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TÜV SÜD NEL LauNchES £16miLLioN aDVaNcED muLTiphaSE faciLiTy


TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory has launched its £16million Advanced Multiphase Facility (AMF), which will help global oil and gas operators to ensure that production remains economically viable.


DigiTaL acaDEmy To NurTurE NExT gENEraTioN of TEch aND ENgiNEEriNg TaLENT


Siemens has launched a new undergraduate sponsorship programme to discover, inspire and nurture the next generation of engineering and tech talent. The Digital Academy pays selected students £3,000-a-year from the second year of university as well as up to 12-weeks paid summer placement throughout the duration of their studies within a Siemens business. At the end of their degree they will be given the chance to join Siemens’ Graduate Scheme. The programme is a partnership between Siemens, the University of Sheffield


and Newcastle University, and a further 15 principal UK universities. It aims to offer undergraduates a practical, collaborative space to explore Industry 4.0 technologies and put what they learn at university into real world use. Six trailblazing students from electrical, electronic engineering and computer


science departments have been selected to pilot the programme this summer. Brian Holliday, Siemens Digital Industries managing director, said: “This


The AMF’s test range (of operating pressures, temperatures, flowrates


and metrology) is beyond the capability of any other laboratory in the world. Operating at pressures up to 140 bar, the AMF doubles previous test facility capabilities to meet industry’s current and future measurement challenges. With a working envelope at least 20 times larger than any multiphase or wet gas facility in the world, the AMF also has the highest flow rate in the world (for both gas and liquid) within one multiphase facility. Spanning 1,600m2


, the AMF contains a £1.45million, full production


scale separator with an operating weight of 270 tonnes and is also the only facility in the world to offer an integrated subsea choke, as well as be capable of testing the complete range of flow meters. 2D, three- phase, x-ray tomography and sensors deliver high definition images of complex flows to expand industry’s understanding of fluid behaviours and their impact on measurement. Construction of the AMF began in September 2017 and it was


officially opened on 10 October 2019 by Derek Mackay, the Scottish Government’s Cabinet Secretary for Finance. The AMF will focus predominantly on the £50-billion-per-annum global subsea sector and wet gas business, facilitating company-led industrial projects and product development, hands-on industry training and academic research. Creating at least 17 new jobs, the centre will futureproof the delivery of innovative technical services to the oil and gas production market for the next 25 years. Commenting on the launch, Dr Brian Millington, managing director of TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory, said: “The AMF’s world- leading research facilities will support the global oil and gas industry with both current and future measurement challenges, from well optimisation to fiscal accounting. While significant production opportunities exist in extreme environments, higher operating pressures and temperatures can impact the performance of multiphase flow measurement devices. The AMF will increase the viability of well exploitation by helping operators to more accurately measure multiphase flow and better understand the performance of production operations in these challenging but potentially profitable environments.” Scottish Enterprise has supported the development of the AMF with


£4.9 million of research and development funding. Alongside the grant from Scottish Enterprise, TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory’s parent company, TÜV SÜD AG, also invested £11.1 million. Professor Axel Stepken, chairman of Board of Management of TÜV SÜD


AG said: “Measurement of multiphase flows is a key factor in understanding the performance of production operations and production optimisation. Together, we have created the conditions necessary for ensuring that Scotland, and with it the TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory, will continue to set the pace of progress in flow measurement in the future.”


www.tuv-sud.co.uk/uk-en/about-tuev-sued/tuev-sued-in-the-uk/nel 6 The first group of undergraduates were selected from the inaugural Sir


William Siemens Challenge, a two-day hackathon-style event held at the University of Sheffield which involved 84 promising engineering students from partner universities. The challenge, dubbed ‘Mindsphere Live’, saw students put into 12 hybrid, multidisciplinary teams and asked to invent a unique device powered by data. Ian Donald, head of R&D at Siemens Digital Factory in Congleton, said:


“We really want to develop the next generation of engineers who can create and develop new exciting things. “The inaugural Mindsphere Live was a great way of bringing multi-disciplinary


teams together to collaborate to bring data to life in a meaningful way. “These real-life problems gave students the opportunity to experience


things that they may encounter in a business environment and insight into what life could be like at Siemens. “The Digital Academy takes that experience to the next level. It


illustrates that engineering is a practical subject where the real and virtual worlds co-exist and where data plays an increasingly important part in creating value. It’s not just about sitting at a computer, it’s really hands. It’s about interaction, working in teams to solve actual problems – which is what this pilot cohort will be doing this summer.” One of those taking part in the pilot Digital Academy is Nikhil Patel, an


electrical engineering undergraduate from Newcastle University. He said: “Being part of the Digital Academy gives me an insight into how


Siemens operates as a business and it also provides me with the means to be able to make a difference. It gives me the opportunity to develop my technical and transferable skills whilst working on real, cutting-edge projects and I think that being a part of this scheme will help to accelerate my career progression and allow me to grow as an individual, with the help of Siemens.”


www.siemens.co.uk/digitalacademy October 2019 Instrumentation Monthly


programme gives undergraduates applied and up-to-date experience to bolster their academic learning. “By strengthening links between business and our world-leading


universities, we can inspire and nurture talent to support the UK’s leading role in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.”


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