diesta: a revolution in heat exchangers one manufacturing

Tomorrow-Technip-October 2015

TOMORROWA Technip Technology Publication - Issue 7 - October 2015

DIESTA: a revolution in heat exchangers One Manufacturing: consolidating technology developmentA broader onshore technology offer Monitoring Solutions: driving cost efficiency

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Chief Editor: Laura Pereira Neto

Associate Editors - October 2015 issue:

Nello Uccelletti, Laurent Dufour, Marc Choussat,

Philip Hagyard, Jeremy Provost, Samuel Rocher,

Virginie Lehning, Beatrice Vernuccio, Brian

A. Roberts, Jean-François Niel, Christophe

Marchand, Jean-Philippe Martin, Marie-Christine

Charrier, Andrea Gragnani, Cindy Viktorin, Stan

Knez, Ron Birkhoff, Laurent Decoret, Stéphane His

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“Technip has unique expertise and know-how in integrating technologies from third party licensors, with most of whom we formed long-standing strategic alliances over the last 50 years.”

Nello UccellettiPresident, Onshore/Offshore

I am pleased to introduce this new issue of Tomorrow. Since its launch three years ago, this magazine has offered a presentation of many innovative technologies that our teams have been developing, reflecting Technip’s role in meeting tomorrow’s world energy challenges.

In the challenging environment our industry is facing, technology is a competitive “must” for all actors. In this regards, Technip maintains, year after year, a strong focus on research and innovation, in a sector where development-to-commercialization cycle often exceeds 10 years.

As for Subsea, where technology combined with leading-edge assets enables Technip to be a vertically-integrated leader from deep to shore, Onshore and Offshore also highly depend on technology, which is the starting point of every project.

Expertise and know-how are so important in our activities that even for open art technologies, which are no more patented, only a few actors are able to guarantee the performance of processes and products. Technip offers a wide range of proprietary processes and equipment for Onshore and Offshore applications, some of which you discovered in previous issues of Tomorrow, such as ethylene, Fluid Catalytic Cracking Alliance, Cryomax, or Floating LNG, HVS semi, TPG500 or Spar platforms. Technip also has unique expertise and know-how in integrating technologies from third party licensors, with most of whom we formed long-standing strategic alliances over the last 50 years.

In this issue, you will discover details of our portfolio of onshore tech-nologies, which started with the first LNG plant in the early 1960’s. They were more recently widened by the acquisitions of Stone & Webster pro-cess technologies in 2012 and Zimmer® Polymer Technologies late 2014.

Technology allows our Onshore and Offshore teams to offer our clients optimized full-range capabilities from engineering, procurement up to construction and installation of onshore units and offshore fixed and floating platform. It also enables us to significantly increase over time, the safety and reliability of our customers’ installations. As well, while environmental concerns are of the utmost importance for the industry, we are able to propose more energy efficient solutions drastically lowering greenhouse and gases emissions such as CO2, NOx and SOx. As an example, over the last 20 years, we achieved a reduction in CO2 emissions per ton of ethylene of more than 30%.

Our researchers and engineers are passionate about technology and innovation which are an integral part of Technip’s DNA. I hope that you share the same passion for technology and you will find interest in reading this new issue of Tomorrow.

EDITORIAL


DIESTA: a revolution in air-cooled heat exchangers

Air cooled heat exchangers are one of the most common types of process equipment and are found in most of Technip’s projects.

DIESTA (Dual Enhanced Surface Tubes) is a long overdue response to the need for an improvement in Air Fin Coolers.

For decades, Air Fin Coolers (AFC’s) have been used extensively to reject moderate amounts of heat into the atmosphere whenever no valuable use could be found for it. Larger quantities of heat tended to be removed using cooling water either taken directly from rivers or the sea, or from evaporative cool-ing towers fed with a small stream of fresh water.

Over the last 25 years, AFC’s have been progressively replacing traditional water cooled heat exchangers in heavy duty applications such as the main refrigerant con-densers of LNG plants.

The principle of AFC’s is to remove heat from a process fluid flowing inside tubes by blowing ambient air using electric motor driven fans. The tubes are installed horizontally and assembled in bundles. As heat transfer efficiency with air is low, aluminum fins are fitted on the steel tubes to increase the heat transfer area by a factor around 20 times.

