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OPERATIONS & PROCESS

TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
ATLANTA MARRIOTT MARQUIS

OCTOBER 1-3, 2018

AFPM.ORG/CONFERENCES

#AFPMSUMMIT

LEAD
FOCUS
SUCCEED
TABLE OF CONTENTS 2018 OPERATIONS & PROCESS TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Sunday, September 30, 2018


1 Schedule of Events SPONSORS
3:00 pm – 6:30 pm Registration – Badge Pick-up Marquis Ballroom Foyer
2 Program Thank you to our generous sponsors! 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Student Reception High Velocity – Media Room
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Emerging Leaders Meetup High Velocity – Media Room
7 Q&A Panelists and Questions – Gold
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm The Summit Kickoff Networking Event Marquis Ballroom Foyer
Gasoline Processes
Sponsored by Crystaphase
8 Q&A Panelists and Questions –
Monday, October 1, 2018
Hydroprocessing
7:00 am – 6:30 pm Registration Marquis Ballroom Foyer
9 Q&A Panelists and Questions – 7:00 am – 8:00 am New Manager Morning Mixer M302-303
Crude/Vacuum Distillation & Coking Silver 8:00 am – 8:55 am General Session Marquis Ballroom B
9:00 am – 12:00 pm • Q&A and Discussion Session (Q&A): Gasoline Processes Marquis Ballroom B
10 Q&A Panelists and Questions –
• Principles & Practices (P&P): Emerging Leaders Town Hall M103-M105
FCC
• Cybersecurity M304
• Operational Planning, Control & Automation Technologies (OPCAT) M301
12 Hospitality Listing Bronze
10:00 am – 10:15 am Coffee Break Marquis Ballroom Foyer
12 Exhibit Listing 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch in Exhibit Hall Marquis Ballroom C-D
2:00 pm – 5:15 pm • Q&A: Hydroprocessing Marquis Ballroom B
13 Exhibit Floor Plan
Audio Visual sponsored by Haldor Topsoe, Inc.
• P&P: Gasoline Processes M103-M105
• Cybersecurity M304
• OPCAT M301
Conference Support Sponsors
Women in Refining AFPM also thanks our 3:30 pm – 3:45 pm Refreshment Break Marquis Ballroom Foyer
Networking Reception media supporters: 5:15 pm – 6:30 pm Reception in Exhibit Hall Marquis Ballroom C-D
BASF Hydrocarbon Engineering
Hydrocarbon Processing Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Kick-off Networking Event Inspectioneering Journal 7:00 am – 5:00 pm Registration Marquis Ballroom Foyer
Crystaphase PTQ
7:00 am – 8:00 am EMpower Breakfast (RSVP required; not open to press) M302-303

Pre-Conference Seminar WiFi 8:00 am – 12:00 pm • Q&A: Crude/Vacuum Distillation & Coking Marquis Ballroom B
DuPont Clean Technologies Complimentary wifi service is available • P&P: Hydroprocessing M103-M105
on the meeting room floors compliments 9:00 am – 12:00 pm • Cybersecurity M304
Audio-Visual Sponsor – of Merichem. Search for the “Summit18” • OPCAT M301
Hydroprocessing Q&A Session network. The password is “Merichem”.
10:00 am – 10:15 am Coffee Break Marquis Ballroom Foyer
Haldor Topsoe, Inc.
Save the Date 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch in Exhibit Hall Marquis Ballroom C-D
Conference Show Daily OPTS19 2:00 pm – 5:15 pm • Q&A: FCC Marquis Ballroom B
Hydrocarbon Processing October 14 – 16, 2019 • P&P: Crude/Vacuum Distillation & Coking M103-M105
Marriott Rivercenter • Cybersecurity M304
Pre-Conference Seminar San Antonio, TX • OPCAT M301
KBR
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm Refreshment Break Marquis Ballroom Foyer

Conference Wireless Internet 5:15 pm – 6:45 pm Women in Refining Reception (Open to women OPTS registrants only) Marquis Ballroom A
Merichem Sponsored by BASF

