14:00–15:10 How to save on CAPEX with dynamic flare systems design and wall temperature modelling: introducing gPROMS Flare
15:30–16:30 Using state-of-the-art high-fidelity depressurisation/blowdown models to improve process safety.
Parallel session 2 – gPROMS Solids and gPROMS Crystallisation [including hands-on sessions]
Description gPROMS Solids, a new product developed by PSE in conjunction with Procter & Gamble, represents a step-change in the tools available for solids process design and operation.
14:00–14:30 The challenges of designing solids processes and how these are addressed
14:30–15:10 Hands-on: Fitting model parameters from experimental data
15:30–16:15 Hands-on: Determining optimal recycle size
16:15–16:45 Hands-on: Model-based design of a crystalliser
Parallel session 3 – gPROMS Fuel Cell [including hands-on sessions]
Description The complex interactions within the fuel cell itself and between stack and system – coupled with time-to-market pressures and technology risk – make modelling an essential tool for fuel cell component and system design.
PSE's new gPROMS Fuel Cell product is industry's most comprehensive platform for high-fidelity predictive modelling of fuel cell components and systems.
14:00–14:30 gPROMS Fuel Cell: challenges and solutions – why high-fidelity integrated models are an essential tool for accelerating fuel cell stack and system design
14:30–15:10 Hands-on: Characterising the stack, including fitting single-cell I/V curves and modelling deactivation.
15:30–16:00 Stack management, including a selection of:* water management, bipolar plate design/channel geometry, prediction of stack performance deterioration over time under different regimes of operation, stack micro-scale dynamics at rapid changes of power demand for prediction of thermal stresses within the stack
16:00–16:45 From stack to system, including a selection of:* fuel processor modelling, cost and operational optimisation, dynamics and control, including start-up analysis and optimisation, water recovery and storage.

* Contents will be tailored depending on the specific interests of participants.

 

Note that the event is open to existing AND prospective users of PSE's software and services, as well as to personnel and researchers from research institutions and universities.