15-17 April 2008
Crowne Plaza Hotel, London
Provisional agenda
(Drinks reception 19:00–21:00, Monday 14 April)
There will be half-hour refreshment breaks during each morning and afternoon session.
| Tuesday 15 April 2008 – Day 1 | |
| 08:30 – 9:00 Registration | |
| Introduction and Welcome | Mark Matzopoulos Marketing Director |
| SESSION 1: PSE developments and directions | |
| PSE update: new technologies, new customers, new operations PSE’s worldwide business is growing rapidly following expansion investment last year. MD Costas Pantelides explains why more and more companies in different process and technology sectors are adopting Advanced Process Modelling as a core technology and how PSE is moving to serve their requirements. |
Costas Pantelides Managing Director |
| SESSION 2: Advanced Process Modelling across the process industries
APM can be applied to create value within virtually any industry sector. Here are examples. |
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| Modelling of spent fuel processing using vacuum evaporation Nexia Solutions, providers of technology services and solutions across the nuclear fuel cycle, use vacuum evaporation techniques to recover uranium and plutonium from spent nuclear fuel. Richard Jarvis describes how modelling is used to minimise risk in this safety-critical industry. |
Richard Jarvis Nexia Solutions |
| 10:30 – 11:00 Refreshments | |
| Enhancing evaporator and spray dryer design through detailed modelling Evaporation and spray drying are key processes in the food industries. The design of both can be improved through the application of advanced process modelling to enhance product quality and save on energy usage. |
Maarten Schutyser Hady Hadiyanto Nizo |
| SESSION 3: Model-Based Innovation applications
MBI is helping process companies to integrate R&D experimentation and engineering. |
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| gPROMS process modelling: bridging experiments and plant design gPROMS modelling was used to design a new plant for the production of lactide, the building block of polylactic acid. One year after switching to gPROMS as modelling platform, PURAC has been able to make rapid progress from understanding lab experiments to the design of a commercial plant |
Gerard van Bochove PURAC |
| 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch | |
| Fixed-bed reactors: from laboratory to industrial plant Arkema is using gPROMS modelling to minimise risk during the development of new processes and reduce time between R&D, process development and plant construction. For compatibility, the model calls Aspen Properties® via the gPROMS CAPE-OPEN thermo socket. |
Frédéric Bazer-Bachi Arkema |
| SESSION 4: gPROMS in control, operations and purchasing | |
| Multi-site, multi-period olefins feedstock purchasing with high-fidelity models gPROMS’s modelling and solution power make it possible to handle multi-site, multi-period optimisation of feedstock purchasing decisions for olefin plants using detailed nonlinear models. These can be executed as parallelised gPROMS-Based Applications embedded in Excel. These developments bring a step-change in the power of purchasing support systems. |
Nilay Shah Imperial College London |
| 15:20 – 15:50 Refreshments | |
| Nonlinear modelling and simulation of a hydrocracking reactor gPROMS was used for the nonlinear dynamic modelling, simulation and control of VGO hydrocracking reactors, including estimation of the kinetic parameters. The future plan is to utilise gPROMS in the implementation and testing of nonlinear MPC strategies through interfacing it to the linear MPC controller software. |
Prof. Haitham Lababidi Kuwait University |
| Advanced process models online: the ?aster model· Dynamic RTO and MPC Model Predictive Control (MPC) has been an integral layer of Advanced Process Control (APC) for nearly 30 years. PSE believes that advances in process modelling and solution power, computer hardware and automation systems mean that this may be about to change |
Pablo Rolandi PSE |
| 17:10 Finish | |
| 18:00 Coach to Embankment Pier for cruise and dinner (boarding 18:30–18:45, finish 21:30–22:00) | |
| Wednesday 16 April 2008 – Day 2 | |
| 09:00 Start | |
| SESSION 5: gPROMS technology – gPROMS v3.1
PSE continues to invest heavily in the gPROMS platform. Costas Pantelides, the architect of gPROMS, describes the vision and its realisation. |
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| gPROMS v3.1 – a modelling platform to 2020 v3.1 is the culmination of the complete re-architecting of gPROMS over the last 5 years, phase 1 of which was released as v3.0 two years ago. The new gPROMS provides a rock-solid foundation for implementing advances in modelling technology over the next 15 years. This session takes an in-depth look at the new usability, modelling and solution techniques that come as an integral part of v3.1, as well as directions for the future. More in-depth information can be found in the mini-courses of Thursday 17 April. |