Conference Room Keys Wednesday, October 3, 2018


Suez Water Technologies 7:30 am – 10:00 am Registration Marquis Ballroom Foyer
8:00 am – 11:00 am • P&P: FCC Marquis Ballroom B
Conference Bags • P&P: Fostering Profitability M103-M105
W.R. Grace/Advance Refining
9:00 am – 11:00 am • Cybersecurity/OPCAT Town Hall M304
Technologies
9:30 am – 9:45 am Coffee Break Marquis Ballroom Foyer

AFPM: WE MAKE PROGRESS


MONDAY MONDAY
OCTOBER 1, 2018 OCTOBER 1, 2018

8:00 am 9:00 am – 12:00 pm 2:00 pm – 5:15 pm 5:15 pm –6:30 pm

KEYNOTE ADDRESS TRACK 1: Gasoline Processes TRACK 1: Hydroprocessing RECEPTION IN THE EXHIBIT HALL
Q&A See page 7 Q&A See page 8
Marquis Ballroom B Marquis Ballroom B Audio Visual sponsored by Haldor Topsoe, Inc.

TRACK 2: Gasoline Processes


TRACK 2: Emerging Leaders Town Hall PRINCIPLES & Presider: Shane Presley, DuPont
PRINCIPLES & Presiders: PRACTICES
PRACTICES Liz Manning, LyondellBasell Industries M103 – M105 Optimization of Gasoline Processing
M103 – M105 Kathleen Wills, Athlon Solutions Units through High-Fidelity Models
David DeGruyl and Nevin Whalley, Axens North America
Process Safety: Communication
Have to, Want to, or Need to? Effluent Treating in Sulfuric Acid Alkylation
Dawn Wurst, Vice President, Developing Relationships and Credibility Units: Is it Really Needed?
Process & Asset Safety, Rebecca Nolan, Andeavor Shane Presley, DuPont
Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC
Managing Yourself CCR Regenerator Operation and Maintenance
2018 Peter G. Andrews Kip Edgmon, Martin Midstream Partners L.P. Steve Philoon and Kolapo Alade-Lambo, Honeywell UOP
Lifetime Service Award
The Peter G. Andrews Lifetime Service Goal Setting Custom Alkylation Process Simulation:
Award honors those who have made Jamie McDaniels, Athlon Solutions Advancing Process Safety
significant long lasting contributions to the Kolin Henderson, Irving Oil Company
value and quality of the AFPM Summit.

TRACK 3: Modeling Adversary Behavior Against ICS


TRACK 3: Keynote: CYBERSECURITY Otis Alexander, The MITRE Corporation
CYBERSECURITY It’s Not About ICS Security – M304
M304 It’s About Risk and Safety Cyber Resiliency of Mission Critical
Dale Peterson, Chairman, S4 Events Automation Systems in Depth
John Collins, FoxGuard Solutions, Inc.
First Break All the Rules
Rick Kaun, RKNeal, Inc. Vulnerability Assessments:
Choose Your Own Adventure
Merla H. Zollinger A CISO’s Lessons Learned: Daniel Kapellmann Zafra, FireEye
Senior Director, Convention Services, Building an Integrated IT/OT Program
American Cleaning Institute Paul Rostick, AE Solutions Bypassing Enterprise Defense –
Former Senior Manager, Convention Attack ICS Networks the Easy Way
Services, AFPM Lucas Truax, Concurrent Technologies Corporation

7:00 am – 8:00 am
New Manager Morning Mixer TRACK 4: Keynote:
TRACK 4: Closed Loop Real Time Coordination of
M302-303 OPCAT Data‐Driven Mathematical Modeling and
Global Optimization Framework for
OPCAT a Refinery Mid-distillates System
M301
M301 James Gunderman and Vikram Gokhale, Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
Entire Petrochemical Planning Operations
10:00 am – 10:15 am
Break Dr. Fani Boukouvala, School of Chemical & Biomoleculor
Process Control Support with Data
Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Analytics During Abnormal Events
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Onur Onel, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co.
Lunch in the Exhibit Hall Demystifying Visualization Technologies
Robert Smith, ZynQ 360
Model Predictive Control on a Vacuum Column
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm Ravi Mandela, Emerson
Break Sustaining Your Asset Model, A Practical Approach
Bruce Taylor, Sinclair Oil Corporation
Closing the “LP Gap”: Integration of Production
5:15 pm – 6:30 pm Planning and Supervisory Control
Reception in the Exhibit Hall Christopher Betts, Andeavor
Omar Santander, University of Texas at Austin

