PSE: Annual Meeting – London, September 2010

PSE Annual Meeting 2010

Hilton London Kensington
179–199 Holland Park Avenue
London W11 4UL

15-17 September 2010

Overview

The Hilton Kensington

Whole-plant design optimisation

gPROMS Flare

gSOLIDS

The 12th gPROMS Annual Meeting will be held in London from 15 to 17 September 2010.

The PSE Annual Meeting is an exclusive three-day event where process industry business and technology managers and modelling personnel gather to exchange experience and know-how in the application of high-fidelity predictive modelling to enhancement of industrial process design and operations.

Who should attend?

The event will be of use to anyone with an interest in the application of state-of-the-art model-based engineering techniques to accelerate process and product innovation, improve process and equipment designs, optimise operations, quantify and manage technology risk and integrate information flow between R&D and Engineering.

It is open to existing AND prospective users of PSE's gPROMS software and ModelCare consulting services.

Programme

Companies presenting at this year's event include Procter & Gamble, Shell Global Solutions, Repsol, Sulzer Chemtech, PURAC, Süd-Chemie and Veolia.

PSE will also present the latest developments in the gPROMS modelling platform and software family, including gSAFT advanced thermodynamics, as well as specialist seminars on solids and crystallisation process modelling and a range of workshops aimed at enhancing customer productivity.

Highlights include:

	A keynote speech by Ben Weinstein, head of Chemical Systems Modeling and Simulation in Corporate Function R&D at Procter & Gamble, describing how P&G is applying model-based design and operations techniques to add value to its consumer goods operations.
	Repsol's use of whole-plant design optimisation to eliminate two distillation columns from a new petrochemical process design – an industry first.
	How Süd-Chemie is using high-fidelity reactor modelling to support phthalic anhydride (PA) producers in maximising plant performance.
	PURAC and Sulzer ChemTech's collaboration on model-based design of a polylactide (PLA) process.
	New techniques being pioneered within major refiners for model-based energy optimisation of refinery preheat trains.
	The integration of a gPROMS Fischer-Tropsch gas-to-liquids (GTL) slurry-bed reactor into PRO/II® via CAPE-OPEN.
	Shell Global Solutions' use of simulation and dynamic optimisation to optimise the cumulative production of final product blends.
	A moderated discussion involving industry thought leaders on future directions for model-based engineering.

We look forward to seeing you there!

In the meantime, if you need further information, please do not hesitate to contact the event organiser Kate Burness at k.burness@psenterprise.com.