Singapore: The longstanding challenge in streamlining operations and improving process automation to achieve optimal operations has never been more pressing than in recent years. Companies from the offshore and energy sectors, to chemical manufacturing plants and the utilities sectors all seek to achieve greater outputs, greater OPEX savings and reduced energy costs in order to stay competitive in the long term. This quest to improve plant process performance with increased productivity and lower maintenance and operation costs has driven them to seek new applications and innovative solutions to realise operational reliability and sustainability, and better process automation results.

The Plant Process and Safety Conference, to be held from 22 – 23 November 2011 at Suntec Singapore, targets to delve into these current challenges and offer many expert insights to industry professionals through various case studies and presentations to be shared by industry practitioners and industry experts.

The two-day conference comprises three critical sessions – Operations Reliability & Sustainability, Process Automation and Plant Safety. Delegates can look forward to an in-depth case study on how optimising operation costs (OPEX) can lead to significant savings, updates on WirelessHART (IEC 62591) the international standard for wireless in process applications, and key topics on design solutions, process engineering and process control systems on day one.

The conference on day two will expound on innovative strategies for plant safety practices, addressing safety lapses and the avoidance of losses and company reputation. The speakers will also tackle issues on risk management, risk mitigation and relating safety to business profitability performances.

Optimising Energy Usage for Sustainable Development

Despite emission reductions in developed countries between 1990 and 2010, global carbon dioxide (CO2) emission increased by 45 per cent during the same period, reaching an all-time high of 33 billion tonnes in 2010[1]. Continuous growth in developing countries will spur even higher consumption of energy and resources, consequently adding on to the environmental challenges faced globally.

Though not a new notion, sustainable development through energy efficiency has gained rapid momentum as the world undergoes climate change, resource depletion and massive amounts of waste generated. Adoption of a green, low energy consumption and low carbon emission approach has been accepted as the long-term and sustainable solution companies can carry out in order to ensure continuity.

The Sustainable Development through Energy Management Conference on 24 November 2011 presents professional viewpoints on how businesses can benefit from devoting their resources in sustainable development and energy efficiency practices. This one-day conference will impart case studies from industry leaders Ricoh and Mantech, and present constructive topics like insights into Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and carbon footprinting of products and services and sustainable design for plants, among others.

Responsible Waste Stewardship Seminar by CHWMEG

Held in conjunction with the Plant Processes and Safety Conference and Sustainable Development through Energy Management Conference; the Responsible Waste Stewardship Seminar organised by CHWMEG Inc. will educate delegates on the concepts of responsible waste stewardship, real-world experiences in environmental sustainability and sustainable waste management and technologies.

All conferences will be held alongside Asia’s leading scientific, environmental and analytical technology event, CIA2011, EnviroAsia2011 and AnaLabAsia2011 at Suntec Singapore from 22 – 25 November 2011.