2 AFPM: WE MAKE PROGRESS 3


TUESDAY TUESDAY
OCTOBER 2, 2018 OCTOBER 2, 2018

7:00 am – 8:00 am 8:00 am (or 9:00 am) – 12:00 pm 2:00 pm – 5:15 pm 5:15 pm –6:45 pm
EMpower Breakfast Please note that Tracks 1 and 2 start at 8:00 am. Tracks 3 and 4 start at 9:00 am.
RSVP required; not open to press.
M302-303 TRACK 1: FCC WOMEN IN REFINING RECEPTION
TRACK 1: Crude/Vacuum Distillation & Coking Q&A See page 10 Marquis Ballroom A
Q&A See page 9 Marquis Ballroom B
10:00 am – 10:15 am Marquis Ballroom B Keynote:
8:00 am – 12:00 pm Tejuana L. Edmond
Break TRACK 2: Crude/Vacuum Distillation & Coking
Regional Sales Director, Americas
PRINCIPLES & Presiders:
Fluid Catalytic Cracking/Refining
TRACK 2: Hydroprocessing PRACTICES Chris McDowell, Andeavor
Catalysts
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm PRINCIPLES & Presiders: M103 – M105 Jeff Zurlo, SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions
BASF Corporation
Lunch in the Exhibit Hall PRACTICES Ken Chlapik, Johnson Matthey Raul Romero, Nalco Energy Services
M103 – M105 Paul Temme, Albemarle
Desalting Open to women OPTS registrants only.
8:00 am – 12:00 pm • Operations Issues
Deep Dive into Washwater
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Travis Beltz, Marathon; Wendy Wildenberg, Flint Hills Troy Davis, Athlon Solutions Sponsored by BASF
Break
• Electric & Mechanical Considerations
Synchronized Swimming in
Edgar Villoria, Ecolab
Gasoil Processing Optimization
5:15 pm – 6:45 pm Wendy Wildenberg and Danna Sharpe, Flint Hills; Wastewater Operation: Crude and Desalting Impacts
Women in Refining Reception Paul Temme, Albemarle; Andrew Moreland, Valero David Mason, SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions
Open to women OPTS registrants only.
Sink or Swim? Renewable Fuels via Vacuum Tower Wash Beds
Co-Processing or Block Mode? Operating Parameters and Design Criteria (General)
Sponsored by BASF
Raj Patel, Haldor Topsoe; Paul Temme, Albemarle; Celso Pajaro, Sulzer
Brian Watkins, ART; Jeff Caton, Axens;
Flare Minimization / Unit Decon for Turnaround
Paul Ceccato, Criterion; and Honeywell UOP
Brad Davis, Vapor Point
Controlling Reactor Pressure Drop:
Don’t Hold Your Breath
Raj Patel, Haldor Topsoe; Paul Ceccato, Criterion;
TRACK 3: The Internet of Vulnerable Things: How to Secure

Chris Pesek, Unicat; and Austin Schneider, Crystaphase


CYBERSECURITY ICS Environments Given New Threats
M304 Chris Grove, Indegy

TRACK 3: ISASecure Certification – Collateral Damage, IT Malware Threat to Operational


CYBERSECURITY An End User Perspective Networks: A Cryptomining Case Study
M304 Kenny Mesker, Chevron U.S.A. TJ Roe, Radiflow
9:00 am – 12:00 pm Under Attack: Building Industry Panel Discussion: Incident Response Strategy
Resilience with Cyber Insurance Kenny Mesker, Chevron U.S.A.
Stephen Viña, Marsh Arthur Conklin, University of Houston

