Webcasts

Sponsored by: AspenTech 

Industrial organizations are increasingly focused on making operational data accessible across plants, business units and cloud initiatives—yet many data platforms struggle to scale without introducing complexity, cybersecurity risk and high operational overhead.

In this session, Stefan Secker, VP of Software Development at AspenTech and co-founder of inmation, introduces a new generation of AspenTech Inmation™: the AspenTech OT Inmation Data Fabric™. Purpose built as a modern, container ready platform, this release takes AspenTech Inmation’s proven approach to collecting, managing, contextualizing and delivering OT data to a new level of scale, flexibility and efficiency across the enterprise.

Join this presentation and learn how the new AspenTech Inmation OT Data Fabric enables organizations to:

• Get cloud data access and contextualization at enterprise scale, supporting millions of industrial data streams across diverse data types and platforms 
• Reduce operational complexity and cybersecurity exposure by eliminating large numbers of custom connectors and open ports 
• Lower infrastructure and cloud costs through efficient data handling, localized processing and reduced data replication 
• Create a future‑ready foundation for analytics, AI, digital twins and enterprise applications without redesigning the data layer 

Register to get a first look at how the next generation AspenTech Inmation OT Data Fabric supports large scale digital initiatives while maintaining control, security and operational resilience.

Sponsor: Lummus Technology

Improving energy efficiency and lowering operating costs are key priorities for ethylene producers, especially in today’s challenging petrochemical market. This webcast will review several practical options that can be applied to existing ethylene plants to deliver measurable benefits.

Topics include Mini‑LEAP^™, a low‑capital heat recovery concept that allows furnace thermal efficiency to be pushed beyond typical cracking heater design limits through flue‑gas heat recovery and combustion air preheating, resulting in reduced fuel consumption. We will also discuss remote air combustion as a simple and low‑cost approach to control NOx emissions in ethylene cracking heaters. This approach is applicable to existing heaters with conventional firing, and is especially well suited for heaters using combustion air preheat or hydrogen firing, where NOx control becomes more challenging. In some cases, it can avoid a new SCR installation and reduce ammonia‑related OPEX with an existing SCR unit.

Beyond heater and emissions improvements, operators can further enhance overall plant efficiency and profitability through process-level upgrades. The session will cover Olefins Conversion Technology (OCT), an integrated technology solution that improves overall plant energy efficiency by upgrading C4 and C5 olefins to propylene via energy-neutral metathesis chemistry.

Sponsor: AspenTech

Optimal design and operation of heat exchangers (HX) are critical for reducing energy usage, lowering emissions and ensuring proper plant performance. However, using disparate software for process simulation, thermal design and mechanical design leads to missed opportunities, increased risk of design errors from manual data transfer and higher engineering effort.

Join this webinar to learn best practices from AspenTech® experts for improving HX design and operation using AspenTech’s integrated solution, which seamlessly connects Aspen HYSYS® or Aspen Plus® with Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating (EDR)™ to:

• Ensure optimal energy transfer and reduce emissions
• Predict HX operational issues early in the design cycle
• Improve design and operation for all major HX types
• Optimize HX design for both CAPEX and OPEX
• Reduce engineering effort and avoid design errors
  
  

A Q&A session will follow, so come prepared with your questions.

In an environment of rising energy costs, volatile geopolitics, and tightening margins, refiners are increasingly focused on reducing operating costs while maximizing the value of their product slate.

In this webcast, Honeywell UOP will introduce a new generation of hydroprocessing solutions, featuring the high performance nickel–molybdenum hydrotreating catalyst HYT 6419. HYT-6419 is designed to be used across hydrocrackers, distillate hydrotreaters and other special hydrotreating applications.

Designed to deliver superior activity and long term stability, HYT 6419 enables refiners to process more challenging feedstocks while protecting downstream hydrocracking performance and improving overall unit reliability. With exceptional desulfurization capability across a wide pressure range, this catalyst provides greater flexibility to upgrade diverse cracked stocks into high value diesel.

The session will highlight how HYT 6419 helps unlock incremental profitability through more efficient, resilient, and flexible refinery operation.

Sponsored by: Lummus Technology

Growing regional populations, rising disposable incomes, and longer average lifespans are expected to drive continued demand for hygiene articles, supporting the healthy growth of superabsorbent polymer (SAP) consumption. In addition, recent supply chain disruptions and regional tensions underpin the strategic value of localizing Acrylic Acid (AA) and SAP production to enhance resilience and secure supply closer to end-use markets.

This webcast will highlight commercially proven AA and SAP process technologies that, for the first time, are available as a fully integrated offering for third‑party licensing with no restrictions. Participants will learn how these technologies can strengthen the propylene derivatives value chain—from propylene to AA and onward to SAP—enabling competitive new investments, debottlenecking existing assets, and broadening participation in this important sector.

Sponsor: Emerson

Refineries face increasing pressure to improve energy efficiency, reliability, safety and margins—yet many struggle with limited, real-time operating and asset health data, as well as the cost, risk and disruption associated with traditional measurement approaches. Solomon benchmarking continues to highlight these gaps, but closing them requires scalable, practical measurement strategies.

This webinar examines how non-intrusive measurement instrumentation enables refiners to expand measurement coverage without requiring a shutdown, thereby eliminating the risk of emissions and leakages and reducing the number of inspection points. Learn how non-intrusive temperature, flow and corrosion monitoring instruments deliver accurate, reliable data that integrates seamlessly into existing DCS, historians and asset management systems. These instruments are integral to data analytics and Industrial AI and can also be deployed in new installations and modernization projects.

Hydrocarbon Processing and Emerson industry experts will share real refinery examples, demonstrating where non-intrusive technologies deliver the greatest operational, reliability and financial value, and how they support faster implementation between turnarounds using current or future infrastructure.

Sponsored: AspenTech

Process simulation tools—such as steady-state and dynamic modeling platforms—provide value far beyond traditional design and analysis. When simulation models are connected to a broader digital engineering environment, validated process data can be seamlessly reused across disciplines, supporting integrated and efficient project execution.

Join this webinar to find out how modern concurrent engineering solutions efficiently integrate process data with cost estimation, equipment design, 3D modeling, and process deliverables, helping organizations to:

• Mitigate risk by reusing the same data across the lifecycle, minimizing manual entry and rework
• Accelerate project timelines while evaluating more design alternatives
• Make better-informed technical and business decisions across the full engineering lifecycle

Discover how connected engineering workflows can enhance project certainty, accelerate execution, and support more informed decisions.

Sponsored by: Lummus Technology

Refineries today face mounting challenges: they must deliver affordable products while reducing their carbon footprint, responding to supply chain disruptions and navigating environmental mandates. In this webcast, Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) will demonstrate through real-life examples how to overcome such hurdles through innovations in catalyst and process engineering that help refineries adapt, increase feedstock flexibility, and achieve higher yields of premium products over longer operating cycles.

The case studies will highlight:

• A refinery implements advanced hydrocracking technology through tailored catalyst systems, operational protocols and equipment configurations to optimize product quality, yield and consistency.
• A hydrocracking unit strategically reconfigured to co-process renewable feedstocks, leveraging targeted process modifications and a catalyst system specifically engineered for renewable fuel production.
• A comprehensive hydrocracker revamp, combined with a customized catalyst solution, resulting in a substantial improvement in refinery margins by increasing conversion rates and reducing energy consumption.