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Offshore wind energy is booming and 2021 is set to kick-off a decade of high growth in the sector. Installed capacity, currently around 40GW, is predicted to reach 2000GW* by 2050 as countries rush to comply with Net-Zero by 2050 obligations. 

Where is this enormous industry being developed, and what are the challenges in developing offshore windfarms? 

In this webinar Francis Cram, CEO MapStand and Sandra Merton, Senior Product Manager, Elsevier will discuss the development of offshore wind, wind tender rounds and look at some of the key parameters that stakeholders need to understand in order to develop offshore wind resources.
*IRENA (2021)

Hear about:
• Global and Technology trends
• Licensing rounds/tenders
• Current opportunities / Zooming in on Scotwind area
• Information and data challenges in offshore wind
• how collaboration between MapStand and Elsevier supports offshore wind energy projects

Offshore Wind Energy: Opportunities & Challenges

Most of us rely on published Corrosion Tables to aid us in selecting a proper alloy for a particular service.  While they look simple to use, there are hidden truths that if not understood, can lead you to select an alloy that will not work satisfactorily.

Using Corrosion Tables and Iso-Corrosion Curves to Select Alloy

Using Corrosion Tables and Iso-Corrosion Curves to select alloy – what they don’t tell you!
Most of us rely on published Corrosion Tables to aid us in selecting a proper alloy for a particular service.  While they look simple to use, there are hidden truths that if not understood, can lead you to select an alloy that will not work satisfactorily.

Using Corrosion Tables and Iso-Corrosion Curves to select alloy (APAC)

This webinar will examine mistakes that are often made when selecting stainless steels or nickel alloys for corrosive applications. Examples will be provided.

4 common mistakes when choosing a corrosion-resistant alloy

This webinar will examine mistakes that are often made when selecting stainless steels or nickel alloys for corrosive applications. This will be followed by live examples.

This webinar will focus on the necessary requirements for ensuring quality duplex SS welds, the most challenging aspect for their successful use and the area of fabrication that may result in premature failures, including some very costly ones. It is advised that registrants will have some familiarity with duplex alloys, although a short review will be given.

Duplex Stainless Steels – understanding their weldability

This webinar will focus on the 5 different families, their areas of application with focus on where they are very suitable and where there may be problems.

Duplex Stainless Steels – where to use them and where not to use them

Sustainability and improved plant efficiency are critical challenges for the future of the engineering industries. However, finding actionable plans and information to improve sustainability in engineering plants, and seeing the trends of research before they become engineered solutions are critical parts of this transition. In this webinar we will showcase how the use of Elsevier Engineering Tools can be used to find information on sustainable methods for plant design and operation, as well as performing fast and efficient literature searches to find emerging technologies. Join this session to see these tools in action, and learn how they can help you meet your sustainability goals for the future.

Sustainability and Plant Efficiency

Why do process parameters matter? What are some common, and not-so-common, scenarios to look out for?  Establishing conventional strategies for hazard identification in chemical processes and risk assessments are critical to safety. Yet ensuring that the team can successfully identify all the relevant scenarios is a major challenge.   This webinar will focus on strategies to help catch more subtle cases.  You will learn which questions to ask in order to better understand the process and hone-in on those key areas of risk.  Join the team from Icarus-ORM as they provide resources and examples you can use to improve your awareness of process risks.

This webinar would be of interest to:
Process engineers, project managers, PHA facilitators, PHA participants, process safety/risk teams/specialists

Strategies for chemical process hazard identification (APAC)

Abstract:
Why do process parameters matter? What are some common, and not-so-common, scenarios to look out for? Establishing conventional strategies for hazard identification in chemical processes and risk assessments are critical to safety. Yet ensuring that the team can successfully identify all the relevant scenarios is a major challenge. This webinar will focus on strategies to help catch more subtle cases. You will learn which questions to ask in order to better understand the process and hone-in on those key areas of risk. Join the team from Icarus-ORM as they provide resources and examples you can use to improve your awareness of process risks.

