Provisional Agenda

17-19 April 2007

Cumberland Hotel, London


Tuesday 17 April 2007 – Day 1
08:30 – 9:00 Registration
Registration and Welcome	Mark Matzopoulos Marketing Director
SESSION 1: PSE developments and directions
PSE update: new technologies, new customers, new operations As more and more companies in different process sectors adopt Advanced Process Modelling, PSE is expanding its operations around the world to meet their requirements. PSE MD Costas Pantelides provides an update.	Costas Pantelides Managing Director
SESSION 2: Advanced Process Modelling across the lifecycle
Advanced Process Modelling in pulp & paper Pulp & paper production is a complex process requiring complex and expensive plant and machinery. Hermann-Josef Post describes how Voith Paper is applying APM throughout to enhance Voith’s designs and operation, and thus its service to customers.	Hermann-Josef Post, Voith Paper
10:30 – 11:00 Refreshments
From laboratory to commercial plant: simultaneous optimisation of reactor operations and catalyst design. Model-Based Innovation techniques enable Süd-Chemie to incorporate laboratory, pilot plant and operational data into a unified set of models that are then used to optimise customers’ reactor operation as well as enhance Süd-Chemie’s catalyst design.	Christoph Bäumler Süd-Chemie
SESSION 3: Model-Based Innovation applications MBI techniques are helping to integrate experimental and modelling effort in diverse application areas.
Improving crystal size distribution and purity in lactose crystallisation The use of first-principles modelling with rigorous validation procedures creates high-accuracy predictive models of crystallisation processes. Dr Westhoff describes how such models are used to optimise production of high-grade lactose for pharmaceuticals use.	Gerrit Westhoff, Friesland Foods
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
Model-Based Innovation in fuel cell design To be confirmed	To be confirmed
SESSION 4: gPROMS for reaction gPROMS continues to be the leading environment for high-accuracy predictive modelling of reaction systems.
APM in detailed design of Fluidised Bed Reactors Many of the techniques used for high-accuracy modelling of Fixed-Bed Reactors can be applied to their Fluidised-Bed cousins. However the need to use multi-dimensional population balances to account for different particle residence times is a key difference. Zbigniew Urban illustrates this using the example of a pyrolysis gasification process.	Zbigniew Urban , PSE
15:30 – 16:00 Refreshments
Refinery conversion operations – the next generation of models BP is working with PSE to implement a set of refinery reactor models that will represent the state-of-the-art in optimisation of design and operation of refinery conversion processes. The systematic approach to conversion of legacy code to first-principles validated models of units such as hydrotreaters is described.	Scott Watson, BP Simon Pressinger, BP
High-fidelity modelling of polymerisation reactors PSE has been developing a new generation of polymerisation process models which represent a step increase in the description of product quality, especially when co-polymerisation of several co-monomers is involved.	Zbigniew Urban, PSE
17:10 Finish
18:00 Coach to The Roof Gardens
19:00 PSE 10^th Anniversary dinner (finish 22:30 – 23:00)

Wednesday 18 April 2007 – Day 2
SESSION 5: gPROMS technology – v3.1 preview and developments Following the major release of gPROMS version 3.0 last year, version 3.1 builds on the graphical user interface, and adds key new solution capabilities as well as other significant ‘under the bonnet’ advances.
gPROMS v3.1 ModelBuilder. v3.1 philosophy and key features, with demonstration of new graphical display capabilities, new pre-configured result presentation in reports, enumerated domains, other usability-enhancing kernel developments.	Christian Schulz, gPROMS Product Manager Costas Pantelides
gPROMS v3.1+ Modelling and solution capabilities. Significant new developments such as gSTART initialisation capability, non-uniform grids and automatic solution of high-index DAEs. /td>
10:30 – 11:00 Refreshments
gPROMS v3.1+: Advanced techniques for model validation. PSE is investing considerable R&D effort into advanced techniques for model validation, as well as other related areas of research. Claire Adjiman, currently spending a year at PSE on secondment from Imperial College London, describes some of the on-going work and the technologies on the horizon.	Claire Adjiman , PSE/ Imperial College London
General Q & A
New dynamic optimisation algorithms in gPROMS The DyOS development at RWTH Aachen is breeding a new generation of dynamic optimisers, with development talking place using gPROMS as the modelling and solution engine. What are the implications for modellers of the future?	Prof. Wolfgang Marquardt, RWTH Aachen University
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
SESSION 6: New developments in Advanced Process Modelling APM is continually being applied to new application areas, new sectors and different areas of the process lifecycle.
Advances in membrane process modelling Membrane process modelling is not well catered for in standard flowsheeting tools, and companies have traditionally resorted to FORTRAN modelling to fill the gap. APM techniques now make it easy to create, validate and deploy such models.	James Marriott, PSE
A non-linear MPC strategy for conversion targeting in an FCC pilot plant gPROMS is used to provide dynamic simulation, optimisation and generation of linearised state-space models for a non-linear Model-Based Predictive Control system used for the benchmarking of catalysts for a Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) unit.	Spyros Voutetakis, CPERI Panos Seferlis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & CPERI
gPROMS and CAPE-OPEN – integration of legacy models made simple A new gPROMS’ CAPE-OPEN socket has made it possible to integrate models from a variety of sources into gPROMS. The developments are illustrated with proprietary legacy FORTRAN models of power generation components – taken from the Virtual Plant Demonstration Model (VPDM) project – into a gPROMS “whole plant model”.	Tom Williams, PSE
16:00 Closing remarks
16:15 Finish

Thursday 19 April 2007 – Optional events

We have the following programme of seminars and workshops on Thursday 19 April:
09:30–12:30*	Specialist seminar: Reaction system modelling – the state of the art
13:30–16:30*	Specialist seminar: Crystallisation process modelling – the state of the art
09:00–16:00	Advanced Model Validation: hands-on course and workshop
All day	One-to-one meetings (by arrangement)
* Lunch (12:30–13:30) is included
Specialist seminars: reaction and crystallisation modelling
Are you interested in finding out more about how Advanced Process Modelling and Model-Based Innovation techniques are changing design and operations in application areas such as reaction and crystallisation? We will be holding in-depth seminars covering both these topics on Thursday 19 April. 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, 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.
Advanced Model Validation hands-on training course
Model validation – the fitting of model parameters to observed (laboratory, pilot plant or operating) data – is a key aspect of Advanced Process Modelling. The more accurate your kinetic parameters are, for example, the lower your reactor design margin and the better the controllability of the reactor. When applied to its full extent, validation and the model-based data analysis techniques it encompasses can be used not only to fit model parameters accurately, but to manage risk and even to make quantified decisions about where to focus R&D spending. This hands-on training course covers the fundamentals of model validation, and is meant both for practitioners and for managers who wish to gain a technical understanding of the subject. It includes detailed instruction on how to get the most out of gPROMS' industry-leading parameter estimation and model-based experiment design capabilities.