Natural gas liquefaction plants are the biggest single users of AFC's today. One example will clearly describe the situation: on a 4 MMTPA liquefaction train based on the Air Products C3MR process, the largest service is the propane condenser which will reject approx. 200 MW into the atmosphere resulting in a ca. 200m long AFC.

The first air cooled LNG plant was started up in 1989 in Australia but water cooling remained dominant, being used for Technip’s projects in Nigeria LNG (trains 1, 2 & 3), Yemen LNG and the Qatari AP-X mega trains. The shift to AFC’s results from the drive to lower project costs, the growing importance of plant reliability and the regulatory preference for air cooling that avoids any impact on the aquatic environment. However, despite this shift, AFC technology has changed little over time.

In 2007, Technip and Wieland were starting to see the trend that today means the GEWA-PB tube is the dominant solution for propane evaporators and the efficiency of GEWA-KS dual enhanced tubes in the water cooled propane con-densers of all six AP-X trains in Qatar was on the way to be demonstrated. However, it was realized that with few exceptions all future onshore LNG plants were going to be air cooled.

There was a strong desire to transpose the GEWA-KS success to an air cooled equivalent. This resulted in the partnership with GEA-BTT, the leading supplier of AFC’s for LNG and which was quick to see the opportunity of creat-ing a new industry-leading product.

DIESTA is quite simply a better exchanger. The improved heat transfer performance can be used to reduce the equipment size, to increase capacity, or to save energy.

The need for a new industry leading product in LNG

Typical induced draft Air Fin Cooler

A first exchanger is on order for application in a non-LNG Technip project. DIESTA is now being promoted to all Technip’s existing and potential clients in LNG. The outlook for DIESTA is bright not only in LNG. Today, DIESTA designs are available, thanks to the measurements performed in Kassel, data collected in an ethylene plant in Germany and Wieland’s long experience

with other internal structures. DIESTA designs bring big cost savings in services including gas cooling, clean fluid condensation and viscous liquid cooling. Many other applications are being found such as in gas compressor after-coolers, in refining and in ethylene for the quench water air cooler when quench water is coming from a naph-tha cracker.

In LNG, the highest return on investment is achieved by targeting a reduction in the condensation temperature of the refrigerant as this can in-crease LNG production from a pre-selected set of refrigerant compressor gas turbine driv-ers. This is the way in which the PB tubes are used in the propane evaporators and we can anticipate the same for DIESTA. When this happens, LNG plants will see output go

up by several percent without affecting energy consump-tion or significantly affecting CAPEX.

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A coordinated development program

The future belongs to DIESTA

Technip ensured the over-all economic study and the coordination of the program in terms of objectives and the cost. From our experience with dual enhanced tubes for propane evaporators, the development team had learnt that in a critical first applica-tion, a new type of equip-ment will be most readily accepted if it offers a lower installed cost than the tradi-tional equipment design that it replaces. Consequently, the equipment target cost was

based on this saving alone.Together the development team adopted the principles of the Technology Readiness Level of API 17N.Wieland took the lead for the definition of the internal sur-face geometry and its char-acterisation as an enhancer of heat transfer for propane condensation in particular. This entailed the construction of a purpose built test rig at Kassel University.

This test rig is unique, al-lowing measurements in the same pressure and temperature conditions as onsite while ensuring a high level of safety for the operators. Convinced by the potential of DIESTA, Total and ADEME participated significantly to the funding of this test rig. In parallel, Wieland developed a machine capable of produc-ing tubes with a customized internal structure, while ensur-ing a smooth external surface with the precise dimensions required for a good bond

with the external fin. GEA-BTT took the lead for the external fin that included the screening of multiple fin geometries before selection. This was done with the sup-port of ARMINES. Similarly to the internal structure, GEA-BTT developed the manu-facturing process for high speed production of the large number of tubes required for an LNG train.

For further information, please contact Jeremy Provost, Heat Transfer Department Manager, Paris, France. [email protected] Read our brochure www.technip.com/sites/default/files/technip/

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Enhancement of internal surface Increased turbulence, Improved heat transfer coefficient.

