Overview

Over the years, advanced process control has delivered significant benefits by increasing plant throughput/yield, reducing energy consumption, and maintaining product qualities within specs. These models are traditionally linear in nature and not designed for true economic optimisation of complex processes, of intrinsic non-linear nature. To overcome these challenges and address the economic gaps, real time optimisation using first principles models was introduced. However, these solutions come with their own challenges, such as requiring very high skillset, experience, and effort to deploy and maintain, resulting in limited adoption across process industries.

To address these challenges, Cordant™ Process Optimisation leverages a unique combination of data-driven process modelling, AI and advanced optimisation techniques to continuously improve production rate, yield, energy efficiency, and overall operating margins for a wide variety of industrial processes. The presentation will share the solution approach and some use cases for various industrial processes.

Speaker

Sergio Sama Rubio, Enterprise Solution Architect, Baker Hughes

Sergio is enterprise solution architect for the Industry Solutions team at Baker Hughes’ IET business unit. Sergio holds two MSc (chemical engineering and industrial engineering) by Chemical Institute of Sarrià (IQS) and a diploma in management development by IESE Business School, and brings more than 30 years of experience in various technical and management positions in the design and implementation of software solutions for process industries in companies such as Aspen Technology, Halliburton, Virtual Materials Group (now part of SLB) and, since 2017, Baker Hughes. In his current role, Sergio focuses in designing process optimisation solutions as part of Baker Hughes’ Cordant suite of products.

The material presented has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter's own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the Computer Aided Process Engineering Special Interest Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.

Time

17:00–18:00 MYT.

Software

The presentation will be delivered via Microsoft Teams. We recommend downloading the app from the Microsoft website, rather than using the web portal.