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2010 Golden Valve Awards Desktop Calendar Wallpaper available for downloading

The Q3 versions of the 2010 Golden Valve Awards Computer Desktop Calendar are available for downloading. Select your favorite winning image of the third quarter:

• WorleyParsonsGroup, Inc. — 3rd Place Visually Complex
• Selas Fluid Processing Corp. — 1st Place Rendering and Ray Traces
• ECM S.A. Projetos Industriais — 2nd Place Rendering and Ray Traces (pictured here)

Each image features a three-month calendar and can be set as your desktop background. Download the zip file to receive all three images. The calendars are available in two sizes: 800x600 and 1024x768.

Download them now.

The Golden Valve Awards competition recognizes the most innovative and well-executed uses of software supported by Intergraph Process, Power & Marine.

The Q4 images will be available for download in September.

GetSmart! team blogging live at Intergraph 2010

Next week, August 30-September 2, the GetSmart! blog team is attending the Intergraph 2010 International Users' Conference in Las Vegas, NV, USA.  So, we will be blogging live from there.  Here are a few of the exciting events/sessions from the complete schedule:

• Intergraph Executive Keynote
• T. Boone Pickens Keynote
• Power Focus Group Luncheon with guest speaker Dr. Robert Peitier, Editor-in-Chief of Power Magazine
• TechExpo breaks
• Using SmartPlant 3D Automation to Design for Modular Construction: A Case Study by Bechtel Corporation
• Introduction to WorkFace Planning
• Reducing Costs and Risks of Turnarounds: An Integrated Approach
• Toyo Engineering’s Use of SmartPlant 3D with SmartPlant Enterprise Integration for EPC

You can stay up-to-date on all the conference happenings by signing up for the GetSmart! blog RSS feed here. 

See you in Vegas!

Intergraph 2010 Guest Keynote: A Conversation with T. Boone Pickens

The guest keynote speaker at Intergraph 2010 is T. Boone Pickens, one the world’s foremost authorities on the global energy and energy security markets. Recognized around the globe, Pickens has been named one of the 100 Most Influential People by Time magazine, CEO of the Decade by Financial World, and one of the 100 Most Influential People of the Petroleum Century by Oil and Gas Investor. During this thought-provoking keynote session, “A Conversation with T. Boone Pickens,”  this best-selling author will offer his views on global solutions for today and the future as well as candid responses to attendees questions. Regardless of your interests, we promise you a thought-provoking keynote presentation that will help you to see a new world of opportunities everywhere you look.

Register now for this week's webinar on rules-based design and safety

There's still time to register for "Rules-Based Design: The Watch Dog for Safety in the Engineering Enterprise" webinar, part of the special GetSmart! Safety webinar series:

• Register to attend Aug. 25, 7:00 p.m. CDT (A time conversion chart is available on the registration page)
• Register to attend Aug. 26, 8:00 a.m. CDT

Rules-based design is a watch dog that can help build better, safer plants, offshore structures, and ships. Rules-based design can incorporate safety rules and considerations into the design system. It also can facilitate a more error-free design, thus eliminating late, sometimes poorly documented modifications often made onsite during construction.

Rules-based design capability in SmartPlant 3D and SmartMarine 3D, collectively known as Smart 3D, is a top differentiator to traditional design systems. This webinar will feature several prominent examples of how rules-based design can help to increase Safety in the Engineering Enterprise, including area classification, explosion analysis, access and spacing management, and containment design.

Intergraph 2010, still time to register online

Online registration for Intergraph 2010 ends August 20--register today!

With so many things planned this year, you won't want to miss Intergraph 2010.  From the TUF meetings to the keynotes to the sessions there is something of interest for everyone. 

Friday is the last day to register online for Intergraph 2010, to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, at the ARIA Resort at CityCenter™, August 30 – September 2.  There are only a few days left.  Online registration ends at 4:00 p.m. (U.S. CDT) on Friday August 20.  Register now to ensure a smooth process on-site, and save $200 off on-site registrations rates.

See you in Vegas!

Webinar to explain how rules-based design acts as safety 'watch dog'

Rules-based design is a “watch dog” that can help build better, safer plants, offshore structures, and ships. Rules-based design can incorporate safety rules and considerations into the design system. It also can facilitate a more error-free design thus eliminating late, sometimes poorly documented modifications often made onsite during construction.