Enhancement of external surface Better air flow distribution, Improved heat transfer coefficient.

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Plain internal tube

Smooth finned surface


One Manufacturing: delivering satisfaction to our customers

Since the start-up of Flexibrás Açu in Brazil in 2014, Technip now operates four flexible pipe manufacturing facilities around the world. These assets are essential links in Technip’s vertical integration chain and our technologies are strong competitive differentiators.

A corporate initiative has been launched across the flexible pipe world to develop a consistent manufacturing strategy called ONE MANUFACTURING. The objective is to align technology and manufacturing processes and to share best practices. Through this initiative, Technip wants to reinforce its reputation for quality, safety and reliability to ensure that its tailor-made flexible pipes are the same, no matter where they are made.

A strategic plan called BEST – standing for “Better & Safer Together” – has been implemented in our flexible pipe factories (see poster). This plan, led and monitored by the ONE MANUFACTURING team, is deployed through five aspirations with one common

objective: “delivering satisfaction to our customers”. In every factory, the local strategic plans are now directly linked to these goals and are cascaded through targeted missions and specific actions to all managers and employees.

The adhesion of every factory to this new plan is beyond expectations and has facilitated a quick appropriation of the “think globally, act locally” concept.

Technip’s four flexible pipe plants are located in Vitória and Açu, Brazil (Flexibrás), in Le Trait, France (Flexi France) and in Tanjung Langsat, Malaysia (Asiaflex). This strong local footprint facilitates contacts with regional clients to answer local market-specific

requirements. Our processes require consistency in manufacturing with the same standards regardless of the plant. The ONE MANUFACTURING network is working closely with the local teams to benchmark all processes across the factories

in order to deploy the best solutions everywhere. Acting as a hub, ONE MANUFACTURING fosters exchanges and diversity to create added value with the help of local expertise.

Fostering national content

A shared strategic focus

A dedicated international team from Brazil, France and Malaysia has been set up. They are all recognized experts in their fields (Procurement, Qualification, Technical expertise, IT, HSE, Communication, Quality, Busi-ness Performance and CAPEX).

Flexible pipe design

Better & Safer Together

Good communication between our four plants is essential. ONE MANUFACTURING is supporting the deployment of common IT and business performance tools in all our factories. On-line forums have been created to get support from everywhere and

share lessons learnt and other relevant information, faster across the flexible community.ONE MANUFACTURING has already demonstrated its efficiency and added value. It is strengthening the bonds between our flexible pipe manufacturing plants and

particularly between our main assets: our people. This initiative is definitely an advantage to be cost efficient, competitive and to maintain our leadership for the future.

Field developments are becoming increasingly complex, including operations in ever deeper waters with higher pressure levels and more corrosive fluids requiring increasingly complex products too. ONE MANUFACTURING cooperates with R&D and supports innovation, developments and qualifications to prepare the next generation of flexible pipes.The program also strengthens investment optimization across the plants to anticipate

and prepare now, what our clients will expect in the future. The team brings its expertise in new machinery and in strategic CAPEX: the four-year modernization and optimization project of Flexi France, the new factory in Açu dedicated to high-end pipes for the Brazilian pre-salt fields or Asiaflex for the Asia Pacific market, ensuring also that the right technologies, assets, competencies and skills are available at the right location and at the right time.

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1 Asiaflex Products, Tanjung Langsat, Malaysia2 Flexibrás Vitória, Brazil 3 Flexi France, Le Trait, France4 Flexibrás Açu, Brazil

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Facilitating and consolidating the integration of technologies

Consolidating Technology Development

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For further information, please contact Jean-François Niel, Group SVP Global Manufacturing [email protected]


As a leading process technology provider, PT licenses technologies, develops process design packages, supplies proprietary equipment, supports customers at start-up, guarantees plant performance and provides technical services throughout the life of a plant. With the support of two research centers – in the U.S. and Germany – it also invests in research and development activities that keep the technologies

current. Services range from designing experiments and conducting technical and economic evaluations to testing catalysts, demonstrating processes and providing technical support to licensees. PT is also looking to actively expand its technology portfolio.PT’s other mandate is to grow a technical consulting business that leverages the expertise and know-how of Technip’s centers of excellence around the globe.

