2024 Theme and Topics
2024 THEME: Digitalizing Process Engineering for a Sustainable Future
TOPICS
Process Excellence
Exploit opportunities to boost plant performance or safety
- Troubleshooting
- Yield and margin improvements
- Process efficiency
- Plant optimization
- Reliability
- Process safety
Decarbonization & Energy Transition
Examine emerging technological innovations enabling reductions in carbon footprint and greater efficiency in energy use
- Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)
- Energy efficiency
- Emerging process technologies/designs with reduced CO2 emissions
- Success stories in lowering scope 1, 2 & 3 emissions
- Liquids-to-Chemicals (LTC)
- Non-metallic applications
- Digital Sustainability Solutions
New Energies
Address alternative energies complementing conventional sources which is the future energy landscape
- Alternative fuels
- Hydrogen
- Ammonia
- Sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), Low Carbon Aviation Fuel (LCAF)
- e-Fuels
- Renewables
Digitalization
Deliberate digital solutions driving process industries towards a more sustainable future
- Industrial Data Science and AI applications
- Digital Twin/3D Modeling
- Robotics/Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
- Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
- Preventive Analytics Applications / Machine Learning
- Advanced Process Control & Optimization
- Autonomous Operation