Blockchain Empowered Cyber Unclassified Briefing on Cyber Threats to the


Supply Chain Provenance Refining and Petrochemical Industries
Sachin Shetty, Old Dominion University Jeffrey Gray, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Safety Systems are Now Vulnerable


Paul Forney, Schneider Electric TRACK 4: Optimize Your Automation Systems and Staffing
OPCAT Mark Smith, Solomon Associates
M301 Adam Timmons, Delek U.S. Refining
TRACK 4: Camouflage – Why Some New ‘HMI
OPCAT Improvements’ Are a Step Backwards Beyond Alarm Management: Using
M301 Bill Hollifield, PAS Global Your Alarm Analysis Tool to Diagnose
9:00 am – 12:00 pm Loop Performance Problems
Real Time Advanced Modeling to Optimize
Bill Hollifield, PAS Global
Downtimes: A Chemicals Use Case
Krista Novstrup, Seeq Corporation Cloud Based Control Rooms
KBC Advanced Technologies
Digital Transformation Town Hall
Hege Dammen, AVEVA Organizational Changes to Maximize
Arthur Conklin, University of Houston your APC Profitability
Bruce Taylor, Sinclair Oil Corporation Randy Conley, Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA, Inc.

4 AFPM: WE MAKE PROGRESS 5


WEDNESDAY Q&A PANELISTS AND QUESTIONS:
OCTOBER 3, 2018 QUESTIONS 1 – 10

8:00 am (or 9:00 am) – 11:00 am 9:30 am – 9:45 am GASOLINE PROCESSES Isomerization
Please note that Tracks 2A and 2B start at 8:00 am. Track 3 starts at 9:00 am. Break 6. What are the catalyst or design
Monday, October 1, 2018 considerations that you employ
9:00 am – 12:00 pm to repurpose isom units for other
TRACK 2A: FCC
services, or to repurpose another type
Marquis Ballroom B
PRINCIPLES & Presiders:
of unit into an isom unit?
PRACTICES Tiffany Clark, BASF Corporation
Panelists
Marquis Ballroom B Darin Foote, CHS Inc.
Christian Arnoux, Valero Energy Catalytic Reforming
8:00 am – 11:00 am 7. How do you monitor and protect the
Gayl Mercado, Axens North America
AFPM Safety Portal FCC Incident Discussion
Tim Shepperd, HF Alkylation heater tubes from overheating in
Richard Grove, Chevron U.S.A.
Lance Tallman, CITGO Petroleum high temperature services such as
Corporation catalytic reformer heaters? How is the
Industrial Hygiene Hazards, Controls, and
tube wall temperature monitored?
Monitoring for Confined Space Welding
Please refer to the AFPM mobile app
and Refractory Work in the FCC
for detailed bios. 8. Fixed bed reforming and CCR
Julie Gentile, CHS Inc.
reforming recycle gas compressor
Brenda Tolson, CIH Enterprises, Inc.
This session will not be recorded. It washing to remove salt deposits.
Jeremy Michalk, ProVent Technologies
will consist of two sections. The first What is the frequency? What is the
half will be the traditional Q&A format typical deposit composition? What is
Reformulating Catalyst to Meet
with the panel of experts responding used to wash the compressor?
Your Operating Objectives
to the prepared questions below.
Dr. Al Vierheilig, Cat Testing Labs, Inc.
The second half will be a town hall Cat-Poly Alkylation
Alvin Chan, BASF Corporation
interactive discussion. 9. Are you adding unusual feeds
to catalytic condensation or
TRACK 2B: Fostering Profitability Alkylation oligomerization units?
PRINCIPLES & Presiders: 1. What are the benefits of alumina
PRACTICES Eric Legare, Andeavor treating in sulfuric acid alkylation and Catalytic Reforming
M103 – M105 Steve Perry, Shell Oil Company HF alkylation? Has this technology 10. What are the problems with low coke
8:00 am – 11:00 am been proven commercially? operation in CCR reforming and how
Market Overview is it managed?
Mark Routt, KBC Advanced Technologies 2. What metallurgy works well and does
not work well for use in alkylation
Fuels Blending units? In what applications does the
Michael Leister, Stillwater & Associates alternate metallurgy perform better/
Anthony Odak, John W. Stone Oil Distributor worse?
Mel Larson, KBC Advanced Technologies
3. What type of release mitigation safety
Refinery Intermediates to Chemicals for systems do you use for sulfuric acid
Diversification from Fuels and HF alkylation units?
Michael Federspiel, W. R. Grace & Co.
Keith Couch, Honeywell UOP Isomerization
4. What are the requirements for a
Risk Assessment of Process unit depressurization valve in isom
Improvement Opportunities unit using a chlorided alumina
Panel: catalyst based? Do you require the
Eric Légaré, Andeavor depressurization valve to be operable
Derek Becht, Becht Engineering from the console and/or emergency
Curt Hassler, Dupont shutdown device (ESD) panel?

