Plant Processes & Safety Conference 2011
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Plant and component requirements for plant automation should be taken into account at the design and planning stage to ensure a longer service life and a higher level of fail safety.  Getting the fundamentals of process engineering designs right,before implementation, will eliminate the guesswork in control tuning and process optimization during operations. And with advanced control measures and technologies deployed, plant optimization can be achieved along with the highest level of safety.

With these key issues in mind, the Plant Processes & Safety Conference 2011 will focus on the energy and offshore industries.

Leverage on this platform to showcase your business solutions and stories. Please note that submissions are not strictly limited to the list of topics below. Alternative proposals are welcomed.

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Plants Processes & Safety Conference 2011 Submission Topics:

1. Operations Reliability & Sustainability :
   • Developing robust and flexible O&M procedures to integrate with innovation in technology
   • Developing an asset management programme to enhance operations, reliability and sustainability to avoid shut downs and failures
2. Organising OPEX savings to ensure ROI
   • Case study on how covering all aspects of OPEX can lead to significant savings
3. Design considerations for energy efficiency & sustainability
   • Evaluating your Heating, Ventilation & Air-conditioning (HVAC) design
   • Is moving to virtual power plants the key to integration of renewable energies?
4. Improving lifecycle costs of plants/equipment by reducing energy consumption
   • Ensuring better energy management with energy analysis modeling and new technologies
   • Understanding power consumption – Outage management and lifecycle
     How to reach net-zero energy consumption in the long run?
5. Process Instrumentation
   • Assessing instrumentation needs, network designs, and an evaluation on reliability
   • How design goals will ensure safety, loss prevention and a better ROI
6. Plant Safety & Process Automation
   • Implementing safety automation to reduce engineering hours and risk.
   • Documentation of current systems and analysis of potential pitfalls.
   • Standard automation vs. customization of safety solutions – what’s the balance?
7. Safety Instrumented Systems
   • Implementing SIS to prevent large scale destruction – the importance of design in SIS
   • High Integrity Pressure Protection System (HIPPS)
8. Safety Audits 
   • Complying with safety requirements – overview of international/regional regulations
   • Maintaining the plant’s safety standards – the necessary role of a corporate safety culture
9. Managing safety lapses and crises
   • Preventive measures – what guidelines and checklists should be put in place?
   • Recognisingall costs, and managing the aftermath of a crisis
10. Overcoming the shortage of skilled personnel
    • Current challenges faced and solutions in the short to medium term
    • Designing plants to reduce the need of skilled personnel to operate

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