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Øivind Moen
Machine means for design, control and economic optimisation of polyolefine production processes and their products Øivind Moen, Borealis AS
Abstract:
The polymer industry and especially the producers of polyolefines moves towards producing polyolefines with increased strength. This gives polyolefine applications with thinner container walls, thinner films and pipes. This again leads to a reduction in weight, transport cost and material usage, making the use of plastics more attractive and enhancing its environment advantages over other materials even further. To obtain this advantage more tailoring of the molecules is required. For a cost-effective way of to do this computer modelling tools are used. Examples of this will be discussed. The converters being the customers of the producers need to run their machinery closer to the limits so as to utilise their assets better and better. This sets more stringent requirements for more even product quality with smaller and smaller variations. The producer’s hence needs to control the product quality and production process better and better. This is achieved with increasing utilisation of model based control. The lowering of the cost of transport and the abundance of raw material as Naphtha and petroleum gasses in the eastern countries constrains European economical operation more and more. Plastics pellets are raw materials and its demand varies with the faith people have in the economy of the area and the world in general. These variations show to be difficult to predict and they are bumpy. The most economical way of producing the plastic pellets depends on the price to be obtained for prime products and the transition product and the costs of the raw materials. Tools to do economic optimisation depending on the marked conditions will be discussed.
Biography:
Øivind Moen, has an HND from Østfold Engineering College, Sarpsborg, Norway; a B.Sc. (that is the same as a Norwegian Sivilingeniør) in industrial control and a M.Sc. from Aston University, Birmingham, UK; also in industrial control. His PhD was done at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, UK. He has worked for Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk, Norway; AERE Harwell, UK; Østfold Institute of Engineering; Scandpower, Halden, Norway in the field of control of nuclear power stations and petrochemical plants. The present employer is Borealis AS a major polyolefin producer in Europe. The corporate centre for process and modelling where Øivind works is located at site Rønningen in Norway. Work has been concentrated in introducing computer based control of polyolefin plants stretching from converting older plants to modern DCS control, developing and commissioning advanced process control as well as making process models and simulations so as to predict the behaviour of the plants as well as important properties of the product produced.

Øivind Moen

Machine means for design, control and economic optimisation of polyolefine production processes and their products

Øivind Moen, Borealis AS

Abstract:

The polymer industry and especially the producers of polyolefines moves towards producing polyolefines with increased strength. This gives polyolefine applications with thinner container walls, thinner films and pipes. This again leads to a reduction in weight, transport cost and material usage, making the use of plastics more attractive and enhancing its environment advantages over other materials even further. To obtain this advantage more tailoring of the molecules is required. For a cost-effective way of to do this computer modelling tools are used. Examples of this will be discussed. The converters being the customers of the producers need to run their machinery closer to the limits so as to utilise their assets better and better. This sets more stringent requirements for more even product quality with smaller and smaller variations. The producer’s hence needs to control the product quality and production process better and better. This is achieved with increasing utilisation of model based control. The lowering of the cost of transport and the abundance of raw material as Naphtha and petroleum gasses in the eastern countries constrains European economical operation more and more. Plastics pellets are raw materials and its demand varies with the faith people have in the economy of the area and the world in general. These variations show to be difficult to predict and they are bumpy. The most economical way of producing the plastic pellets depends on the price to be obtained for prime products and the transition product and the costs of the raw materials. Tools to do economic optimisation depending on the marked conditions will be discussed.

Biography:

Øivind Moen, has an HND from Østfold Engineering College, Sarpsborg, Norway; a B.Sc. (that is the same as a Norwegian Sivilingeniør) in industrial control and a M.Sc. from Aston University, Birmingham, UK; also in industrial control. His PhD was done at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, UK. He has worked for Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk, Norway; AERE Harwell, UK; Østfold Institute of Engineering; Scandpower, Halden, Norway in the field of control of nuclear power stations and petrochemical plants. The present employer is Borealis AS a major polyolefin producer in Europe. The corporate centre for process and modelling where Øivind works is located at site Rønningen in Norway. Work has been concentrated in introducing computer based control of polyolefin plants stretching from converting older plants to modern DCS control, developing and commissioning advanced process control as well as making process models and simulations so as to predict the behaviour of the plants as well as important properties of the product produced.