Advances in the Digitalisation

of the Process Industries

20–21 October 2021, Virtual

Conference programme

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Introduction
On behalf of the technical committee, I would like to welcome you to Advances
in the Digitalisation of the Process Industries 2021. This year's conference is
going to be different to what you might have experienced in previous years - it
will be delivered online as a fully interactive virtual conference, making it more
accessible than ever before. One thing that hasn’t changed is the quality of the
conference programme.
This year’s conference will focus on:
■ sustainability – how can digital technologies contribute to a more
sustainable world, prevent environmental damage and mitigate the
impacts that cannot be avoided?
■ technology – how can technology be developed and deployed in
ways that are manageable, economically viable and understood and
accepted by the people involved?
■ transformation – what will the digitally-enabled process industries of
the future look like – how far can we go, and what will it mean for those
who work within it?
We’ve planned a stimulating programme which should help you to explore
these issues and what they mean for the future of the process industries.
With the conference being online this year, we’ve attracted speakers and
attendees from a wider of countries. This is a unique opportunity to share and
develop your knowledge of the digitalisation of the process industries with
colleagues from around the world. I encourage you to make the most of your
time here and I look catching up with you.

Chris Hamlin
Chair of technical committee

Technical committee members

The technical committee consists of members covering a spread of expertise in the various aspects of process
automation and control. The current committee comprises:

Chris Hamlin (Chair), FIChemE, Co-Founder & Lead Advisor, Hancock Hamlin, UK
Zaid Rawi, Engineering Director, bp International, UK
Maurice Wilkins FIChemE, Executive Advisor, Yokogawa, UK
Doug Nicholson, Consultant, Spiro Control, UK
Andrew Ogden-Swift MIChemE, Ogden-Swift Consulting, UK
Chris Catterall AMIChemE, Senior Advanced Process Control Consultant, Phillips 66, UK
David Cameron FIChemE, Centre Coordinator, Department of Infomatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Tony Margetts MIChemE, Consultant, Factory Talk, Thailand
Howard Boder FIChemE, Managing Director, NewLand Control, UK
Catherine Stefou, Senior Control Engineer, bp International, UK
Niel Knoblauch AMIChemE, Application Specialist, Intellisense.Io, UK
Jhuma Sadhukhan FIChemE, Centre for Environment and Sustainability, Department of Chemical and Process
Engineering, University of Surrey, UK
Plenary speakers
Dr Franziska Bell, bp
Organising and scaling for AI success
Dr Franziska Bell is the vice president, data and analytics at bp. She heads
the data and analytics discipline which comprises data science, AI, data
engineering, data management and data analytics. She is responsible for
setting the data and analytics strategy for bp
Before joining bp, Fran was an executive at Toyota Research Institute, where
she focused on two areas: novel battery and fuel cell materials using AI and
computational chemistry for a low-emission future, and a human-centred AI.
Previously, Fran was the head of data science platforms at Uber. At Uber, Fran
founded and built several digital platform teams with the mission to transform
anyone in the company into a data scientist at a push-of-a-button. 
Before Uber, Fran was a postdoc at Caltech where she developed a novel,
highly accurate approximate quantum molecular dynamics theory to calculate
chemical reactions for large, complex systems, such as enzymes.
Fran earned her PhD in theoretical chemistry from UC Berkeley focusing on
developing highly accurate, yet computationally efficient approaches which
helped unravel the mechanism of non-silicon-based solar cells and properties
of organic conductors.

Rachel Cooke, Amazon

The future of chemical engineering
Rachel is an accomplished technical leader with nearly 20 years of
experience in the food, drink, and logistics industries and has lived in five
different countries. She currently leads Reliability Engineering for Amazon
Europe, where her focus is on the use of science and data to improve asset
performance. In this role she is responsible for a team of over 70 people
in eight countries working on predictive analytics (including machine
learning), computerized maintenance management systems, new technology
introduction, robotics, reliability programs, and new site launches. Previously
she led a team supporting Amazon's expansion across Europe in capital
planning, technical vendor management, commissioning planning, change
management, and design.

