The National
Carbon Capture Conference & Expo (https://2022-nccc.bbiconferences.com/)
is scheduled for November 8-9, 2022 ~ Des Moines, Iowa
The event is produced by Carbon Capture Magazine (https://carboncapturemagazine.com/
) and BBI International (http://www.bbiinternational.com/
)
Here is the text of a recent email inviting speaker abstracts for the event. Deadline for submission is July
15, 2022.
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Submit a Speaker Abstract Now - Deadline Approaching
Advancing Technology and Policy within the Carbon Capture, Utilization &
Storage Industry
Produced by Carbon Capture Magazine and BBI International, the National Carbon
Capture Conference & Expo is a two-day event designed specifically for
companies and organizations advancing technologies and policy that support the
removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from all sources, including fossil fuel-based
power plants, ethanol production plants and industrial processes, as well as
directly from the atmosphere. The program will focus on research, data, trends
and information on all aspects of CCUS with the goal to help companies build
knowledge, connect with others, and better understand the market and carbon
utilization.
Presentation abstracts will be accepted for the 2022 National Carbon Capture
Conference & Expo through July 15, 2022.
Presentation topics will include:
Tax Policy
Impact on Carbon Intensity of Fuel
Required Plant Infrastructure
Environmental Permitting
Pipeline Requirements and
Construction
Low Carbon Fuel Markets and Mandates
Project Development
Turning Carbon into Value
New Technologies Driving the Industry
Reducing the Carbon Footprint of
Concrete
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Attendees of the National Carbon Capture Conference & Expo seek solutions
to the everyday challenges they face. When you purchase a booth, you're not
just buying real estate in the expo hall, you're becoming part of the most comprehensive
and vibrant event available in this dynamic industry. In addition to booth
space, all exhibitors receive complimentary marketing through promotional
e-mails and brochures, onsite program guide, conference website and online
exhibitor list. Each 10'x10' exhibit space comes with two free full conference
registrations. Be a part of the event defining the industry for years to come.
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Thursday, June 30, 2022
Showcase Your Expertise! National Carbon Capture Conference
On Three: Tips on Assessing the Readiness of Emerging Technologies
Many moons ago, NASA developed a scale they call Technology Readiness Levels
(TRL). Originally designed to determine how ready a particular technology was
for implementation on missions to outer space, they have since been adopted by
U.S. industry for their own purposes. You can view my post on TRL at https://desulf.blogspot.com/2019/09/are-you-ready-nasas-technology.html
for more detail.
In that same vein, the authors of a recent article … Emerging
technologies and the use case: A multi-year study of drone adoption
(https://doi.org/10.1002/joom.1196)
explore the adoption of drone technology by industry as a way to understand how
to determine when ANY technology is ready for prime time.
If you are interested in emerging technology in any field, you should read this
article. It is, remarkably, open access.
Here are some highlights from the piece …
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EXCERPTS from:
Emerging
technologies and the use case: A multi-year study of drone adoption
IN: Journal of Operations Management (2022)
Omid Maghazei (1) | Michael A. Lewis (2) | Torbjørn H. Netland (1)
1Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zurich, Zurich,
Switzerland
2School of Management, University of Bath, Bath, UK
Correspondence
Omid Maghazei, Chair of Production and Operations Management, Department of Management,
Technology, and Economics, ETH Zurich, Weinbergstrasse 56/58, 8092 Zurich,
Switzerland.
Email: omaghazei@ethz.ch
Abstract
Although disruptive “Industry 4.0” technologies often lack a clear business
case, vendors are advocating and companies are actively exploring their use in
operations settings. The technology management literature suggests that
successful adoption derives from an appropriate fit between the specific
technology and (1) economic and strategic factors, (2) operational and supply
chain factors, and (3) organizational and behavioral factors. Through a
five-year research project, we explore how drones—an archetypal emerging
technology supported by a thriving vendor ecosystem—transitioned from early
ideas to experimental applications to full adoption in daily operations. We analyze
a range of data, including exploratory interviews with drone ecosystem actors,
a secondary dataset, and case studies of drone applications in Geberit and
IKEA. Key findings relate to our observation that technology adoption patterns
for emerging technologies do not always follow the traditional linear logic of
technology fit. We find that emerging technologies are characterized by a
dynamic interaction between technology push from a thriving ecosystem and
market pull from companies exploring meaningful operational and business value
using the concept of “use case.” Based on these findings, we contribute to the
technology management literature with an alternative technology adoption
framework for emerging “Industry 4.0” technologies.
