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Journal articles on the topic "Champion Paper and Fibre Company"
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Jacobs, Trent. "Engineers and Execs Agree Shale Science Projects Are Worth It." Journal of Petroleum Technology 75, no. 03 (March 1, 2023): 24–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/0323-0024-jpt.
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_ It was a testimony to the impact science projects have had on the shale sector that kicked off the 15th Annual SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition (HFTC) held in the Houston area. When the technical experts and executives gathered, they discussed how, after years of subsurface study, past beliefs have been dispelled and new learnings translated into multimillion- to billion-dollar business decisions. At the conference’s plenary session, attendees learned from Devon Energy about why the oil company has become a vocal champion of refracturing and the influence it had on a recent acquisition that doubled its position in the Eagle Ford Shale. Bakken Shale producer Hess Corp. tied more than a decade of work to its experimental wells that use fractures from other wells to produce oil, as well as its commitment to developing automated fracturing despite facing obstacles in industry collaboration. SM Energy also showcased a double minifrac test as an example of the new experiments guiding its unconventional strategy in the Eagle Ford and Austin Chalk formations found in south Texas. A closer look at what they had to say is here. Betting Big on Refracturing In SPE 212340, Devon offered fresh details on its big refracturing study in the Eagle Ford Shale—one that played into its decision to spend $1.8 billion last year on an acquisition in the south Texas play. It involved two parent wells originally stimulated in 2013 and then refractured in January 2022. As a result, Devon reports the respective estimated ultimate recovery (EUR) from each well soared by 27% and 46%. These are wells that had been producing about 20 to 25 B/D, and according to data shared in the paper, at least one of them topped 1,000 B/D in the weeks following the refracturing. Kourtney Brinkley described the recovery boost as a “significant step change” that helped the company realize a “need to incorporate recompletions into our development plans as we go forward.” The drilling and completions engineer who helped lead the project for Devon reported that the operator’s wider refrac program in the play has seen incremental EUR increases as high as 75% with the average being at around 50%. The figures translate to a rate of return between 97 to 220%, which she said makes them “very economic projects.” The project Brinkley outlined at the conference fell under the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) hydraulic fracturing test site program. With the help of federal funding, Devon was able to deploy an enviable array of diagnostic tools. An observation lateral was drilled to monitor refracturing along with new completions on the pad. About 420 ft of core was taken from the observation well to capture some of the pad’s parent well fracture system. The diagnostic kit included multiple fiber-optic installations, sealed wellbore pressure monitoring, downhole pressure gauges, ultrasonic imaging, and more. With this rare suite of technologies, Devon was able to learn exactly how poor the initial parent completions were while later seeing just how effective its refrac designs ended up being. First came the parent core-through that showed while a hydraulic fracture was present every 10 ft on average, the number of propped fractures represented just 8% of the total found. Ultrasonic imaging aligned, showing initial completion design netted a cluster efficiency rate of just 19%. Post-refrac, that number was increased to over 80%, which implies to Devon that there are a good degree more propped fractures today.
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Sariyev, Nail, and Janka Táborecká-Petrovičová. "Performance measurement in a “hidden champion” company: An empirical study." Risk Governance and Control: Financial Markets and Institutions 12, no. 1 (2022): 21–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/rgcv12i1p2.
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The purpose of the paper is to review and evaluate the performance of a specific type of globally successful innovative company introduced to scientific literature as “hidden champion” by Simon (1990), using a combination of traditional financial key performance indicators (KPIs) with the modern evaluation method of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) model. The results showed that there are many areas in the selected company where EFQM allows building an effective management system, applied as a benchmarking tool for using the experience of leading companies. The joint utilisation of the KPIs and the EFQM model helps to create an objective picture and evaluate the organization in a relatively complex way. This paper provides in-depth insights into the application of new models in practice that are still scarce and may serve as a base for further research realized on larger samples. This work shows for the first time the application of EFQM commonly used in large organizations, for the special category of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) companies called “hidden champions” (HCs). In general, there is a lack of studies in domestic literature devoted to the concept of “hidden champions”. This paper contributes to this field from the perspective of quality management, and it provides also valuable insight for practice.
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Ashutosh, Ashutosh, Ashok Sharma, and Masroor Ahmad Beg. "Strategic analysis using SWOT-AHP: a fibre cement sheet company application." Journal of Management Development 39, no. 4 (February 27, 2020): 543–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmd-05-2019-0157.
