Pumps, Valves and Actuators

Mercure Sheffield St Pauls Hotel, Sheffield

06 December 2017 - 07 December 2017
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Overview

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers are delighted to announce the launch of our exciting new Pumps, Valves and Actuators Conference in December 2017.

Join experts in pump, valve and actuator technology across the engineering industries including thermal power, nuclear, water, petrochemical, oil and gas. Learn from specialists about the latest methods to optimise performance in different operational environments.

Hear different methods of preventing damage and corrosion of equipment and prolong the life of your assets through condition monitoring, preventative maintenance and strategic retrofitting. Learn how best to avoid unexpected cost, reduce downtime and extend the life of your assets.

Engage with key decision makers, innovators and budget holders across the fluid machinery industry. Benefit from our unique speed networking session and develop new working relationships with key experts in their field.

What our speakers are looking forward to this year:

	"I'm looking forward to learn about the challenges in various valve and pump user sectors, where the new materials and technologies can provide solutions." Yuri Zhuk, Director, Hardide Coatings Ltd

"I am always kind to see how other industries met challenges and implemented solutions, I am hoping the conference will give plenty of examples of this." Mellish Kett, IST & MOV Programme Owner, Components and Programme, Sizewell B, EDF Energy

WHY YOU NEED TO ATTEND:

Develop effective best practice for pump, valve and actuator operations across industries
Maintain maximum levels of safety and reliability, particularly in high risk operational environments
Gain insight into the latest technologies on the market and how they can best be integrated at your company
Learn from end users, contractors and suppliers of equipment about the best approach to equipment operations and maintenance
Network with technical experts, budget holders and decision makers across the fluid machinery sector, including in our speed networking on day one

KEY TOPICS INCLUDE

Understanding and meeting regulations and standards using approaches that are reliable and cost effective
Safety and reliability in operational environments with examples from across the power, water and oil and gas industries
Optimisation of equipment to increase output, improve efficiency and reduce downtime
Effective maintenance to prolong asset life, ensure the efficacy of both static and dynamic machinery
Meeting design requirements and the impact that different materials and maintenance approaches play in reducing corrosion and ensuring performance

Day 1

08:30 - Day 1 Programme

	WEDNESDAY 6^TH DECEMBER 2017
08:30	REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS
09:00	CHAIR’S WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
	EFFECTIVELY MEETING STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS
09:10	PUMPS, VALVES AND ACTUATORS IN THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY: A REGULATOR’S VIEW Christopher Jones, ONR Inspector - Nuclear Safety – Mechanical, Office for Nuclear Regulation
	MEETING DESIGN REQUIREMENTS
09:40	THAMES TIDEWAY LEE TUNNEL: CHALLENGE AND INNOVATION FROM A MECHANICAL PERSPECTIVE Ciaran Heaney, S&L E&D Regional Engineering and Design Manager, CH2M · History and development of the Lee Tunnel · Identifying core challenges · Finding solutions through innovation
10:10	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
10:25	speed networking and NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
	UNDERSTANDING ASSET CONDITIONS AND MATERIALS
11:05	CONDITION MONITORING OF VALVES FOR ENHANCED OPERATIONS AND PRODUCTIVITY Ronald Simpson, Operations Director, Score Diagnostics Ltd
11:35	A POWER GENERATION PERSPECTIVE: INDUSTRY DEMANDS ON STEAM COOLED DE-SUPERHEATERS Paul Holland, Manager – UK Power Industry, Advanced Valve Solutions Typical issues with de-superheaters Industry demands and the effects on materials due to thermal shock New methods to reduce thermal shock and increase the life of de-superheaters
12:05	CVD TUNGSTEN CARBIDE HARDIDE COATING REPLACES HARD CHROME PLATING TO PROTECT PUMP AND VALVE PARTS FROM ABRASION, EROSION AND CORROSION Yuri Zhuk, Technical Director, Hardide PLC · The CVD coating protects parts of pumps, ball valves and actuators against wear, erosion, corrosion and typically triples life of critical parts in abrasive/erosive/corrosive environment · CVD technology for coating complex shape parts on both internal and external surfaces · New applications such as pump impellers, and Airbus approval as a replacement to Hard Chrome plating, which is restricted by REACH
12:35	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
12:50	NETWORKING LUNCH
	ENSURING SAFETY AND RELIABILITY
13:50	BOARD LEVEL GOVERNANCE: SPLITTING DYNAMIC FROM STATIC RISK James Laramy, Health and Safety Lead, Wholesale Wastewater, Thames Water
14:20	MOTOR OPERATED VALVE DIAGNOSTIC TESTING, MEETING THE SAFETY CASE AND AVOIDING FAILURES Mellish Kett, IST & MOV Programme Owner, Components and Programme, Sizewell B, EDF Energy · How Sizewell B ensures MOVs meet their safety requirement · How the testing programme has evolved and lessons learnt · Examples of identified degraded states found before failure
14:50	AN OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS PERSPECTIVE ON ENSURING SAFETY WHILST WINDING BACK MAINTENANCE REGIMES Patrick McGauley, Director, Enstrand Consultancy Ltd · Offshore oil and gas process overview · Asset Integrity and maintenance excellence regimes · Safety risk and maintenance shortcomings
15:20	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
15:35	NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
16:05 PANEL	COMPLIANCE WITH SAFETY STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS ACROSS INDUSTRIES Patrick McGauley, Director, Enstrand Consultancy Ltd Charles Okereafor, Machinery Team Leader, PetroIneos Iggy Pont Lezica, Risk & Optimisation Coordinator, Ashford Common & Kempton WTW, Thames Water Utilities Ltd · Identifying the core challenges impacting engineers across industry · What is required from the end user and how can these requirements be met? · How can cross industry lessons best be implemented?
16:50	CHAIR’S CLOSING REMARKS
17:00	END OF DAY ONE

