S6: Practical Strategies for Energy Issues of Chemical Plant Complexes
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Sunday, April 1, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Where: TBD
Cost: $500
Instructors: Lionel O'Young, President ClearWaterBay Technology, Inc. Joseph W. Schroer, Group Manager and Principal Engineer ClearWaterBay Technology, Inc.
Purpose and Objective
This course focuses on analysis methods and strategies to design a minimum energy consumption process, including the evaluation of the thermodynamically lowest energy requirement of the process. Strategies for energy reduction for individual plants and the entire plant site will be discussed. Participants will get an overview of several modes of energy study. Fundamentals and new tools will be taught, with a chance for interaction by means of hands-on workshops. The course and methods taught are designed to improve your thinking to identify meaningful energy reductions that help your company’s overall performance.
What can you expect to learn?
- How to determine the utility consumption of plants and processes.
- The basic theory and applications of Pinch Analysis.
- Why certain process modifications will reduce the energy consumption.
- How to determine the true cost of steam and electricity.
- What you should know about your plant when making fuel purchase contracts.
- Tools to better evaluate projects for energy related capital expenditures.
- How to identify mistakes that your operations are making that cost you money.
- How to develop comprehensive energy reduction programming for your company.
Schedule of Topics
- Individual process energy analysis
- Stream data extraction
- Energy targeting
- Heat recovery network design
- Area target & supertargeting
- Utility targeting
- Process modifications
- Retrofit design
- Total site energy analysis
- Introduction to total site modeling
- Building the total site model
- Analysis using the total site model
- Using total site modeling software
- Total site design
- Energy planning
Duration
Seven (7) hours, from 9:00am-5:00pm with a one-hour lunch break.
Instructors
LIONEL O’YOUNG is president and co-founder of ClearWaterBay Technology, Inc., Pomona, California. He was vice president of MCRIC, a research and process development unit of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation in the United States. He previously worked at Linnhoff March in the area of Pinch Technology. He has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from UMIST (now the University of Manchester) and 20 years of experience consulting in numerous process development projects, and holds several patents for various petrochemical processes. He is the winner of the prestigious AIChE CAST Division’s Computing Practice Award for 2007.
JOSEPH W. SCHROER is a group manager and principal engineer at ClearWaterBay Technology, Inc. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has been involved in numerous projects on energy analysis, as well as various consulting projects on fuels, gas-to-liquids, and petrochemicals process development. He also has experience in the pulp and paper industry.