Conference Presentations – Galveston 2020

Solvent Deasphalting

Approved for the Program

• What to do with the Resulting Pitch Stream
  – Marvin Petit-Homme – IPCO LLC
• The Solvent Deasphalting Renaissance: A key enabler to improve margins in residue conversion complex
  – Hemendra Khakhar – Wood
• Technology Updates: Part 2
  – MJ Rahman – KBR
• Case Studies for SDA Feasibility
  – Sim Romero – KBC (a Yokogawa Co.)

Seeking Presenters

• Conversion of existing deasphalters for increased throughput
• Instrumentation hacks to increase efficiency
• Tips for producing a lower-contaminant deasphalted oil (DAO)
• Refinery modifications to process lower-quality, lower-cost crude
• Improving the quality of deasphalted oil and resins
• Debottlenecking of existing resid-upgrading process units
• How to lower operating costs
• Increasing yields by up to 10%
• Minimizing heat exchanger fouling
• High process efficiency based on the most advanced column internals
• Technology updates: What’s new? What’s happening in the world of SDA?
• SDA as a tool: Integration with other Heavy Oil Technologies
• New to SDA? What does it do and why?
• SDA Revamp Options
• How SDA Improves Resid Hydrocracker design
• History, Stories and Lessons Learned from SDA Development
• Temperature Instrumentation in SDA
• Optimization operations in SDA
• SDA Process Improvements: Low Hanging Fruits
• Packing Improvements & Updates
• SDA Processing: Heavy & Challenging Feeds
• SDA with thermal cracking
• SDA as a tool for oil sands
• Improve sustainability in heat exchangers
• Operational Issues

Fluid Catalytic Cracking

Approved for the Program

• Octane destruction in FCC gasoline posttreaters
  – George Hoekstra – Hoekstra Trading LLC

Seeking Presenters

• Update on PETROFCC™ (HOFCC) Technology and the RxCat Technology
• Maximizing LCO Yield to meet IMO Low-Sulfur specs
• Troubleshooting Catalyst Losses
• The Benefits and Challenges of Filter Cleaning in FCC and Chemical Process Applications
• Steps to selecting the best upgrading technology
• Latest offerings for catalysts and additives

Delayed Coking

Approved for the Program

• Long Term Effectiveness of Structural Weld Overlay
  – Workgroup
• CFD User Presentation Block
  – Workgroup
• Coke Drum Life Extension
  – Bobby Wright – Becht Engineering
• Energy Efficiency Block
  – Workgroup
• Coker Structure Audit Team
  – Marathon Petroleum Co. – Garyville
• Extending the Life of Your Mechanical Coker Bucket: Inspections and Maintenance Based on Operation Cycles
  – Shane Toncrey & Mark Laughlin – Anvil Attachments & Kone Cranes
• Steam Purge Valve Failure during Drum Switching Operation
  – Claudio Hormazabal – ENAP
• Antwerp DCU Dust: Progress and Lessons Learned
  – Geoffrey Bock – ExxonMobil
• Investigation of CUI on Coke Drum Nozzles
  – Scott Richard – PBF Energy – Chalmette Refining, LLC
• Process Breakout Group – Wednesday
• Process Breakout Group – Thursday
• Operations Breakout Group – Wednesday
• Operations Breakout Group – Thursday
• Maintenance and Reliability Breakout Group – Wednesday
• Maintenance and Reliability Breakout Group – Thursday

Seeking Presenters

• Steps to selecting the best upgrading technology
• Problems and Lessons Learned from Recent Startups
• Case Studies on Implementation of Wireless Instrumentation Equipment, Monitoring, Intelligences in Refineries
• Resid Sampling Techniques
• Main Issues with Automatic Unheading Devices
• Reliability of Coke Drum Overhead Piping
• Drum Skirt Cracking Experience and Remedies
• Interactive Breakout Discussion Sessions
• Coke Handling Best Practices
• Turnaround Lessons Learned
• Processing Nonstandard Feedstocks – SDA Bottoms, Hydrocracker bottoms, Visbroken material, Stranded Fuel Oil

Sulfur Recovery

Approved for the Program

• A Reprise on “How to Operate an Amine Plant”
  – Richard Quinnette – Independent Consultant

Seeking Presenters

Case studies demonstrating operational experience in:

• Process optimization and design
• Advances in environmental efficiency and strategies for compliance
• Improved energy efficiency
• Equipment improvements and optimizations
• Operational challenges and solutions
• Best practice health and safety initiatives
• Application of improved technology or catalysts
• Revamping, maintenance and turnarounds

Technology, process, materials and equipment innovations and improvements:

• New technology developments, which, if not proved so far, offer the realistic prospect of economic advantage in plant operations
• Technology innovations that improve SHE compliance

Process areas covered include:

• H2S removal
• Amine & Solvent Treating
• Sour Water Stripping
• Claus Sulfur Recovery
• Tail Gas Treating
• Tail Gas Incineration
• Sulfur Degassing
• Sulfur solidification & handling