…….
We find that—when faced with fast-emerging technologies in thriving
ecosystems—companies do not follow a linear technology adoption pattern, where
adoption commonly starts with a business case. Instead, companies trial
technologies by focusing on a “use case,” which allows a potential business
case to evolve, or not, over time. The “use case”—a concept from information
systems research—is underdeveloped in the TM field. These findings have
important implications for practitioners and scholars. In seeking meaningful
operational and business value from emerging technologies, practitioners should
be aware of the importance of the technology push of an emerging ecosystem, the
role of suppliers including startup suppliers, and the role of timing in
technology trials. Scholars must pay attention to the stage of technology maturity
and the difference between business case-driven and use case-driven technology
adoption.
…….
The use case is a straightforward idea: an application of a technology for a
specific operational purpose. Yet, the “use case” concept seemed to really help
drone vendors and potential users find common ground. The users were seeking a
“use case” that applied to them, and the vendors often specialized in a limited
set of use cases (e.g., inspection, mapping, external logistics, surveillance, or
search-and-rescue).
…….
5.3 | The use case
Throughout this research, especially in the absence of clear and obvious drone
“business cases,” the notion of the “use case” was repeatedly mentioned. The
term “use case” is absent from the rich AMT literature and rarely appears in
the wider OM/TM literature. “Use case,” however, appears often in the recent
popular press and the “Industry 4.0” literature. For example, a 40-page report from
the World Economic Forum (2019) on the fourth industrial revolution mentions
“use case” 61 times. Where does this term come from, and how can it help advance
the OM/TM literature?
…….
As presented in our AMT literature review, the extant TM literature presents an
essentially linear fit process (see Figure 1), where adoption proceeds by
identifying a business case, piloting the technology if needed (which is required
for new technologies but not for established technologies), and proceeding to
implementation and scaling. This process, however, rewards incremental
technological improvements because their business case is easier to identify. The
use case concept allows one to diverge from this linear process and test
alternative technologies before there is certainty regarding their value or to
help identify where value can be hidden. We observed that this use case
process, especially for IKEA, created an iterative fit process, which allows
the business case to evolve, or not evolve, during the piloting of a
technology. It also helped to moderate the effects of hype and subsequent
disillusionment. This kind of middle-out, technology-in-use approach precedes and
helps shape business cases. The process diagram in Figure 6 illustrates how
companies can search for fit by trialing technologies as use cases.
source: (https://doi.org/10.1002/joom.1196)
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Jean Steinhardt served as Librarian,
Aramco Services, Engineering Division, for 13 years. He now heads Jean
Steinhardt Consulting LLC, producing the same high quality research that he
performed for Aramco.
Follow Jean’s blog at: http://desulf.blogspot.com/
for continuing tips on effective online research
Email Jean at letters@jeansteinhardt.com
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to see examples of the services we can provide
Monday, June 20, 2022
Conference Alert: Hydrocarbon Processing’s International Refining and Petrochemical Conference
If you can’t do that, you can still have fun exploring some of the companies
participating in the event.
For example …
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Flutura
https://www.flutura.com/
Flutura is a pioneering Industrial AI company focused on unlocking high-value
operational outcomes for the Energy, Chemicals, Process Manufacturing &
Heavy Engineering industries. Its industry-leading platform Cerebra has
advanced capabilities to integrate First Principle-based and Machine Learning
based models to generate actionable business insights for reliability,
production excellence, supply chain, and quality functions to impact yield,
uptime & sustainability outcomes for industrial facilities. Flutura’s
vision is to unlock a billion-dollar in outcomes for its customers and empower
100,000 industrial engineers on leveraging data science for solving engineering
problems.
Flutura works with many industry-leading names like TechnipFMC, Al Mansoori,
GTT etc in O&G and Hitachi amongst Heavy machinery OEMs.
Flutura is backed by global Venture Capital firms and strategic partners out of
USA, Singapore, and Japan and main offices are located in Houston, Palo Alto,
and Bengaluru, India.
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There are several others, including …
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Atlas Copco
www.atlascopco.com
Atlas Copco is a Swedish multinational industrial company that was founded in
1873. It manufactures industrial tools and equipment. The Atlas Copco Group is
a global industrial group of companies headquartered in Nacka, Sweden.
