PRESENTER

David Flood

Burckhardt Compression is one of the worldwide market leaders in the field of reciprocating compressors. Since 1844 Burckhardt's highly skilled workforce has crafted superior solutions and set the benchmark for the gas compression industry.

SUMMARY

Rings and packing are very critical components that ensure reciprocating compressors operate properly. In this presentation, we will explore the different factors that make well designed rings and packing.

PRESENTER

Dr.Kofi Freeman Adane

Dr. Adane is a Senior Research Engineer at Fluid Systems Engineering, InnoTech Alberta Inc, a subsidiary of Alberta Innovates, Edmonton. Primarily, he leads industry driven research and technology development (R&TD) projects on pipeline systems. He is a lead author for “Slurry Pipeline Handbook” for oil sands industry through Materials and Reliability in Oil Sands (MARIOS) consortium. Prior to his current position, he held several positions in industry and academia. Most recently, Dr. Adane worked for Saskatchewan Research Council, Saskatoon where he served as a lead engineer in the construction of its High Pressure and High Temperature volatile loop to model steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) operations and also contributed to the development of the “SRC Tailings Manual” for Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA). He holds degrees in mechanical engineering with PhD from University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. Dr. Adane has strong expertise in fluid engineering systems, specifically piping and pumps, and he is a registered professional engineer in province of Alberta.

SUMMARY

There are significant costs associated with maintaining and owning centrifugal pumps in oil and gas, chemical, mining and oil sands facilities. In some of these industries, the fluid might contain particulates or solids being intentional as products or process, or unintentional. The presence of these particulates or solids can accelerate wear (erosion, corrosion or both) in the pump, which usually lead to decreased performance and/or wear or service life. When such situations occur, owners or operators are faced with capital expense for its replacement. Another temporary solution is to attempt to repair specific component (s).

We have a pilot-plant which was designed to test piping components, and perform several fluid flow testing services. Therefore, unlike a typical production or process plants where they are designed for specific conditions, our plant is an agile, technology test bed and used for several different conditions including to assessment of wear life. Therefore, our pump has shorter wear life than comparable pump in production facility. Faced with capital expense, we opted to explore the repair solution.

There are several vendors who offer repair kits for pumps and other piping systems. We purchased one of these kits to repair our slurry pump. This presentation will discuss the lessons learned and some recommendations. Our experience is being used in oil sands mining industry. Sharing this experience will be beneficial to any industry using centrifugal pumps.

PRESENTER

Trevor Brown

Trevor Brown is the owner of Wave Control Systems, an Edmonton-based company providing engineered process equipment and fluid control solutions world-wide. Trevor is a well-respected leader in fluid handling and control and has been involved in technical sales, design, manufacturing, and servicing of fluid control systems for over 30 years.

Trevor has grown Wave Control Systems from a modest start in 2004 with a staff of one, to today’s thriving operation of over 30 staff and contractors in 11 thousand square feet of operations located in south Edmonton’s industrial sector.

SUMMARY

The objective of this presentation is to provide the audience of millwrights, technicians, operators, specialists, engineers, and managers with a thorough overview of what information is required to obtain the safest, most reliable, and most suitable chemical metering package for their project, and, to discuss why this information is so important.

Presenter and company president, Trevor Brown, will provide an explanation of the top five considerations when specifying a chemical injection system. This portion of the presentation will review: process conditions, installation location, the need to review all appropriate chemical and fluid data, the factors involved in selecting electrical controls (including instrumentation and automation), and considerations surrounding other accessories. This broad overview of chemical injection specification will be followed by an outline of the key components that make up a typical chemical injection system, and why each of these components is necessary.

Audience members who are not directly involved in fluid control system design will find useful takeaways in terms of the importance of a well-defined scope and the positive impact it has on project execution. The presentation will be approximately 45 minutes in length, leaving time for a question and answer period. The presentation will focus on engineering, design, instrumentation and devices, and system specification.

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Sunil Vedula

Sunil Vedula is a registered Canadian professional engineer. He obtained his Mechanical Engineering degree from the Delhi Technological University and his MBA from the University of Alberta. His expertise is in the fields of pipeline stress analysis, materials science and finite element modelling, but over the past few years his focus has been the use of Artificial Intelligence tools and advanced sensors for predictive analytics of industrial equipment. Data science has become his new passion.

SUMMARY

Nanoprecise was born out of a need to address the inefficiency, safety and hazardous nature of heavy industry. It all started with a safety incident at a process plant, which led us to a thought that if we could predict the remaining useful life of an asset, the safety incidents due to that asset can be reduced to nil. Thus, Nanoprecise was founded with a strong, simple yet lofty vision of creating end to end integrated systems & models that are able to predict the remaining useful life of any asset in any industry at any point during its lifetime with more than 99% accuracy.

We strive to bring cutting edge diagnostic and prognostic solutions to equipment and structural failures of various assets and provide a simple five point value proposition:

- Reduce unplanned downtime to zero
- Enable better maintenance planning and a safe work environment for all
- Maximize the useful life of asset and reduce waste
- Manpower rationalization towards higher skilled and safer occupations
- Insights & decisions based on predictions that have 99% accuracy or more