Catalytic Reforming
TRACK 3: Groundhog Day … Getting People to Change – 5. What is your experience with CCR
CYBERSECURITY/ Town Hall catalyst on-the-fly replacement
OPCAT Arthur Conklin, University of Houston compared to changing at turnaround?
M304 Blake Larsen, Andeavor
9:00 am – 11:00 am

6 AFPM: WE MAKE PROGRESS 7


Q&A PANELISTS AND QUESTIONS: Q&A PANELISTS AND QUESTIONS:
QUESTIONS 11 – 24 QUESTIONS 25 – 43

HYDROPROCESSING 15. As hydrotreating catalyst 21. What are your important CRUDE/VACUUM Desalting 38. How does coke morphology vary with
development continues with the considerations for water washing DISTILLATION & COKING 30. When injecting wash water upstream changes in feed quality? What feed
Monday, October 1, 2018 emphasis on activity and saturation, with respect to: of the cold train in a 2-stage system, tests do you require to quantify the
2:00 pm – 5:15 pm how has this changed optimization 1) Intermittent injection Tuesday, October 2, 2018 do you use fresh wash water or brine impact on coke quality?
Marquis Ballroom B strategies for the entire hydrocracker? a. Process temperature of injection 8:00 am – 12:00 pm water from the 2nd stage desalter?
Audio Visual sponsored by b. Duration of injection Marquis Ballroom B 39. What operating conditions increase
Haldor Topsoe, Inc. 16. How are you performing in-situ c. Frequency - triggers to begin 31. How does emulsion breaker the generation of coke fines? What
sulfiding for hydroprocessing d. How frequently before making it Panelists performance compare when injected reliability issues do you associate with
Panelists catalysts protecting your waste water continuously? Robert Boettger, HollyFrontier in the crude or wash water? What increased fines production?
Travis Beltz, Marathon Petroleum units from water soluble organic 2) Water Quality: Bill Cates, Hunt Refining is your method to inject emulsion
Jeff Caton, Axens North America chemicals and their fuel gas system a. pH range Michael Kimbrell, Becht Engineering breaker for 2 stage desalters? Answer Book Only
Jeff Crouch, DuPont from non-decomposed mercaptans? b. Oxygen Brandon Payne, SUEZ Water Crudes
Neil Howard, Chevron Lummus c. Total Suspended solids Technologies & Solutions 32. Have you developed processes to 40. What is your experience, design
Global Poll Questions d. Total dissolved solids successfully extract the emulsion and opportunities for on-line crude
Robert Steinberg, Motiva 17. Where do your route your disulfide oil e. Recirculation vs. make-up Please refer to the AFPM mobile app layer from the desalter so the blending coupled with near infra-red?
Enterprises from caustic treatment? f. Other for detailed bios. emulsion can be treated separately?
Wendy Wildenberg, Flint Hills If disulfide oil, that may contain Please describe your chemical Desalting
Resources caustic or other contaminants, is 22. Can you elaborate on the benefits, This session will not be recorded. It treatment programs and equipment 41. What effective practices do you
routed to a hydrotreater, what are drawbacks, and trade-offs of liquid will consist of two sections. The first that have been implemented deploy to improve the removal of
Please refer to the AFPM mobile app preferred methods for treating it to phase vs. gas phase catalyst half will be the traditional Q&A format successfully to treat this extracted inorganic contaminants in crude such
for detailed bios. avoid fouling exchangers, furnaces activation in a hydrocracking unit? Is with the panel of experts responding emulsion. as iron and calcium? What has been
and catalyst? there an activity or yield difference of to the prepared questions below. the industry success rate with these
This session will not be recorded. It will liquid phase or gas phase activation The second half will be a town hall Best Practices practices?
consist of two sections. The first half 18. Vacuum Gas Oil (VGO) Hydrotreaters of 2nd stage catalyst in a 2-stage interactive discussion. 33. When processing cracked stocks in
