agenda2013 - aspentech.com1).pdf · MONDAY 06 MAY Time: 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM OPTIMIZE Aspen Subtrack: Plenary Session Title: Opening Plenary AspenTech executives will discuss the latest

MONDAY 06 MAY

Time: 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

OPTIMIZE Aspen

Subtrack: Plenary

Session Title: Opening Plenary

AspenTech executives will discuss the latest macroeconomic and technology trends in the process industries and how to optimize your business like never before. Mark Fusco, President and CEO of AspenTech, will open the conference and discuss how customers can capitalize on opportunities for enhanced profitability through the use of AspenTech software. Manolis Kotzabasakis, Executive Vice President, Products, will share AspenTech's vision and product direction of aspenONE, the world's most powerful optimization software. Did you know AspenTech has quarterly releases? Learn how the new ASPEN HYSYS makes process simulation faster and easier, how you can find more energy and capital cost savings with a new "activation" analysis feature, and how you can now optimize all types of chemical processes with the new solids modeling built into Aspen Plus. In this session you will also hear how Adaptive Process Control is one of the most significant innovations in APC, and how AspenTech has redefined process planning with PIMS Platinum. You do not want miss this introduction and demonstration of the most significant enhancements to AspenTech's products over the last two years.

Chair: Manolis Kotzabasakis, AspenTech

Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

OPTIMIZE Engineering

Subtrack: Engineering - Opening Track Plenary

Session Title: Engineering Opening Plenary: Optimize Design and Operational Performance

aspenONE Engineering is a market leading suite of process engineering software that is used today by over 100,000 professionals, 1,500 companies and 700 universities worldwide to optimize conceptual design, front end engineering design and engineering for manufacturing and supply chain. This session provides an overview of aspenONE Engineering recent highlights and product direction. The session will also include short customer presentations selected from across all Optimize Engineering 2013 sessions that highlight best practices in the use of aspenONE Engineering.

Chair: Vikas Dhole, Vice President, Eng Product Management, AspenTech

Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM


Subtrack: Engineering - Track Plenary Session

Session Title: Engineering Plenary 2: Simulation & Conceptual Engineering

Aspen Plus and Aspen HYSYS, the two market leading simulators have rapidly expanded their conceptual engineering and optimization capabilities over the last few years. This session will cover latest highlights and customer experiences in simulation, conceptual engineering, optimization and knowledge management. The session will also highlight best practices in this area through customer experiences.

Chair: David Tremblay, Product Director, Aspen Plus Product Line, AspenTech

Presentation Title: Applying Solids Modeling in Aspen Plus at Dow Chemical

Dow Chemical will describe the value of Solids Modeling in Aspen Plus V8 to Dow's chemical process improvement activities.

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Presentation Type: Customer Presentation

Industry: Engineering & Construction, Exploration & Production, Midstream / Gas Processing, Refining & Marketing, Chemicals, Polymers, SpecChemicals, Pharma, Consumer Products, Power, Minerals Metals & Mining

Product Focus: Aspen Plus

David Vickery, The Dow Chemical Company

OPTIMIZE Manufacturing

Subtrack: Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

Session Title: Product Innovation within AspenTech MES

AspenTech’s MES offering consists of a fully integrated suite of Data Management, Production Execution and Performance Management tools for the process industries. This session will discuss the highlights behind recent major product innovations in AspenTech's MES suite. It will consist of demos and presentations of new features and functions within the new platform which build upon the rich existing platform. It will offer insights how clients can benefit from the new platform and what clients may need to consider as they begin to deploy the new solution.

Chair: Marty Moran, MES Product Marketing Manager, AspenTech

Presentation Title: Product Innovation within AspenTech MES Demonstration

AspenTech Product Management will demonstrate the latest innovations within the new MES platform.

Presentation Type: Product Demo

Industry: Exploration & Production, Midstream / Gas Processing, Refining & Marketing, Chemicals, Polymers, SpecChemicals, Pharma, Consumer Products, Power, Minerals Metals & Mining

Product Focus: Aspen InfoPlus.21

Lynn McMahon, Director of MES Product Design, AspenTech

Lynn has more than 25 years of experience with AspenTech’s Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) solutions. His career spans the design and implementation of customer projects, product design, and product management.

Subtrack: Advanced Process Control (APC)

Session Title: Advanced Process Control Plenary Session: Innovation Retrospective

AspenTech APC products are the de facto standard for model predictive control in the process industries. This session provides an overview of aspenONE APC's recent innovations and discusses progress against stated strategic objectives.

Chair: Robert Golightly, APC Product Marketing Manager, AspenTech

Presentation Title: Update on aspenONE APC

John Campbell will present an overview of recent innovations in the APC product family and discuss themes for future improvements.

Presentation Type: Aspen Presentation

Industry: Refining & Marketing, Chemicals, Polymers, Spec Chemicals

Product Focus: Aspen DMCplus

John Campbell, Dir. of APC Product Management, AspenTech

John earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since joining AspenTech in 1997, John has worked in Services, Customer Support, and Product Development.

Presentation Title: Adaptive Process Control for Parallel Revamps

Jack will provide an update on his experience using Aspen's Adaptive Process Control technology. The emphasis of this presentation will be on the benefits and economic gains enabled by working on multiple controlelrs in parallel.




Jack Adair, Valero

Jack is currently the Staff Advanced Process Control Engineer at Valero Energy Corporation’s Houston, Texas refinery. He has a B. Ch. E. degree from the University of Dayton and has 33 years experience in advanced process control, with 16 years experience with [DMC}™ and DMCplus®. He is currently responsible for DMCplus implementation and monitoring across four different refinery units at Valero Houston. Prior to joining Valero, he was employed at Setpoint Inc., AspenTech, and LyondellBasell Industries. His AspenTech tenure included eight years as lead advanced control systems trainer for Aspen DMCplus, Aspen IQ™, and Aspen Watch™.

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OPTIMIZE Supply Chain

Subtrack: Supply Chain Management

Session Title: aspenONE Supply Chain Management Plenary -- Navigating Supply Chain Complexity

Customers are looking at deploying technology to assist them with the increased visibility, responsiveness, and agility required to deal with demand and market volatility in today’s globally extended supply chain. This session will provide an overview of aspenONE Supply Chain Management recent highlights and also feature customers across different process industries discussing the latest trends and how companies are adapting.

Chair: Laura Rokohl, Supply Chain Product Marketing Manager, AspenTech

Presentation Title: Momentive's Global Supply Chain Scheduler

Momentive, a world leader in specialty chemicals and materials, has developed and refined a scheduling template over the past 10 years using the Aspen Plant Scheduling software. The Global Supply Chain Scheduler (GSCS) template has been rolled out to over 50 Momentive plants worldwide. A broad range of products are produced at Momentive including resins, epoxy resins, silicones, sealants, adhesives, quartz and ceramics. The GSCS contains options which give it the flexibility to schedule both the simple and complex chemical production processes required to produce these materials. The GSCS is used to drive inventories to lower levels while still meeting orders on-time and in-full.


Industry: Spec Chemicals

Product Focus: Aspen Plant Scheduler Family

Laurie Tuschen, Momentive

Laurie Tuschen is a Supply Chain System Specialist at Momentive.

Subtrack: Petroleum Supply Chain

Session Title: aspenONE Petroleum Supply Chain Plenary – Product Direction

aspenONE Petroleum Supply Chain is the market's leading Planning & Scheduling solution in the industry. Aspen PIMS is used in over 75% of refineries world-wide and a significant number of E&C companies. Aspen Petroleum Scheduler is the best enterprise wide scheduling system and is in production at over 200 sites across the globe. Our customers are deriving tremendous value from these products. This session provides anoverview of aspenONE Petroleum Supply Chain recent highlights and product direction. The session will also include short customer presentations selected from across all OPTIMIZE MSC 2013 sessions that highlight best practices in the use of aspenONE Petroleum Supply Chain.

Chair: Allison McNulty, PSC Product Marketing Manager, AspenTech

TUESDAY 07 MAY

Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM



Session Title: Engineering for Plant Operations Improvement and Optimization

This plenary session will discuss aspenONE engineering as applied to plant operations, debottlenecking and optimization environments. An overview will be provided of how the aspenONE engineering suite is being integrated to achieve plant optimization. The session will emphasize how plant information is being brought inside the process modeling environment. Several key customer papers are also included in this session

Chair: Dinu Ajikutira, AspenTech Product Management, HYSYS Family

Presentation Title: Process Modeling Applied to Development of LP Model for a new Hydrcarbons Complex

Saudi Aramco intends to construct a new Naphtha and Aromatics Complex at the RasTanura Refinery as part of the Clean Fuels Project. The new complex along with the existing reformate from a continuous catalytic reformer unit will produce gasoline meeting Clean Fuels specification and also Benzene, Toluene and Paraxylene. The new units that will be built are NHT, Aromizer, combined Reformate Splitter, Benzene-Toluene Extraction unit, Light Isomerization and the Paraxylene Extraction Unit. For the economic development of the RTR Clean Fuels and Aromatic Project, it was required to develop an integrated LP model consisting of the existing RTR Refinery model with the new units added. We will share some of the experiences derived from developing and validating the simulation model for the complete naphtha and aromatics complex and whilegenerating the shift vectors that needed to be used in the LP model. We will also discuss the value the LP model provided at the conceptual stage of this project. The simulation model was later also used to validate blending strategies for different naphthas and reformates derived to minimize off spec product.


