DAY ONE - Wednesday 9 November 2011

Energy and refining margin: How much energy do plants use?

• The structure of energy consumption
• The profitability equation

Energy costing

• Definistion of marginal mechanisms
• Calculating marginal values for fuel, power and steam

Industrial power generation

• Description of the main power cycles
• Backpressure
• Condensing
• Gas Turbine
• Co-generation
• Calculation of cycle efficiencies

Backpressure power

• Maximising power generation in the most efficient cycle
• Minimising power cost
  

Day Two - Thursday 10 November 2011

Operating efficienct practical issues

• Boiler efficiency's especially at low flows
• Gas turbine:heat recovery steam generator efficiencies
• Duct firing at 100% incremental efficiency
• Turn down effects on gas turbine's heat rate
• Price heat rate for break even operation of steam and power generation equipment

Steam and power system optimisation

• Real life steam system configuration
• Examples
• Optimising procedures and benefits

Fuel system optimisation

• Fired boilers
• Fired heaters
• Process furnaces
• Flaring
  

Emmissions constraints management

• SO2 emissions
• NOx emissions
• CO2 trading

DAY THREE - Friday 11 November 2011

Energy system auditing, accounting and monitoring

• Data validation
  
• Imbalances, bad meters wasted steam and ceondensates losses
• Equipment efficiency
• Steam losses
• Condensate losses

Closed loop system optimisation

• New Trends
• Model Validation
• Optimisation
  
• Set point implementation

Energy Management

• Best practices in energy monitoring and reporting
• Implementation an effective site energy programme
• Management of charge

End of course