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Preliminary Conference Timetable
Please note that this conference timetable is a preliminary version and that the organizers reserve the right to make alterations. The final program will be distributed at the conference.
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015
Plenaries – Room 7a/7b
9:00 am
Opening & welcome address
John Aller, Executive Director, Materials Technology Institute, USA
Thijs Elshof, CEO, KCI Publishing, The Netherlands
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9:10 am Neil Henry, Principal Materials Consultant, ABB Limited, UK
Managing Aging Plants – Ten years after
Why has this theme become important within Europe and what are the implications? Why does it need to be addressed?
9:40 am Pol Hoorelbeke, Deputy Senior Vice President HSE
TOTAL Refining & Chemicals, Belgium
Paul de Bruijn, Technical Integrity Advisor,
HSE Division, TOTAL Refining & Chemicals, Belgium
Managing aging plants from the perspective of a multi-national operator: TOTAL Refining & Chemicals
10:10 am Wim Vancauwenberghe, Director BEMAS (BElgian Maintenance ASsociation), Belgium
Aging plants in North-West Europe: What can we learn from the perspective of the MORE4CORE project (Maintenance, Overall, and REpair for COmpetitiveness of the
North-West European REgion?)
10:40 am Coffee Break
11:10 am Workshop A: Risk-Based Inspection – Room 7a
Workshop B: Materials Selection for Replacement & Interface – Room 6
Moderator: Jacko Aerts, DSM-GMCC, The Netherlands
Moderator: Christos Christoglou, Bayer Technology
Services, Germany
Panelists:
Lena Wegrelius, Outokumpu, Sweden
Michael Renner, Asset & Corrosion Management Consultancy, Germany
Lars Rose, DuET, Dupont Engineering Research & Technology, Germany
Panelists:
Jürgen Deininger, TÜV SÜD Industrie Service, Germany
Gert Henk Wijnants, Stork, The Netherlands
Jarkko Räty, Service Solutions, Metso, Finland
John Aller, Materials Technology Institute, USA
In the Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) Workshop we will look at how
this process can lead to increases in plant reliability and availability. RBI examines equipment such as heat exchangers, pressure
vessels, piping and pressure relief devices in industrial/process
plants and ranks them according to risk of failure. Its use allows
us to prioritize and schedule inspections based on the probability that there will be materials losses (and the consequence these
will have for Health, Safety and Environment), and production
losses. It proceeds with mitigation activities in order to minimize
unexpected failures and planned downtime. It is therefore an
essential tool in the search for reaching operational excellence.
In a series of short presentations we will highlight how this Asset
Performance Management tool is used to optimize the extent
and intervals of inspections, based on site-acceptable risk levels
and operating limits, whilst, at the same time, mitigating risks as
appropriate.
RBI will be addressed in the following settings:
· Chemical and oil & gas process industry, both upstream and
downstream
· Refineries
· Non-continuous / batch production process industries
· he health care industry
· Power plants
The possibilities of cost reduction through the application of RBI
will be presented. The current status of regulations with regard
to RIMAP and European standards will be discussed.
Through audience participation and open discussion we will
attempt to provide ideas, suggestions or solutions for some of
the challenges with which the audience is faced.
When replacing old equipment in a plant, a like-for-like replacement often seems the obvious choice to be
carried out: “The previous piece of equipment lasted a long time so it must have been good”. It can, nevertheless, be questioned whether this is indeed a true philosophy and whether this is the optimal strategy.
A thorough analysis of the root cause of failure could shed light on future options. It might be, for example,
that the operational conditions have changed, which may require a reassessment of the materials selection
process. Moreover, like-for-like replacement could be seen as a lost opportunity to improve future asset
performance.
Michael Renner will introduce some Asset Integrity Management concepts which have been successfully
applied in many industries dealing with hazardous chemicals, especially in aging plants. These concepts
also include the analysis of the potential damage mechanisms and failure modes under complex chemical &
physical production conditions. These conditions demand optimized materials selection, and replacement
projects require clear materials recommendations to enable safe and reliable asset performances in the
future.