Industry: Engineering & Construction, Refining & Marketing, Chemicals, Polymers

Product Focus: Aspen HYSYS, Aspen PIMS

Neelay Bhattachrya and Sherif Mohamed and Hiren Shethna, Saudi Aramco

Presentation Title: TEG Chemical Optimization by online interfacing of HYSYS Dynamics with DCS

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Novel Control Technique of TEG chemical consumption and optimization by interfacing DCS control system with HYSYS dynamic control models in real-time operations


Industry: Engineering & Construction, Exploration & Production, Midstream / Gas Processing, Refining & Marketing, Chemicals, Polymers, Spec Chemicals

Product Focus: Aspen HYSYS, Aspen DMCplus

T Masood, Qatar Petroleum (QP)



Session Title: Mobility & Collaboration

Due to the emergence of new technologies, manufacturing businesses have become interconnected in ways previously unimagined. These changes are fundamentally altering how people, information, and business processes interact, creating a need for new collaborative environments that require real-time anywhere access to critical information. This session will feature a demonstration of how AspenTech is migrating all our MES user interfaces (mobile, web, desktop) to take advantage of these new technologies along with integration to aspenONE to help achieve better user interface commonality and improve the user experience. It will also highlight customer presentations of users implementing recent mobility solutions along with the business justification for these implementations.


Presentation Title: Mobility & Collaboration Demonstration

AspenTech Product Management will demonstrate how AspenTech is migrating all our MES user interfaces (mobile, web, and desktop) to take advantage of new emerging technologies along with integration to aspenONE to help achieve better user interface commonality and improve the user experience.




Neerav Umarwadia, Product Management Professional, MSC Products, AspenTech

Neerav Umarwadia is a Product Management Professional for AspenTech’s MSC products. Recently, he has been leading the design for a Windows 8 app that allows the user to visualize KPIs. He also has responsibility for the design of products that involve the use of multiple product families. He graduated with a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Presentation Title: Extending the Power of Mobility – IP.21 Mobile for Operators and Managers

Essar Oil has recently implemented InfoPlus.21 Mobile building on their IP.21, AtOMS, and AORA foundation. During this presentation Philip Bhaskar, General Manager – Technical Services, will present their experiences implementing IP.21 Mobile within their refinery. This will include some of their unique applications - providing better operator visibility while adjusting furnaces, reformers, and compressors using intrinsically safe mobile devices, continuous monitoring of all unit startups, and instantaneous messages to unit managers for all shutdowns, trips, or violation of critical process parameters or KPIs.




Philip Bhaskar, Essar Oil Limited

Philip has over 25 years of experience in the refining industry and worked extensively in Advanced Process Controls and MES applications. He is presently the General Manager of Technical Services at Essar Oil Limited and heads up the MES & APC areas. He received his Bachelors in Chemical Engineering and Masters in Industrial Engineering from IIT, Madras. He has presented papers previously in both national and international seminars.

Dharmendra Mehta, Essar Oil Limited

Dharmendra currently is the Jt. General Manager in the Oil Accounting & MIS (Technical Services) department at Essar Oil. During his 14 years in the refining industry, he has assumed a wide variety of different roles in various departments at the company - operations, process, economics, planning & scheduling. He started his career at Essar Oil as a Graduate Engineer Trainee and was actively involved right from the project start through the commissioning and expansion phases at the Vadinar Refinery. Dharmendra has a degree in Chemical Engineering from Bangalore University.

Presentation Title: Taking Collaboration to the Next Level

This presentation will describe how Statoil’s Integrated Operations system has continued to evolve and has gone from an internal Statoil collaboration project to where now important service companies and contractors have also become part of the Integrated Operation collaboration. In addition, it will present Statoil’s future collaboration plans.

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Kjetil Torvanger, Goodtech Solutions


Session Title: Practitioner's Corner - I

This session features presentations and discussions on the techniques and methods of interest to APC practitioners.


Presentation Title: Effective Use of Virtual Machines for AspenTech APC Software Management

In this presentation, John Campbell will present a set of recommendations for the use of Virtual Machines for APC software management. He will also discuss the latest recommendations for APC software server configurations.




John Campbell, Dir., APC Product Management, AspenTech

John earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since joining AspenTech in 1997, John has worked in Services, Customer Support, and Product Development.

Presentation Title: Using Manipulated Variable Overshoot as a Tuning Metric

This presentation covers a method to characterize tuning aggression according to manipulated variable overshoot. A search algorithm is used to find move suppression values that will provide the desired level of overshoot to provide starting tuning values. These values should still be refined during controller commissioning. Two case studies are presented to show the results: a flash dryer and a bank of parallel filters.




Goustaf Gous, Principal Control Engineer, Sasol

Presentation Title: Level Control in APC Applications

Doug will discuss the pros and cons of controlling levels in the DCS vs. in DMCplus. He will also discuss the modeling consequences of controlling levels in DMCplus and will illustrate the strategies for using level capacity with open or closed levels.




Doug Robertson, MVC Coordinator, Marathon Petroleum



Session Title: Plant Scheduling

Schedulers need to have the ability to create optimal production schedules that can be visualized at a glance and adjusted on the fly. This session will highlight new capabilities and innovations in Aspen Plant Scheduler along with examples of how customers can get more value using these capabilities and gain the agility to respond to unplanned supply chain disruptions. Hear real examples from customers who are using Aspen Plant Scheduler to schedule faster and smarter.


Presentation Title: Aspen Plant Scheduler Technology Demonstration

AspenTech Product Management will demonstrate the newest innovations and capabilities in Aspen Plant Scheduler. See how personalized saved layouts and new planning board functions like active user assistance help schedulers reschedule quickly on the fly and keep the schedule aligned with the reality of their business.


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Industry: Chemicals, Polymers, Spec Chemicals, Pharma, Consumer Products


Prabhu Natarajan, Sr. Director, Product Management, AspenTech

Prabhu has 15 years of experience in product management, product marketing, sales, corporate strategy, and supply chain. Prabhu has an MBA and M.S. in Chemical Engineering.

David Zou, Sr. Manager, Supply Chain Product Design, AspenTech

David has over 20 years of supply chain management and consulting experience. He is a Certified Project Management Professional and has extensive, hands-on experience in design and development of enterprise-wide information management and decision support systems. David has a Doctoral Degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering; an M.S. in Statistics, and another M.S. in Operations Research.

Presentation Title: Planning and Scheduling at TPC Group

TPC Group enlisted AspenTech resources to configure Aspen Plant Scheduler - EA to meet their planning and scheduling needs, where one of the critical specifications for the design was multiple concurrent users. The desired outcomes from the design were: (1) Plan and schedule all manufacturing sites and business areas within the same tool, (2) Utilize consistent, timely, and accurate information and data in the decisions for feedstock and product planning, purchases and processing, (3) Allow a shorter cycle time for the identification, evaluation, decision and implementation of opportunities.


Industry: Chemicals


Dona Burke, TPC Group

Dona Burke is the Director of Planning and Optimization at TPC Group.


Session Title: Aspen PIMS Platinum: The View from Here is Awesome

The world's leading petroleum and petrochemical planning system is even better! Aspen PIMS Platinum combines a history of successful planning optimization with enhanced analytics for a whole new way to plan and visualize results. Learn how you can evaluate multiple cases at one time to make decisions more easily. Hear how your industry peers are utilizing this tool and how it is helping to make decisions quickly and with confidence. See how this exciting tool can drive even more profitable results in your organization.


Presentation Title: Aspen PIMS Platinum Demonstration

See the new capabilities in Aspen PIMS Platinum and visualize how they can help you drive powerful, profitable results.


Industry: Refining & Marketing

Product Focus: Aspen PIMS, Aspen Petroleum Scheduler

Ashok Rao, Sr. Director, Software Development, AspenTech

Ashok has been 18 years with AspenTech, with over 25 years of experience in product management and R&D in supply chain and engineering. Ashok has a B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering.

Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM



Session Title: Process Modeling to Improve Operations Planning

This session presents the value of process modeling to improve the value of PIMS planning models in refinery and bulk chemicals operational planning.

Chair: Dinu Ajikutira, Product Manager, Aspen HYSYS Product Line, AspenTech

Presentation Title: SABIC use of an Aspen Plus optimization model together with PIMS for plant planning

This paper presents SABIC UK's experience in using PIMS for planning on an Olefins plant alongside an Aspen Plus whole plant optimizer. SABIC have had WPO for a long time but their PIMS implementation is recent. The optimizer covers the cracker (products separated as far as hydrogen, ethylene, propylene, mixed C4s, gasoline (inc C5s), fuel oil). The PIMS model includes the butadiene plant, the gasoline treatment unit and the aromatics separation. One of the key factors in getting the optimizer to work nicely with PIMS is for both programs to use the same constraints - but the problem is that several of the PIMS constraints are in the units not modelled in the optimizer - so these additional constraints need to be added to it somehow. There are (at least) two issues here; 1) Do we need to significantly increase the scope of the rigorous optimizer model to follow the flows as far downstream as necessary to get to the constraint? 2) What kind of constraint do we need to use? PIMS generally

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uses declared flow capabilities as limits - and we could put these into the optimizer....but would rather not as we want to use actual limits to avoid limiting artificially. The solution we have used avoids having to extend the optimizer a long way downstream and does allow us to use real limits. This is because we know the plant measurements (pressure drops/ valve positions) that show a downstream unit is at its limit, and we can work out which optimizer variable most directly affects this downstream situation - and so can limit that.