Wikipedia
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Aveva
www.aveva.com
AVEVA Group plc is a British multinational information technology consulting
company headquartered in Cambridge, England. It is listed on the London Stock
Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. Wikipedia
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Compact Membrane
Systems
Membrane Solutionsfor enabling the clean energy revolution
https://compactmembrane.com/
Olefin-paraffin separation
Separate and concentrate olefins, the building blocks of the chemicals
industry. Capture new value via bolt-ons to existing infrastructure: upgrading
streams, debottlenecking, increasing capacity.
Carbon Capture
A state of the art technology breakthrough for low cost point source carbon
capture for hard to abate sectors. Bringing processes to carbon neutral in the
near term and enabling the clean energy transition
Degassing
Degas lubricants and solvents, including environmentally acceptable lubricants,
to remove CO2 from solvents, increase the lifetime of rotating equipment,
increase production by removing gaseous byproducts, and more
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FRIB - Facility
for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University
https://frib.msu.edu/
The Facility for Rare Isotopes Beams is a scientific user facility for nuclear
science, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Michigan
State University, and the State of Michigan. Michigan State University
contributed an additional $212 million in various ways, including the land.
Wikipedia
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Imubit
https://imubit.com/
"Imubit provides AI process optimization solutions for oil refineries and
chemical plants. The company’s solutions include closed-loop, machine learning
technologies engineered and implemented by globally-renowned, Google-endorsed
machine learning scientists and world-class hydrocarbon processing
experts."
Closed Loop Neural Network™
AI process optimization solutions for oil refineries and chemical plants
Solving the industry’s hardest problems
At Imubit, we’re driven by a mission to tackle and solve the toughest
challenges at chemical plants and refineries. We help hydrocarbon processing
plants transcend beyond current levels of optimization with a new generation of
AI process optimization technology, over 220 years of industry expertise, and a
proven approach to increase your plant’s bottom line.
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Finally, here is the text of the email that alerted me to the conference…
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Join BASF, Chevron, Dow, ExxonMobil,
and More!
Hydrocarbon
Processing’s International Refining and Petrochemical Conference (IRPC), the
leading downstream technical conference, will provide a high-level forum for
principal players in the global petrochemical and refinery sector to meet,
share knowledge and learn about best practices and the latest industry
advances.
For 2022, IRPC will be held on September 26-27 at The Westin Galleria in
Houston, Texas. IRPC is the only event focused on innovative technologies for
the downstream industry.
Join these companies at IRPC, register now!
For general event information or speaking at IRPC, please contact Sara Wilkins,
Events Manager, at Sara.Wilkins@GulfEnergyInfo.com
Gulf Energy Information Events, 2 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1020, Houston, Texas
77046 USA
International
Refining and Petrochemical Conference (IRPC 2022) is a conference dedicated to
IRPC (Integrated Refinery and Petrochemical Complex) Process Technology.
International Refining and Petrochemical Conference (IRPC 2022) covers topics
such as:
Transforming refineries to minimize
carbon footprint and maximize handprint
Market drivers impacting demand for
biofuels and alternative refinery feedstocks
The future role of the technology
licensor
What does the energy transition means
for the oil and gas industry
International Refining and Petrochemical Conference (IRPC 2022) will be held in
Houston on 26-27 September 2022.
https://www.clocate.com/international-refining-and-petrochemical-conference-irpc/64736/
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Jean Steinhardt served as Librarian,
Aramco Services, Engineering Division, for 13 years. He now heads Jean
Steinhardt Consulting LLC, producing the same high quality research that he
performed for Aramco.
Follow Jean’s blog at: http://desulf.blogspot.com/
for continuing tips on effective online research
Email Jean at letters@jeansteinhardt.com
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to see examples of the services we can provide
Friday, June 10, 2022
Thirteen Years of Useful Tips
“Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13. It is a word of Greek origin made up of the root words tris (“three”), deka (“ten”), and phobia (“fear”)” (https://shmaltzandmenudo.wordpress.com/2016/11/13/famous-sayings-36-lucky-number-13/)
Thirteen years into the Desulfurization Blog, I have developed several series of posts on a number of topics. You may find one or two of them useful. So here is a list, with a link to each series. Enjoy …
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TIPCATALYSIS http://www.desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPCATALYSIS
Catalysis: The Series
The overarching goal of the Desulfurization Blog (www.desulf.blogspot.com) is to offer tips and tricks on how to save time in your never ending quest to stay on top of developments in your field of interest.
