Tools of the Trade | AIChE

Session Description:

We need the right tools to be effective in our work. This fast-paced session presents a wide range of new product developments, including demos of new software features, advances in equipment design, and services available to improve productivity and add value in the process industries.

Session Chair:

  • Alan Rossiter, University of Houston

Products to be discussed include -

Woven Metal Products, from Alvin, Texas presents their 2018 US Patented Tray, Orifice Repair Washers for fast field repairs to common floating valve distillation trays.

Headworks International, Houston, Texas, presents a novel effluent treatment technology for very difficult-to-degrade wastewater generated from ethylene production by thermal cracking.

Chemstations, of Houston, Texas, is proud to demonstrate the latest in process simulation technology: CHEMCAD NXT.  With a calculation engine rebuilt from the ground up to take advantage of modern multiple core PC’s, CHEMCAD NXT parallelizes your toughest simulations to run fast enough for large scale optimization, faster-real-time dynamics, and more.

M-Star CFD pairs algorithms with modern hardware architecture to create immersive, real-time, physics-based process simulations.

Gulf Coast Engineered Solutions, Inc., of The Woodlands, TX presents the Barriquand Platular overheads condenser which provides an efficient design which can be integrated into columns.

SIS-TECH Solutions, from Houston, TX, presents the Diamond-SIS, which provides an independent, safety-certified, back-up for safety-critical logic with the smallest footprint and lowest cost on the market.

Ingenero, of Houston, Texas, is delighted to present our new real time data analytics software, for furnace run length prediction and decoke scheduling, equipment reliability, real time comparison to best ever performance, and process performance analysis.

Kennametal, of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, presents new ways to protect critical elements of Oxychlorination and Catoxid reactors from accelerated water. These units are used in the production of VCM and can see significant corrosion and abrasion requiring on-going replacement and maintenance of elements such as the sparger assembly, cooling coil & u-bends and cyclones.  The technology we will cover outlines new materials and processes for cladding these components using a range of materials selected based on operating conditions.

APlus QMC is pleased to present Dyflo – easy and accurate dynamic simulation.

Allied Reliability

HTRI

Chromalox is utilizing medium voltage power allows for larger capacity electric boiler designs.

HIMA improves tight critical control and machinery protection while meeting API670 latest changes

OLI Systems - Carbon capture and storage simulation model that incorporates multi-phase reactivity, from CO2 absorption to its interaction with reservoir minerals.