Industry: Refining & Marketing, Chemicals, Polymers

Product Focus: Aspen Plus, Aspen PIMS

Phil Edwards, SABIC

Staff Scientist - Process Modelling Specialist at SABIC UK

Presentation Title: FCC Catalyst Evaluation Using Aspen Petroleum Refining FCC Model

HPCL was able to improve the ability to assess the value attained by various catalysts to be used in their FCC units. The Aspen Petroleum Refining FCC model was callibrated based on refining data and then used to evaluate vendor proposed catalysts based on lab data, vendor data and the models. The benefit is better leverage in negotiating with vendors, better selection of catalysts and better FCC performance


Industry: Engineering & Construction, Refining & Marketing

Product Focus: Aspen HYSYS

G Sri Ganes, V. Ratan Raj et al, HPCL

Session Title: Lifecycle Energy Analysis to Optimize Energy Footprint in Process Plants

Process engineers play a key role in optimizing manufacturing and supply chain operations. This session will highlight latest innovations that enable effective collaboration between engineering, manufacturing and supply chain activities and will also include customer experiences highlighting industry best practices in this area. The session will cover how users can exploit the synergies between aspenONE Engineering and aspenONE Manufacturing and Supply Chain suites.

Chair: Jack Zhang, Product Manager, Energy Products, AspenONE Engineering

Presentation Title: Kelamayi Energy Management System adopts Aspen Utilities Planner and Aspen Utilities Online Optimizer

Kelamayi Petrochemical Company is a branch company of PetroChina. At present, it has 38 sets of main units and its crude oil processing capacity reaches up to 6 million tons per year. To improve its competitiveness among refining enterprises, Kelamayi attempts to establish an online energy management and monitoring system to monitor, analyze and optimize its energy consumption online and guide its production so as to reduce its plant energy consumption directly and continuously by optimized management and operation. Using an Aspen Utilities model as a core, the Public Engineering Energy Management System of Karamay Petrochemical Company (EMS) focuses on management optimization of a series of operation processes such as public engineering business, public engineering equipment operation and public engineering consumption. The public engineering model (Aspen Utilities model) of Public Engineering Energy Management System (EMS) simulates a system involving steam, fuel, electricity, hydrogen, water and nitrogen. The service team of AspenTech has implemented this project and currently the Aspen Utilities model has been formally put online for operation to achieve the above two functions: One is offline plan analysis and working conditions study to determine the optimum operation scheme under changes or working conditions adjustment which may occur in the future; the other is online open-loop optimization based on utilities conditions. The online optimization solution will provide the operator with online suggestions so as to achieve optimum configurations and operations under the current demand and price conditions in order to minimize the operation cost of the system while monitoring the energy key performance indicator and the operation performances of key equipment such as boilers, heating furnaces, generators, driving turbines, catalytic medium-pressure steam furnace parameters and distillation unit heat exchange and finaltemperatures. Benefit This EMS has been on trial since June 2012, wherein two operation optimization schemes were established for the public engineering system, 1546.23 yuan per hour was shown as the differential between the public engineering operation costs of the system before and after the implementation of the two schemes, and 16.3701 million yuan per year was gained as an economic benefit. The goal of the system optimization suggestions is to enable the public engineering system to generate more power so that more power can be sold. The optimization suggestions mainly include: to adjust the operation of the equipment in a thermal power plant to enable the thermal power plant to generate more power at the premise that all-level demands for steam are satisfied; to adjust the fuel of a boiler and a lubrication oil high-pressure hydrogenation device through the operation optimization of a fuel gas pipeline network so as to increase the coal supply of the boiler and decrease theconsumption of fuel gas and therefore indirectly decrease the consumption of natural gas.



Product Focus: Aspen Plus, Aspen HYSYS, Aspen Basic Engineering, Aspen Economic Evaluation, Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating

Wu Sidong, PetroChina

Presentation Title: Optimization of a Methanol Plant using integrated modeling and EDR suite

A SIPCHEM Methanol plant was modeled to assess different business cases to maximize production and reduce operating costs. The front end of the plant was simulated by using Aspen - Hysys while Azetropic distillation and Exchangers were modeled by using ASPEN plus and EDR respectively. The in house modeling not only saved around 0.5 million US$ in terms of study cost but also accelerate the revamp pace by 4 months that would potentially be translated into additional revenue.



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Product Focus: Aspen Plus, Aspen HYSYS, Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating, Energy Analysis

Muhammad Imran Idris, Saudi International Petrochemical Company (SIPCHEM)

Writer is a Process Engineer having around Eight years of experience in process and project engineering of petrochemical plants. He also participated in FEED study, Basic and detailed engineering and commissioning of a 2.0 billion US$ NH3-Urea complex. Currently associated with SIPCHEM, Saudiarabia and conducting the revamp study of Methanol, Maleic Anhydride (Man), Butane isomerization and Butanediol (BDO)plants. He has more than seven years of hands on experience of using ASPEN suite.



Session Title: Enhanced Production Execution

In every manufacturing industry, there is a need to be able to execute the production schedule per the plan. While varying between industries, there is a production workflow that defines the materials required, production steps, standard operating procedures, and compliance requirements to produce a given product. In this session, there will be both customer presentations of recent success stories that demonstrate how AspenTech MES supports these needs in both the continuous and batch industries. In addition, there will be demos of new high-value pre-configured MES applications that are a standard part of many manufacturing processes.


Presentation Title: Production Execution Demonstration

AspenTech Product Management will demonstrate new MES functionality focusing on the new high-value pre-configured applications that are a standard part of many manufacturing processes. The demo will not only show how configuration time is dramatically reduced with these new pre-configured applications, but will also provide a discussion of underlying product architecture changes that support these enhancements.






Presentation Title: MES Implementation in GSK-Ware—Lessons Learned and Results Achieved

In this presentation, GSK will describe the implementation of an MES system that has allowed them to automate the collection of the required data and signature confirmation for a batch production record throughout their facilities. This implementation has resulted in significant reductions of manual data entry and associated data entry errors/omissions, along with procedural errors and time spent in investigation and correction of batch record deficiencies. Additional benefits accruing to the project are increased operator job satisfaction and significant reduction in cycle times.




Peter Isles-Smith, GlaxoSmithKline


Session Title: Practitioner's Corner - II

This session features presentations covering expert techniques and methods for APC Engineers.


Presentation Title: Using Intermediate Process Variables with Fast Dynamics for Better Disturbance Rejection

This presentation demonstrates a technique for improved disturbance rejection.




George Shen, Air Products

Presentation Title: Providing a time-varying move plan for a feed-forward variable in DMC

This presentation explores a method of providing the DMCplus controller a time-varying move plan for a feed forward variable, that you can predict ahead of time. The method uses the predicted path of the independent variable as a feed forward signal with a fake manipulated variable

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to track the predicted feed forward.




Brian Ashcraft, Lead Process Automation Manager, Dow Chemical Company

Brian is a Process Automation Engineer working for The Dow Chemical Company in Houston, TX. Brian leads advanced control and optimizations implementations for Dow globally. Brian has a BS in chemical engineering and computer science from Texas Tech University.

Presentation Title: APC Applications in Specialty Chemicals

This presentation will provide an overview of the application of APC at Evonik.




Uwe Piechottka, CAPE & Automation Process Technology & Engineering, Evonik



Session Title: Sales & Operating Planning

Industry leaders are using sales and operations planning best practices to drive a higher level of business value and find the right balance between sales and operations to achieve their business strategy. Hear examples of how customers are generating a consensus forecast, developing production plans, positioning inventory, and balancing supply with demand. Case studies in this session will come from customers using Aspen Supply Chain Planner.


Presentation Title: Aspen Supply Chain Planner Technology Demonstration

AspenTech Product Management will demonstrate the newest innovations and capabilities that support the S&OP process. See how Aspen Supply Chain Planner's visual exception reporting helps quickly identify problems in the plan and what-if analysis helps evaluate alternative scenarios for resolving these problems.



Product Focus: Aspen Supply Chain Planner



David Zou, Sr. Product Design Manager, AspenTech



Session Title: Best Practices in Collaborative Planning & Scheduling

Traditionally planning & scheduling operates in different business silos. However, there is tremendous value in collaboration and bringing these functions closer together. New aspenONE Planning & Scheduling has made great advances in facilitating this collaboration. Some of the areas of improvement include identifying key touch points between planning and scheduling and facilitating data sharing between them. This will tremendously reduce the gaps between plan, schedule and operations. This session will cover how users can exploit these synergies among planning and scheduling to increase their operating margins and reduce margin leakage, through real-world customer examples.


Presentation Title: aspenONE Planning & Scheduling Technology Demonstration

See the latest synergies in planning and scheduling and learn how they can help you make better decisions, faster and more easily.



Product Focus: Aspen PIMS, Aspen Petroleum Scheduler

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Zafar Ali, Sr. Director, Product Management, AspenTech

Zafar has over 15 years of experience serving the oil & gas industry. He holds an MBA from the University of Houston and a Masters in Chemical Engineering from Ohio State University.