In that time saving vein, the following list provides easy access to each of the posts we produced on Catalysis. Not every post will interest you. But when you see one that does, you can just click the link and go right to it. That way you do not have to go through the tedious process of searching the blog to find it. Not that you would do that … who has that kind of time?
TIPREFINERYOFTHEFUTURE http://desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPREFINERYOFTHEFUTURE
FuelsEurope
The EU has the ambitious objective to lead the world in addressing the global climate change challenge.
The EU refining industry is committed to contribute to this objective by continuing to reduce its CO2 emissions and providing the economy and citizens with low-carbon fuels and other products that society needs.
Development of a diversity of energies and energy carriers will give an economy flexibility, resilience and the possibility for the market to select the optimal solution for every sector and use. Liquid fuels, with their unique characteristics will continue to be employed in many transport fields. Therefore, the EU refining industry has an important and enduring role to play in the energy choices of the future, by providing low-carbon liquid fuels to complement low-carbon electrons, gas and hydrogen as energy carriers. Technology and collaboration across industries will facilitate the production of these low-carbon liquid fuels.
The contribution of the EU refining industry can be enhanced by the EU industrial strategy and a policy framework which will enable its transition, while allowing refineries to retain economic viability in the face of a declining domestic market demand and of an increasingly aggressive international competition.
source: https://www.fuelseurope.eu/vision-2050/
TIPVENTURECAPITAL http://desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPVENTURECAPITAL
The Genius of Venture Capital (Part 1): Connecting Good Ideas with Money
The Genius of Venture Capital: connecting entrepreneurs with good ideas but no money to investors with money but no ideas.
So, how does that work? It is a mysterious process.
In this series of posts, we will penetrate that mystery. We begin with two excellent articles that explain how VC’s do that voodoo that they do so well.
The two articles are rich with insights into the VC world.
Here are three that jumped out at me.
TIPBREAKTHROUGH https://desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPBREAKTHROUGH
BREAKTHROUGH: How to identify promising breakthrough companies (Part 1)
This is the first post in the BREAKTHROUGH series. The THEME of the series is … How to identify promising breakthrough companies
It is an adjunct to the STARTUP series [ https://desulf.blogspot.com/2020/05/starting-down-startup-path-recap.html ]. While there is some overlap, the focus of the BREAKTHROUGH series is on how to identify companies that may be worth the risk of investing them.
I use the term “investment” in a broad sense. Venture capitalists invest money directly in a chosen company, hoping for a big win.
However, there is another kind of investment … taking a chance on a company with breakthrough but unproven technology to solve a problem your company is trying to address. That is a risk that is similar to, but different than, the risk taken by venture capitalists.
Caveat … I am not an expert on risk assessment. However, I am an expert in online research. The purpose of this series is to help you make more efficient use of online resources to achieve your objectives.
So, how do you identify companies with breakthrough technology? Well, if you are not a venture capitalist, whose job it is to identify such companies, it might be useful to see how venture capitalists go about this critical task.
TIPSTARTALAB http://www.desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPSTARTALAB
How to design a lab: Part 1 of a series of posts
“What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.” -- Dave Barry (American Writer and Humorist best known for his weekly newspaper column. b.1947)
Designing a laboratory is a seriously complex task. If you have never designed one, how do you even start?
One place to begin is reading what experts in the field have written. And a possible first step on the path to discovering what experts have written could be an Amazon.com search.
TIP: On the Amazon.com Web, select the Book department. Then enter the following Amazon.com search string: laboratory design
TIPSTARTALIBRARY http://www.desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPSTARTALIBRARY
Seriously? A Series of Tips on Setting Up a Research Library (Part 1)
“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.” -- Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
Individual researchers create their own personal libraries of technical literature. This can work well for small research organizations with just three or four researchers. Larger organizations need a more formal structure to support their research efforts.
This is the first in a series of posts designed to help you create a resource base which can help your researchers make more productive use of their valuable time.
We’ll begin by focusing on commercial databases. To be honest, the first step should involve strategic planning, but since most people like to cut to the chase, the chase is where we’ll begin. The tedious stuff will come later.
TIPCASESTUDY http://desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPCASESTUDY
TIAX LLC
Searching for ExxonMobil patents, I ran across one with a co-assignee named TIAX LLC (see below). This caught my eye. When a giant like ExxonMobil teams with a small firm like TIAX, it makes me want to learn more.
This post is the first of a series. Besides exploring TIAX LLC, the series provide a case study on how to glean useful information about any small company of interest.
