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ERTC Annual Meeting 2010 agenda
Day 3: Wednesday, 1st December 2010
Jump to the streams:
Stream A: Energy management
Stream B:
Advances in process engineering
Stream C: Improving
operability and profitability
08.30 Registration
09.00 Opening remarks
09.10 Energy efficiency programme at Tupras Izmit refinery after
privatisation
Mesut Ilter, Izmit Refinery Manager, TUPRAS
09.40 Roles of isomerisation process in the future development of oil
refining technology
Yan Li-Jun, Deputy Director, R&D Management Division / Catalytic
Materials Laboratory, PETROCHINA
10.10 Coffee break and opportunity to visit hospitality suites
10.40 Chairman's opening remarks
Stacey McDaniel, Head of New Technology, BP
REFINING
10.50 Panel discussion: Reducing energy consumption
Moderator: Stacey McDaniel, Head of New
Technology, BP REFINING
Panellists: Artur Thernesz, Director Technology and
Project Development, MOL Mesut Ilter, Izmit Refinery
Manager, TUPRAS
(Additional speakers to be confirmed)
11.20 Climate change 101 – impact on refiners
• Pragmatic debate on the realities of global warming
• Specific actions refiners can take to mitigate environment regulations
• Practical examples where refiners have adopted new methods and still
maintained competitiveness
GTC TECHNOLOGY
11.50 Energy demand trends and their implications for the refining
sector
• This paper describes the future for energy demand in the period to
2020, with particular emphasis on what this means for the refining sector and
refinery investment trends
• Refineries around the world have been running on average at only 80-85% of
capacity, and there has been wide-scale rationalization of processing capacity
• Despite a drop in demand, KBC believes that oil demand growth will be robust
in the longer-term and that new refining capacity will be needed in the years
ahead to meet this. Environmental constraints will therefore increasingly favour
high quality “clean” fuels at a time when the crude oil mix is likely to become
heavier and more difficult to process
• The anticipated rapid growth in demand for clean fuels puts the spotlight on
the refining sector to develop new state-of-the-art refining facilities. In the
future, sophisticated refineries with maximum processing flexibility will be
best placed to win
KBC
12.20 Lunch and opportunity to visit hospitality suites
13.30 Hydrotreater revamp case story: Making the most of what you
have
• Improvement of refinery margins in revamp of low pressure diesel
hydrotreater unit
• Best utilisation of highest activity catalyst
• Tailored design for the demanding refiner
• Case story
HALDOR TOPSOE
14.00 DMCplus application in Hydrodesulphurisation units to reduce
hydrogen consumption and to save energy
• Introduction to GALP Energia hydrodesulphurisation unit: description
of the plant, focusing on the potential benefits and limiting constraints
• Introduction to DMCplus technology: the three advanced controllers will be
described in terms of strategy, manipulated and controlled variables
• Obtained benefits with DMCplus application: the major achievements are the
hydrogen consumption reduction and fuel gas saving in furnaces, obtained by
always pushing the units to their constraints as well as product specification,
capacity constraints, catalyst deactivation, fluodynamic constraints
ASPEN TECH and GALP
14.30 Maximum energy savings for hydrotreating units by combining
energy pinch and process analysis
• Brief introduction to Hydrotreating units and KBC’s approach to
energy reduction projects
• Brief summary of the philosophy behind Pinch Analysis and Targeting
• Examples of project ideas which would help to reduce energy consumption in
Hydrotreating Units
• Description of the different economic project ideas, their savings and
estimated investment required for implementation (if any)
• Conclusions
KBC and TUPRAS
15.00 Coffee break and opportunity to visit hospitality suites
15.30 Improving energy efficiency with lower CO2 emission
Speaker to be confirmed
16.00 Technologies for removing sulphur from heavy crude oil
• Removing sulphur is a stinky proposition for oil refineries.