David Jamison, Product Manager, Product Management, AspenTech

David has been with AspenTech for over 12 years and working in/serving the oil and gas industry for over 18 years. He holds an MBA from Pepperdine University and a BA from San Francisco State University.

Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM


Subtrack: Equipment Design & Rating

Session Title: Integrated Equipment Design and Rating: Breakout I

This session will cover the application of Aspen's EDR suite, integrated with process modeling and separately. This first session will focus on customer presentation of use of Aspen EDR tools, such as Shell and Tube exchanger, within the Aspen Plus and Aspen HYSYS environments to improve process designs. AspenTech presentations and demonstration will also be provided.

Chair: Tom Ralston, Product Director, EDR, AspenTech

Presentation Title: Preventative Planning and Scheduling of Heat Exchanger Maintenance in Refinery Operations

An advisory software tool has been developed to plan and schedule the cleaning sequence of the heat exchangers in the CDU/VDU unitof the Riyadh refinery in Saudi Arabia. The tool uses process data from the plant instrumentation system and feeds an Aspen HYSYS® based process model. The tool reconciles plant data and solves for heat transfer coefficients and heat exchanger performance calculation using an equation-based HYSYS process simulation model. The Aspen HYSYS® model contains enhanced heat exchangers correlations coming from Aspen EDR® for pressure drop and fouling estimation. The tool establishes a fouling trend per exchanger for one year using historical data which is then used by the tool to predict the future performance for different cleaning schedules and their impact on the entire CDU/VDU unit. This tool minimizes energy use in the plant over a period of time, and also would be used to alleviate any process constraints that get more pronounced as the plant progresses in the operation cycle.



Product Focus: Aspen Plus, Aspen HYSYS, Aspen Economic Evaluation, Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating

Stephen Wagner, Saudi Aramco

Steve is an engineering specialist at Saudi Aramco.

Subtrack: Simulation & Conceptual Engineering

Session Title: Simulation & Conceptual Engineering: Design and Commissioning using Integrated Engineering

This session will cover the use of Aspen's conceptual modeling tools together with Flare and Dynamics

Chair: Nick Brownrigg, Marketing Manager, Conceptual Engineering Tools

Presentation Title: Recovering hydrocarbons to minimize flaring in Polyethylene recovery units using simulation models

This project sought to address Purge gases containing 20 to 30% valuable hydrocarbons are currently being flared. A novel membrane process has been proposed to recover the valuable hydrocarbons from the downstream recovery area of PE Plants. During the initial feasibility stage, there were different options to separate hydrocarbon from extracted membrane output. Aspen Plus based simulations were employed to develop concept suitable for FEED study. It was decided to take the hydrocarbon from the membrane unit and do a separation of hydrocarbon by two columns instead of using the current recovery sections of polyolefin’s plants. Aspen Process Economic Analyzer (APEA) was used for comparative costing of design alternatives.


Industry: Engineering & Construction, Exploration & Production, Midstream / Gas Processing, Refining & Marketing, Chemicals, Polymers, SpecChemicals, Power, Minerals Metals & Mining

Product Focus: Aspen Plus, Aspen HYSYS, Aspen Economic Evaluation, Aspen Collaborative Demand Manager

Sivasubramanian Jayapal, Abu Dhabi Polymers (Borouge)

Jayapal has wide experience in Polyolefins Plants both PP and PE Bimodal plants. Lead pre-studies and feasibility studies required to incorporate new processes/equipment in existing plants. Work as a Lead process engineer and input to detail engineering for major projects and lead a team of Process Development Engineers. Review and endorse change requistions from the plants as per Company’s Management of Change procedures. Lead in the identification of possible solutions in long –term process problem areas.

Presentation Title: DCS Check-out and Operator Training with HYSYS Dynamics.

There has been an increased interest in use of process dynamic models in the oil and gas industry in the life-cycle of the oil and gas processing plants. This work shows the benefit of use dynamic models at the end of the process engineering cycle of the plant for DCS check-out and

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operator training system. This project involved a Repsol- operated Margarita Field, for which Tecnicas Reunidas Chile built the new Central Processing Facilities and Inprocess developed an Operator Training System. A plant dynamic model with HYSYS Dynamics was built and integrated with emulated Delta-V control system from Emerson. The DeltaV-HYSYS integrated system was used for the DCS checkout and for Operator Training, verifying the PCS and SIS systems, identifying potential issues in the DCS database before commissioning (controllers setting, alarms, interlocks, etc). The result shows that a DCS checkout with dynamic model can eliminate between 70 to 80 % of the error in control system design before plant commissioning. The Operator Training System has been implemented successfully.



Product Focus: Aspen Plus, Aspen HYSYS

Edgar Goitia, Jose Maria Nougues. et al., Tecnicas Reunidas (and InProcess)

Subtrack: Engineering for Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Session Title: Engineering for Manufacturing & Supply Chain

This session will focus on the use of process modeling to to optimize energy across the design lifecycle

Chair: Jack Zhang, Product Manager, AspenTech

Presentation Title: Optimization and Productivity improvement of 170 KTA Vinyl Chloride Monomer Plant using Aspen Plus TUES 4pm eng in mfg breakout

Optimization and Productivity improvement of chemical processes is necessary to sustain cost effective production and manage capacity in an ever changing marketplace. The steady state flow sheeting of the entire plant consisting of various sections like Oxychlorination, High Temperature Chlorination, Low Temperature Chlorination, Purification section was done in Aspen Plus environment. The integrated model was validated with design data and then fine tuned with operating data. The model was used for Debottlenecking studies of entire plant Based on the outcome of the study done in house, various alternatives were implemented in operating plant and the same plant is being operated with 125 % of design without any major capital investment .The model is also being used for validating various optimization flow schemes, Pinch Studies, Process Hazard Analysis requiring adequacy check of Process Safety Valves. Various Energy saving schemes have been implemented based on the Simulation studies for energy Intensive Distillation Columns and energy contribution gained is INR 60 lakhs per annum.


Industry: Chemicals


Industries, Dahej.

Vijaykumar Menon is Vice President, CTS, Reliance Industries Ltd., Dahej India. Viral Desai is General Manager, CTS Reliance Industries Limited, Dahej India

Presentation Title: Optimum revamp and energy reduction practice in Butadiene plant

From 2011, the sudden rise of 1,3-butadiene price has made the opportunity to make more profit by increasing the capacity of butadiene production. Also, we had to revamp the plant to solve the short supply of butadiene to our downstreams. At the same time, we wanted to lower the energy consumption to strengthen our competitiveness. But, our plant has already been revamped twice. And, the investment cost could be higher than the economic range when we replace the major equipments. So, through the revamp and energy study with Aspen, we had to determine a suitable target revamp capacity without major equipment upgrades or replacements. And we identified energy saving opportunities and defined the process and equipment modifications to achieve those. This presentation will cover the sustained value features of Aspen Plus, equipment rating and process analysis to improve capacity and energy performance. As a result, we have achieved more than 10% capacity increase and energy cost reduction.


Industry: Chemicals, Polymers


Sung-chul Yoo, LG Chem Co, Ltd, Yeosu-city, Jeonnam, South Korea

Mr Yoo is General Manager/Production Manager at LG Cehm

Subtrack: Economic Evaluation

Session Title: Improving FEED Execution and Reducing Cycle Time with Aspen Economics and Process Modeling Tools

This session will present topics related to execution of FEED spanning the product areas of Aspen Economic Evaluation and Aspen Process Modeling Tools

Chair: Tom Fiske, Product Director, Economics, AspenTech

Presentation Title: Optimizing Energy Use and Economics in Ethanol to Butadiene Processes

Aspen Energy Analyzer, Aspen Plus, and Activated Economics were used to identify opportunities for a more energy efficient process to convert ethanol to butadiene. In the study, these integrated tools were used to perform heat integration of distillation colums and consider heat integration in the entire process

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Industry: Engineering & Construction, Chemicals, Spec Chemicals

Product Focus: Aspen Plus, Aspen Economic Evaluation, Energy Analysis

Mladen Crnomarkovic, Maturus Optimi

Mladen has over 10 years of experience in process modeling with attention to energy management and sustainability—expertise he has utilized to cofound Maturus Optimi, an indepent consulting company that specializes in evaluating the techno-economic feasability of processes

Subtrack: Conceptual Modeling

Session Title: Process Modeling Topics in Oil and Gas

This session will present several topics related to topics ranging from reactor modeling to gas dehydration and emmissions management

Chair: Luisa Herrmann Rodriguez, Marketing Manager, HYSYS Downstream, AspenTech

Presentation Title: Glycol dehydration facility modelling and optimization –challenges and opportunities

In the last 30 years, HYSYS has been widely used in the design and rating of natural gas glycol dehydration (TEG) and refrigeration (EG) facilities. In recent years, the ability of HYSYS (and other simulators) to accurately predict air emissions in glycol facilities has become increasingly relevant due to more stringent environmental regulations calling for reduced emissions. In gas production and processing, glycol facilities are a significant contributor to emissions; according to the USEPA, “dehydrators and pumps” comprise 12% of all methane emissions. As government regulations continue to evolve and operating companies are expected to look for ways to further reduce emissions, it is more important than ever to accurately simulate these facilities. In this work, we review various issues associated with the process modeling of glycolfacilities: • Prediction of BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes) emissions in TEG and EG facilities • Prediction of VOC (volatile organiccompounds) and GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions from TEG and EG facilities • Relationship of air emissions to glycol circulation rate and stripping gas use and effects on lean glycol concentration and sales gas water content • Prediction of emissions reductions due to tanks and engineered condensers installed as emissions control methods downstream of the still overhead. This presentation reviews the performance of HYSYS relative to these key issues, and also demonstrates how HYSYS can be used to optimize glycol facilities.




