Webcasts

Sponsored by: AspenTech

According to results of a recent ARC Advisory Group benchmarking survey of Engineering Procurement & Construction (EPC) firms and Owner-Operators, capital projects for sustainability are requiring advanced digital solutions to accelerate scale up and time to market. One significant finding: 63% of EPCs leverage key digital deliverables from design to construction stages of a project. In this live webinar, ARC Advisory Group Vice President, Peter Reynolds and AspenTech’s Senior Director of Market Research, Tricia Ryan will share the results of this important sustainability benchmarking study. Discussion points will include:

• What is the ideal contract strategy for sustainability projects?
• When bidding on sustainability projects, what are the top three risk factors?
• How valuable are digital software design and build deliverables when included in sustainability project deliverables?

The webinar will also highlight case study examples of real companies advancing sustainability initiatives by leveraging advanced digital solutions.

Sponsored by: Lummus Technology

Conventional shell and tube exchangers are proven workhorses in refineries and petrochemical plants for their robust nature, easy maintenance and availability. However, today’s sustainability targets and carbon reduction focus asks more of energy-dependent systems, requiring heat exchangers to deliver higher performance, increased reliability and reasonable upgrade paths, all within tighter budgets.

Join us for a virtual introduction as Lummus Technology presents its latest innovation in shell and tube heat exchangers—the Helixchanger^® 2.0 system. The Helixchanger legacy and proprietary helical baffle technology includes more than 20 years of service and 7,000+ installations worldwide. This webcast will highlight the industry's current technology, explain Lummus' path in research and development, and showcase how the next generation mitigates shell side fouling, protects against vibrations, optimizes pressure drop and reduces OPEX for today’s operators.

Sponsored By: Lummus Technology

Butadiene is an important chemical which is used to make synthetic rubbers for the manufacture of tires, shoe soles, adhesives, sealants and many other products. Butene and butane rich products can be further processed in other units to create an array of useful consumer and industrial materials. Central to this practice is the butadiene extraction process which can be integrated with a C4 acetylenes hydrogenation process to increase butadiene production, as well as with selective olefins extraction units to produce butene and butane rich products. 

This webcast will cover:

• Detailed descriptions of the butadiene extraction, C4 acetylenes hydrogenation and selective olefins extraction processes
• The value enhancements associated with integrating C4 acetylenes hydrogenation and selective olefins extraction units with a butadiene extraction unit
• The Lummus Technology/BASF butadiene extraction technologies and routes

Sponsored by: Axens

Axens will introduce some technologies that are producing Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) such as Alcohol to Jet, Fischer Tropsch (Biomass to liquid, Power to liquid), HEFA etc... some of the most promising pathways to support the decarbonization of the aviation sector. All of them are using hydrogen in different quantities with a strong impact in the project related to profitability (ie cost of H₂) and the carbon footprint (ie origin of H₂).The webcast will present some commercial projects, e-fuels and e-biofuels, where Axens is licensing its technologies and where low carbon H₂ plays a key role. Some comparisons will be shown to show the H₂ production cost versus the cost production of SAF.

Sponsored by: Lummus Technology

The conversion of ethanol to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) has become a point of greater interest due to the growing demand for jet fuel, the SAF Grand Challenge and the commitments from the aviation industry to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The ethanol to jet (ETJ) process offers an attractive path to comply with the SAF challenges due to ethanol supply-side economics and worldwide government incentives.

Join us for a virtual introduction of Lummus Technology’s green, sustainable and cost-effective ETJ technology that integrates ethanol to ethylene, ethylene oligomerization and hydrogenation in a configuration that maximizes the final yield to jet components, while reducing CAPEX, OPEX and CO₂ emissions.

This webcast will cover:

• Observations into today’s current SAF market, and related technologies and economics
• Lummus’ ETJ technology features and benefits
• Commercial experience and insights

Sponsored by: Honeywell UOP

Digital Services Ecosystem is the key to Customer Success: In this era of Digitalization and Software, technology companies like Honeywell UOP stand to drive better differentiation and can solve complex customer problems by creating a Digital Ecosystem. Honeywell UOP, with its extensive knowledge of the process, has developed complex analytics that can predict plant performance, has a world-class training program, and have some of the industry-leading Service personnel helping customers with their problems. Still, an Ecosystem that brings all of these offerings together that a customer can seamlessly work through has a value vastly greater than the sum of the individual components. This webinar will focus on how these individual solutions can bring value to a customer and, at the same time, how an integrated approach can exponentially increase the value to the customer.

Sponsored by: Cognite

Time is the one, universal, finite resource that refineries can’t increase. With a hard limit of 24 hours in a day, how can operators spend time more productively?

Turnarounds are one of the largest offenders in stealing productive time, with around 50% of shutdown projects going over budget and schedule. Smarter upfront planning can help operators get back this precious resource, but doing this well remains challenging and inefficient. Today, TAR planners still face disjointed processes due to siloed information, lots of manual work, and difficulty collaborating across teams.

In this webinar, Cognite experts will discuss how refineries can claim back more time - their most precious resource - with smarter data-driven TAR planning processes. Using real-world examples and case studies, we will talk about the obvious and hidden ways that turnarounds steal time from your organization, and how to utilize new data contextualization solutions to claim that time back, year round.

Sponsored by: AspenTech

The hydrogen economy has been gaining momentum in North America for the past two years, and this has only accelerated as the U.S. Department of Energy begins to implement the incentives provided in the recent IRA legislation.

Attend this webinar to get an update on the regulatory and investment landscape from Roxana Bekemohammadi, Founder and Executive Director of the US Hydrogen Alliance. Joining her will be Lee Nichols, VP of Content and Editor-in-Chief from Hydrocarbon Processing and Ron Beck, Senior Solution Marketing Director from AspenTech.

Some of the timely topics that will be covered include:

• Current insights into hydrogen’s regulatory and investment landscape
• The biggest opportunities found in the hydrogen economy
• How digitalization increases feasibility of the green premium on hydrogen
• Ways to deploy and scale commercialization of hydrogen

Learn how to optimize your hydrogen projects for maximum value. A Q&A session will follow so we encourage you to come prepared with questions.