Russell Potapinski, former Head of Intelligent and Autonomous

Systems at Woodside Energy
Leading your organisation and industry to adapt and thrive in
the new world of rapidly advancing technologies in AI, robotics,
autonomous systems, IoT and data science
Russell is the former Head of Intelligent and Autonomous Systems at
Woodside Energy, one of Australia's largest energy companies. He is an
accomplished executive who led research, development and implementation
of some of the most advanced technologies whilst at Woodside Energy. The
technologies that Russ has led include on IBM Watson, AWS, Autonomous
Robotics in collaboration with NASA - along with a broader suite of analytics
and artificial intelligence systems. Woodside is benefiting from these
technologies through better decision making, operational productivity and
safety and capturing over 30 years of corporate knowledge for the generation
to come.

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Don Bartusiak Collaborative Systems Integration
Open process automation: status of industry standard and
commercial adoption
Don is President of Collaborative Systems Integration, and co-chair of The
Open Process Automation Forum. In October 2020, he retired as Chief
Engineer, Process Control, for ExxonMobil Research and Engineering with
33 years of experience. At ExxonMobil, he implemented real-time artificial
intelligence, linear and nonlinear model predictive control, and real-time
optimization applications.

Mike Train Chief Sustainability Officer, Emerson

Finding real pathways to a sustainable economy
Mike was named Emerson’s first chief sustainability officer in March 2021.
In this role, he leads the company’s environmental sustainability strategy,
with a focus on advancing technologies and advocacy to enhance company
operations and enable customer improvements through Emerson’s solutions
and partnerships. He joined Emerson’s Office of the Chief Executive, which
helps develop and guide the company’s global business strategies, in 2016.
He began his career at Emerson in 1991, serving in various roles internationally
and in the US.

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Wednesday 20 October 2021
All times are British Summer Time

Welcome from the conference chair

09:15–09:30
Chris Hamlin, Conference Chair
New IChemE Digital Chemical Engineering journal introduction
09:30–09:40
Professor Jin Xuan​, Loughborough University, Editor-in-Chief

Room 1 Room 2
Digital Twins Digital Training and Research
09:45–10:10 A digitalisation dilemma: unexciting industrial data Advances in process engineering education of
Isaac Severinsen, digitalisation knowledge and skills: industry
University of Auckland, New Zealand needs, academic requirements, and practical
delivery
Brent Young, University of Auckland, New Zealand
10:15–10:40 Event partner presentation Bridging the gap between industry 4.0 and
How the digital twin? academia
enables productivity gains Sathyanarayana Appia, Consultant, India
for chemical & process industries
10:45–11:10 Developing an advanced digital twin for Development and validation of a dynamic model
continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing for flotation predictive control incorporating froth
Donald Ntamo, University of Sheffield, UK physics
Paulina Quintanilla, Imperial College London, UK
11:15–11:40 Digital twins in the process industries Training the whole organization toward digital
Anne-Marie Walters, Bentley Systems, UK transformation, at scale: a curriculum for building
analytics and knowledge capture skills
Misha Schurman, Seeq Corp, USA
11:45–12:10 Facilitated discussion Facilitated discussion

Leading your organisation and industry to adapt and thrive in the new
world of rapidly advancing technologies in AI, robotics, autonomous
12:15–13:15 Plenary speaker systems, IoT and data science.
Russell Potapinski, former Head of Intelligent and Autonomous Systems at
Woodside Energy, Australia

13:15-14:15 Break

Room 1 Room 2
Digital Operations Tools and Standards
The Future of Engineering
14:15–15:10 Plenary speaker
Rachel Cooke, Amazon, Luxembourg

15:15–15:40 The journey towards remote and autonomous Digital tools for optimised powder processing
operations Jess Andrews, Centre for Process Innovation, UK
Maurice Wilkins, Yokogawa Electric Corporation, UK
and Tom Fiske, Yokogawa Corporation of America
15:45–16:10 AI experts – the new continuous improvement Digital tools for optimised powder processing
revolution Jess Andrews, Centre for Process Innovation, UK
Jagadish Gattu, UptimeAI Inc., USA

16:15–16:40 JM-Levo: enabling optimisation using advanced Applying the IEC-62443 standard in discrete and
analytical tools and machine learning process solutions
Paul Clark, Johnson Matthey, UK Paul Hingley, Siemens Digital Industries, UK

16:45–17:10 The application of GHGSat data to improve the
detection of methane leaks and the integration
opportunities with plant sensor data.
Darren Steele, Consultant, UK
17:15–17:45 Facilitated discussion
Work team design for remote operations
David Lee, Emerson Automation Solutions, USA
Facilitated discussion
Thursday 21 October 2021
All times are British Summer Time