• Alternative technologies floated in recent years include sulphur-eating
bacteria and sulphur-oxidizing reagents, and some experts see room for
better-designed catalysts, too
• These methods tend to operate on the distilled fractions, but pre-treatment of
the crude oil itself may be an attractive option. One pre-treatment option may
be ultrasound
• When blasted with ultrasonic waves, liquids can undergo a process called
acoustic cavitation, in which bubbles form and violently implode
• Refineries would have to integrate such units into their process, combining
pre-treatment and post-treatment
Abdollah Esmaeili, Senior Petroleum Engineer, NATIONAL
IRANIAN SOUTH OIL COMPANY (NISOC)
16.30 Online energy management at Grupa Lotos refinery
• An on-line model was implemented to help with the site’s energy cost
minimization
• Different economic trade-offs, such us the trade-offs among electrical power,
steam and fuels networks, provide many challenges
• Ash, NOx and SO2 emissions limits are also taken into account by the on-line
model
• Recommendations given by the model are taken into account by operations on a
daily basis
• The importance of a proactive support programme is also presented
SOTEICA and GRUPA LOTOS
Stream B: Advances in process engineering
10.40 Chairman's opening remarks
Luis Casado Padilla, Development Manager, REPSOL
10.50 Panel discussion: State-of-the-art technologies to
improve process and increase profits
Moderator: Luis Casado Padilla, Development Manager,
REPSOL Panellists: Giacomo Rispoli, Senior Vice
President & Director of Research & Development, ENI
Katona Antal, Integrated Production Excellence Head,
MOL
(Additional speakers to be confirmed)
11.20 High severity fluidized catalytic cracking (HS-FCC)
– go for propylene!
• HS-FCC technology is a breakthrough in the FCC world thanks to a
highly selective downflow FCC process
• Operating at high severity, HS-FCC units reach 20 wt% propylene from
hydrotreated VGO while minimizing fuel gas
• Axens and Shaw are now participating to the final development of this
technology with JX, Saudi Aramco and KFUPM
• This technology will be fully proven after start-up of a semi-commercial unit
of 3000 BPSD in Spring 2011
AXENS and SAUDI ARAMCO
11.50 Improved hydrogen plant design to meet today’s
refining challenges
• Case studies from recent projects Lurgi has executed for Air Liquide
will be reviewed to demonstrate hydrogen plant improvements in the following
areas:
• Reducing capital cost through reformer standardization
• Impact of preheat and pre-reformer design on H2 plant efficiency and CO2
emissions
• Improvement of safety and reliability of operation
LURGI and AIRLIQUIDE
12.20 Lunch and opportunity to visit hospitality suites
13.30 Beyond ULSD – implementing tomorrow’s
distillate upgrading technology today
• In these challenging times refiners must come to expect much more
from their ULSD unit. This can be achieved if advanced process and catalyst
technologies are employed
• Consider going “Beyond ULSD” to improve cetane, reduce aromatics, upgrade cold
flow properties, improve density, reduce heavy diesel end point, process
biodiesel components and/or shift conversion between naphtha, kerosene and
diesel
• Hear how refiners are taking proactive steps to build flexibility into this
ULSD asset and provide opportunities to improve profitability in any economic
climate
CRITERION and SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS
14.00 Improved crude unit corrosion control with
patented analyzer
• Completely new approach to crude unit overhead corrosion monitoring
• 90% of corrosion damage occurs within a small window of time during unstable
operations
• Patent pending analyzer measures key corrosion variables in real time,
interrogating periods of unstable operation
• Real time closed loop control of caustic, neutralizing and filming
amines
NALCO
14.30 Large H2 plants perspectives in refineries
• Large scale H2 generation: Single versus dual train
• Enhanced efficiency and steam-power synergy through voluntary export steam
• CO2 management, fuel flexibility and power reliability through OSBL utility
island
• Improved reformer furnace integrity and performance through continuous
monitoring and advanced diagnostics
TECHNIP
15.00 Coffee break and opportunity to visit hospitality suites
15.30 Optimising the debottlenecking HCGO filtration
process
• Pilot Testing demonstrated gas assisted backflushing filter
technology as compared to existing common backwash filter
• Cutting costs for ex situ cleaning of filters
• Reducing the backwash volumes due to ineffective cleaning
• Proving the feasibility of industrial design for optimum filter media
selection and operation
DAHLMAN
16.00 The story of ULSD optimisation at the Chevron
Pembroke refinery
• Improved coordination of process unit operation: CDU, VDU, FCCU and
HTU
• The challenge of managing hydrotreater constraints using feedstock selection
• Other practical challenges of using a large scale optimisation system on-line
and in closed loop
• Benefits achieved in terms of gasoil uplift and increased ULSD yield
