Webcasts

Sponsor: Honeywell UOP

Today’s market requires refiners like never before to simultaneously get the most return from their catalyst investments and maximum performance from their catalysts. One strategic driver to meet this demand is to employ latest generation semi-regenerative reforming catalysts to increase productivity and performance of existing operations.

Learn how you can cost-effectively meet the need for high-quality motor fuels and hydrogen, while achieving higher activity, stability and selectivity in your current operations. In this interactive webinar, you’ll discover the chemistry behind the latest developments, gain practical insights with case studies, and understand how the new catalyst technology delivers impactful business results.

Plus, UOP’s panel of experts will be on hand to answer your questions in the live Q&A session.

Sponsor: Siemens

By attending this webinar, you will learn the benefits of using a single-channel, Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) solution for applications above 9,000Hp with operating voltages from 11kV to 13.8kV. We will explore a VFD solution that does not require a step-up output transformer but still provides maximum control, environmental and motor flexibility to the end user. We will also discuss how to provide maximum reliability using power cell redundancy and the removal of water cooled components. The topics covered in the webinar include:

• A brief review of the multi-cell M2C topology
• A review of the physical implementation and the advantages it offers to the end user
• A presentation of the various implementations and ratings available for use on typical pump, compressor and fan applications.

Sponsor: Shell Catalysts & Technologies

The base oils market is a rapidly growing, high margin industry in transition.  Refiners are moving away from Group 1 base oils and looking for new and better ways to produce Group 2 and Group 3 base oils.  Shell Catalyst and Technologies is in a very unique position to provide integrated base oil solutions ranging from catalyst, licensing, services, to lubricants support. Register for this webcast to learn more about the market and how to capitalize on these industry changes.

Join us on April 30th to learn how Shell Catalyst and Technologies can help support you on your journey to create high quality base oils.  Topics include:

• Introduction of Shell Catalysts & Technologies
• Base Oil Market Overview
• Shell Catalysts and Technologies Integrated Base Oil Solutions
• A Base Oil Case Study – Hyundai

Sponsor: AspenTech 

 Refineries and olefin plants are constantly challenged by the gap between their plan and actual plant performance, leaving millions of dollars per year in lost margins on the table.

Join ARC Advisory Group’s Contributing Analyst Peter Reynolds as he addresses this challenge while presenting a huge opportunity. You’ll learn how newly available, breakthrough technology and best practices enable you to:

• Optimize multiple units in real time by coordinating site-wide APC applications
• Keep process models updated automatically with actual plant performance
• Increase production, reduce product giveaway and save energy costs

In addition, AspenTech’s Henrik Terndrup, Sr. Director of Product Management, will explain how dynamic optimization technology - Aspen GDOT – is helping more than 15 companies meet or even exceed planned targets.

Sign up for this insightful webinar and discover how your refinery or olefins facility can improve margins by vertically integrating planning, scheduling and advanced process control in a closed loop.

During this live webcast, Lee Nichols will provide an overview on the advancements in clean fuels regulations around the world, along with capital expenditures on clean fuels projects by region and country. This webcast will be the first in a series on the topic of Sustainability in the HPI to detail the many efforts taken place around the world to produce low-sulfur and ultra-low-sulfur fuels.

Sponsor: Nalco Water and BASF

The Amine Unit is the heart of a gas plant and when it is not running efficiently, it will impact your plant’s availability and performance.

Oxygen can be a plants number one problem. The harmful effects of oxygen can manifest as corrosion in processing equipment and increase degradation of the amine solvent. Plants often have little warning to protect themselves against the impact of oxygen and other inlet contaminants. To learn more about approaches which can be implemented to improve efficiency, join hosts, Nalco Water and BASF as they discuss best practices for increased plant performance.

LNG supply looks set to have a record year in 2019 on two fronts – production growth and the number of financial investment decisions (FIDs) expected to be taken.

Join Hydrocarbon Processing Editor & Associate Publisher Lee Nichols, Energy Web Atlas’ Peregrine Bush & Scott Allgood, as they use the Energy Web Atlas LNG dataset to examine the current status of the global LNG network, as well as determine the future outlook.

Sponsor: AVEVA

Process simulation is increasingly playing a key role in Digital Transformation programs across the process industries.

Covestro, one of the largest specialty polymer companies in the world, is running a broad Digital Transformation program across its entire organization to capture value from simplified processes and increased transparency and efficiency.

Process simulation is already used across the plant lifecycle to optimize design, equipment and control setpoints and to support operations with troubleshooting and reducing downtime, using a number of different simulation tools. However, these tools do not integrate well with each other and engineers spend a large amount of time transferring information and rebuilding models and simulations at different stages of the lifecycle.

In this webinar, Jochen Steimel and Konrad Triebeneck from Coverstro will share how they consolidated their process simulation applications onto one single platform, AVEVA’s SimCentral Simulation Platform, freeing up additional time to innovate, tackle complex problems and ultimately boosting collaboration between process design, control and operations.