Costas Pantelides PSE |
| 10:30 – 11:00 Refreshments | |
| gPROMS v3.1+: Cape-Open integration PSE has been a strong advocate of, and key player in, CAPE-OPEN developments for many years. This presentation highlights recent developments and their application – in particular the new CAPE-OPEN unit export wizard. |
Tom Williams PSE |
| The SAFT equation of state – new power and accuracy for thermophysical properties The SAFT equation of state provides an advanced thermodynamics platform which is revolutionising the way that thermophysical properties are handled within process modelling packages, in particular for complex or ‘difficult’ materials such as association fluids, polymers and electrolytes. Leading SAFT researchers Prof. George Jackson and Dr Amparo Galindo describe the theory and its application. |
Prof. George Jackson, Dr Amparo Galindo Imperial College London |
| 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch | |
| SESSION 6: gPROMS in traditional and future energy applications
The energy industries are facing a period of rapid change as ‘future energy’ developments proceed rapidly and traditional energy sources need to be made cleaner. |
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| Energy past and energy future: the role of modelling RWE npower was a major contributor to the VPDM project which – like its American counterpart Vision 21 – involved systematic application of component and whole plant modelling for the power industry. Peter Stephenson describes the implementation of legacy models within a gPROMS framework, and how this provides a platform for future energy generation designs. |
Peter Stephenson RWE npower |
| The gPROMS Advanced Model Library for Fuel Cells – AML:FC The latest in PSE’s series of AMLs, the AML:FC embodies an unprecedented level of modelling for fuel cell components and systems. Available in two flavours, SOFC and PEM, the AML accelerates development by providing high-accuracy information for design and operations decision support. |
James Marriott PSE |
| Well-to-facilities modelling via equation-oriented CAPE-OPEN Integrating well-to-facilities models for optimising oil production has always been a major challenge for oil companies, because of the different specialist software packages involved at each step. The proposed CAPE-OPEN Equation-oriented Unit Socket extension will have benefits here and in many other areas. |
Bryn Stenhouse Malcolm Woodman BP |
| 16:00 Concluding remarks | |
| 16:15 Finish | |
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| Thursday 17 April 2008 – Optional events | ||
Note: These will be held at a location close to PSE's offices in Hammersmith |
| Following the success of last year's events, we are holding a series of specialist seminars and mini-courses, to help further people's understanding of the potential of advanced process modelling and the gPROMS product. | ||
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Specialist seminars |
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| Specialist seminars will comprise a technical presentation of the state of the art in modelling for the application area, followed by an in-depth round-table technical discussion facilitated by a PSE Technology Leader. Discussions are illustrated with demonstrations and real examples where possible. The seminar format is intended to enable a level of detail and discussion among practitioners in the field not possible in the more general Annual Meeting forum. | ||
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Mini-courses |
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Mini-courses will present features and capabilities of gPROMS to a greater depth than is possible in the general Annual Meeting forum. |
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09:00–12:30 |
Seminar 1: Reaction system modelling |
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09:00–12:30 |
Seminar 2: Crystallisation process modelling |
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09:00–12:30 |
Mini-course 1: Flowsheeting in gPROMS v3.1 |
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12:30–13:30 Lunch (for attendees of morning and afternoon events) |
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13:30–16:30 |
Mini-course 2: First-principles modelling in gPROMS |
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| Friday 18 April 2008 – Individual meetings | ||
By prior arrangement |
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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.
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