In the next installment of the GetSmart! Webinar Series, the rules-based design capability in SmartPlant 3D and SmartMarine 3D (collectively known as Smart 3D) will be highlighted. The capability is a top differentiator to traditional design systems.

This webinar will feature several prominent examples of how rules-based design can help to increase Safety in the Engineering Enterprise, including area classification, explosion analysis, access and spacing management, and containment design.

The webinar will be held live on Aug. 25, 7 p.m. CDT, or Aug. 26, 8 a.m., CDT. We hope to see you there.

CNPCCEI wins top honors in 2010 Golden Valve Awards competition

China Petroleum Construction & Engineering Corp. East-China Design Branch (CNPCCEI) has been awarded “Best of Show” in the annual Intergraph Golden Valve Awards competition for the company’s detailed view of the CNPC Guanqxi Branch refinery, the top refinery base in China. The image, created using  
Intergraph’s 3D and visualization solutions, depicts the sun setting on China’s largest refinery with an annual capacity of 10 million tons.

The Golden Valve Awards competition is sponsored by Intergraph and is open to all SmartPlant and SmartMarine Enterprise engineering design software users. The winners were announced at the Intergraph Greater China Users’ Conference in Shanghai, China. CNPCCEI’s submission won over the more than 150 entries in this year’s competition, an increase of more than 90 percent over last year’s entries.

Yudong Liu, manager of Engineering at CNPCCEI, and submitter of the winning image comments:

“SmartPlant Enterprise engineering and design solutions enable us to create stunning and realistic 3D images which in turn allow us to quickly and efficiently provide our clients with the highest quality designs possible. We are honored to win Best of Show in what is our first time competing in the Golden Valve Awards competition.”

To read the full press release, click here . 

Deadline extended: Enter your Smart 3D automations for a 2010 Platinum Pipe Award

The deadline to enter the 2010 Platinum Pipe Awards Competition, where you could receive US $2,000 and complimentary registration to Intergraph 2010 or Intergraph 2011, has been extended to August 13.

The Platinum Pipe Awards Competition will recognize the most innovative automation ideas for SmartPlant 3D and SmartMarine 3D. Winners will be announced at the Intergraph 2010 international users’ Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, at the ARIA Resort at CityCenter, August 30-September 2.

Each of the top three winners will receive recognition at Intergraph 2010 and in Insight magazine. Plus, winners could possibly see their idea come to life as a commercially viable Intergraph product.

The second annual Platinum Pipe Awards Competition is sponsored by Intergraph Process, Power & Marine and the Process & Power Client Community (P2C2). All entries must be received by August 13, 2010 – so prepare yours today!

Intergraph Smart 3D interfaces with GexCon’s FLACS explosion analysis software

Intergraph Smart 3D (SmartPlant and SmartMarine 3D) design software now interfaces with GexCon’s FLACS explosion analysis software to enable users to analyze the design of their onshore or offshore facilities more quickly and with greater accuracy as they analyze impacts of  explosions.

Intergraph Smart 3D rules-based design software helps users to build safety into plants early in the design process, enforcing regulation and engineering standards to increase safety, productivity and quality of operations. The rules-based engineering design capabilities ensure compliance with many of the world’s industry and safety standards organizations bodies. GexCon’s FLACS has been the leading tool for explosion consequence prediction on offshore oil and gas installations for more than a decade.

Tom Fiske, Ph.D., senior analyst with ARC Advisory Group, a leading industry analyst firm, comments:

“Plant safety is a growing industry concern. The interface between Intergraph’s rules-based 3D design solution and GexCon’s FLACS explosion analysis software can help designers increase productivity and enhance safety before plant construction begins.”

Read the full press release here. You'll also want to visit our new Safety Information Center and register for the special upcoming GetSmart! Safety Webinar Series.

Gary Carson , Equamark Inc., USA describes the design of a Florida tank facility using CADWorx Plant

Hydrocarbon Engineering - May, 2010

Gary Carson, Equamark Inc., USA, describes the design of a Florida tank facility with high tech manifolds to speed loading and unloading.

Steel above ground storage tanks are a key link in the energy transportation system, a system that ensures adequate supplies reach the locations of demand when needed. Yet tanks are sometimes taken for granted and their important roles in distribution not well understood. Often hidden from view in industrial locations, tanks play vital roles at key stages of getting the product from source to the end user, and they move a lot of product.

Download Hydrocarbon Engineering May 2010 article here (1664.1K)