James Holaboff, Process Ecology

Presentation Title: - Grass-root petrochemical plant achieve significant reduction in flare load, using dynamic simulation to test safety control scheme(s)

Rigorous Dynamic Modeling in Aspen HYSYS was used to evaluate flare relief loads under various emergency scenarious. Then dynamic modeling covered all safety and ESD interlocks. The study results, as well as the model, was thoroughly reviewed by the licensor, before approving the findings, clearing the deck for a reduced size of flare header, etc. leading to attractive capital savings.




Nitin Jain, Equinox Software and Services Private Ltd

Presentation Title: Optimizing Petroleum and Gas Production and Reducing Energy Consumption at CNOOC

CNOOC applied HYSYS to improve liquid product recovery rate, solve the frozen blockage problem, reduce the energy consumption during production and provide operation guidance for downstream production during upstream production adjustment so as to achieve optimized management and operation, solve problems during production process and reduce the energy consumption of the plant continuously. This resulted in measurable production profitability benefits.


Industry: Engineering & Construction, Exploration & Production, Midstream / Gas Processing

Product Focus: Aspen HYSYS, Energy Analysis

DianYu Liu, CNOOC



Session Title: Best Practices

AspenTech’s MES products have been implemented extensively for data management, production execution, and performance management within many different industry sectors, from small single plant installations to enterprise-wide deployments. This session will combine the collective best practices and experiences of leading MES practitioners that have implemented AspenTech’s MES solutions so that everyone can leverage and

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learn from their experiences, and also include practical best practice demonstrations.


Presentation Title: MES Best Practices Demonstration

AspenTech Product Management will demonstrate the best practices for managing and optimizing an enterprise-wide deployment. Specifically, it will include discussions on how to deploy clients in a cloud.






Presentation Title: Real-Time Closed-Loop KPI Management ties Corporate Traders to Plant Execution

OMV Power International is using InfoPlus.21 extensively for monitoring fleet performance based on automated KPIs and passing that information to the company’s ERP and trading systems to be used for business transactions in near real-time. The system has “full loop” connectivity: KPIs are passed from the satellite systems to the central system and then to the corporate trading system. Corporate traders then use this information to buy and sell power in the international market. Information from the traders is fed back down to the satellite systems where this feedback is used in conjunction with various other inputs as inputs to the KPIs for the next round of calculations. A similar “full loop” exists for the ERP systems. The system is a multi-national, multi-year project connecting three satellite sites - two combined cycle power plants and one wind-park, to a central system.



Product Focus: Aspen Collaborative Demand Manager, Aspen InfoPlus.21

Jack Albrecht, Albrecht Software Consulting GmbH

Jack Albrecht is the general manager of Albrecht Software Consulting GmbH (ACo GmbH) which is a European based solutions provider. ACo provides technical products/services primarily concentrated on the energy industry and has been operational since 1994. ACo’s goal is to improve client profitability through the integration of business and technical processes and has been a long-time provider of solutions to OMV.

Robert Fauska, OMV Power International

OMV Power International is owner and operator of a fleet of thermal power plants and wind turbines in the south Eastern Europe region. Robert Fauska is the business process manager of OMV Power International and is responsible for strategic IT systems implementation and the organizational set-up for the company’s power generation business. He is trained as an industrial engineer and has held previous assignments in the process and plant construction industry.

Presentation Title: Advanced KPI Management through a Production Portal

KPIs play an important role in virtually all MES projects. During this presentation, Perstorp will present how they developed a production portal to facilitate the display of KPIs and much more. Not only does the production portal deliver important production KPIs, such as “Loss vs. Plan”, it allows the user to drill down to analyze production results in more detail. The portal was developed so that it could be visualized with just an internet browser. The presentation will also highlight how the application interacts with their IP.21 Mobile deployment. Ancillary features of their implementation also include automated e-mails and/or phone text messages triggered either by events, such as plant shut-downs, or time based (e.g. weekly reporting) which can be used for automatic ordering of some raw materials and predictive maintenance.




Krister Forsman, Perstorp

Nils-Peter Nytzen, Perstorp


Session Title: APC in Energy

This session features presentations covering the application of APC in energy applications.

Chair: Robert Golightly, Product Marketing Manager, AspenTech

Presentation Title: Benchmarks for APC Deployments in Southern European Refineries

This presentation will provide an overview of the recent benchmarking effort for southern European refineries.

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Stefano Lodolo, Senior Advisor, AspenTech

Presentation Title: Implementation of an APC solution for Utilities: Providing steam for more than 40 plants

Implementation of an Advanced Process Control solution for a the Utilities company on our chemical site providing steam for more than 40 plants.




Erik Debie, Process Control Engineer, Sitech

Presentation Title: Advanced Process Control in Captive Power Plant using Aspen DMCplus

APC applications in power and steam system need high reliability and fast controls. This is particularily true in a captive power plant that is isolated from the public grid. A continuous cost update is required depending on the availability of fuels, and sometimes for non-standard power agreements. Due to these reasons most system available in the market are advisory and the operator needs to take action manually and consistently. This paper gives some of the details of a successful application using Aspen DMCplus APC software. This application has a potential to save up to 5% in energy cost for captive power plant that are islanded from public grid.




Rajalingam Ramachandran, APC &RTO Group, Reliance Industries limited, Mumbai, India



Session Title: SAP Integration

This session will highlight capabilities in Aspen Supply Chain Connect (ASCC) to assist customers effectively and quickly deploy aspenONE Supply Chain Management applications. This session will incorporate examples of how customers have deployed ASCC capability for robust integration with their corporate SAP ERP systems.


Presentation Title: Scheduling Model Reporting, Metrics, and ERP Integration

To accurately represent the quality of a computer generated schedule, robust model reporting, metrics, and ERP Integration are imperative. Advanced scheduling can help with items such as inventory reduction targets, more efficient sequencing, improved demand filling, and better capacity planning. Accurate and concise metrics accelerate the transfer of information from a scheduler and model to the supply chain community. ERP integration and reporting enable peripheral involved parties such as procurement, manufacturing, and customer service to have clear visibility of the near term schedule and facilitate communication and cooperation. When reporting and metrics align with business needs and strategy, all involved parties can drive changes and implement initiatives to meet evolving company goals.




Aaron Hunt, Momentive

Aaron Hunt is a Supply Chain System Analyst at Momentive.


Session Title: Next Generation Assay Management

Next generation assay management is here. This session will cover the latest innovations in Aspen’s PIMS assay management. Assay characterization, assay addition, and assay re-cutting are now an integral part of Aspen PIMS, leading to significantly increased productivity for planners and schedulers. Aspen PIMS assay management also includes a ground breaking molecular modeling technique, which enables more accurate property predictions. This session will cover how users can leverage this technological enhancement and also hear customers’ successstories.


Presentation Title: The Aspen PIMS Assay Management Capabilities Technology Demonstration

See how you can evaluate spot crudes faster and more easily with Aspen PIMS Assay Management. Learn how to yield more accurate plans

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complete with enhanced property prediction.



Product Focus: Aspen PIMS

Mel Bernstein, Sr. Product Design Manager, AspenTech

Mel Bernstein has close to 40 years of experience serving the oil & gas industry. He holds a B.S.in Chemistry from Caltech as well as an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Subtrack: Supply & Distribution

Session Title: Integrated Supply Chain Planning, Scheduling, & Actualization

This subtrack will cover the use of aspenONE Supply and Distribution tools in an integrated manner. Distribution planning, physical movement scheduling, and actualization processes will be demonstrated and discussed enabling better collaboration between the distribution planners and distribution schedulers. Schedule directly versus plan. Track planned vs. scheduled vs. actual for improved business process.

Chair: David Doyle, Supply & Distribution Product Manager, AspenTechAspenTech

Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM



Session Title: Integrated Equipment Design and Rating: Breakout II

This session is the second breakout on the topic of use of Heat Exchanger design models within Aspen PLus and Aspen HYSYS. Customer presentations will cover topics such as Fired Heater and Plate Fin heat exchanger models used within Aspen HYSYS. AspenTech presentations will also be included in this session.



Session Title: Simulation & Conceptual Engineering: Advanced Modeling Approaches

This session will focus on application of Aspen Custom Modeler to the solution of advanced and difficult design challenges

Chair: David Tremblay, Director of Product Management, AspenTech

Presentation Title: Rapid and Easy Custom Modeling with Aspen Custom Modeler

To develop the ethanol distillation with membrane separation model in Aspen Plus, customization was highly required. Since ACM was more flexible than calculator block and properties calculation was consistent with Aspen Plus, ACM was utilized to build the customized model. Economic evaluation has been done using APEA. Relative cost was reduced to about 80% from base design.