The objective is to provide reliable information to customers at the early definition stage of a project. With coordinated support from our technology team, product lines and other resources across the company, PT helps customers plan their projects selecting each time the most profitable solution.

The PT business includes an unparalleled global team of technology experts supporting worldwide business by engaging with customers early in a project’s development and offering them the possibility to utilize Technip’s regional project delivery organizations for the subsequent FEED and EPC phases.

Technip’s Process Technology Offer

Licensed proprietary technologies chosen at early stage of projects

Process design packages/en-gineering to guarantee plant performance

Assistance with plant start-up and follow-up during plant production

Design, supply and installation of critical proprietary equipment

Since the formation of Technip Stone & Webster Process Technology (PT) in 2012, Technip has further enlarged its portfolio of onshore process technologies.Earlier this year, the acquisition of Zimmer® Polymer Technologies was concluded and more recently PT closely aligned its expertise, alliances and research and development activities with the centers in Paris, Rome, and Lyon. The goal? To broaden the company’s position as a downstream technology leader, strengthen client and partner relationships, open the door to early involvement in projects and most importantly, deliver greater value to our customers.

Technip’s PT business offers to the Oil & Gas, Refining, Petrochemicals, Fertilizers, Power and Mining industries technologies that are wholly and jointly owned, and others that are offered through licenses with third parties. The addition of consulting services further expands the company’s worldwide market of upfront services.

Masterplanning, bankable feasibility studies

Concept definition for grassroot and expansions/debottlenecking

Open art unit designs Reliable investment cost esti-mates

Profitability & financial analysis Computational Fluid Dynamics and HSE risk modeling & analysis

Broadening Technip’s offering of technologies and consulting services

Technip’s Onshore Consulting Services Offer

As a market-leading onshore downstream technology provider, Technip can offer a diversified portfolio of technologies for the production of motor fuels, plastics, fertilizers, LNG and chemicals.

In addition, the company’s unique position throughout the chain of onshore projects can provide our customers with best-in-class consulting services, bringing back at the concept design phase the feedback from FEED, EPC, commissioning and start-up activities.

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Proprietary technology for bioethanol

NGL RecoveryNatural Gas

LNG

Ethylene

GTL

Hydrogen

Petro-chemicals

Refining

CO2 Capture

Crude Oil

Coal Power

Proprietary Cryomax® Technology

Proprietary Cryogenic Nitrogen Rejection Technology

Two Technip Stone & Webster Proprietary technologies with different clients & geographic bases - Proprietary ROG Technology Exclusive co-developer of Sasol Fischer-Tropsch reactor technology Engineering alliance with Sasol on GTL

Steam reformer/proprietary technology/ complete hydrogen plant

HDPE, LLDPE (INEOS alliance)LDPE (SABIC alliance)EB/SM (Badger JV, Total alliance)Polystyrene (Total alliance)Expandable Polystyrene (INEOS alliance)ABS (SABIC alliance)

Polypropylene (INEOS alliance)Cumene, Bisphenol-A (Badger JV)PTA (BP alliance)Polyesters - PET, PBTPolyamides - PA6, PA6.6

Fluid Catalytic Cracking and RFCC (Axens/IFP/Total alliance)Deep Catalytic Cracking (Sinopec alliance)BenzOUT ™ (Badger JV) Progressive Crude Distillation

Exclusive alliance with Shell Cansolv for post-combustion capture

Proprietary Fluosolids technology for calcining, thermal processing, and drying of metal ores and concentrates for metallurgical purposes, in combination with MECS technology for sulfuric acid productionProprietary phosphoric acid technology by the dihydrate process

Mining

BioethanolRenewables Green

Chemistry

Technip: key provider in the onshore projects chain

Business Domains Process Technologies

Claremont

Milton Keynes

Boston/Weymouth

Houston

ZoetermeerFrankfurtParis

RomeLyon

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One PT Organization

Center fully dedicated to PT activities Center having selected teams

dedicated to PT and Consulting activities *PT headquarters


In the current business environment, there is an even stronger focus on cost reduction. This has also put monitoring systems in the spotlight, as they can bring cost-effective solutions to complete offshore field.