When a replacement project has to be handled, the question should always be asked: what is the trigger
causing the need for replacement? Is it aging after a very uneventful service life, a mechanical failure not
covered by the design, or equipment failure caused by corrosion or other damage mechanisms? Michael
Renner will briefly outline the potential impact parameters of corrosion or other materials degradation
systems for a Root Cause Failure analysis with the aim of determining an optimal value-added materials
selection, which addresses the economical but reliable resolution for the event and which prevents its reoccurrence.
Lena Wegrelius: The reason for exchanging equipment is typically either wear, corrosion or other such material related failures. However, the refurbishment or replacement of aged chemical plant equipment
provides an opportunity to optimize material selection with regard to overall life cycle and maintenance
costs as well as to improve the sustainability footprint of the equipment and plant. A few examples of
improved life cycle costing, when changing from carbon steel to stainless steel will be shown. Also the consequences of such a material shift with regard to the improvement in sustainability footprints will be shown.
In his presentation, Lars Rose from DuPont De Nemours will focus on the material challenges faced by
engineers attempting to replace or renew equipment. This will include issues such as upgraded regulatory
requirements, changes in operational permits, issues with vanishing suppliers, documentation as it was decades ago, and alloys that seem to have vanished from the face of today’s operations environment.
Workshop participants: Active audience discussion will be encouraged throughout the workshop so please
bring some slides with you to the workshop (a maximum of four), if you wish.
12:30 am Lunch
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13:30 pm Paper Session A – Room 7a
Paper Session B – Room 6
13:30 pm Management of aged equipment lacking documentation
E. Chant, Becht Engineering, USA
Life-time assessment of materials under high-temperature corrosion conditions
M. Schütze, A. Naji, M. Röhrig, and G. Schmidt, DECHEMA Forschungsinstitut, Germany
13:55 pm The use of fitness for service assessments in aging plants
P. Schreurs, Sintra Engineering, The Netherlands
Aging plants: a challenge for on-site metal analysis
W. Sanders, Oxford Instruments Analytical, Germany
14:20 pm Lifetime extension projects at DSM
J. Aerts, DSM, The Netherlands
Atlas of Microstructures: a valuable tool for the assessment of the aging of materials
E. Berghof-Hasselbächer, M. Schütze, M. Galetz,R. Durham, G. Schmidt, and J.J. Hoffman, DECHEMA
Forschungsinstitut, Germany
14:45 pm Coffee Break
15:15 pm Workshop A: The role of Safety Culture and Safety Leadership in Managing Aging Plants – Room 7a Workshop: Schmidt+ Clemens, Steam reformer furnaces – Room 6
Leader: Sander Zwanikken, AdviSafe Risk Management, The Netherlands
Objectives:
The workshop is focused on gaining an understanding of the role of safety culture in managing aging
plants, and a better understanding of safety culture. In addition, an overview will be provided of available practical tools to improve safety culture within your organization and you will practice with the
use of some of the tools. The underlying objective is to inspire you to start or continue demonstrating
safety leadership and provide a safe and healthy working environment for your employees, also in
aging plants.
Interactive, fun and inspiring
In this workshop participants will practice with concrete exercises and real-life dilemmas. You will learn
how you can demonstrate safety leadership and how you can work towards more pro-active safety
culture in your organization related to managing aging plants.
The workshop is inspired by the Hearts & Minds toolbox of Shell, developed by Shell and the University of Leiden in The Netherlands. The following subjects will be covered either in plenary or in
subgroups:
• Understanding your culture –what is the level of safety culture maturity in my own organization?
• How to improve safety leadership in my own organization
• Creating safety awareness
• Improving supervision and managing mistakes and violations
• The Human Factor: risk or essential for success?
• Change management, where to start?
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17:30 pm Ending
Moderator: Dietlinde Jakobi, Schmidt + Clemens GmbH + Co. KG,
Germany
Panelists:
Rob Gommans, MCC Materials and Corrosion Consultants v.o.f
Pedro Imizcoz, Schmidt + Clemens Group
Barry Fisher, Quest Integrity Group
Val Fowler, Magnetische Prüfanlagen GmbH
Malcolm Wass, SafeRad Ltd.