DYNAPRO and CHEVRON
16.30 Increasing the liquid yield of FCCU 1% using dynamic
correlation
• A real time optimization technology, Dynamic Correlation Integration
Optimizer (DCIO), is used to raise the liquid yield and benefit of the FCCU
• DCIO is an approach based on continuous random process
• DCIO is model free and self adaptive
• Case study from SINOPEC – liquid yields increased by about 1% and the economic
benefit were increased by about USD 1.0/per barrel
OPTIMIPRO CONTROL TECHNOLOGY
Stream C: Improving operability and profitability
10.40 Chairman's opening remarks
Roelof Heezen, VP Downstream R&D, SHELL
10.50 Panel discussion: Streamlining and efficiency strategies
to boost your margins
Moderator: Roelof Heezen, VP Downstream R&D,
SHELL
Panellists: Gaetano De Santis, Vice President, Technological
Services, ENI
Pedro Martínez, Technology Refining Manager, REPSOL
(Additional speakers to be confirmed)
11.20 Mathematical and process modelling for naphtha catalytic
reforming reactors
• A simple and practical but reliable tool for process engineers to
help meeting production targets and predict unit performance
• Application of an easier modelling approach based on lumped-parameter kinetic
models for main naphtha reforming reactions
• Kinetic models investigated gave good match with published data
TAKREER
11.50 Abnormal situation management and the human
side of process safety
• Improve process safety performance with a focus on human reliability
• Understand common operations failure modes associated with plant incidents
• Learn about seven key abnormal situation management areas for better operator
performance
ASM CONSORTIUM
12.20 Lunch and opportunity to visit hospitality suites
13.30 Corrosion monitoring of fixed assets
• Strategic corrosion monitoring by use of permanently installed
sensors provides a method of non-intrusive, safer, and more cost effective
solution to manual thickness measurement
• Related software provides trending, warning, and alarm information with a
number of data on demand attributes
• Different markets and critical application areas that methodologies can be
applied to
• Major benefits of permanently mounted sensor systems
GE
14.00 New field tool helps refiners detect incompatible feedstocks,
preventing operational problems
• Heavy crudes, although appealing economical feedstocks, can create
several problems in refinery operations
• A laboratory-based asphaltene stability test has been successfully used for
many years to determine heavy crude feedstock compatibility and fouling
potential of crudes and crude blends
• A case history will show how a refiner was able to limit operational problems
whilst increasing the percentage of heavy crudes processed
• Compatibility and stability studies of heavy and blended crudes can be now
achieved through a new portable test capable of on-site testing with enhanced
accuracy and sensitivity
• Immediate result: Refiners will have increased flexibility in feedstock
selection, better blending optimization and effective means to optimize
asphaltene mitigation programmes
BAKER HUGHES
14.30 Cost effective solutions to support your
operations: Delayed coking – top and bottom
unheading technology
• The lasting global recession - combined with the latest catastrophic
oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico - is demanding our industry to focus even more
on innovative, safe and cost effective solutions to run our operations. Hence,
environmental respect will become the top priority for the generations to come
ZIMMERMANN & JANSEN
15.00 Coffee break and opportunity to visit hospitality suites
15.30 Using operating envelopes to justify alarm
rationalisation and improve profitability
• New method to find consistent alarm limits starting from process
history and entirely visual for speed and simplicity. No maths.
• Have a more effective alarm system while meeting EEMUA 191 and ISA SP18
guidelines
• Save 20% of man-hours in alarm reviews, reduce time for on-going change
management time, break the 7-year alarm rationalisation cycle
• Covers multi-mode and state-based alarming, continuous and batch processes and
public alerts
PROCESS PLANT COMPUTING LTD
16.00 Optimising refinery operations in today’s
competitive business environment
• Managing risk by understanding feedstock qualities and their impact
on the refinery operating plan
• Rapidly evaluating opportunity crudes against product specifications and
refinery operating constraints
• Maximising the value of feedstock quality information to shape the refinery
operating plan on an ongoing basis
SPIRAL SOFTWARE
16.30 Optimum design capacity of refinery safety
relief and flare systems using dynamic simulation
• Modelling the behaviour of refinery equipment under emergency
• Simsci-Esscor DYNSIM software features explained
• Operational expertise allows building reliable models
• Examples of dynamic simulation results
• Presentation of the potential savings for grass-root refineries or unit
revamps
TECHNIP and INVENSYS
17.00 Summary forum: Key discussion points from streams A, B, C
17.30 Close of conference
