Conference Presentations - 2010 AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

The valorization of scarce renewable resources calls for new, advanced process technologies. The optimal route in the long run will be to encourage benefiting first from the value chain of the biomass constituents and produce fuel only from the residues or from an entirely different feedstock – not...

An Operator Training Simulator (OTS) of a new SUPERFLEXTM unit has been designed and built to provide highly realistic process and operations training to operators of a first of a kind petrochemicals plant. The OTS, which was delivered to Sasol in 2005, and otherwise called the Sasol Superflex OTS...

New advancements in multivariable pressure transmitter technology allow you to improve your flow measurement practices. By better understanding these advancements, you will be better able to quantify and optimize installed performance, select the right combination of compensation for a specific...

This paper shows on the one hand an analysis of sudden failures occurring at the bottom section of the TLEs, caused by corrosion at the steam side and an overview of the proposed corrective actions. On the other hand best practices during operations and shutdown are presented to avoid such damages...

The recent high oil prices have focused research attention to alternative routes and feedstocks for the production of light olefins. The former was caused by two reasons: on the one hand the high oil demand from new economies, on the other hand the growing awareness of the declining oil reserves...

This session will develop a fundamental understanding of how cycle time variation in stages of a supply chain propagates into measures of overall cycle time. Application can be seen in supply chains and inside plants with batch processes. While the sources of variation are symmetrical and can be...