Thursday, August 19, 2010

3.00 pm, Australia Eastern Standard Time (GMT +10:00, Sydney)

1.00 pm, China Standard Time (GMT +08:00, Beijing)

10.30 am, India Standard Time (GMT +05:30, Bombay)

2.00 pm, Japan/ Korea Standard Time (GMT +09:00, Tokyo/ Seoul)

12.00 pm, Thailand Standard Time (GMT +07:00, Jakarta/ Bangkok)

In today's economic environment with high energy prices and continual pressure to improve margins, refiners need a cost-effective strategy for energy reduction.

During this complementary webinar, you will hear case studies on customers that have achieved the following energy-related savings:

• 6-point Ell reduction—equivalent  to $16M/yr. savings—from a refinery-wide Energy Reduction project
• $1M/yr. (105%) from an HDS Revamp for Auto Oil II
• $1M/yr. on fuel—equivalent to 25,000 tons/yr. CO2 reduction— from Crude Unit Performance Improvement and Capacity De-Bottlenecking
• $12M/yr (25%) of complex energy costs from Energy Efficiency project on a large aromatics complex

Discover how you can develop a systematic approach to reduce energy consumption and emissions, while providing a competitive edge to your facility.

Join us for a one-hour webinar and hear how Jacobs Engineering (ESCG) used custom simulations to improve the design of the air revitalization system (ARS) for NASA's Altair Lunar Lander—a spacecraft designed for lunar exploration missions.

The ARS—which controls air quality for the crew inside the module—presented unique challenges such as balancing system performance while minimizing impacts on power and mass. Custom modeling enabled Jacobs to:

• Reduce loads on the propulsion system by reducing system mass
• Reduce launch associated costs
• Pursue additional modifications to improve safety
• Demonstrate a process control strategy for the ARS

You'll learn that Aspen Custom Modeler can be used to develop dynamic simulations for a wide range of systems and equipment— from the moon to your plant.

During this free 75-minute webinar, Marcel Eijkenboom and Mladen Crnomarkovic from DSM, will discuss the many advantages of considering relative costing in the conceptual design phase of a project. They will present the results achieved at DSM Research in the Netherlands, where integrated economics has enabled DSM to consider 10-20 process alternatives in the time in which 2-3 were previously considered.

Gain insight into how DSM captures best-practices process designs through a library approach. Understand how this approach changes a process engineer's thinking to incorporate a balanced view of capital and operating costs in preliminary designs.

Key areas that will be covered include:

• What exactly is integrated economics and how does it work?
• Why did DSM adopt this and what did it achieve?
• Why does this approach result in better designs and better scope?
• How to sell this approach within your process organization?

Also learn how an organization can organize itself to take advantage of this approach, as well as how to plan, implement and adopt this approach.