Room 1 Room 2
Digital Engineering and Digital Operations
Construction
09:15–09:40 The digital design basis. building a framework to Event sponsor presentation
reduce costs and improve quality in early-phase
To be confirmed
design 
Arnljot Skogvang, Lundin Energy, Norway
09:45–10:10 Advances in conceptual design emulation Optimising energy and carbon management for
Peter Kauders, CDE Projects Limited, UK an AAD plant at Northumbrian Water using mixed
integer linear programming
Harry Laing, Newcastle University, UK

10:15-10:45 Break

10:45–11:10 Automated extraction of Smart furnace analytics -

data from engineering diagrams  delivering operational excellence and
Brian Bain, DNV, UK sustainability through domain and data
Noorhidayah Binti Hussein, Petronas, Malaysia
11:15–11:40 Event sponsor presentation Mathematical computing tool for modelling,
Automated to autonomous: optimization and sustainability analyses of
using Bayesian optimisation alternative process systems
to accelerate product development Dr Jhuma Sadhukhan, University of Surrey, UK
and autonomous process manufacturing
11:45–12:15 Facilitated discussion Facilitated discussion

12:15-13:15 Break

Room 1 Room 2
Digital Engineering and Digital Operations
Construction
13:30–13:55 Safety, efficiency, and training through the Data-driven performance standard compliance
process digital twin: a cost-effective approach boosts productivity
Ben Firth, Flex Process Ltd, UK Chris Bell, DNV, UK

Invited speaker Self-service analytics and the processing of

hydrocarbons
Open process automation: status of industry Siang Lim and Shams Elnawawi, Parkland Refining
14:00–14:25 standard and commercial adoption (B.C) Ltd., Canada
Don Bartusiak, Collaborative Systems Integration,
USA
14:30–14:55 Facilitated discussion Facilitated discussion

Finding real pathways to a sustainable economy

15:00–15:55 Plenary speaker
Mike Train, Emerson, USA

Organizing and scaling for AI success

16:00–16:45 Invited speaker
Franziska Bell, bp, USA

16:45-17:00 Closing session Chris Hamlin, Conference Chair

This is a draft programme and is subject to change. 3

Programme
Each day's programme will be supplemented by a number of presentations which will be available to view before and
during the conference. The presenters of these sessions will also participate in the panel discussion at the end of the
session alongside the programmed speakers. Presentations will include:

Digital twins
Energy Digital Twin: The Virtual Utility Plant
Azleen Azna Binti Mohd Khairil Hing and Fadzrul Izwan B M Ali, Petronas, Malaysia

Digital operations
A “People-focused” Approach to the Industrial Internet of Things to Boost Productivity in
Manufacturing
Andreas Eschbach, eschbach GmbH, Germany
Practical Ways to Apply Data Analytics and AI for Energy Management and Emission Control in the
Steel and Cement Industries
Sanjit Shewale, ABB, Switzerland
How to Drive you Down the Digitalisation Highway to Sustainability?
Roy Calder, AVEVA, UK
The Value of Artificial Intelligence in Plant Asset Management
Marc Barish, Siemens AG, Germany

Tools and standards

FDI, HART and Foundation Fieldbus: Standards Update on the Digital Transformation Journey
Nick Garrett, FieldComm Group, UK

Digital engineering and construction

The Secret to Getting Ahead is Getting Started
Chris Hamlin, HancockHamlin Ltd, UK and Andrew Ogden Swift, Ogden-Swift Consulting Ltd., UK
A Flexible Framework for Collecting Data for Process Improvement
Anthony Margetts, Factorytalk Co Ltd, Thailand
Automated Well Control – A Step Change in Safety
Bryan Atchison, Safe Influx, UK

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Conference Partner

Siemens Digital Industries (DI) is an innovation leader in automation and digitalization. Closely collaborating with
partners and customers, DI drives the digital transformation in the process industry.
With its Digital Enterprise portfolio, DI provides companies of all sizes with an end-to-end set of products, solutions and
services to integrate and digitalize the entire value chain. Optimized for the specific needs of each industry, DI’s unique
portfolio supports customers to achieve greater productivity and flexibility. DI is constantly adding innovations to its
portfolio to integrate cutting-edge future technologies.
Siemens Digital Industries has its global headquarters in Nuremberg, Germany, and has around 75,000 employees
internationally.
For more information visit
https://new.siemens.com/uk/en/company/topic-areas/digital-enterprise/process-industry.html

