Engineering and Maintenance
Process Plant Optimization and Energy Conservation
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Process Plant Optimization and Energy Conservation Course
Introduction:
Course Objectives:
At the end of the Process Plant Optimization & Energy Conservation Course, you will:
- Enhance the business focus and make more contributions to sustainable plant profitability
- Learn how to identify the most attractive opportunities for energy savings
- Gain managerial tools to effectively optimize plant operations
- Assist participants in understanding the main elements of plant optimization and the way how to achieve and realize potential benefits
- Enhance the business focus of participants and equip them to make more contributions to sustainable plant profitability
- equip maintenance professionals, planners and engineers with the knowledge to select the most appropriate methodologies for their maintenance decision-making
- Learn how to identify the potential for reduction of energy consumption
- Provide participants with practical and effective methods and tools to perform technical and economic evaluations of the alternatives
Who Should Attend?
Process Plant Optimization & Energy Conservation Training Course is ideal for:
- Process Plant Supervisors
- Plant Engineers and Operators
- Production and Operation Engineers
- Maintenance Engineers and Technicians
- Engineering and Technical personnel involved in improving process plant, petrochemical plant and refinery profitability and energy efficiency
Course Outlines:
Process Plant Operation, Integrity, and Reliability:
- Process Plant Optimization and Energy Conservation – Overview
- Asset Integrity Management (AIM) and Optimization - Integrating operation, inspection, and maintenance effort
- Plant Integrity and Reliability – Cornerstone of Plant Optimization and Energy Management
- Operation and Maintenance Impacts on Plant Integrity and Reliability
- Equipment condition monitoring and assessment
- Establishment of Operating Windows (OW) - Maximize throughput within the limits defined by mechanical-structural integrity over the expected life of the asset components
- Effective management of change (MOC) program – On-going link between engineering, operations and maintenance
- Process Plant Economics
Process Plant Optimization:
- Process Control Basics
- Elements of Process Plant Optimization
- Components Required To Optimize An Industrial Process
- Process or a mathematical model of the process, and process variables which can be manipulated and controlled
- Application Of Simulation Technology To Plant Optimization And Control - Plant Optimization Models
- The Basics Of Heat Integration
- Pinch technology
- Heat exchanger train optimization
- Optimization procedure
- Application Of Simulation Technology To Plant Optimization And Control - Plant Optimization Models
Industrial Energy Management – Energy Efficiency: Good for Business – Good for the Environment:
- Energy Use and Optimization in Process industries
- Industrial Energy Management Techniques
- Industrial Energy Management and System Standards
- Industry Program for Energy Conservation
- Best Practices in Process Plant Energy Management
- Developing Customized Energy Management Program
- Obstacles that Face Energy Management Programs
- Examples of energy management programs and standards CIPEC, UNIDO
- Incentives for energy assessment and energy retrofit projects
Energy Conservation Opportunities:
- Implementing an Energy Management Program
- Benchmarking Energy Intensity and Usage
- Technology Options - New energy-efficient technologies. Examples include a Corrosion analyzer for advanced materials and fabricated components Fiber optic sensor for combustion measurement and control
- Energy Conservation Checklist
- Plant processes
- Mechanical Systems
- Electric Power
- Technical and Economic Evaluation of Potential Opportunities
The Implications of Plant Optimization Activities:
- Relating Energy Efficiency To Business Outcomes
- Impact of optimization activities and technological modifications to the plant
- Plant integrity and safety
- Technology licenses
- Financing agreements
- Impact on Human Resources – The human factor