Product Focus: Aspen Plus, Aspen Economic Evaluation

Masafumi Okada and Tadayoshi Shimada, Hitachi Zosen

Mr. Okada received a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1995 (specialized was Fluid Dynamics). After that he joined Hitachi Zosen , Inc. Since 1995 , he has worked as a senior process engineer in the engineering and construction of chemical plant, and bio-fuel plants. He is now working on membrane separation process development.

Presentation Title: Overview of Aspen Custom Modeler Best Practices

This presentation will introduce the power and capabilities of Aspen Custom Modeler. This review will consider how to get started with ACM, the range of typical applications, and resources to learn more.




David Tremblay, AspenTech

David Tremblay is the Product Director for the Aspen Plus line of products. He directs development direction for Aspen Custom Modeler.

Presentation Title: Modeling and Optimizing an Ethylene Oxide Reactor with ACM

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Reliance Industries has modeled it five ethylene oxide reactors, procured from different licensors, with the goal of obtaining maximum throughput and optimize operating limits and temperatures to minimize catalyst degradation.


Industry: Engineering & Construction, Chemicals, Polymers, Spec Chemicals


Dr. Karuna Potdar and Vasudha Mallikondla,

Dr Karuna Potdar is head of the Modeling, Simulation and Optimization group of Reliance Industries in Mumbai India and is a member of the Aspen Engineering Customer Advisory Group

Subtrack: Basic Engineering

Session Title: Basic Engineering 2

Companies who optimize the FEED phase of a project and who enhance the hand-off to Detailed Engineering gain significant competitive advantage from increased engineering efficiency and reduced time to market. See how leading companies have implemented integrated projectenvironments and used automation to increase engineering efficiency by up to 30% and reduce the time to deliver Licensed Technology packages by 50%.

Chair: Andrew McBrien, Product Director,Basic Engineering, AspenTech

Presentation Title: DuPont : Improved Efficiency with Aspen Basic Engineering

Naz Ahmad will profile the application of Aspen Basic Engineering within the DuPont Clean Fuel Technologies business. The presentation highlights how DuPont Clean Fuel Technologies has accelerated project execution using Aspen Basic Engineering. Specifically discussed topics are: -Before-and-after basic engineering workflows -Project schedule and engineering cost reductions -Reduction in translation time and cost.


Industry: Engineering & Construction, Exploration & Production, Midstream / Gas Processing, Refining & Marketing, Chemicals, SpecChemicals

Product Focus: Aspen Basic Engineering

Naz Ahmad, DuPont Clean Fuels


Session Title: Engineering for Manufacturing & Supply Chain

This session will cover applications that span engineering modeling and plant optimization. Topics for this session may include use of simple interfaces (Such as ASW) to give plant operators access to models as well as use of plant history day within the modeling environment (Plantview).

Chair: Julie Levine, Engineering Product Marketing Professional, AspenTech

Presentation Title: No Compromises in Safety: Dynamic Simulation for Safety Analysis of Columns

No compromises in safety. But trade-offs between the complexity and cost of dynamic simulation modelling on one side and the accuracy and applicability of the results on the other are demonstrated for some real-life industrial examples in order to ensure the highest level of efficiency and implementation.




Dr. Hans-Rolf Lausch, Ingrid Lunt-Rieg and Surya Liauw, Evonik Industries

Ingrid Lunt-Rieg is currently manager of the process simulation and CFD group at Evonik Industries at Hanau in Germany. She has a degree in chemical engineering from the Technische Universität Braunschweig in Germany and a MBA degree from the Open University in England.

Presentation Title: Reliability of Dynamic Simulation to reproduce plant dynamics: Applied case study for control analysis of double propylene-propane splitter.

The double column heat-integrated propylene-propane splitter of the Repsol Tarragona Cracker is a challenging unit to control with DMCplus. It is characterized with long settling times, heat interaction, external disturbances and intrinsic non-linearity. A rigorous HYSYS Dynamic model was developed and validated. The validation process used a novelty method, running the dynamic simulation in synchrony against historical plant data input. This validation method proved the fidelity of the dynamic model versus real plant responses, and allowed the control engineers to be confident with it. Once validated, the simulation has been used by the control department for different matters (change the basic control layout, understand interactions, generate a HYSYS-based DMC model, etc). Some challenges have been found during this use and they will be exposed. Additionally the HYSYS model was upgraded to a Process Trainer to provide regular training to operators.



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JoseMaria Ferrar (Inprocess) and Francisco Cifuentes (Repsol), Inprocess and REPSOL

Authors are Manel Serra (Inprocess), JoseMaria Ferrer (Inprocess), Jose Garcia Vega (Repsol Tarragona Refinery), Francisco Cifuentes (Repsol Refining APC) , Marta Yugo and Maria Luisa Suarez (Repsol Technology Center)

Presentation Title: Safety Analysis for Adsorber Towers using HYSYS Dynamics

This presentation reviews how Aspen HYSYS Dynamics was used to validate the cause of an overpressure release from an adsorber tower, to identify other hidden initiating events and to evaluate potential solutions. A temperature interlock had tripped on a downstream heater allowing a stream that joins the effluent of the tower to back into the adsorber resulting in an over pressure situation. The model is a pressure driven simulation with a supercritical component and reversible flow which includes an extensive piping network. The simulation was originally modeled in Aspen Plus Dynamics but issues with the software did not allow reverse flow with a super critical component and forced us to rebuild the model in Aspen HYSYS Dynamics. The HYSYS model was not only able to handle the supercritical reverse flow but also the extensive piping networks.




David Kolesar, The Dow Chemical Company


Session Title: Obtaining the Data Necessary for Producing a Good Estimate

This session will focus on getting the data and information necessary to produce a good estimate. The session will highlight methods for working with limited information early in a project to define the scope. It will also focus on getting relevant pricing information for various purposes. Estimating productivity in the field to improve the accuracy of an estimate will also be discussed.

Chair: Tom Fiske, Product Director, Economics, Aspen Technology



Session Title: Feedback, Vision and Product Direction

This session will cover the vision and product direction for aspenONE Manufacturing Execution Systems. Product Management will lead an interactive discussion with customers to get feedback on proposed product enhancements and prioritize them for potential inclusion in the future vision and direction of AspenTech products.


Presentation Title: Feedback, Vision, and Product Direction Panel Discussion

Customers will discuss and give feedback on current aspenONE Manufacturing Execution Systems solution capabilities.

Presentation Type: Panel Discussion





Presentation Title: How Virtualization Can Be Used to Optimize Automation Infrastructure

Two common challenges that companies face in managing the automation infrastructure are the need for high availability of critical systems along with providing a cost-effective environment (hardware and systems). A related challenge is minimizing the concentration of too many applications on one server. This presentation will discuss how Braskem virtualized InfoPlus.21, AtOMS and AORA servers at 7 of its different plants and in the process highly improved the environment’s availability, confidence, capacity and flexibility. Virtualization was implemented to minimize the management complexity of managing several physical servers, the hardware life cycle refreshment and how to improve the availability of critical systems. The environment was created such that the physical servers are redundant, and the virtual PIMS and MES servers can be switched to another physical server with zero outage.




Wladimir Machado, Braskem

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Wladimir Machado is the Technology Automation Coordinator for Braskem’s Industrial IT Infrastructure team. He graduated with a degree in Information Technology and has over 14 years of experience in Information Technology. Previous assignments include a role at Hewlett Packard as Account Delivery Manager outsourcing IT services for Braskem and working at Unitech, an IBM partner which implemented IBM infrastructure solutions.

Presentation Title: Bridging the Gap: The Benefits of Effectively Integrating ERP and MES Systems

Integrating ERP and MES systems together has long been an important topic within the MES community. This presentation will detail how one large chemical company was able to effectively bridge that gap for their 8 manufacturing plants. One important challenge that they overcame was there were three main types of plants with their own unique data structures that communicated information to the ERP even though the ERP had one overall model that supported all the plants. The presentation will detail what information was passed back and forth, how that was achieved technically, and the benefits that accrued to the organization from the integration.




Lucas Arrais, Monsanto

Lucas is a Manufacturing Project Manager at Monsanto and is charged with executing projects to optimize production and other manufacturing work processes using MES, shop floor systems, and LIMS systems to achieve that goal. He graduated with a degree in Computer Engineering and has 7 years of experience implementing manufacturing, automation, and laboratory systems. Lucas started his career as a Health Systems Specialist implementing radiology equipment interfaces.

Presentation Title: MES Nirvana – A Comprehensive Integrated MES System

Braskem Petrochemical embarked on an ambitious journey to implement a comprehensive MES solution for many major manufacturing work process within their plants - from controlling production and stock, processing orders and movement management, data reconciliation, production accounting, generating invoices, and production performance analysis. This presentation will describe how they achieved that goal using commercially available MES software, integration strategies between the software modules where necessary, and the portal they used to visualize data.




Sergio Sancovschi, Chemtech

Sergio Sancovschi graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering from UFRJ in Brazil in March 2005. Prior to joining Chemtech full-time, Sergio had gained experience through an internship at the company. During this time there, he has worked on process data historian, system integration, production management, performance monitoring, and plant report software development projects in the chemical and petrochemical industry. In addition, he has also worked on a number of engineering projects, such as process design, safety system designs, and fire system and water distribution simulations.


Session Title: Winner's Circle

This session features presentations on successful APC applications.