will be the traditional Q&A format with are being pushed to process heavier hydrocracking unit? Consider both a crude unit, what potential issues 42. Some of the lighter waxy crudes have
the panel of experts responding to the feeds while maximizing Fluidized catalyst formulation and operational Safety do you expect? What changes in higher paraffin melting points making
prepared questions below. The second Catalytic Cracking Unit (FCCU) factors (MPT, excursion risk, etc.). 25. Coke drum integrity can be operations or treatment programs can it difficult to treat and remove solids,
half will be a town hall interactive performance while meeting Tier III compromised due to the use of feed you mitigate these issues? salts in the desalter. What practices
discussion. gasoline specifications. How are you 23. What are the sources of silicon that side entry devices. What is your do you deploy to manage these
balancing increased severity and can impact a hydrotreater? How does experience with drum roundness Corrosion Control higher melting point waxy crudes?
Hydroprocessing cycle length? What considerations do silicon affect hydrotreater operations? upon inspection? 34. What is considered your practical
11. What constitutes adequate quench you give to feed quality and upstream What are your best practices limit on TAN (Total Acid Number) of Plant Utilities
reserve when you process cracked unit operations? for managing / mitigating silicon Reliability blended crude diet before monitoring, 43. What are your economic and
feedstocks in hydrotreating units? In poisoning? 26. How do you monitor furnace treatment, or metallurgy upgrades operational reliability implications of
hydrocracking units? What if a mixture 19. What considerations do you use for convection section fouling? What should be considered to avoid increasing cycles of concentration in
of both gas and liquid quench is used? designing a hydrocracking reactor? 24. How many refiners import and/ mitigation steps do you implement? naphthenic acid corrosion issues? your cooling tower?
What criteria do you use to determine or purchase gasoil feed for a
12. Discuss impacts of hydrotreating number of beds, diameter, and beds’ hydroprocessing unit? What are 27. What is your experience with Vacuum Tower
operations required to meet Tier III lengths? common issues associated with chemical treatment to reduce furnace 35. For deep cut vacuum tower designs
regulations. Highlight the benefits and imported or purchased gasoil feeds? coking? what is your experience with heater
concerns of pretreat versus post treat 20. What considerations do you give Are there specific characteristics to coking and typical run lengths? Are
operations including; impacts on cycle to co-processing or block mode target and / or avoid? Are there best Crude Quality you using on-line cleaning (similar to
length, FCC yields, octane from post operations with renewables in an practices for minimizing negative 28. What are your best practices around coker heater spalling)?
treating options, and gasoline blending. existing hydroprocessing unit? impacts to unit operations / reliability? initial crude oil qualifications? Upon
How are supply limitations managed? receipt, what are your best practices Coker
13. What factors do you consider when for continuous inspection/receiving 36. How do you manage the potential
co-processing jet fuel in a distillate crude oil at a plant? negative impacts of H2S Scavengers
hydrotreater versus processing the jet in imported coker feed?
separately (including feedstock and 29. How are crudes with high filterable
unit consideration)? solids crude managed to mitigate 37. Do you extend the time between de-
their impact on the operation? What coking the furnace by cutting coil
14. In your experience, what operational levels of solids do you see and how outlet temperature or cutting furnace
factors contribute most to utility costs in are they measured? charge? How often are spallings
hydrotreating units? done in coker furnaces? What is the
temperature recovery after spalling?

