Conference Presentations – Galveston 2020

Solvent Deasphalting

Approved for the Program

• What Does the Future Hold? Disruptive Changes and Chaos
  – Mel Larson – KBC ( a Yokogawa Co.)
• What to do with the Resulting Pitch Stream
  – Marvin Petit-Homme – IPCO LLC
• Improve Refining Margins with Resid Upgrading
  – Hemendra Khakhar – Wood
• Put Us In Coach – We Have the Experience to Increase B/CD by 10%
  – Timothy Gillis – Genesis Reliability Group, Inc.
• Does Solvent Deasphalting Help or Hinder a Modern Refinery’s Economics?
  – Sim Romero – KBC (a Yokogawa Co.)
• Using Filtration & Innovative Cleaning to Solve Refiner’s SDA Feedstock Issues
  – Andrew McCord – Carolina Filters, Inc.
• SDA- An Economical Option to consider when planning Residue Processing or Heavy Oil Processing
  – Syed Mumtaz
• SDA 101: What does it do and why?
  – Gopal Akilla – Wood
• ProfitMax: Team Competition
  – Wood
• Novel SDA Applications that Enhance Existing Residue Conversion Technologies
  – Daniel Gillis & Michael Fitzgerald – Chevron Lummus Global

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

• What Does the Future Hold? Disruptive Changes and Chaos
  – Mel Larson – KBC ( a Yokogawa Co.)
• Octane destruction in FCC gasoline posttreaters
  – George Hoekstra – Hoekstra Trading LLC
• FCC Catalyst Selection Practices
  – Joe McLean – CatCracking.com
• Benefits of Proper SCR Cleaning
  – Steve Houghton – Groome Industrial
• Rethinking FCC Actuation and Controls
  – Greg Giernoth – MEA Inc.
• The Future of FCC is tied to a Better Bottom Line
  – Christian Vaccese & Victor Scalco – General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems, USA
• Heartburn Panel
  – Mel Larson – KBC (a Yokogawa Co.)
• High Priority FCC Topics Workshop – Responding to Attendee Questions
• FCC Flue Gas Treatment by Implementing BELCO Wet Scrubbing Technology
  – Yves Herssens – Dupont Clean Technologies
• Optimizing and Improving FCCU Performance through SHARC, Shell’s FCC Kinetic Model
  – Todd Foshee – Shell Catalysts & Technologies
• Combating the negative effects of Iron In the FCCU at Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining and Marketing, LLC
  – Bani Cipriano – W.R. Grace & Co
• Catalyst handling solutions for extreme temperatures in FCCU
  – Michael Lemeshev – MOGAS Industries, Inc.
• Put Us In Coach – We Have the Experience to Increase B/CD by 10%
  – Timothy Gillis – Genesis Reliability Group, Inc.
• Are Cyclones to Blame for Excessive FCC Catalyst Losses?
  – Stephen Forry – CECO Emtrol-Buell
• Reliability or Maintainability of Critical Assets Limiting or Reducing Lost Opportunity
  – Mark Taylor – CIRCOR | TapcoEnpro
• Case Study: Addressing Severe Corrosion in a Distillation Column at Repsol Puertollano
  – Iain Hall – Integrated Global Solutions

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

• What Does the Future Hold? Disruptive Changes and Chaos
  – Mel Larson – KBC ( a Yokogawa Co.)
• Inspection and Repair Techniques for Coke Drums: an Interactive Discussion
  – Workgroup – CIA Inspection, Stress Engineering Services, Inc., AZZ WSI, Ameriscan LLC., Dynamics USA, Becht Engineering Co. Inc.
  
• Reliability Risk Ranking and Life Extension of Coke Drums
  – Bobby Wright – Becht Engineering, Brent Ray & Gary Gianzon – Marathon Petroleum
• Coke Drum Repair and Life Extension Strategy
  – Bobby Wright – Becht Engineering Co. Inc. & a US Refining Company
• Extending the Life of Your Mechanical Coker Bucket: Inspections and Maintenance Based on Operation Cycles
  – Shane Toncrey – Anvil Attachments & Mark Laughlin – Kone Cranes
• Steam Purge Valve Failure during Drum Switching Operation
  – Claudio Hormazabal – ENAP & Jose del Buey – Velan
• Antwerp DCU Dust: Progress and Lessons Learned
  – Geoffrey Bock – ExxonMobil
• PBF Chalmette Coker Restart Lessons Learned
  – Scott Richard & Marie Wright – 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
• Jet Pumps – Planning for the Future
  – James Doherty – Lyondellbasell Houston & Ronnie Jones – Tiger Industrial Rentals
• Steam Purge Structure Valves Tech Talk
• Coker Charge Heater U-Bend Failure
  – Matthew Coenen – Marathon Petroleum Company
• Refinery Blackout Case Study: Consequences and Handling of Delayed Coker Unit
  – Udaya Gubbala – ORPIC & Virendra Manral – Chevron Lummus Global
• Coker Blocked In Furnace Incident Investigations and Preventative Measures
  – Dale Wilborn, Clay Vender Werff & David Swensen – Chevron & AMPO Poyam Valves
• How a Refiner MORE than Doubled thier DCU Capacity over several Turnaround Cycles
  – A US Refining Company
• Delayed Coking Industry Innovator Award

Seeking Presenters
Do you have a story to share? We are seeking incident case studies or lessons learned from refinery personnel. Share your experiences and expertise with your colleagues at RefComm.
We are no longer seeking vendor presentations for the Delayed Coking program at RefComm Galveston 2020. Please consider submitting your abstract for one of the other RefComm events in 2020.

Sulfur Recovery

Due to a scheduling conflict with our parent company, CRUgroup, we are postponing our Sulfur event until May 2021. If you would still like to attend a Sulfur event, please review the CRU Sulphur + Sulphuric Acid 2020 event page. Please contact us with any questions (360.966.7251 or becky@refiningcommunity.com)