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Engineering Workshops Currently Offered by
Rossiter & Associates

Industrial Energy Management in the 21st Century

Industrial Energy Management in the 21st Century is a 2¹/2-day workshop aimed at improving the participants' knowledge and understanding of the various principles involved in designing and operating processes at optimum energy efficiency. The primary focus is on processes, equipment and utilities in the oil refining, chemical and petrochemical industries. The workshop includes lectures, working sessions, discussion time and software.

This program also incorporates the Energy Efficiency Showcase, a parallel event in which a select group of equipment manufacturers and service providers will present their products for the benefit of the workshop participants. This will include tabletop displays, opportunities for informal discussions, and presentations interspersed at appropriate points in the workshop agenda. Showcase participants include TLV Corporation, Soteica Ideas & Technology LLC, and Aspen Aerogels.

The overall objective is to provide participants with a firm grounding in the principles of energy management, and at the same time introduce them to organizations that can help them implement energy efficiency programs. Participants are thus prepared to achieve real world energy efficiency improvements at their facilities.

Workshop Topics:
(A more detailed curriculum is included in a separate PDF document.)

• Introduction: Overview of Energy Use
• Energy Technology & Thermodynamics
• Steam Systems
• Other Utility Systems
• Process Heat Integration
• Key Process Equipment Items
• Energy Efficiency Programs

Who Should Attend?
Industrial Energy Management in the 21st Century is aimed at energy managers and engineers involved in plant operation, troubleshooting and process design in the oil refining and chemical & petrochemical industries.

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Introduction to Pinch Analysis

Course Topics:
(A more detailed curriculum is included in a separate PDF document.)

• Background to Pinch Analysis
• Energy Targeting & Composite Curves
• Heat Exchanger Network Design
• Multiple Utility Targeting & the Grand Composite Curve
• Retrofit Design
• Industrial Examples

Who Should Attend?
Introduction to Pinch Analysis is aimed at energy managers and engineers involved in plant operation, troubleshooting and process design in the oil refining and chemical & petrochemical industries. It will be particularly helpful to engineers who expect either to carry out pinch work themselves, or to participate in or manage pinch work conducted by others.

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Venue & Local Hotel Information:

Houston Engineering & Scientific Society (HESS): For a short description of our course venue (facilities, maps, etc.), see: www.hessclub.com

If you are coming from out of town, you may need accommodation. Here are links for four of the closest hotels, with approximate distances indicated. Rossiter & Associates does not have any commercial arrangements with these or any other hotels.

• Doubletree Guest Suites Houston by the Galleria (0.1 miles)
  5353 Westheimer Road, Houston, Texas 77056
  Phone: +1-713-961-9000
• Aloft-Houston (0.2 miles)
  5415 Westheimer Road, Houston, Texas 77056
  Phone: +1-713-622-7010
• JW Marriott Hotel Houston (0.7 miles)
  5150 Westheimer Road, Houston, Texas 77056
  Phone: +1-713-961-1500
• Holiday Inn, Near the Galleria (1.4 miles)
  3131 West Loop South, Houston, Texas 77027
  Phone: +1-713-961-1640

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Registration & Ordering Options:
If necessary, print out the Registration and Order Form. Adobe Acrobat Reader software required.

1. Order online through our secure payment system.
2. Mail your registration and check to:
      Rossiter & Associates
      4421 Darsey Street
      Bellaire, TX 77401

If Rossiter & Associates is forced to cancel a program, registrants will have the option of a full refund or participation in an alternative program.
Cancellation Policy: Cancellations more than 7 days prior to a program are subject to a $55 administrative fee. No refunds for cancellations within 7 days of a program.

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The Course Director, Dr. Alan Rossiter, is President of Rossiter & Associates, an industrial energy efficiency consulting company based in Bellaire, Texas. Clients include ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Citgo, Syncrude Canada, Sasol (Pty) Ltd. (South Africa), and the Government of Canada.

Dr. Rossiter holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Cambridge, England, and has more than 25 years of engineering and management experience. A frequent conference speaker and course instructor, he has more than 50 publications in energy efficiency and waste minimization, including the McGraw-Hill book, Waste Minimization through Process Design (1995), and the "Energy Management" article in the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 5th Edition, (John Wiley & Sons, 2005). He is a chartered engineer, a registered professional engineer (Texas), and a member of the AIChE.

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Rossiter & Associates
www.rossiters.org/associates
alan@rossiters.org
713-660-9503