8 AFPM: WE MAKE PROGRESS 9


Q&A PANELISTS AND QUESTIONS:
QUESTIONS 44 – 57 American
Fuel & Petrochemical
Manufacturers
FCC Operations Environmental
46. What is your strategy to minimize 52. What are your best practices www.afpm.org/conferences
Tuesday, October 2, 2018 main fractionator bottoms (DCO/ for wet flue gas scrubber water
2:00 pm – 5:15 pm Slurry) versus LCO production apart supply and system monitoring

2019 AFPM
Marquis Ballroom B from feed quality/catalyst selection? (sampling frequency, instrumentation
verification, etc.)? How do you handle
Panelists 47. Are there any operational parameters the effluent water and any new
Saeed AlAlloush, Saudi Aramco that can be manipulated to improve emerging trends?
Tiffany Clark, BASF the operation of the slurry circuit

MEETINGS
Alec Klinghoffer, Coffeyville and minimize fouling? Can you Reliability
Resources outline the slurry exchanger circuit 53. In the Third Stage Separator (TSS),
Casey Lang, MERRICK & Company recommended design practices to what is the expected life of swirl
Minaz Makhania, Honeywell UOP minimize fouling, plugging tubes or cyclones assuming good
Dewey Stuart, Motiva Enterprises and erosion? performing regenerator cyclones? Of
these two types, which handle upsets/
Please refer to the AFPM mobile app Catalyst variable particulate loadings better?
for detailed bios. 48. What is the range of activity for FCC
catalysts in the FCCUs? When is 54. What are your best practices for soot Annual Meeting Labor Relations/
This session will not be recorded. It catalyst activity considered too low? blowing or scouring waste heat boiler March 17 – 19 Human Resources Conference
will consist of two sections. The first When do you decide to reformulate tubes that ensure minimal impact Marriott Rivercenter May 2 – 3
half will be the traditional Q&A format versus changes in operating to process variables, environmental San Antonio, TX Sheraton Austin at the Capital
with the panel of experts responding conditions in order to increase unit limits are met, and spurious trips of   Austin, TX
to the prepared questions below. conversion? safety instrumented functions on the International Petrochemical  
The second half will be a town hall ESP are avoided? Conference Reliability & Maintenance
interactive discussion. Operations March 24 – 26 Conference and Exhibition
49. As the demand for higher octane Operations Grand Hyatt May 21 – 24
Safety gasoline components increases 55. With new challenges presented by San Antonio, TX The Gaylord Texan
44. Describe your procedures for and lobbying for a 95 RON gasoline the Refinery Sector and Maintenance   Grapevine, TX
placing and operating the FCC in hot standard continues, how are you Venting Rules oil circuits are taking International Base Oils &  
standby/safe park mode. What safety adjusting your operations to meet the longer to prepare for maintenance; Waxes Conference Board of Directors Meeting
concerns do you consider and what market demand? What FCC specific what successes and challenges March 24 – 26 September 8 – 10
safeguards should be in place? changes do you make to produce have you had in staging shutdown Grand Hyatt The Broadmoor
higher octane gasoline components? operations to allow for safe entry to San Antonio, TX Colorado Springs, CO
45. What are the safe and reliable options the FCC reactor/regenerator section    
for rodding out plugged bleeders 50. Butylene demand and prices in prior to clearing other sections of the National Occupational & Operations & Process
such as hydraulic ram pumps, relation to other refined products unit? Process Safety Conference Technology Summit
packing gland / drill assemblies or reached a record level in 2017. What April 24 – 25 October 14 – 16
tangential bleeders? How are these caused it and what can we do in the 56. Excluding nickel passivation. How The Gaylord Texan Marriott Rivercenter
options used in a best practice for FCC to produce more butylenes? does antimony use in the reactor Grapevine, TX San Antonio, TX
ensuring piping is hydrocarbon free riser impact the FCC operations and    
and ready for maintenance? Reliability equipment? Security Conference Environmental Conference
51. For advanced (closed) riser April 30 – May 1 October 27 – 29
termination systems, where does 57. How are you optimizing the use of wet Sheraton Austin at the Capital Grand America Hotel
coke form inside the reactor gas scrubbers caustic use and SOx Austin, TX Salt Lake City, UT
vessel? What is the typical amount additives?  
accumulated during a run?