Gold sponsors AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software, drives digital transformation for
industrial organizations managing complex operational processes.
Through Performance Intelligence, AVEVA connects the power of information
and artificial intelligence (AI) with human insight, to enable faster and more
precise decision making, helping industries to boost operational delivery and
sustainability.
Our cloud-enabled data platform, combined with software that spans design,
engineering and operations, asset performance, monitoring and control
solutions delivers proven business value and outcomes to over 20,000
customers worldwide, supported by the largest industrial software ecosystem,
including 5,500 partners and 5,700 certified developers.
AVEVA is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with over 6,000 employees at 90
locations in more than 40 countries.
For more information visit www.aveva.com

Quartic.ai provides AI-enabled solutions for industrial digitalisation. Its flagship

product, the Quartic Platform accelerates the adoption of Industry 4.0 for
process manufacturing practitioners to develop and deploy their own AI and
IIoT-based solutions. The company received the 2019 Pharma Innovation
Award for Pharma 4.0. Quartic is headquartered in San Jose, California with
offices in Toronto, Ontario, and a development centre in Bengaluru, India.
 For more information visit www.quartic.ai

Silver sponsor IT Vizion is a global software and services provider specialising in plant data
analytics, operational technology and decision support solutions. IT Vizion
work with leading technologies and progressive companies to help deliver
incremental digital transformations and enhanced, data-driven, decision
making.
We combine our engineering domain knowledge with our IT expertise
to help our clients to maximise the return on their operational data and IT
investments. Our software and consultants have valuable industry experience
and understand business challenges and end user needs. Our solutions and
innovations help companies to transform their operations and deliver better
business outcomes.
For more information visit www.itvizion.com
 Event supporters
IChemE's Learned Society Committee gives strategic direction to our technical priorities and
steers our activities as a learned society. The committee has identified digitalisation as one of
three priority topics to concentrate IChemE’s activities on as a learned society through to 2024,
and the completion of the term of the current strategy.
IChemE will provide thought leadership on how digital technologies and skill areas, enabled
by ethical leadership, organisational aspects, education and life-long learning, affect chemical
engineering professionals, and help them prepare for the future.
For more information visit www.icheme.org/about-us/people/learned-society-committee

Digital Chemical Digital Chemical Engineering, an official publication of the Institution of Chemical
Engineering journal Engineers, aims to provide a leading platform for publishing new and novel interdisciplinary
research across the domains of chemical engineering and digital sciences and technologies.
It is the vision of the journal to capture the breakthroughs during the transformation and
provide a timely discussion forum for researchers to disseminate results and exchange
ideas. It seeks to extend the boundaries of traditional chemical engineering and welcomes
papers at the interface between chemical engineering and digitalisation related disciplines.
For more information visit www.journals.elsevier.com/digital-chemical-engineering

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How will the virtual Advances
2021 work?
You don't need any special software, just a good Internet connection configured to stream
media. Advances 2021 will be held using the online event platform, iVent, which provides
all the tools needed to create an engaging and interactive event. Via the iVent platform,
we will have a virtual ‘conference centre’ complete with an entrance hall, auditoriums for
the technical sessions and plenary presentations, a networking lounge, a help desk, and an
interactive exhibition hall.

How will I get to ‘meet’ other conference attendees?

Whilst networking can never be fully replicated via an online event, the virtual platform does
encourage and facilitate professional networking.
At any time during the event, you will be able to see who is attending live with you and search for
contacts. Before the event, you will have the opportunity to create a delegate profile – your virtual
name badge – which can include as much or as little professional information about yourself as you
choose to help you network and make new contacts.
You will be able to connect with other attendees via one-to-one messaging. There will also be a
dedicated networking lounge to encourage discussion during the event.
As with a face-to-face event, there will be plenty of time scheduled for breaks during the
presentation sessions so that you can network and meet the exhibitors.

How will the virtual conference work?

Presentations will be delivered as part of a live timetable on 20-21 October. They will be made
available 'on demand' shortly after their broadcast time and for 30 days after the event, allowing
you to catch up on content you missed, or revisit presentations you found particularly interesting, at
a time that suits you best. It also means you can listen to far more content than would be possible at
a physical event.
There will be plenty of opportunity to engage with presenters and other participants through live
Q&A after each presentation, during facilitated discussion sessions, and in our virtual networking
lounge. There will also be a virtual exhibition hall.

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