Steam reformer units form the heart of ammonia, hydrogen and methanol production. For economic reasons, but mainly because of maintaining high levels of safety, reliability and structural integrity, end-users want to use state-of-the-art materials and inspection strategies for
their reformer catalyst tubes and outlet components.
An industry expert in the field of inspection techniques and typical
damage mechanisms (Rob Gommans) will give a short introduction followed by a presentation on high-temperature materials and welding
procedures for aged alloys (Pedro Imizcoz).
The possibility of close proximity radiography will be introduced briefly (Malcolm Wass) – a new technology which is expected to accelerate
maintenance & construction programmes.
This steam reformer workshop will cover also aspects like inspection
techniques (Val Fowler) and reformer lifecycle management (Barry
Fisher).
The interactions of the participants and the discussions with the industry experts shall improve the knowledge of turnaround requirements,
increase the plant efficiency and help to achieve the operational,
safety and reliability goals.
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Preliminary Conference Timetable
Wednesday, March 4th, 2015
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Plenaries – Room 7a
Plenaries – Room 6
9:00 am
John Wintle, Consultant Engineer, TWI, UK
Plant aging and the link to asset management
Dale F. Hoffman, Director of Maintenance Improvement, Cristal, USA
Risk-based asset integrity program: the journet
9:30 am
Fulvio Caldelari, Risk Engineering, Practice Leader Energy for Global
Corporate in EMEA, Zurich, Switzerland
An insurer’s perspective on managing aging plants
Stuart Pointer, Team Leader Mechanical Engineering , HSE, UK
Managing plant aging: The approach taken by the Great Britain COMAH
Competent Authority
10:00 am Thomas Anlahr, Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow
and Logistics, Germany
Industry 4.0: Hype or opportunity?
Gerhard Holtmann, Head of the Division of Pressure Equipment, TÜV Austria
Managing aging plants: perspective of an inspection body
10:30 am Coffee break
11:00 am Paper Session A – Room 7a
Paper Session B – Room 7b
Paper Session C – Room 6
11:00 am How much of your aging plant is out of control?
George Buckbee,
Metso Automation, UK
Improving the degradation mechanism studies
Asset management solutions to improve value realiability,
for ageing plants
improve plant safety, and achieve cost savings in aging plants.
Rob Gommans, Materials & Corrosion Consultants, M. Gore, Pentair, Germany
The Netherlands
11:25 am Sealing aging equipment
H. Dekker, Chesterton International, Germany
Managing aging valves: valve conditioning
monitoring
R. Simpson and M. Billington,
Score Diagnostics Limited, UK
Decreasing the need for maintenance with high performance
alloys
T.Sterneland, E. Stark, and D. Reuithe, Outokumpu, Finland
11:50 am Optimizing valve maintenance using
condition analysis
J. Raty, Metso Automation, Finland
Managing pressure safety in aging plants
R.P. Bours, FIKE Europe, Belgium
A known risk is a calculable risk. You have to know your assets
B. Kappelmann, DNV GL, Germany
12:15 pm Thermo-hydraulic simulation and estimation
of lifetime consumption
A. Woitalka, R. Hölzl, P. Freko, and
A. Lehmacher, Linde AG –
Engineering Division, Germany
Degradation mechanisms and lifetime aspects of
aluminium plate fin heat exchangers
R. Hölzl and H. Köpf, Linde AG –
Engineering Division, Germany
Supertight bolted joints – a way to minimize hot work and
shut down periods
T. Eriksen, Freudenberg, Oil & Gas Technologies, Norway
12:45 pm Experience with corrosion in the chemical
industry
H. Leonhard and G. Grötsch,
TÜV Süd Chemie Service GmbH, Germany
Control of volatile organic compounds: leak
A detection and repair (LDAR) program.