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PurposePurpose of study: Indian fibre cement industry is at crossroads on account of the dropping margins attributed to the dynamic internal and external challenges faced by it. The ever-changing technology, the increasing availability of substitutes and changing demographic consumption profiles have questioned the survival of this industry. Internal and external factors affecting an organization provide inputs to the strategic decision-making. Diversity of factors and prioritization is a major challenge encountered for developing a strategy for the organization.Design/methodology/approachStrategic analysis in the paper proposes to rank important key variables through SWOT-AHP methodology affecting a fibre cement company. Computed priorities of SWOT factor could help in formation of management approach to key decisions facing the firm. It is a descriptive research design. The problem itself has multiple SWOT criteria that have been evaluated in three phases with the help of industry experts and AHP criteria.FindingsSWOT-AHP analysis has been a strategic fit for qualitative analysis of factors. The important ranked factors affecting the organization have been found to be brand name, capability of both the management and technical, quality of the product, and the efficient customer service and marketing reach/distribution.Research limitations/implicationsRanking of key SWOT factors found through AHP methodology will help the firm under study to develop and plan strategic alternatives to counter all challenges faced by them.Practical implicationsThe management of the firm under study shall be benefited in fine-tuning the overall strategy of the organization.Originality/valueThis paper proposes a hybrid SWOT-AHP strategic analysis first time in this sector. The affecting factors have been quantified and ranked to identify priority factors for the firm to focus.
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Gerard VAN ERP and Malcolm MCKAY. "Recent Australian Developments in Fibre Composite Railway Sleepers." Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering 13, no. 1 (January 1, 2013): 62–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.56748/ejse.131611.
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Despite a range of environmental concerns, railway companies worldwide continue to use timber sleepers to maintain their existing timber lines. In recent years reinforced polymer sleepers have emerged as a potential alternative but because of their high price their uptake has been very slow. In Australia a number of exciting new developments in reinforced polymer sleepers have recently been introduced into the market place by Carbonloc Pty Ltd, a spin-off company of the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba. This paper will discuss the details of these new polymer sleepers and compare their performance to the polymer sleepers that have been available in the market for some time.
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Suchánek, Vladimír, Tomáš Bednarz, and Tomáš Svojanovský. "Usage of Digital Image Correlation (DIC) in Determination of Modulus of Elasticity and Poisson's Ratio of Special Concrete." Solid State Phenomena 272 (February 2018): 154–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/ssp.272.154.
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This paper deals with an evaluation of long-term experimental work carried out in cooperation with concrete suppliers and a specific company (named Sobriety). The key part of this work is focused on the experimental determination of secant modulus of elasticity and Poisson's Ratio of special concrete (self-compacting concrete, steel fibre reinforced concrete, polymer fibre reinforced concrete, specific high-strength concrete). Two different real-time approaches were used to detect modulus of elasticity. In parallel, both approaches - the (European) standard approach and the DIC (2D DIC; 3D DIC with varying lengths in the vertical direction) - were applied.
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Karmazínová, Marcela, Jindrich Melcher, and Michal Štrba. "Experimental Verification of Glass-Fibre-Concrete Covers of Footbridge Deck Cornice, Subjected to Wind Loading Actions." Applied Mechanics and Materials 590 (June 2014): 363–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.590.363.
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The paper summarizes the results and evaluation of tests of the resistance of glass-fibre-concrete components used for footbridge deck cover subjected to wind loading actions. The main aims of this research was not only to verify the objective load-carrying capacity and serviceability of covering panels, but also to verify the use of glass-fibre-concrete and its properties, if applied for non-typical product. The tests also show the usage of the unique and effective method of the vacuum loading. The research has been elaborated based on the requirements of DAKO Brno Ltd. Company.
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Mullady, Sarah F. "The Champion Paper Company EAP and Major Issues for Employee Assistance Programs in the 1990's-Managed Care and Aging." Employee Assistance Quarterly 6, no. 3 (April 29, 1991): 37–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j022v06n03_03.
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Zhou, Ya. "Intelligent System of Converting Station Information Centralized Control Based on RC3000." Applied Mechanics and Materials 473 (December 2013): 143–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.473.143.
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This paper has briefly introduced the construction situation of centralized control station (CCS) of Xuchang Power Supply Company, the modes and components status of Information Centralized Control System (ICCS), and analyzed the its existing problems and shortage. This paper has mainly stated the equipment features and function properties of RC3000, and described construction components and superiorities of ICCS in detail. It is meaningful for the construction of power system fibre-optical communication engineering and CCS in reference.