Day 2

00:00 - Day 2 Programme

	THURSDAY 7^TH DECEMBER
08:30	REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS
09:00	CHAIR’S WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
	IMPROVING EFFICIENCY OF OPERATIONAL EQUIPMENT
09:10	WORKING WITH THE HAND THAT YOU’VE BEEN DEALT: COMPLEX DECISION MAKING IN PROCESS PLANT MAINTENANCE Iggy Pont Lezica, Risk & Optimisation Coordinator, Ashford Common & Kempton WTW, Thames Water Utilities Ltd · Factors affecting planned and reactive maintenance management on live operational plant · Working within budgetary and downtime constraints · Real life examples relating to pumps, valves and actuators
09:40	THE DIRECT AND INDIRECT BENEFITS OF PUMP AND SYSTEM OPTIMISATION Brian J Conway, Director, Boulting Group Limited · Reliability of Equipment · Resilience of upstream and downstream pipelines · Reduction in energy consumption
10:10	CONDITION MONITORING OF EQUIPMENT FOR IMPROVED OPERATIONS AND OUTPUT Gordon Ellis, Operations Manager, John Crane
10:40	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
10:55	NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
	MAINTENANCE AND RETROFITTING
11:25	USING COST EFFECTIVE MONITORING AND PREDICTIVE MODELLING TO ACHIEVE IMPROVED SUBSEA INTEGRITY WHILST REDUCING INSPECTION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS John Strutt, Director, Astrimar · How the subsea industry has traditionally managed subsea integrity and how it is adapting to change in the low oil price era · How advances in monitoring technology, data analytics and predictive modelling are being used to improve understanding of asset integrity while enabling subsea operators to minimise inspection and testing costs · Examples of how these approaches are being applied to subsea valves and actuators
11:55	RETROFITTING OF INTELIGENT ACTUATORS FOR IMPROVED PERFORMANCE AND DIAGNOSTICS Phil Burness, Group Site Services Director, Rotork Controls · A review of the process of retrofitting intelligent electric actuators in place of traditional electro-mechanical dev6ices · Requirements for sizing/adaption and upgrades to industrial network communications · Using intelligent diagnostics to assess the valve and process health
12:25	SOLVING A 20 YEAR-OLD RELIABILITY PROBLEM ON A SET OF CRITICAL PUMPS Charles Okereafor, Machinery Team Leader, PetroIneos
12:55	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
13:10	NETWORKING LUNCH
	INNOVATIONS IN THE INDUSTRY
14:10	MODELLING AND ANALYSIS OF PUMPS AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN SOFTWARE FOR MODELLING OF CAVITATION Ahmed Kovacevic, Professor in Engineering Design & Compressor Technology, City University
14:40	INTELLIGENT PUMP CONTROL FOR PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE AND ASSET MANAGEMENT Alistair Mackinnon, ‎Director of Sales and Marketing, Pulsar Process Measurement
15:10	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
15:20	NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
15:50 PANEL	DEVELOPING BEST PRACTICE FOR PUMP, VALVE AND ACTUATOR OPERATIONS John Strutt, Director, Astrimar Gordon Ellis, Operations Manager, John Crane Ronald Simpson, Operations Director, Score Diagnostics Ltd · Improving communication and learning across industries and between end users and suppliers · Understanding future requirements and developing best practice accordingly · How can operators develop best practice whilst complying with budgetary constraints?
16:35	CHAIR’S CLOSING REMARKS
16:40	END OF CONFERENCE

