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Introducing the ERTC Asset Maximisation conference
Call for papers: Deadline is 5 February 2010
The agenda is currently being put together and will be published very soon.
Meanwhile, if you have any topic suggestions or would like to present at the
conference, please submit your abstracts to:
Mustafah Abdullah
Conference Manager
+44 207 004 7536
Mustafah.abdullah@gtforum.com
Information technology, reliability management and the impact these issues have on effective asset maximisation are areas of dynamic growth and increasing convergence in the oil and petrochemical sector. Recognising this reality, ERTC presents ERTC ASSET MAXIMISATION THROUGH COMPUTING AND RELIABILITY CONFERENCE. This Conference merges these two important streams into a single event that will synergise these technologies.
From a plenary session which will explore the common-ground and technologies relevant to both Computing and Reliability disciplines, this event will move on to an in-depth examination of individual topics in two separate parallel sessions. These will extend from APC, Information Systems, Planning & Scheduling, SCM and Simulation to Asset Management, Maintenance, Turnaround Management and Inspection. ERTC ASSET MAXIMISATION will therefore enable you to assess the progress and significance of the latest products and services involved in the discrete and continuous monitoring and optimisation of key process variables in the business chain.
This year's meeting will be held in Budapest, from 18th - 19th May 2010.
This year we welcome papers on the following topics:
GENERAL/PLENARY:
- How to manage the loss of experienced staff
- Operational excellence
- Operating Windows (Envelopes): Definition, methods/systems for controlling, responsibilities
- Asset Management organisations, interactions between operations, maintenance, process control and process reliability
- Buy in techniques – getting commitment to succeed
RELIABILITY:
- When, if ever, will the enormous inflation in industrial services and supplies turn back to normal?
- What is or could be the effect of ATEX 137 (controlling explosive atmospheres) on existing maintenance concepts
- What new Cost Control/Engineering methods/techniques are state of the art at this moment
- RAM (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability) Studies, e.g. methods and
tools to increase mechanical integrity of complex processes and systems
CUI (Corrosion Under Insulation) - Operating opportunity crudes while maintaining high reliability
- Use of standards: Best way to introduce standardised operation methods
- Failure management/culture
- Risk management, process design and optimisation on a risk basis
- Outsourcing/partnership of full maintenance activities, life cycle costs
- Reliability engineering during feed phases, condition monitoring and predictive maintenance strategies
- Reliability of components - storage tanks, pressure release devices, rotating equipment
- Turnaround management, analysis of major losses
- Less traditional MVC and more innovative control and process simulation, use of reactor models
- NDT new methodologies
- Lifecycle costing
- Reliability for machinery
COMPUTING:
- Optimisation of ULSD (Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel) production
- Biofuels and automation
- Rundown blending, oil movement
- SRU (Sulphur Recovery Units) optimisation
- PEMS - emission monitoring
- On-line analysers and advanced process control
- DCS trends with OPC protocol
- Advanced process control applications design and implementation
- Innovative APC, OPT, inferential application
- Advanced diagnosis and alarm management, how to present information to operator
- Advanced measuring like NIR and NMR
- Refinery-wide simulation, operator training and effectiveness
- Performance analysis and production accounting systems
- Refinery material balance and scheduling
- Early event detection, alarm management, multi-variable control, process optimisation
- Refinery-wide information systems
- Integration of LP and process models
- Dynamic simulation, process control design, operator training
- Utilities system and system integration
- Real time optimisation and tools for data reconciliation
- Practical experiences on plant-wide availability/reliability studies, especially during investment projects
