Tuesday 7 June 2011 – Optional seminars & workshops |
Seminars
The following optional seminars are aimed at prospective users of PSE products. |
| 09:00 - 09:30 |
Registration (13:00 for afternoon sessions) |
| 09:30 - 12:00 |
Seminar 1: gSOLIDS: Model-based engineering of solids process design and operations |
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:00 - 15:30 |
Seminar 2: gCRYSTAL: Model-based optimisation of crystallisation process product quality and production capacity |
| 13:30 - 16:00 |
Seminar 3: gPROMS AML:FBCR: Advanced modelling of catalytic reactors |
Workshops
The following optional workshops are aimed at existing users of gPROMS ModelBuilder: |
| 09:00 - 09:30 |
Registration (13:00 for afternoon sessions) |
| 09:30 - 12:30 |
Workshop 1: Introduction to gPROMS: an overview of PSE's gPROMS ModelBuilder environment and its unique features  |
| 09:30 - 12:00 |
Workshop 2: Parameter estimation: Using parameter estimation to incorporate experimental data within models – overview, tips & tricks [for experienced users] |
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30 - 16:00 |
Workshop 3: Model initialisation: Using Model Initialisation Procedures to create "run first time" models |
| 13:30 - 16:00 |
Workshop 4: Numerical solutions: gPROMS numerical solutions techniques: overview, diagnosis & troubleshooting [for experienced users] |
| NB: participants should choose only one seminar or workshop from each of the morning and/or afternoon sessions above. |
| Other events |
| 16:00 - 18:00 |
gCRYSTAL Advisory Board Meeting |
| Evening |
gCRYSTAL and gSOLIDS Advisory Board Dinner |
| Evening |
Welcome drinks for other delegates |
Wednesday 8 June 2011 – Day 1 |
Mark Matzopoulos
Marketing Director |
Introduction & welcome |
Session 1 – keynote |
Costas Pantelides
Managing Director |
PSE update: model-based engineering across the organisation
PSE continues to drive the application of high-fidelity predictive modelling throughout the process industries. MD Costas Pantelides explains how PSE's strategy is to move model-based engineering from modelling specialists to engineering users with new process engineering tools built on the gPROMS platform, each of which represents a step changes in its field. |
Richard Bailey
BP |
Keynote: Modelling challenges in the upstream Oil & Gas industry
The upstream Oil & Gas industry has always been a leader in the application of simulation and modelling to drive business decisions. Richard Bailey summarises the historic development, current situation and some of the challenges that BP's Field of the Future(R) technology programme is addressing. Field of the Future(R) solutions such as the Model-Based Operational Support toolkit take into account the full range of critical success factors as they relate to people, process and technology in order to deliver success at scale across a large distributed global organisation.
Field of the Future is a registered trademark of BP |
| Refreshments |
Session 2 – Operational improvement |
Nicolas Descoins
EPFL
Remi Lestienne
Veolia |
Energy efficiency in waste water treatment plants: optimisation studies and process analysis
Veolia R&D and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) are working together to optimise the energy efficiency of an industrial waste water treatment process. Plant-wide models of the process, which includes activated sludge reactors coupled with an anaerobic digestion reactor, are used within an optimisation framework to minimise energy consumption taking into account the bio-chemical transformations occurring inside the bio-reactors. |
Justin Hagemann
Anglo Platinum
Praveen Lawrence
PSE Consulting |
Troubleshooting of an industrial Na2SO4 crystalliser in platinum refining
Anglo Platinum experienced operational difficulties with a newly-commissioned Na2SO4 crystalliser which was running significantly below design capacity. PSE's model-based engineering approach combined detailed physical models of the key unit operations with rigorous thermodynamics and plant measurements to create a predictive model of the highly-integrated system. This systems approach correctly identified several interrelated problems with the design, which previous studies – based on classical approaches – had failed to uncover.
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| Lunch |
Session 3 – Oil & Gas, Refining & Petrochemicals |
Christoph Bäumler
Süd-Chemie |
Determining accurate reaction kinetic parameters for petrochemical reactions
Catalysts are often tested at laboratory scale in powdered form. However because the heat and mass transport in an actual catalyst pellet significantly affect activity and selectivity, the approach does not represent behaviour realistically. During catalyst development Süd-Chemie experiments with individual pellets in highly-controlled conditions in a Temkin reactor; high-fidelity gPROMS AML:FBCR pellet models are then used to estimate kinetic parameters. |
Dario Pinna
Shell Global Solutions |
Application of parameter estimation to a products blending model
Shell uses gPROMS's dynamic optimisation capabilities to optimise the cumulative production of certain final products obtained by blending different product streams in which composition and flowrates vary over time, taking into account process, hardware and product specification constraints. Models parameters are estimated from process operation data to ensure that real performance is reflected accurately.