TIPLITERATURESEARCH http://desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPLITERATURESEARCH
Whaddya Know? Literature Search Method Case Study
To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, We don’t know what we don’t know.
That’s true. Unfortunate, but true.
Here’s another paraphrase from a great sage known as Anonymous … Sometimes, we don’t know what we DO know.
And that is the theme of this post … i.e., how do we know what we DO know?
A recent study on the integration of Building Information Modelling (BIM) with Additive Manufacturing (AM) illustrates the point.
TIPPATENT http://www.desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPPATENT
TIPS & TRICKS FOR PATENT SEARCHING – TABLE OF CONTENTS
As easy as it is to search patents online these days, there are nuances to the process. Over the past year or so, we at the Desulfurization Blog (http://desulf.blogspot.com) have posted tips and tricks that can help you improve your effectiveness in a patent search.
For your convenience, we have compiled a TOC-Table of Contents of these posts.
TIP: Click http://desulf.blogspot.com/search/label/TIPPATENT to visit ALL the patent searching tips that have appeared (and will continue to appear) in the Desulfurization Blog.
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Jean Steinhardt served as Librarian, Aramco Services, Engineering Division, for 13 years. He now heads Jean Steinhardt Consulting LLC, producing the same high quality research that he performed for Aramco.
Follow Jean’s blog at: http://desulf.blogspot.com/ for continuing tips on effective online research
Email Jean at research@jeansteinhardtconsulting.com with questions on research, training, or anything else
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Friday, June 3, 2022
Green Machine: Pipeline Technology Journal 2/2022
The 2nd Issue of Pipeline Technology Journal for 2022 is out. The issue focuses
on decarbonization and hydrogen.
One of the articles was produced by pipeline experts from Saudi Aramco …
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Enhancing the Availability of Oil Network using Focused
Reliability Assessment of Critical Valves
Dr. K.A. Al-Jabr, Dr. Q.
Ahmed, Z.A. Al-subai, Dr. D.M. Al-Anazi > Saudi Aramco
Abstract
The Reliability Focused Analysis Technique is a method of analysis that can be
used to evaluate reliability for a specific system, and addresses availability
and maintainability related issues. This approach is based on holistic
reliability and evaluation and analysis of maintenance data, which involves
reviewing maintenance strategies, system capacity to identify operational and
maintenance gaps, and recommending and resolving chronic and critical issues. A
case study was conducted by using this technique to improve reliability and
availability of critical valves in the Saudi Aramco Oil and Gas Supply Network.
These valves are classified based on their criticality and failure consequences.
A comprehensive reliability assessment was conducted for the top critical
valves in the pipeline network. It addressed the chronic problems by validating
the equipment criticality categorization, reviewing their maintenance strategies,
analyzing valve data and failures modes, and identifying bad actor items and
common failures. The reliability and maintenance data were benchmarked with
other industry databases such as OREDA.
The implementation for the addressed recommendations of the Valve Reliability
Assessment has improved the reliability for top critical valves by 10% and
reduced their emergency maintenance cost by 43%. The study supported concerned
organizations with developing the pipeline valves Reliability & Maintenance
Databank, and selecting the appropriate valve types during the design stage.
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Here is the table of contents for the issue …
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Applications of Vibroacoustic Technology to support pipeline
assets re-use, integrity management and energy transition projects
SolAres (Solgeo/Aresys), Eni S.p.A
Considering leak detection systems for carbon capture and
storage (CCS)
Atmos International
Energy Transition And The Impact On Pipeline Integrity
ROSEN Group
Enhancing the Availability of Oil Network using Focused
Reliability Assessment of Critical Valves
Saudi Aramco
Methane Emissions Reduction System in Pipeline Compressor
Stations: ENAGAS & BAKER HUGHES Experience
Baker Hughes, Enagás
What’s your purpose? Reusing gas infrastructure for Hydrogen
transportation and storage!
Intero Integrity Services
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TIP: Visit https://www.pipeline-journal.net/journal/pipeline-technology-journal-22022 to read the full text of the articles above.
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Jean Steinhardt served as Librarian,
Aramco Services, Engineering Division, for 13 years. He now heads Jean
Steinhardt Consulting LLC, producing the same high quality research that he
performed for Aramco.
Follow Jean’s blog at: http://desulf.blogspot.com/
for continuing tips on effective online research
Email Jean at letters@jeansteinhardt.com
with questions on research, training, or anything else
Visit Jean’s Web site at http://www.jeansteinhardtconsulting.com/
to see examples of the services we can provide