This webinar would be of interest to:
Process engineers, project managers, PHA facilitators, PHA participants, process safety/risk teams/specialists

Strategies for chemical process hazard identification

Innovations in fever charts have led to a significant simplification that allows use of fever charts without the need for training in critical chain project management. With this novel improvement, fever charts have become appropriate in any industry.

Improve project performance with simplified fever charts

In collaboration with the Nickel Institute, Dr. Graham Sussex, foremost expert in corrosion and failure investigations, will explore how stainless and nickel alloys can deliver good heat transfer efficiency.

Most commonly, thermal efficiency and its related cost are the basis of heat transfer designs of commercial and industrial plant and equipment. Simple thermal conductivity is a factor in heat exchangers but it is not significant compared to scaling or fouling caused by corrosion or flow design issues. Economisers and condensing boilers are particular designs where chasing efficiency can lead to significant corrosion unless temperatures and fluid flows are carefully analysed.

Optimising heat transfer and corrosion control using stainless steels and CRAs.

Optimizing heat transfer and corrosion control using stainless steels and CRAs

The metals and mining industry can be challenging. The key challenges often include:
- Exploring a new region and trying to get up to speed with the geology of the area

- Trying to get more insights into the (geochemical, geophysical, geological) properties of a certain mineral deposit in my study area, including the geometry and dimensions

- Trying to find as much peer reviewed scientific information as possible on best practices of extraction for the mineral deposit.
 
- Making data useful is time-consuming and there are quality concerns due transcribing data and manual formatting (e.g. cropping maps manually from articles and georeferencing, copying tables from PDF into excel format).

In addition, geoscientists have many questions they need answered such as:
Are there mineral deposits? 
- Are there mineral resources?
- Are there mineral reserves?  

What does that deposit look like?
- What are the geochemical, geophysical and geological properties ?
- What is the geometry of the deposit? 
- How much mineral reserves are there?
- Can we get to it and what is the best method of extraction? At what cost?

Getting ahead of these challenges and questions can be simplifed when companies have all the necessary information to make decisions and mitigate risks.

Overcoming Challenges in Metals and Mining

International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that about 40% of the full lifetime costs of an offshore wind project, including construction and maintenance, have significant synergies with the offshore oil and gas sector (IEA, Offshore Wind Outlook, 2019). This webinar will demonstrate examples of such synergies and how professionals in traditional oil and gas companies can leverage their current skills to transition to renewables. Examples will include:
A) Wind turbine vs offshore oil platform construction
B) Electrical distribution networks vs pipelines
C) Utilizing renewables to offset oil and gas production costs

How can oil & gas teams prepare for energy transformation to renewables

The Geofacets Customer Forum October 2020 focused on Data Integration and Data Management in natural resource exploration and management. The forum is a unique opportunity for us to gather together to learn from one another, to engage and provide critical feedback to the Geofacets and Professional Services product teams, to network with fellow explorationists, data managers and data scientists.

Harnessing Scientific Information with Artificial Intelligence 
Dr George Tsatsaronis

Harnessing Scientific Information with Artificial Intelligence

The Geofacets Customer Forum October 2020 focused on Data Integration and Data Management in natural resource exploration and management. The forum is a unique opportunity for us to gather together to learn from one another, to engage and provide critical feedback to the Geofacets and Professional Services product teams, to network with fellow explorationists, data managers and data scientists.
Cory Harper
Geo-relevant Technology Research in Elsevier Labs: From Geolocation Engines to Tables Interpretation and Contextualizing Measurements in Scientific Text

Geo-relevant Technology Research in Elsevier Labs

The Geofacets Customer Forum October 2020 focused on Data Integration and Data Management in natural resource exploration and management. The forum is a unique opportunity for us to gather together to learn from one another, to engage and provide critical feedback to the Geofacets and Professional Services product teams, to network with fellow explorationists, data managers and data scientists.

Unlocking Custom Insights from the Geoscience Literature

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