Cybernetix: monitoring solutions as a means of driving cost efficiency

The need for monitoring solutions for offshore mooring systems and subsea risers has been a niche market targeted by Cybernetix, a Technip entity. Increasingly, operators are understanding the value of monitoring systems for such equipment. Critical compo-nents that previously did not have any form of monitoring to predict imminent or actual failure are now available.The value of these monitor-ing systems is that they can monitor the fatiguing stress to which a critical compo-nent is subjected and deter-mine the remaining life of that component.

Systems to monitor com-ponent stresses are ideally installed at the start of an in-stallation’s life so that fatigue can be monitored from Day 1. Retrofittable systems how-ever can also provide useful information about an exist-ing facility and still allow an assessment of useful residual life. Different deployment methods address both cases.There is a great benefit to the operator in extending the life of an existing facility: to pro-vide continuing production or utility support functions and offset final decommissioning. It is in this area that the direct relationship between moni-toring systems and cost saving is easiest to demonstrate.

Installing monitoring systems from Day 1 enables an operator to follow the overall behavior of components and reduce operational uncer-tainties during the life of an installation. The information gained can then be used to improve the components' design (e.g. by reducing safety coefficients) and improve the design software (e.g. by checking or calibrating for more accurate predictions of loadings) which will ultimately lead to lower CAPEX.

Monitoring can be divided into two categories: monitoring of an asset (e.g. measuring bearing temperatures or vibrations of a pump to check for degradation) and monitoring of production (e.g. process flows parameters to ensure efficient handling of products). Where monitoring starts to get really valuable to an operator is when the informa-tion provided is used in a smart way.

Predictive Maintenance of an equipment item, as opposed to Periodic Maintenance per-formed based on running hours recommendations from equip-ment suppliers, uses real-time data from a monitoring system to determine when mainte-nance is actually required. This can lead to extended times be-tween inspections and thereby reduces the overall maintenance cost. However to gain the most advantage from Predictive Maintenance the multiplicity of information received from the monitoring systems must be analysed in a smart fashion, to provide good advice to the operator.

Recording data to provide sustainable products and solutions

Monitoring systems can bring cost-effective solutions to complex offshore fields facing safety, integrity and fatigue issues

Some examples of how Cybernetix monitoring solutions can help reduce costs

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All the above systems, by monitoring subsea key component conditions, lead to operational risk reduction and operating cost saving. They also help to reduce design and construction uncertainties and offshore manning for inspections, which translates again into cost reductions whilst maintaining high levels of safety.

For further information, please contact Virginie Lehning, Cybernetix Marketing & Technology Coordinator [email protected]

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The Anchor Leg Load Monitoring Systemis a monitoring solution for mooring lines. Different technologies can be used within the system depending on its objectives. For breakage or overstress alarms, top angles are measured by inclinometers. For stress cycling monitoring, load cells or vibrating wires (ex-tension/compression measurements) measure parameters that enable tension calculations. By following angles or tension variations, op-erators have access to the actual status of the mooring lines and get valuable information to decide on maintenance or repair before a failure occurs or for making life extension decisions.

The Morphopipe Systemis dedicated to flexible pipe risers. It is installed at a top location on the riser under the stiffener, where dynamic loads are very stringent due to environ-mental constraints. An array of sensors, embedded in a dedicated layer, measure the curvatures experienced by the riser. Monitoring curvature cycling loads, correlated with environment data measurements, gives access to the remaining lifetime of the equipment when compared to design calculations. In addition, the follow-up of actual dynamic cycles over the flexible riser lifetime allows re-assessment of the safety coefficients used during design phases.

The Riser Tension Monitoring System,based on vibrating wire technology, continuously calculates the tension of a rigid riser from extension/compression measurements, allowing long-term remaining life assessment. As for flexible pipes, a better knowledge of operational behavior also helps to improve design coefficients.

Technip provides engineering, project management and procurement services based on its Zimmer® technologies for polyesters (PET, PBT, PTT) and polyamide (PA6, PA 6.6) production plants. Our strong research and development focus has strengthened our portfolio of technologies and helped us build an outstanding track record of more than 800 plants.

The perfect polymers for your needs: Our end products, characterized by excellent quality, are processed by customers in the textile, packaging and engineering plastic markets.

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