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Musil, Luboš, Jan Vesecký, Jan Kubát, and Jan Vodička. "High Performance and Ultra-High Performace Fibre Reinforced Concrete with Stabilized Homogeneity." Defect and Diffusion Forum 432 (March 25, 2024): 45–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/p-47eirw.
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This paper describes the segregation of fibres in high performance and high strength concretes. It focuses on both laboratory and practical conditions. It compares different mixtures produced and processed in the laboratory and in the precast concrete company. Two methods are chosen in the paper to avoid fibre segregation. The first method is a suitable mix design considering the water/cement ratio and the amount of superplasticizer. The second method is the addition of synthetic fibres to the mixture while maintaining sufficient workability. The paper examines the consistence of each mixture according to the concrete placement location, segregation of fibres in the fresh mixture and hardened composite. Both methods under laboratory and practical conditions have shown a positive impact on the reduction of segregation of steel fibres in the mixture. Simultaneously, the strength properties of all mixtures were compared, which depended mainly on the type of synthetic fibres used.
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Velicki, A., and P. Thrash. "Damage arrest design approach using stitched composites." Aeronautical Journal 115, no. 1174 (December 2011): 789–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001924000006539.
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Abstract Although the deployment of carbon fibre structural components has enjoyed wide success on smaller aircraft, their acceptance on larger transport airframes is less sanguine – especially in the case of primary structure applications where the increasing out of plane loads found on the larger airframes have exposed the weak interlaminar properties of the layered material system. This has led to an overreliance on mechanical attachments to suppress these through thickness failures, which ultimately degrades structural performance and increases manufacturing costs. Until these resin dominated failure modes can be dealt with more effectively, without adversely affecting the in plane properties of the laminate, the true weight-savings potential afforded by carbon fibre material systems will be difficult to attain. This paper describes how researchers at NASA-LaRC and The Boeing Company are working to develop a next generation stitched composite design solution that addresses the fundamental challenges in achieving improved structural performance and reduced fabrication costs for large carbon fibre airframe structures.
Books on the topic "Champion Paper and Fibre Company"
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Queen, Anne. Oral history interview with Anne Queen, April 30, 1976: Interview G-0049-1, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). [Chapel Hill, N.C.]: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2007.
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Wade, Stephen. Pete Steele. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036880.003.0008.
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This chapter describes the recordings of banjoist Pete Steele, who began as a coal miner and then became a carpenter in a southern Ohio paper plant. On March 29, 1938, at his company-owned home on Rhea Avenue a few blocks from the Champion paper mills, Pete Steele first recorded “Coal Creek March” along with twenty-six other songs and tunes. Pete's facility with multiple tunings, combined with his various right-hand picking styles, demonstrates a technical range unsurpassed on the Folk Archive's numerous other disc-era banjo recordings. Surrounded by his wife Lillie and their children, Pete applied these skills either solo or to accompany Lillie, who additionally sang four numbers by herself. Their son Craig joined them on three pieces, playing guitar and sometimes adding his voice to theirs.
Book chapters on the topic "Champion Paper and Fibre Company"
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Giddens, Elizabeth. "From Birdsong to Train Whistle." In Oconaluftee, 185–208. University of North Carolina PressChapel Hill, NC, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469673417.003.0013.
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Abstract Large-scale logging arrived in the 1890s, bringing railroads to facilitate transport. Ravensford, on land once owned by the Enloe family, and Smokemont, on Queen family land, developed into logging towns outfitted with saw mills, stores, schools, and lodging for loggers and their families. Though logging companies were organized and folded constantly, Ravensford Lumber Company and Champion Fibre Company were in business when the national park was authorized in 1925. Removing cut timber via narrow-gage railroads, tram roads, splash dams, steam-powered skidders, and steam-powered log loaders scarred the land, caused erosion, and left brush that created fire hazards. Massive amounts of timber were cut; between 1920 and 1925, Champion Fibre sawed nearly 117 million feet of timber at its Smokemont mill. Private landowners accepted logging and leased land to the companies for rail lines, building sites, and water access. Some local men worked as loggers and mill hands while maintaining their farms and supplying food to logging companies. After logging ended at Ravensford in 1927 and at Smokemont in 1931, residents of the towns left the area, and the Park Service offered farmers buyouts or lifetime leases for their land. Some families lost the money from land sales in banks that failed during the Depression.