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| Refreshments |
Cayle Sharrock
SASOL |
Whole-plant economic optimisation for syngas processing
SASOL used gPROMS for whole-plant economic optimisation of a slurry-based syngas processing facility. Hierarchical models of kinetics, hydrodynamics and reactor mass and energy balances were incorporated with other unit operation models to form a reactor model. Capital and operating cost correlations were added as an additional layer to estimate the total battery limit investment, ROI and utility costs. The entire flowsheet was then optimised for ROI by adjusting key process variables. |
James Marriott
PSE VP Safety |
Model-based safety: advanced depressurisation using high-fidelity models
PSE's new advanced depressurisation software can handle non-equilibrium thermodynamics for up to four phases, plus detailed 3-D wall temperature modelling. This allows PSE to provide high-fidelity, fast turnaround depressurisation services, helping to enhance safety while minimising capital expenditure. |
| 16:00 - 18:00 |
gSOLIDS Advisory Board Meeting |
| Evening |
River Thames boat trip and conference dinner |
Thursday 9 June 2011 – Day 2 |
Session 4 – Software & workflows |
Pablo Rolandi
PSE Head of Software Development |
gPROMS platform developments
Once a monolithic product, gPROMS is being transformed to a platform on which PSE is providing a range of domain-focused technology as well as its traditional expert modelling tools. PSE Head of Software Development Pablo Rolandi describes the gPROMS Unified Modelling Platform and the benefits that it will bring to users. |
Michel Pons
CO-Lan |
Streamlining workflows: adding your own unit operations to flowsheeting simulators via CAPE-OPEN
For companies using traditional process flowsheet tools for process design, adding high-fidelity or proprietary unit models using a programming language presents implementation and maintenance challenges. CAPE-OPEN allows the use of specialist modelling tools such as gPROMS ModelBuilder, which provide easy development and maintenance facilities independent of the original platform. |
Bernd Weiss
Siemens VAI |
gPROMS combined with ChemApp for the modelling of metallurgical processes
Siemens VAI's Ironmaking division has very specific modelling requirements. Mr Weiss outlines the motivation for process simulation, the reasons for deciding on gPROMS, and the requirements – including specialist physical properties handling – for modelling for metallurgy implementations.
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| Refreshments |
Julius Flitsch
Voith Paper
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Workflows and challenges of transferring gPROMS models from R&D into engineering
Transferring models from R&D to effective application within engineering and production departments is a challenge that faces many organisations. Mr Flitsch describes gPROMS applications related to energy and water management and process optimisation, and subsequent experiences of implementing these within the engineering function of the organisation. |
Session 5 – Carbon Capture & Storage |
Nikos Kakalis
Det Norkse Veritas |
Maritime Carbon Capture & Storage
Shipping is responsible for some 3-4% of world CO2 generation. DNV is working with PSE to design capture & storage processes capable of being implemented on ships, taking into account the severe constraints of the shipboard environment. |
| Lunch |
Mark Matzopoulos
PSE Marketing Director |
Whole-chain Carbon Capture & Storage modelling
The design and operation of CCS systems needs to take into account interactions across the whole capture-transmission-storage chain, for multiple sources and multiple sinks. PSE is working with key stakeholders to deliver an end-to-end modelling platform for CCS. |
Session 6 – Life Sciences |
Poul Bach, Martin Norby
Novozymes
Mark Pinto
PSE Consulting |
Modelling of a spray drying process
Spray drying is a complex process in which a suspension or solution of product in a volatile solvent is converted to a largely dry solid product by contact with a drying medium. Novozymes developed and validated a model for a spray drying process, which has been implemented within gSOLIDS. It may be combined with models of downstream fluid bed drying and classification processes to determine the effects of key operating parameters on overall process performance. |
Salvador Garcia-Munoz
Pfizer |
Validation and quality verification for deterministic models in support of Quality-by-Design (QbD)
The pharmaceutical sector has long used empirical models derived from experimental data to support product and process development. However, application is limited to the region spanned by the data, and the models cannot reliably be extrapolated or applied to a different system without extensive experimental validation. Rigorous deterministic modelling requires more initial investment but, by combining accurate representation of the fundamental driving forces and parameters estimated from limited experimentation, addresses all of these shortcomings. |
Ugo Cocchini
GSK |
Crystallisation: effective workflows for experimental validation and scale-up in pharmaceuticals
Model verification (parameter estimation and design of experiments) is a key application for pharmaceuticals, in order to produce verified models for the optimal design and operation of processes. GSK has embedded these activities in workflows that allow model development, experimentation, parameter estimation, process optimisation and scale-up to be progressed in a much shorter period of time while gaining a comprehensive insight of the process behaviour and operational parameters affecting it. |
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.