Presentation Title: Aspen DMCplus and Inferential Qualities on Diesel and Gasoline HDTs and on hydro desulfurization plants

Aspen DMCplus and Inferential Qualities have been implemented on Diesel and Gasoline HDTs and on hydro desulfurization plants. Optimization of operations was obtained allowing product yield improvements and energy savings. The implementation of DMCplus suite, performed by AspenTech professional services, is helping Ecopetrol to achieve the expected results on lowering emissions and energy waste, as well as products yield maximization, which is in alignment with the company environmental policies.




Francisco Trespalacio, Ecopetrol



Session Title: Collaborative Demand Management

Forecasting market demand has its challenges as it requires combining historical data with real-time market information. This session will highlight how Aspen Collaborative Demand Manager (CDM) enhances forecast accuracy for Petroleum Supply Chain & Supply Chain Management customers using the high configurability and flexibility to model different industries. Hear case studies from customers on how they are using Aspen CDM to create accurate forecasts and manage demand according to the unique aspects of their industry.

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Presentation Title: Aspen Collaborative Demand Manager Technology Demonstration

AspenTech Product Management will demonstrate the newest innovations and capabilities in Aspen Collaborative Demand Manager. See the latest usability and productivity enhancements in the easy-to-use interface and understand how COV analysis can help you identify the segments of the forecast that need the most collaboration with customers.


Industry: Refining & Marketing, Chemicals, Polymers, Spec Chemicals, Pharma, Consumer Products

Product Focus: Aspen Collaborative Demand Manager



David Zou, Sr. Manager, Supply Chain Product Design, AspenTech



Session Title: How to Better Manage Uncertainty using Aspen PIMS

The premise of uncertainty analysis to make technical contribution to decision-making through the quantification of uncertainties in the relevant variables. With the world's leading planning tool, many of our customers are leveraging Aspen PIMS for sensitivity. This session will consist of analysis and robust decision making presentations from major North American refiners followed by a panel discussion with other industry peers on the latest strategies for incorporating uncertainty analysis in areas such as price sensitivity and project valuation.


Presentation Title: Planning & Scheduling, Advanced Process Control and Engineering Technology Demonstration

See the power of combining engineering, advanced process control, and planning models and hear real-world experiences.



Product Focus: Aspen PIMS

Ashok Rao, Sr. Director, Software Development, AspenTech

Ashok has been 18 years with AspenTech, with over 25 years of experience in product management and R&D in supply chain and engineering. Ashok has a B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering.

John Campbell, Director, Product Management, AspenTech

John Campbell earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since joining AspenTech in 1997, John has worked in Services, Customer Support, and Product Development.

Subtrack: Supply & Distribution

Session Title: Trading Decision Support Session Description:

This subtrack will describe how optimization technology can be applied to enhance decision support tools for Traders.

Chair: David Doyle, Supply & Distribution Marketing Manager, AspenTech

WEDNESDAY 08 MAY

Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM




Session Title: Simulation & Conceptual Engineering: Applying Integrated Engineering Concepts

This session will focus on application of simulation modeling together with other aspenONE Engineering and other related tools to accomplish better designs, faster designs, and contend with uncertainty

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Chair: Julie Levine, Engineering Product Marketing Manager, AspenTech

Presentation Title: Gambling with Uncertainties

Combination of Monte-Carlo methods with process simulations for studying the impact of uncertainties on the economic efficiency of processes



Product Focus: Aspen Plus, Aspen HYSYS, Aspen Economic Evaluation

Ingrid Lunt-Rieg, Evonik Industries

Presentation Title: Improving Yields and Reducing OPEX During a Revamp with aspenONE Engineering

MeOH plant front and back end was modeled to assess different business cases to maximize production and reduce operating costs. Front end of the plant was simulated by using Aspen - Hysys while Azetropic distillation and Exchangers were modeled by using ASPEN plus and EDR respectively. The in house modeling not only saved around 0.5 million US$ in terms of study cost but also accelerate the revamp pace by 4 months that would potentially be translated into additional revenue. This is a very cost effective and efficient way of conducting conceptual studies by exploiting the full potential of ASPEN suite which justifies its costs as well even for manufacturing plants. This paper will narrate our experience of conducting in-house technical study by using Aspen-Suite.


Industry: Engineering & Construction, Exploration & Production, Midstream / Gas Processing, Refining & Marketing, Chemicals, Polymers, SpecChemicals, Pharma, Consumer Products

Product Focus: Aspen Plus, Aspen HYSYS, Aspen Economic Evaluation, Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating

Muhammad Imran Idris, Saudi International Petrochemical Company (SIPCHEM)

Writer is a Process Engineer having around Eight years of experience in process and project engineering of petrochemical plants. He also participated in FEED study, Basic and detailed engineering and commissioning of a 2.0 billion US$ NH3-Urea complex. Currently associated with SIPCHEM, Saudiarabia and conducting the revamp study of Methanol, Maleic Anhydride (Man), Butane isomerization and Butanediol (BDO)plants. He has more than seven years of hands on experience of using ASPEN suite.

Presentation Title: Application of Dynamic Simulation Studies in Engineering for LNG Plants

Safety, availability, operability, controllability and maintainability during LNG plant design are best addressed by Dynamic simulation studies (DSS)to optimized cost and function. This presentation provides an overview of the LNG plant, scopes and typical applications of DSS in the engineering for LNG plants. One of examples shows how a DSS was used in the engineering phase to confirm design adequacy and the operation procedure. The simulation model built during the engineering phase was again used to improve the stability and controllability of the system during initial operation of the LNG plant. A DSS has already been proved to be a key activity in the engineering of LNG plant and its fields of application and importance will further increase as engineering becomes ever more complex.


Industry: Engineering & Construction, Exploration & Production


Kei Masuda, Chiyoda E&C

Mr. Kei Masuda ia the group leader of Chiyoda's process dynamics group. He has 17 years of fluid engineering and dynamic simulation experiences with emphasis on the process and piping designs of LNG, Gas and Petroleum plants considering steady and transient operations.

Subtrack: Basic Engineering

Session Title: Basic Engineering

Companies who optimize the FEED phase of a project and who enhance the hand-off to detailed engineering gain significant competitive advantage from increased engineering efficiency and reduced time to market. See how leading companies have implemented integrated projectenvironments and used automation to increase engineering efficiency by up to 30% and reduce the time to deliver licensed technology packages by50%.

Chair: Andrew McBrien, Product Director, ABE, AspenTech


Session Title: Application of Process Modeling in Refining Modeling, Improvement and Planning

This session will cover a variety of topics related to application of HYSYS, HYSYS Petroleum Refining, and HYSYS Reactor models to refining.

Chair: Dinu Ajikutira, Director, Product Management - HYSYS Product Family, AspenTech

Presentation Title: Development and Deployment of Detailed Asset Models

In addition to producing crude oil Saudi Aramco is the key of refined products for domestic consumption. Production of crude oil to delivery of refined products to the end consumer is a complex supply chain, of which refining is key part. Saudi Arabian refineries are owned and operated by Saudi Aramco or its joint ventures and are optimized as a system. Detailed mathematical programming models are developed to determine the

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optimal operation of refineries and distribution systems. These business models in turn interface with detailed operational asset models to account for current processing constraints. In this presentation we will describe our experience in developing detailed asset models for different refinery process units along with the business problems that these asset models are intended to solve for different end users. We will also share some of our experience gained in the maintenance and deployment of these models to our end users.


Industry: Engineering & Construction, Midstream / Gas Processing, Refining & Marketing, Chemicals

Product Focus: Aspen HYSYS, Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating

Hiren Shethna and Stephen Wagner, Saudi Aramco

Presentation Title: The Keys to Successful Aspen Petroleum Refining Refinery-Wide Simulation

RefSYS (HYSYS Petroleum Refining) is typically used for detailed unit-specific models, and although the capability is there to model entire refineries (from crude blending through to product blending), few users venture this far. This presentation provides feedback from recent RefSYS modelling of an entire refinery, carried out by Foster Wheeler as part of engineering work on a “clean fuels” revamp, where several problems were encountered but overcome. The experience gained has provided many “tips and tricks” and best practise guidelines which are discussed in the presentation, and which can save much time and effort when building rigorous and robust, large and complex refinery-wide flowsheets.


Industry: Engineering & Construction, Refining & Marketing


David Gibbons, Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd

Principal Process Consultant, Business Solutions Group, Foster Wheeler, Reading UK

Presentation Title: Energy Optimization at the KNPC SHU Refinery using an integrated modeling approach

In this study for SHU Refinery, the operational improvements (quick wins), process improvement, pinch analysis, key equipment performance analysis, hot feed opportunities analysis, Steam analysis etc., have been carried out to identify potential improvements to improve refinery efficiency. Results show huge potential savings with in a payback period of less than a year with considerable energy savings and EII improvement. KNPC is also rolling out a similar program in the other 2 refineries. The current paper shares some of the results of the study and steps forward for the SHU refinery. Several AspenTech technologies were employed for successful implementing the study program including Aspen Hysys, Aspen Energy Analyzer and Aspen Exchanger Design and Rating programs.