Conference papers on the topic "Champion Paper and Fibre Company"
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Ibrahim, Mohamed Walid A., Ashwaq M. Algarni, and Khalid O. Alobaid. "Low Capital Investment Approach to Foster Organizational Change Towards a Continuous Improvement Culture." In ADIPEC. SPE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/210825-ms.
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Abstract This research paper represents an organizational change initiative that can be implemented with minimum capital investment. Lean six sigma cultural change initiative was proposed to one of the world's largest Oil and Gas (O&G) producing company specifically in gas processing facilities construction projects department within the company's project management business line. The organizational structural change initiative aimed at enhancing personnel's performance efficiency in executing projects in order to achieve cost savings and/or avoidance up to 10 %. Gas construction projects department execute mega projects with an estimated total budget of $5 billion US dollars of new projects at the planning phase and currently have over 250 employees. A top-bottom cultural change approach was conducted in order to create a buy-in and secure management approval. The team capitalized on their extensive project management and execution experiences combined with lean six sigma training and previous successful continuous improvement implementations positive outcomes to develop a persuasion method. The proposed change depends, 1) changing the norm to become a continuous improvement nor, 2) spreading the use of simple analytical tools that will assist all employees to self-improve their daily tasks execution performance on a continuous base. Once the department manager buy-in is secured, a series of focused workshops are to be conducted in order to introduce the root cause analysis, 5-Whys, fishbone diagrams, and pareto 80/20 rule principal in order to communicate to employees (technical and non-technical) how to eliminate defects and minimize variances with the purpose of enhancing efficiency and effective utilization of resources. The primary exploration of data in this paper is to demonstrate how the authors are able to initiate simple analytical lean tools approach into the employees' mindset thinking approach in order to adapt lean transformation initiative. The team efforts of steering the department into executing mega projects with lean mindset approach is ongoing and active as the transformation is in its ground phase of spreading the culture and setting up the department norm. Nevertheless, the change champion has identified with the project controls division head the new mega projects which are tabled for execution on an expedited mode and initiated introduction of lean into the projects current phase; Front End Loading (FEL) and contracting strategy selection. Hence, the champion contributed into development of different contracting strategies options. These options are cored around enhancing the contract awarding cycle period by up to 50% reduction in consumed time. This is conducted parallel to the continuous efforts of educating the employees on the use of simple root cause analysis tools and continuous improvement approach. This paper represents a new approach of implementing lean thinking mindset in executing mega oil and gas construction projects. The authors go beyond systematically reorganizing the department documentation only but imbedding low cost analytical tools and changing the cultural mindset towards continuous improvement culture and mentality.
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Bayon, Le Ronan, and Leah Boyd. "Center of Excellence: Leveraging Data to Reduce Incidents on Offshore Oil and Gas Assets." In Offshore Technology Conference. OTC, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4043/31097-ms.
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Abstract This paper presents a novel approach to finding solutions to unsafe work practices in oil and gas environments—from manufacturing facilities to offshore platforms. The ‘Center of Excellence’ approach is a stepwise process for classifying safety events and harnessing data to reduce incidents during offshore oil and gas E&P activities. The approach includes identifying focus topics related to unsafe practices, forming cross-functional teams with significant field or impacted personnel participation, developing and implementing measures, utilizing the hierarchy of controls to mitigate the issue, and raising company-wide awareness through training and targeted information campaigns. The Center of Excellence process gives top priority to those activities in order to reduce the highest severity and most frequent safety incidents. The teams are then able to more clearly identify feasible solutions, including engineering controls, training, campaigns, and procedures to contain the hazards. The active engagement and involvement of frontline employees who either work in the field or on the factory floor is critical to understand the daily hazards of their work activities and the success of the Center of Excellence approach. With these employees acting as a champion of the developed solution, other workers are more likely to accept and adopt it in their daily routine. This paper reviews practical examples of how the Center of Excellence approach has led to safer practices in the workplace. Examples include improved safety measures for using tightening tools, which led to more than 50% reduction in hand injuries and other safety incidents. A recent example of using the approach to develop safer practices during manual handling of loads (MHL) is also presented. The examples highlight the benefits of bringing multifaceted teams and multiple industry-accepted safety concepts together to resolve common work safety challenges, which can serve as a blueprint for oil and gas companies to reduce incidents across their enterprise.
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Krajc, T., M. Stubna, K. Kravarik, M. Zatkulak, M. Slezak, and V. Remias. "The Mochovce Final Treatment Center for Liquid Radioactive Waste Introduced to Active Trial Operation." In The 11th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2007-7301.
