Professional Short Course
5 days Ammonia Training Course
Level: Intermediate | HRDF: Claimable
Trainers: Associate Professor Dr. Abdul Rahim Othman & Mr David J Keen
Date
22 - 26 JULY 2024
Venue
CAPE
Level 8, Permata Sapura, Kuala Lumpur City Centre, 50088 Kuala Lumpur
Time
9:00am - 5:00pm
Registration Fee
USD 4,500 for Professionals
10% Discount for Early Bird (until 22 June 2024) / Group / Students
Content Summary
Background
One of the biggest concerns for owners and operators of syngas plants, is a loss of primary containment event, which brings with it the potential for personnel injury, significant equipment damage, and plant downtime.Ultimately, all equipment failures are preventable, so why do fixed equipment failures still occur? Basically, equipment failures occur because there are gaps in a plant’s equipment ‘failure prevention controls’. Controls are what manufacturing facilities put into place to ensure continued safe and reliable operation of plant.
Objectives
Training program participants will have an opportunity to take a deep dive into the metallurgy, damage mechanisms and failure prevention controls applicable to equipment on your syngas plants. Participants are invited to submit questions for discussion during the 5-day program.
Who Should Attend?
This highly interactive and hands-on training caters for inexperienced as well as experienced engineers and inspectors. This program is very beneficial to Fixed Equipment Reliability Engineers, Process Engineers, Materials Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Inspectors and Design / Construction Project Engineers (QA/QC) who work on or support Syn Gas Manufacturing Plants.
Course Content
- M1 Basic Metallurgy Principles – Steels and Alloy Steels
- M2 Basic Metallurgy Principles – Austenitic Materials
- M3 Elevated Temperature Damage Mechanisms – 20 syngas plant elevated temperature DM’s
- M4 Corrosion Damage Mechanisms – 23 syngas plant corrosion / SCC DM’s
- M5 Mechanical Damage Mechanisms – fatigue and brittle fracture DM’s
- M6 Welding Technology & Equipment Repair of Syngas plant
- M7 Heat Treatment Principles pertaining to Syngas plant
Steam Methane Reformers
- A1 SMR’s – Basic understanding of SMR Process Function & Design
- A2 SMR’s – Basic understanding of key aspects of start-up, shut-down & balancing SMR’s
- A3 SMR’s – Catalyst Management
- A4a SMR’s – Radiant Inlet System
- A4b SMR’s – Catalyst TubesA4c SMR’s – Radiant Outlet System
- A4d SMR’s – Transfer Lines / Cold Collectors
- A4e SMR’s – Convection Section
Hydrogen, Ammonia, Methanol Manufacturing Plants
- A5 Secondary Reformer & refractory management (ammonia & methanol)
- A6 Process Waste Heat Boilers (hydrogen, ammonia, methanol)
- A7 Shifted Gas Loop (hydrogen, ammonia, methanol)
- A8 CO2 Removal Loop (hydrogen, ammonia, methanol)
- A9 Methanation Loop (ammonia)
- A10 Ammonia Conversion Loop (ammonia)
- A11 Condensation Loop (ammonia)
- A12 Refrigeration & Ammonia Storage Loop (ammonia)
Trainers
Associate Professor Dr. Abdul Rahim Othman (ARO) received the bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2001, master degree of automotive engineering from University of Leeds, UK (2002), and received his PhD degree from School of Mechanical Engineering at University of Leeds, UK (2007). Dr ARO has been working as an academia at institute of higher learning for more than 17 years.
He currently works at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS as Associate Professor under Department of Mechanical Engineering. He was a Director of Research Management Center of UTP from 2018 to 2021. He was selected as the National Youth Scientist from Academy Science Malaysia (ASM) in 2016-2017.
Dr ARO specializes in the subject matters covering mechanics of materials, finite element analysis, risk-based inspection of mechanical damages, and statistical & probability analysis. He is also the inventor of ADaPT (Advance Diagnostic and Prognostic Technology for Mechanical Damages), STELLAR (Statistical Tube Exchanger Analytics and Reliability), SCTi (Smart Crack Technology Instrument), INSPIRE (Insulated Piping Reliability Engineering Analysis), and CORIMS-STS. All these technologies have been successfully deployed to PETRONAS and other oil and gas industries, saving more than RM 1.5 billion last year alone. Dr ARO has been awarded and completed 78 projects as main principal investigator between 2007-2023, with total value of more than RM 32 millions.
Dr. ARO received numerous recognition and technology awards obtained through various competitions at international and national exhibitions. The most recent include runner-up Leader of the Year Award at Asian Downstream Summit 2023 (ADS) Singapore; by World Refining Association, and OTC Asia 2024 Spotlight on New Technology Award for ADaPT in February 2024.
David Keen is a qualified Metallurgist with over 46yrs domestic and international experience in Syngas manufacturing facilities. David is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on fixed equipment integrity management and has in recent years downloaded this knowledge into a series of training modules focused on preventing equipment failures through experiential learning and team problem solving sessions. He has held various positions including Global Company Chief Engineer, VP Global Reliability & Risk, Company Engineer Fixed Equipment, Reliability Manager, Operations Manager, Maintenance Manager, T/A Manager and Plant Metallurgist.David has worked as a consultant to Hydrogen, Ammonia and Methanol plants in 12 countries globally. He has been involved in implementing RBI programs, IOW programs, auditing fixed equipment management, completion of failure investigations, root cause analyses, fixed equipment repairs and design and construction of new fixed equipment. David has worked on 40 steam methane reformers and is a recognized subject matter expert in the integrity management of SMR’s.
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Registration Fees
PROFESSIONALS
USD4,500*
*fee quoted does not include SST, HRDF service fee, GST/VAT or withholding tax (if applicable).
EARLY BIRD/ GROUP/ STUDENT
USD4,050*
*fee quoted does not include SST, HRDF service fee, GST/VAT or withholding tax (if applicable).
Centre for Advanced & Professional Education (CAPE), Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP)
Level 8, Permata Sapura, Kuala Lumpur City Centre, 50088 Kuala Lumpur.
P: +605 - 368 7558 / +605 - 368 8485 | E: cape@utp.edu.my