^{3rd International Conference and Exhibition on} Industrial Engineering November 14-15, 2016 Dubai

M Ahmad has completed her BSc from the American University of the Middle East (AUM) in Industrial Engineering. Currently, she works at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) as a Projects Analyst since Jan, 2015. She has published one paper related to the Electrical Submersible Pumps which was prepared and presented at the SPE Kuwait Oil and Gas show and conference in 2015.

Electrical submersible pumps (ESP’s) downtime is a major concern that affects the oil production sustainability in Kuwait. Many defects occur to the ESP due to different reasons including: power, reservoir, network, well and pump design. During the past three fiscal years, 2012/2013 to 2014/2015, it was found that almost 45% of the trips occurred because of power issues, 29% of them were reservoir issues, 12% were network, 8% were wells and 6% were pumps related problems. This study focuses on the reservoir trips that occurred during that period. Various reservoir trips such as no-flow in the surface, high and low temperature, changing rotation, motor stall, high gas and water cut, over-load and under-load trips from a population of 600 wells separated in four fields located in North Kuwait which reduces the total daily production. The main objective of this study is to reduce the operational downtime of the electrical submersible pumps after highlighting the major defects that occurred in each well while focusing on the wells that may help in increasing the production in Kuwait and to increase the pump’s spinning time and sustain the wells’ production. In order to accomplish that goal, a statistical study was used to reach the overall results. The problem is defined as reducing the electrical submersible pumps (ESP’s) downtime. The oil production in each well were measured on a daily bases from 600 wells and the downtime was calculated. Each defect in these wells were highlighted and characterized. A previous analysis showed that the most defects were electrical ones because of diesel generators usage. The solution for this problem was substituting the diesel generators with government electricity. However, this study focuses on the other major defect caused by the reservoirs.

Aisha Allahou is a second year Mechanical Engineering student. She has joined in the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research Summer Training course where she gained knowledge and experience in field of Bio-energy and Energy Efficiency.

Risk assessment and accident estimation are key factors required to be considered when dealing with nuclear facilities. The contamination map is an effective approach used to calculate the emergency releases of different isotopes. It specifies the required procedures that need to be taken, based on emergency cases, to reduce radiation effects on humans. There are four zones in a contamination map which are categorized based on the range of dose limits: Evacuation zone, stay home and no-fly zone, exclusion zone, and unrestricted zone. The study is conducted to identify the total dose transferred within 30 minutes to humans from a water cooled research reactor accident with 4% fuel enrichment. It also helps in determining the level of safety from the accident location based on the total radioactive dose generated from the accident source.

Abdullah Alsulaili is a second year Mechanical Engineering student. He has participated in the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research summer training course where he gained knowledge and experience in field of bio-energy and energy efficiency.

In the State of Kuwait, electricity and water desalination are produced from seven power plants that consist of stations containing steam turbine units, gas turbine units, or duel units. According to the ministry of water and electricity in the State of Kuwait, the total installation capacity for all power plants is 15,803 MW. All fuels used to operate the power plants are supplied by Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) and take the form of either gaseous or liquid. The gas fuel used is natural gas while the liquid fuels can be gas oil (diesel), crude oil, or heavy oil. All stations that are currently operating use diesel as part of their fuel supply chain apart from Shuwaikh Station which uses natural gas as fuel only. This research focuses on analyzing the diesel fuel used in six of Kuwait’s power stations during 2011 to 2014 in terms of quantity, cost, and alternation with biodiesel. It was found that the total barrels of diesel fuel used for the stations were: 10,246,899 barrels in 2011, 11,913,630 barrels in 2012, 9,237,306 barrels in 2013, and 11,153,661 barrels in 2014. The total cost spent for the diesel fuel supply was KD 179,218,263.5 in 2011, KD 208,369,388.7 in 2012, KD 161,560,481.9 in 2013, and KD 195,077,530.9 in 2014. Although biodiesel is currently unavailable in Kuwait, theoretical results showed that the percentage of fuel that could have been produced could have covered 4.66, 4.15, 4.91, and 5.17% respectively for the years 2011 to 2014 with a total cost saving of KD 23,704,763.380.