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The Final Treatment Centre (FTC) for Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) have been designed for treatment and final conditioning of radioactive liquid and wet waste produced by named NPP equipped with Russian VVER-440 type of reactors. Treated wastes comprise radioactive concentrates, spent resin and sludge. VUJE Inc. as an experienced company in field of treatment of radioactive waste in Slovakia has been chosen as main contractor for technological part of FTC. During the realisation of project the future operator of Centre required the contractor to solve the treatment of wastes produced in the process of NPP A-1 decommissioning. On the basis of this requirement the project was modified in order to enable manipulations with waste products from A-1 NPP transported to Centre in steel drums. The initial project was prepared in 2003. The design and manufacture of main components were performed in 2004 and 2005. FTC civil works started in August 2004. Initial non-radioactive testing of the system parts were carried out from April to September 2006, then the tests of systems started with model concentrates and non-radioactive resins. After the processes evaluation the radioactive test performed from February 2007. A one-year trial operation of facility is planned for completion during 2007 and 2008. The company JAVYS, Inc. is responsible for radioactive waste and spent fuel treatment in the Slovak republic and will operate the FTC during trial operation and after its completion. This Company has also significant experience with operation of Jaslovske Bohunice Treatment Centre. The overall capacity of the FTC is 820 m3/year of concentrates and 40 m3/year of spent resin and sludge. Bituminization and cementation were provided as main technologies for treatment of these wastes. Treatment of concentrate is performed by bituminization on Thin Film Evaporator with rotating wiping blades. Spent resin and sludge are decanted, dried and mixed with bitumen in blade homogeniser. The bitumen product is discharged into 200dm3 steel drums. Drums with bitumen product or drums originated from A-1 NPP are loaded into Fibre Reinforced Concrete containers (FRC) and grouted with cement. Cement grout is prepared from the mixture of cement, additive and radioactive over-concentrate. By formulating the cement grout with evaporator concentrates the maximum radioactivity is fixed in cement matrix and volume of final waste product is minimized. A batch mixer with rotating blades is used to produce the cement grout. The grouted FRC containers are stored in the expedition hall and after 28 days of curing are transported to final disposal. After the start of routine operation, the FTC provides treatment for all liquid and wet LLW produced from the operation of the Mochovce NPP. The final product of the FTC is a FRC loaded with bitumen product in drums and filled with radioactive cement product. This container meets all limits for final disposal in the National Radioactive Waste Repository at Mochovce. This paper introducing the main parts of FTC and describes the technological procedures including the basic technological parameters for both used technologies, their working capacity and the overall waste flow. The evaluation of experience gained in the phases of Centre construction and commissioning and partially trial operation as well is a part of this paper (Evaluation of completion works process and time schedule, testing of systems using model media, radioactive testing and trial operation).
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Chadwick, Chris. "Cost and Waste Volume Reduction in HEPA Filter Trains by Effective Pre-Filtration." In The 11th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2007-7003.
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Data published elsewhere (Moore, et al., 1992; Bergman et al., 1997) suggests that the then costs of disposable type Glass Fibre HEPA filtration trains to the DOE was $55million per year (based on an average usage of HEPA panels of 11,748 pieces per year between 1987 and 1990), $50million of which was attributable to installation, testing, removal and disposal. The same authors suggest that by 1995 the number of HEPA panels being used had dropped to an estimated 4000 pieces per year due to the ending of the Cold War. The yearly cost to the DOE of 4000 units per year was estimated to be $29.5 million using the same parameters that previously suggested the $55 million figure. Within that cost estimate, $300 each was the value given to the filter and $4,450 was given to peripheral activity per filter. Clearly, if the $4,450 component could be reduced, tremendous saving could result, in addition to a significant reduction in the legacy burden of waste volumes. This same cost is applied to both the 11,748 and 4000 usage figures. The work up to now has focussed on the development of a low cost, long life (cleanable), direct replacement of the traditional filter train. This paper will review an alternative strategy, that of preventing the contaminating dust from reaching and blinding the HEPA filters, and thereby removing the need to replace them. What has become clear is that ‘low cost’ and ‘Metallic HEPA’ are not compatible terms. The original Bergman et al., 1997 work suggested that 1000 cfm (cubic feet per minute) (1690 m3/hr) stainless HEPAs could be commercially available for $5000 each after development (although the $70,000 development unit may be somewhat exaggerated – the authors own company have estimated development units able to be retrofitted into strengthened standard housings would be available for perhaps $30,000). The likely true cost of such an item produced industrially in significant numbers may be closer to $15,000 each. That being the case, the economics for replacing glass fibre HEPAs with the metallic, cleanable alternative are unjustifiable except on ethical grounds. By proposing the protection of the traditional Glass Fibre HEPA from its blinding contamination, a means is presented to reduce both their life costs and ultimate waste volumes. An examination of the case for self-cleaning HEPA protection also suggests that, even when the mechanical life limit of the HEPA train is reached, the degree of contamination could be reduced to such an extent that its means/classification of final disposal may be modified to further reduce cost. Pulsed jet filtration using metallic filter media is a practical and industrially proven means by which solids can be prevented from reaching the HEPA train and returned to the operator for disposal, whilst not interrupting the process flow through the system. Field experience and data to prove the contention is available. There are clearly benefits with regard to disposal in returning to the user the small quantities of dust that would otherwise lead to the contamination and blinding of the large volume of the filter train. A cost benefit analysis shows that this radical solution to HEPA cost amelioration can work. Presenting a review of the technology and its application to other areas illustrates that where gross dust removal or recovery is necessary, or where extreme conditions make traditional HEPA technologies impractical, metallic filtration systems can (and do) also offer economic and industrially real solutions.