Ahmed Kovacevic: Professor in Engineering Design & Compressor Technology, City University

Professor Kovacevic holds prestigious Howden Chair in Engineering Design and Compressor Technology at City University London. His main motto is integration of design excellence in academia and industry which he does through researching, teaching and collaborating with industry in numerical modelling, analysis and design of positive displacement machines. He chairs two International conferences, leads research in the Centre for Compressor Technology at City University, has authored 5 books, more than hundred referenced journal and conference papers, holds rights to several patents and has received 7 awards for his work.

Alistair Mackinnon: Director of Sales and Marketing, Pulsar Process Measurement

Yuri Zhuk: Director, Hardide Coatings Ltd

Dr Yuri Zhuk is a founding Director of Hardide Coatings Ltd, developer and producer of innovative CVD hard coatings used in the Oil and Gas, Aerospace, Flow Control and Advanced Engineering industries. Hardide Coatings Ltd operates two production plants in the UK and the US from which it supplies advanced coatings to blue-chip customers worldwide including the UK, North America and Europe. Dr. Zhuk is responsible for the company’s technology, R&D, patenting, production improvement and applications development programmes. Dr.Zhuk started carrier as a scientist and later became a technology entrepreneur, gaining over 20 years of successful international technology business experience. Yury holds MSc (with Distinction) and PhD degree in Plasma Physics and Chemistry from the Lomonosov Moscow State University and an MBA from the UK Open University, is an author of several patents, scientific and technical publications, presented Hardide at the leading industrial conferences

Brian J Conway: Director, Boulting Group Limited

Brian Conway is Director of Boulting Group’s Pump Management division, a specialist part of the Group focussing on all aspects of pumps and systems. He has been involved in design and development of pumps and systems in various industries for more than 30 years. During the past 15 years, the majority of work has involved testing, analysis and optimisation of pumps and systems in the water industry, both as a consultant and design of pump and station improvements to optimise energy efficiency and reliability. His experience has been mainly in the UK water utilities, providing technical consultancy and having overall design responsibility for pump and system performance improvements, but also in other European countries and the Middle East. He has also been responsible for multi-award winning energy efficiency projects in conjunction with Thames Water.

John Strutt: Director, Astrimar

John Strutt is a chartered engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. As Chief Consultant and Technical Director of Astrimar, he has responsibility for developing the reliability engineering and technical risk assessment and management capability of the company. Before founding Astrimar, John was Chief Consultant with Atkins and prior to that he was Professor of Reliability and Engineering Risk Management at Cranfield University. John has supported many companies in developing their reliability and integrity practices and documentation and is the champion and technical authority for API RP 17N Subsea System Reliability, Technical risk and Integrity Management and for API RP 17Q on technology qualification

Patrick McGauley: Director, Enstrand Consultancy Ltd

Patrick McGauley was the former Chief Petroleum Engineer at BG Group. He has over 30 years experience in the oil and gas business, working on a global portfolio of assets. He has held senior leadership roles including asset manager role, and worked with offshore safety and operations managers to ensure asset integrity and prevention of offshore major accidents and hazards (MAH).