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HOSPITALITY LISTING LIST OF EXHIBITORS: EXHIBIT FLOOR PLAN
ALPHABETICAL BY COMPANY MARQUIS BALLROOM C-D

These companies host hospitality functions at the Operations & Air Products 26
Process Technology Summit. Open hours are determined by the AIS Software 31
individual host in compliance with AFPM’s policy not to conflict Albemarle Corporation 8
with regularly scheduled Association sessions and activities and to Arkema, Inc. 27 8 9 12 13 14
7 10 11
close by 12:00 am. Suites are held on the guest room floors of the ART Hydroprocessing 3
hotel. Room numbers can be found in the AFPM mobile app or the Athlon, a Halliburton Service 42 15
Hospitality Notice Board in the AFPM Registration area. Baker Hughes, a GE company 29
BASF Corporation 36/37 6 42 41 29 28
Becht Engineering Co., Inc. 15
Company Location Dates
Catalyst & Chemical Containers 7
16
Albemarle Corporation International Salon 9 10/1 Chem32 LLC 11
ChemTreat 20 5 43 40 30 27
ART Hydroprocessing Suite 9/30, 10/1, 2 Chevron Phillips
Chemical Company, LP 4 17
Athlon, a Halliburton Service International Salon 6 10/1 Clariant 9
4 44 39 31 26
ClearSign Combustion Corporation 13
Axens North America, Inc. International Salon 2 10/1
CRI Criterion Inc./
BASF Corporation Suite 10/2
Shell Global Solutions 46 18
Crystaphase 23 45 38 32 25
3
CRI Catalysts/Criterion Catalysts/ The Dow Chemical Company 43
Shell Global Solutions International Salon 5 10/1 DuPont Clean Technologies 1
Emerson Automation Solutions 45 19
DuPont Clean Technologies International Salon B 9/30, 10/1 Eurecat U.S. 24 2 46 37 33 24
Forum Energy Technologies 10
Haldor Topsoe, Inc. International Salon 7 10/1, 2 Haldor Topsoe, Inc. 21
20
Johnson Matthey 44
Honeywell UOP International Salon 8 9/30, 10/1, 2 47 36 34 23
KBC (A Yokogawa Company) 16 1
Kellogg Brown & Root 48
Johnson Matthey/Tracerco International Salon 3 9/30, 10/1, 2
Linde Engineering North America Inc. 14 21
Linde Engineering North America International Salon 10 10/1 Matheson 6
Merichem Company 41 48 35 22
Reactor Resources/Chevron Phillips International Salon 1 10/1 Nalco Champion 34
PAS Global LLC 19
TechnipFMC International Salon 4 10/1 Petroval Inc. 40
Porocel International, LLC 35
W. R. Grace & Co./ART Hydroprocessing Suite 9/30, 10/1, 2 Quantum Technical Services 33
Radiflow 30
Wood International Salon C 10/1 Refined Technologies 38
S8 Engineering Inc 12
Sabin Metal Corporation 28 ENTRANCE
Saint-Gobain NorPro 18
SUEZ Water Technology & Solutions 47
TechnipFMC 22
Vapor Point 39
Virtual Materials Group 32
W. R. Grace & Co. 2
WIKA USA 25
Wood 5
Woven Metal Products 17 EXHIBITION HOURS

Monday, October 1 Reception / Tuesday, October 2


Lunch / Tabletop Exhibition Open Tabletop Exhibition Open Lunch / Tabletop Exhibition Open
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm 5:15 pm – 6:30 pm 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

12 AFPM: WE MAKE PROGRESS


We make the
jet fuel, that
powers the
80,000 daily
flights, that
help you make
it home by
story time.

We Make Progress

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