Oil and Natural Gas

Webinar: Optimisation for Heating Medium System on Offshore Platform

Webinar: Optimisation for Heating Medium System on Offshore Platform
  • Date From 22nd February 2021
  • Date To 22nd February 2021
  • Price Free of charge, open to all.
  • Location Online: 18:00 MYT. Duration: 1 hour.

Overview

A SONG webinar with a technical presentation by the technical professional team from the University of Nottingham Malaysia.

Heating medium is used at the oil and gas platform to reduce the viscosity of heavy crude from the well and to facilitate the separation process by reducing the size and cost of the separators. A typical heating medium system consists of waste heat recovery units, heating medium pumps, and oil heaters that form the heat exchanger network (HEN). In this talk, graphical and mathematical optimisation methods will be shown on how they are used to perform optimum design for a heating medium system for an offshore platform.

The graphical method based on process integration techniques is first used to determine the optimum heating medium flowrate that leads to minimum total annualized cost. The latter includes the capital and operating costs trade-off between HEN and the waste heat recovery unit. The optimisation concept is then extended into a mathematical programming model, which allows the various oil separators to be sized based on the selected range of outlet temperatures of the respective heaters. Doing this allows simultaneous optimisation to be carried out for both heating medium and separation systems. An industrial case study based on floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) facility is used for demonstration.

Speakers

Professor Ir Dr Dominic Foo, Professor of Process Design and Integration

Professor Ir Dr Dominic Foo is a professor of process design and integration at the University of Nottingham Malaysia and is the Founding Director for the Centre of Excellence for Green Technologies. He is a Fellow of the IChemE, Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM), Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the Engineering Council UK, Professional Engineer (PEng) with the Board of Engineer Malaysia (BEM), as well as the President for the Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering (APCChE).

Professor Foo is an active author, with eight books, more than 160 journal papers, and made more than 220 conference presentations, with more than 30 keynote/plenary speeches. He served as International Scientific Committees for many important international conferences (CHISA/PRES, FOCAPD, ESCAPE, PSE, SDEWES, etc.). Professor Foo is the Editor-in-Chief for Process Integration and Optimisation for Sustainability (Springer Nature), Subject Editor for Process Safety & Environmental Protection (Elsevier), and editorial board members for several other renowned journals.

He is the winners of the Innovator of the Year Award 2009 of IChemE, Young Engineer Award 2010 of IEM, Outstanding Young Malaysian Award 2012 of Junior Chamber International (JCI), Outstanding Asian Researcher and Engineer 2013 (Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan), Vice-Chancellor’s Achievement Award 2014 (University of Nottingham) and Top Research Scientist Malaysia 2016 (ASM).

Dr Diban Pitchaimuthu, University of Nottingham Malaysia

Dr Diban Pitchaimuthu has six years of experience in the oil and gas industry, as a project engineer (two years) and a process engineer (four years). Dr Diban specializes in process integration. He makes use of graphical and mathematical optimisation tools to determine optimum design solutions. He is keen on machine learning and its application in chemical engineering.

The material presented in this webinar has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter’s own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or SONG. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.

Time

The event will start at 18:00 MYT (Kuala Lumpur, GMT +8).

Sponsors

IChemE gratefully acknowledges:

  • PETRONAS Group Technical Solutions (GTS) sponsorship of SONG evening talks.
  • EAST One-Zero-One organizer of SONG evening talks.

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