Dos-Santos, Bureau Veritas, Germany
NDT technologies in industrial field service
J. Nehring, Bureau Veritas, Germany
Closing the recycling loop: Up-cycling of end-of-life fluoroplastics
T. Schwalm, Dyneon, Germany
13:15 pm Lunch
14:15 pm Workshop A: Fitness-for-Service – Room 7a
Workshop B: Corrosion under Insulation – Room 7b
Moderator: Neil Henry, Principal Consultant,
ABB Limited, UK
Moderator: Michael Renner, Asset & Corrosion
Management Consultancy, Germany
Panelists: John Hallett, Growhow, Chester,
UK
John Sharples, AMEC, UK
Bernard McGrath, AMEC, UK
John Wintle, TWI, UK
Panelists:
Dr. Stefan Winnik, Director, SW Materials and
Corrosion Ltd., UK
Gerianne van Ravels, Corrosion Engineer, AkzoNobel, The Netherlands
Knuth Schweier, Head of Corrosion & Inspection Management, Bayer Technology Services,
Germany
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Fitness-for-Service is a multi-disciplinary
approach to determine whether structural
components are fit for continued operation
and service for a desired length of time
into the future, and when they need to be
replaced. The equipment may contain flaws,
have sustained damage, or have aged so
that it cannot be evaluated by use of the
original construction codes. Today there
is comprehensive consensus on industry
recommended practices that can be used to
analyze, evaluate, and monitor equipment
for continued operation but these practices
may pose challenges and uncertainties.
This workshop will look to address various
Fitness-for-Service challenges. The panelists
will provide a personal account of how
Fitness-for-Service principles effect their
everyday working lives. In this way they will
open up a discussion with the audience to
see how Fitness-for-Service principles can
be more effectively applied in facilities to
provide solutions for both now and in the
future.
15:45 pm Ending ceremony
Highlights of the workshop will be as follows:
What is CUI?
What type of assets are involved in the hydrocarbon & chemical processing industry?
• Fixed equipment (reactors, vessels, columns,
etc.)
• Piping (including prefabricated piping)
• Tanks
Potential threats associated with CUI
State-of-the-art mitigation strategies & methods
• Design
• Corrosion prevention technology
• Inspection
The audience will also be encouraged to pose
own company challenges, which will be addressed
in the contect of knowledge sharing and experience exchange.
Workshop C: Plastic Materials in Corrosive Environments – Room 6
Moderators: Karin Jacobson (Research Leader), and
Daniel Ejdeholm (Senior Researcher), Polymeric Materials in
Corrosive Environments, Swerea KIMAB, Sweden
The workshop will be organised by the polymer R&D group at
Swerea KIMAB (former Swedish Corrosion Institute).
The workshop will be divided into a theoretical part focusing on
the causes for service life limitations for polymeric materials in
corrosive environments, and a more practically oriented part in
which we will open discussions around some representative samples extracted from different corrosive environments.
The theoretical part will discuss the different type of polymeric
materials that are normally used in corrosive environments and
their benefits and drawbacks. The different types of corrosive
environments encountered and the type of degradation mechanisms that they can give rise to are also presented. Results from
inspection of process equipment and by field and laboratory
exposures of different materials in various processing streams
(coupon testing) will be presented. It will be shown that from the
data and knowledge achieved from this type of investigations it
is possible to explain and understand failures and to predict the
corrosion behaviour of plastics in different environments, also after long-term use and to determine service-life of plastic process
equipment.
In the practical part we will show and discuss samples which have
been taken from various process equipment that have failed,
have been replaced or are still in service. Experiences from our
previous work have shown that valuable knowledge about the
corrosion properties and the durability of plastics and rubber in
different applications under practical conditions may be achieved
by investigating these samples.
Another important area is welding in process equipment after
exposure to chemicals during service. This is a frequently encountered problem among end users of plastic process equipment
where there are no general guidelines to rely on. Plastic welders
often describe poor weldability as bubble formation, migration
of “wax like” substances causing bad adhesion or sometimes the
viscosity of the molten material is different, making welding difficult. Depending on the type of plastic material and the chemical
environment there seem to be different reasons for the observed
difficulties to weld. Problems with repair welding have been
reported to occur after exposure to a large number of different
media. This problem will be discussed both in the theoretical part
and practical examples will be shown and discussed in the second
part of the workshop.
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