Mellish Kett: IST & MOV Programme Owner, Components and Programme, Sizewell B, EDF Energy

Karl Simons: Head of Health, Safety, Security and Wellbeing, Thames Water

Karl is Head of Health, Safety, Security and Wellbeing at Thames Water and is responsible for the strategic direction of discipline within the business. He has 25 years of experience in industry, having worked across all continents and numerous safety critical industries including oil, gas, minerals, rail, construction and water. He holds a Masters degree in Safety, Health and the Environment, is a Chartered Occupational Safety & Health Practitioner and member of the Institute of Directors and has always a keen student of behavioural psychology. Karl is a regular lecturer at the University of Cambridge and holds a position as Main Board Director for the global organisation Water Sanitation for the Urban Poor. Over the last 5 years at Thames Water Karl has supported the company to develop a clear vision and strategy for each of the disciplines he oversees that has led to the implementation of waves of initiatives and world class performance outcomes.

Paul Holland: Manager – UK Power Industry, Advanced Valve Solutions

Iggy Pont Lezica: Risk & Optimisation Coordinator, Ashford Common & Kempton WTW, Thames Water Utilities Ltd.

Iggy Pont Lezica is a mechanical engineer and has been leading Thames Water’s pumping efficiency programme since 2011. This has included delivering over 50 multidisciplinary projects delivering over 20GWh of energy reductions. This has ranged from traditional pump refurbishments, to novel station control upgrades and full station upgrade projects. During his career at Thames Water Iggy has held a variety of roles, in design teams sizing clean water networks, on site overseeing the construction of new clean water treatment plants and in frontline operational management roles.

Phil Burness: Group Site Services Director, Rotork Controls

Phil Burness is Rotork’s Director of Site Services, responsible for Rotork’s worldwide after sales and engineering projects business. Phil has over thirty years’ experience in process industry service and maintenance activities, including instrument and control system design, implementation and maintenance responsibilities for the chemical, plastics and power generation industries. As Rotork Site Services Director, he works with Rotork’s worldwide sales and service network to continue the development of after sales support, engineering projects and life of plant services.

Brian J Conway: Director, Boulting Group Limited

Gordon Ellis: Operations Manager, John Crane

Charles Okereafor: Machinery Team leader, PetroIneos

Ciaran Heaney: S&L E&D Regional Engineering and Design Manager, CH2M

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Day 1

08:30 - Day 1 Programme

Day 2

00:00 - Day 2 Programme

Ahmed Kovacevic: Professor in Engineering Design & Compressor Technology, City University

Alistair Mackinnon: Director of Sales and Marketing, Pulsar Process Measurement

Yuri Zhuk: Director, Hardide Coatings Ltd

Brian J Conway: Director, Boulting Group Limited

John Strutt: Director, Astrimar

Patrick McGauley: Director, Enstrand Consultancy Ltd

Mellish Kett: IST & MOV Programme Owner, Components and Programme, Sizewell B, EDF Energy

Karl Simons: Head of Health, Safety, Security and Wellbeing, Thames Water

Paul Holland: Manager – UK Power Industry, Advanced Valve Solutions

Iggy Pont Lezica: Risk & Optimisation Coordinator, Ashford Common & Kempton WTW, Thames Water Utilities Ltd.

Phil Burness: Group Site Services Director, Rotork Controls

Phil Burness: Group Site Services Director, Rotork Controls

Brian J Conway: Director, Boulting Group Limited

Gordon Ellis: Operations Manager, John Crane

Charles Okereafor: Machinery Team leader, PetroIneos

Ciaran Heaney: S&L E&D Regional Engineering and Design Manager, CH2M

Exhibition & Sponsorship Opportunities: Sponsorship Team

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Papers Executive: Mia Roberts

Exhibition & Sponsorship Opportunities: Daniel Anglin

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