Industry: Engineering & Construction, Exploration & Production, Midstream / Gas Processing, Refining & Marketing, Chemicals, Polymers, SpecChemicals, Power

Product Focus: Aspen HYSYS, Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating, Aspen Collaborative Demand Manager, Energy Analysis

Salwa Al-Anezi, S. Ramadass, W. Bin and S Sheikh, Kuwait National Petroleum Co (KNPC)

Al-Anezi is a Chemical Engineering Graduate from Kuwait University and having Master Degree in Chemical Engineering from Cairo University started carrier in Oil & Gas field at Kuwait National Petroleum Co. with 18 years of refining experience. Handled numerous assignments in Process engineering, Environment and Energy management Cell.


Session Title: Best Practices in Producing an Estimate

Producing estimates in an efficient manner requires highly trained personnel, the correct tools, and appropriate methods. This session will highlight what leading companies are doing to improve estimates by using CAD and other tools and techniques.

Chair: Tom Fiske, Product Director, Economics Aspen Technology






Session Title: Feedback, Vision and Direction

This session will cover the vision and product direction for aspenONE Supply Chain Management. Product Management will lead an interactive discussion with customers to get feedback on proposed product enhancements and prioritize them for potential inclusion in the future vision and direction of AspenTech products.


Presentation Title: Customer Panel Discussion

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Customers will discuss and give feedback on current aspenONE Supply Chain Management solution capabilities.



Product Focus: Aspen Collaborative Demand Manager, Aspen Supply Chain Planner, Aspen Plant Scheduler Family

Prabhu Natarajan, Senior Director, Product Management, AspenTech



Session Title: Feedback, Vision and Direction

This session will cover the vision and product direction for aspenONE Planning & Scheduling. Product Management will lead an interactive discussion with customers to get feedback on proposed product enhancements and prioritize them for potential inclusion in the future vision and direction of AspenTech products.


Presentation Title: Customer Panel Discussion

Customers will discuss and give feedback on current aspenONE Planning & Scheduling solution capabilities.



Product Focus: Aspen Olefins Scheduler, Aspen PIMS, Aspen Petroleum Scheduler

Zafar Ali, Sr. Director, Product Management, AspenTech

Zafar has over 15 years of experience serving the oil & gas industry. He holds an MBA from the University of Houston and a Masters in Chemical Engineering from Ohio State University.

OPTIMIZE Synergy



Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

OPTIMIZE Aspen

Subtrack: Plenary

Session Title: Closing Plenary

This closing session of the OPTIMIZE 2013 conference is one that you will not want to miss.

Chair: Manolis Kotzabasakis, AspenTech

Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM


Subtrack: Engineering Appreciation & Training

Session Title: Working with Excel Datasheets in Aspen Basic Engineering

Datasheets and lists are created in Aspen Basic Engineering in an easy-to-use Excel-based tool. This session will provide an understanding of the capabilities of the Excel Datasheet Editor, training in how to use it to best effect, and demonstrate tricks and tips to make best use of the Excel features with which you are already familiar to maximize productivity. The session will be useful to new or prospective users of Aspen Basic Engineering, and to anyone who is responsible for training end-users.

Chair: Andrew McBrien, Product Director, Basic Engineering, AspenTech

Session Title: Integrated Economic Analysis in Process Simulation

This session will explain latest capabilities in rapid screening of conceptual designs with relative economic analysis of capital and operating costs from inside Aspen Plus and Aspen HYSYS.

Chair: Tom Fiske, Product Director, Economics, AspenTech

Session Title: Setting up Economic Evaluation Templates for Your Organization

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This session will review new software capabilities and best practices to develop and deploy project specific and technology specific templates for Economic Evaluation. The templates establishes consistent basis and enables process engineers, other engineering disciplines and cost estimators to effectively collaborate throughout the project.

Chair: Dan McCarthy, Product Manager, Economics AspenTech

Session Title: Engineering Appreciation and Training: Integrated Economics in Aspen Plus

This session will explain latest capabilities in rapid screening of conceptual designs with relative economic analysis of capital and operating costs from inside Aspen Plus.

Chair: David Tremblay, Product Director, Aspen Plus Line, AspenTech

Session Title: Engineering Appreciation & Training: Integrated Energy Analysis & Energy Optimization

This session will explain latest capabilities in energy analysis of processes to quickly evaluate potential for energy saving and identify design changes to achieve the energy saving from inside Aspen Plus and Aspen HYSYS.

Chair: Jack Zhang, Product Manager, AspenTech

Session Title: Engineering Appreciation and Training: Solids Modeling I

This will be part one of a two part session that will highlight solids process modeling capabilities in aspenONE Engineering and how these capabilities can be utilized to model processes involving fluids and solids in an integrated manner.

Chair: Ajay Laksmanan, Product Director, Solids, AspenTech

Session Title: Engineering Appreciation and Training: SImulation integration with EDR

Heat exchangers need to be designed and optimized in the context of the overall process. This session will provide an in-depth understanding of how heat exchangers can be designed and optimized inside Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Plus environments using rigorous heat exchanger models.


Session Title: Engineering Appreciation and Training: Pipeline Hydraulic Modeling in HYSYS

New capabilities in pipeline hydraulics modeling, including flow assurance, are now available in Aspen HYSYS. This session will review these new capabilities and discuss best practices for pipeline modeling for both oil & gas production and within process plants.

Chair: Dr. Glenn Dissinger, Product Director, HYSYS Upstream & Dynamics, AspenTech



Session Title: Non-Linear APC

This session features presentations covering APC applied to non-linear processes.


Presentation Title: NONLINEAR CONTROLLER AND TRANSITIONS MANAGER APPLIED TO A SPHERIPOL POLYPROPYLENEPROCESS

This paper depicts the methodology used to implement an advanced nonlinear control application using Aspen Nonlinear Controller to a Polypropylene process (Spheripol loop reactors), in which two different kinds of models were used: phenomenological and empirical nonlinear models. Also described in this paper is the implementation of the Transition Manager for the recipe control using Aspen Process Sequencer during the change from one grade to another, in order to automate operator’s actions and achieve a standard and benchmark manner of doing each transition.


Industry: Polymers


Lívia Tizzo, Braskem

Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM


Subtrack: Engineering Appreciation & Training

Session Title: Creating New Templates for Datasheets and Lists

Aspen Basic Engineering delivers over 190 templates for datasheets and lists, and users may extend the library to capture corporate standards or client needs. In this session, you will learn the procedure to create new templates, details of how to use the configuration tools, and best practices and tricks and tips.

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Chair: Andrew McBrien, Product Director, Basic Engineering, AspenTech

Session Title: China Basis in Cost Estimation

This session will explain how AspenTech’s Economic Evaluation software can be used to address projects in China including incorporation of Chinese design standards.

Chair: Dan McCarthy, Product Manager, Economics AspenTech

Session Title: Engineering Appreciation and Training: Integrated Economics in HYSYS

This session will explain latest capabilities in rapid screening of conceptual designs with relative economic analysis of capital and operating costs from inside Aspen HYSYS.

Chair: Julie Levine, Product Marketing Professional, AspenTech

Session Title: Effective Simulation Using Plant Data

Latest capabilities in Aspen Plus & Aspen HYSYS now enable model search and plant data search and analysis directly from within the process simulation environment dramatically improving the effectiveness of plant troubleshooting and analysis. This session will discuss the latest capabilities to take plant troubleshooting and analysis to the next level.

Chair: Vidya Mantrala, Product Management Professional, AspenTech

Session Title: Engineering Appreciation and Training: Solids Modeling 2

This session is part two of a program that will highlight solids process modeling capabilities in aspenONE Engineering and how these capabilities can be utilized to model processes involving fluids and solids in an integrated manner.

Chair: Ajay Laksmanan, AspenTech

Session Title: Engineering Appreciation & Training: Flare System Design and Dynamic Simulation

Dynamic simulation can give much better estimates of relief loads and pressures in a flare or blow-down system. In this session, we will introduce capabilities to obtain more accurate estimates of the relief and blow-down flowrates, which can lead to substantial capital savings.

Chair: Dr. Glenn Dissinger, Director, Product Management - HYSYS Product Family, AspenTech

Session Title: Engineering Appreciation and Training: Pipeline Hydraulic Modeling in HYSYS

New capabilities in pipeline hydraulics modeling, including flow assurance, are now available in Aspen HYSYS. This session will review these new capabilities and discuss best practices for pipeline modeling for both oil & gas production and within process plants.

Chair: Dr. Glenn Dissinger, Product Director, HYSYS Upstream & Dynamics, AspenTech

Session Title: Engineering Appreciation & Training: Aspen HYSYS for refining and planning

Production planning with Aspen PIMS enables petroleum refiners to maximize margins through optimum selection of feedstock’s and identification of optimum operation including product mix. Process simulation with Aspen HYSYS improves planning model accuracy due to accuracy of simulation and reactor models. This session will provide in-depth review of best practices and methodologies in this area. This session will also covered modeling of fired heaters within HYSYS.

Chair: Dinu Ajikutira, Product Manager, HYSYS Family, AspenTech



Session Title: V8 Deep DIve & Meet the Experts

This session will feature in-depth demonstrations and discussion on the innovations of V8. AspenTech will have experts on hand from Product Management, Business COnsulting and APC R&D. During this session, APC Product Management will lead a round table discussion regarding your needs in future releases.

Chair: John Campbell, DIr, APC Product Management, AspenTech

Presentation Title: V8 APC Model Builder

This demonstration will illustrate the improvements in the new APC Model Builder available in the V8 version.




Mike Keenan, Dir, APC R&D

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