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Hendawy, Mostafa Mohamed, Albert Kwasi G. Boohene, Omar Labib, Kenneth Vullum-Bruer, and Yves Minier. "Flowline Sustainable Operations through Monitoring and Digitalisation – Ærfugl Project Case Study." In Offshore Technology Conference. OTC, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4043/32576-ms.
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Abstract Unlocking the value of product data for the subsea industry is essential to improving efficiency and sustainability from early engagement to fabrication, installation and throughout the product life cycle. Unlike standard flowlines managed with temperature sensors on trees which provide limited information to the operator, Ærfugl Project implemented distributed flowline temperature monitoring, to allow effective mitigation against hydrate formation utilising active heating technology. The case study was a collaborative effort between the project's subsea umbilical, riser and flowline (SURF) Contractor (hereafter referred to as the COMPANY) and its subsidiaries, with support from the owner and operator of the Ærfugl development (hereafter referred to as the CLIENT). A pre-existing Alliance between the two companies worked to turn live project data into operationally valuable insights. The case study capitalised on monitored temperature data from the COMPANY's first functional 20km electrically heat-traced flowline (hereafter referred to as the PRODUCT). The PRODUCT is a subsea pipe-in-pipe system with electrical heating wires and fibre optics laid in the annulus. The fibres provide a temperature reading every metre along the flowline length via distributed temperature sensing (DTS). The DTS topside interrogator collects, processes and stores the data offshore, simultaneously visualising it for the offshore operator. The case study successfully extended offshore data acquisition to the cloud, further processing the data onshore to produce valuable outputs visualised on cloud-based dashboards. In collaboration with the operator, offshore data acquisition was successfully performed using Open Platform Communication Direct Access protocol, all the while maintaining the required cyber security. The data was then processed and correlated to the flowline design parameters to monitor and create temperature visuals, report thermal insulation efficiency, hence, aiding flow assurance and operations. Data is processed and visualised on dashboards within the COMPANY's bespoke digital delivery interface (hereafter referred to as the DATA INTERFACE) – a cloud-based platform where all stakeholders have a common integrated interface – showing status, profiles, trends, warnings, alarms, and operator recommendations where applicable. The benefits and value of this solution include the reduced risk for production downtime and loss of integrity through proactive asset monitoring and management, effective decision-making by operators for operations, inspection, repair & maintenance activities, and improved vessel utilisation (thus reducing associated carbon emissions). More broadly, value is created by reducing unplanned production downtime, limiting (mono-ethylene glycol) MEG injection and flaring, validating and expanding operational envelopes by reducing design envelope conservatism, and allowing Subject Matter Expert-assessed, automated reporting. Furthermore, production and integrity envelopes through the product life cycle can be inherently validated, providing invaluable feedback and insight. Geared with such knowledge, conservatism in design may be reduced, system usage is improved and adjusted as the system ages and project delivery is enhanced. This paper highlights the value of useful data creation and processing resulting from constant monitoring of smart flowlines, allowing for improved product operation and development, building towards an actionable digital twin. Relying on a collaborative approach, a comprehensive field data management strategy highlights a critical tool and a repeatable/scalable process to provide value, supporting sustainability and efficient asset lifecycle management.