Webcasts

Sponsor: Lummus Technology LLC

The refinery outlook has been influenced recently by many factors such as stringent automotive fuel specifications, stricter environmental regulations for bunker fuels and gathering momentum for electric vehicles. Projected future demand for transportation fuels, in particular gasoline, is expected to decline while consumerism of a rising middle class is predicted to increase demand for light olefins, aromatics, polymer resins and their derivatives. These factors are driving growth in petrochemicals, recently shifting the focus to crude to chemicals. 

Upgrading low value streams to higher value products by employing creative and cost effective solutions is an important consideration. This presentation will highlight how Lummus’ Single Regenerator Dual Catalyst (SRDC) Technology and its integration with Resid Fluid Catalytic Cracking (RFCC) create operational and product flexibility for ever-changing markets.

Applications where SRDC is advantageous:

•  RFCC operators looking to increase propylene production 
•  The paraffinic nature of U.S. shale light tight oil producing surplus naphtha and minimizing naphtha exports at lower value 
•  For refineries planning to process heavier feeds or decrease gasoline production, and  refineries requiring high octane blend stock 

Sponsors: Honeywell and Wood

Data is changing the landscape and improving the quality, productivity and safety of operations that have been limited by traditional methods.  The future is a connected plant - advanced technology and digital twins that enable real-time expert monitoring and unit performance enhancement.  

Honeywell has combined their leading cloud-based predictive analytics platform, known as Honeywell Forge Process Advisor, with Wood’s process technology and asset insight, to deliver an advanced Digital Delayed Coking solution. Digital Delayed Coking allows operators to continuously access expert domain knowledge, optimize performance in a more dynamic way and ultimately increase the reliability and profitability of their Delayed Coking Units.

In this co-hosted webinar with Honeywell and Wood experts you will learn:

• What is the future of a connected plant?
• How to keep existing assets operating optimally
• How digital twins enable real-time expert monitoring
• How to increase the reliability and profitability of a Delayed Coking Units

Join this co-host webinar to discover how Honeywell Forge Process Advisor can help ensure the reliability, efficiency, and safety of your operations.

Sponsor: AspenTech

How are you using technology to implement the changes needed to stay competitive?  Though market uncertainties remain, one thing is clear: the ability to integrate the production of chemical intermediates into the refining process will be a profit driver in the coming years.

Join industry experts as they discuss how digitalization can be used to evaluate economic opportunities as well as existing asset constraints to make better business decisions.  Learn how you can:

• Run systems-based risk models to evaluate best application of capital
• Use industrial AI to improve refining – chemical systems modeling
• Evaluate and improve sustainability of designs
• Test and validate opportunities using advanced planning

During this webinar we will share recent input received from many global industry leaders. We encourage you to join the conversation and submit questions in advance when registering.

Sponsor: Lummus Technology

Since 1985, Lummus' OCT has been an innovative solution to produce olefins and has been licensed at 50+ units globally. Lummus' process utilizes metathesis chemistry to produce propylene by reacting ethylene, butenes, and pentenes.

The central features of the Lummus OCT process are high selectivity to propylene, low energy consumption and low CAPEX. OCT is flexible to process butenes and/or pentene feedstocks that are becoming increasingly difficult to blend into gasoline pools. Another feature is the ability to operate in a reversible mode to produce ethylene and butenes to comonomers from propylene; providing operating flexibility during volatile market conditions.

OCT can be integrated with:

• Steam crackers to supplement propylene production, which enables the cracker to shift to a more efficient “Max Ethylene” mode
• Refineries via Lummus’ Low Pressure Recovery (LPR) units to recover olefins from refinery offgases
• Lummus' Dimerization technology, which creates a direct path from ethylene to propylene; ideal for Gas Cracker plants and regions with a surplus of ethylene to pivot into the propylene value chain

Sponsor: Tracerco

Not all refineries are the same and as such, the challenges with blending crude feedstocks vary between facilities.  Fluctuation in crude supply can be beneficial, however it can also bring significant operational challenges during the desalting process that can have an impact further downstream into other parts of the distillation unit.  In this webinar, Tracerco will discuss the solutions available for process analysis and optimization and offer insights which will empower operators to make more informed decisions, be safer and more productive.

Sponsor: AspenTech

Join AspenTech, Hargrove, and Zachry Group for an inside look at how EPCs are leveraging digitalization to revamp their engineering processes, provide digital handover to their customers and create digital twins that help ensure that plant owners are getting the most out of their assets.  This presentation and panel discussion will explore what digital transformation means for EPCs during and after project delivery and how these initiatives ultimately benefit their customers, the plant owners.      

Sponsor: AVEVA

The volatility in crude and product prices as well as demand are making even the most current production planning and process models far from optimized. Additionally, fuel oil quality constraints due to IMO 2020 are adding more stringent requirements in terms of feedstocks and sulphur handling. Optimizing feedstock selection and process conditions to match demands must move faster to maximize refining margins and reduce business risks in these uncertain times. The approach to Digital Transformation, if well executed, will enable refineries to quickly respond to volatile market conditions and maximize margins.

Learn how an end-to-end value chain optimization helps redefine your processes, run what-if scenarios, enable deeper collaboration, reduce value leaks, sustain productivity and innovation, and ultimately make better decisions quicker.  Benefits include:

• Reducing crude evaluation time from days to minutes
• Reducing refining costs by up to $0.70/barrel
• Reducing Unplanned Downtime by up to 25%

Sponsor: Metrohm

Petroleum raw materials, precursors and methanol products are difficult to titrate, and they require the right solvents, non-aqueous titrants and special electrodes to get accurate results. While much attention is typically given to TAN and TBN analysis, non-aqueous chloride titration and basic nitrogen are equally critical and challenging tests to ensure quality and efficacy of these important hydrocarbon products.  

Learn how to implement and optimize the IMPCA-002 method for chlorides in methanol and UOP 269 basic nitrogen method by attending this webinar presented by Sagar Irrinki, Quality Control Manager at Coastal Gulf & International, Inc. Sagar will share how his laboratory navigates executing these tests on various types of petrochemical samples. Kerri-Ann Blake, Product Manager for Titration at Metrohm USA, will provide guidance for electrode selection and best practices for electrode care and replacement. Don’t miss the live Q&A at the end to get all your questions answered by Sagar and Kerri-Ann.