Facilitator:
Mike Federspiel, Valero Energy Corporation
Speakers:
Bryan Dinkel, Marathon Petroleum Corporation
Afton Ferry, Phillips 66
Ziad Jawad, Phillips 66
Rob Montgomery, Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
Industry subject matter experts will host a panel discussion centered on Reactor Isolation Valves. The panel will focus on justification and design concerns, operational headaches and optimized use of RIV’s; a Q&A session will follow, so bring your questions. FCC operators, technical support and safety personnel would benefit from this Panel discussion, as would anyone who is interested in pursuing a reactor isolation valve installation.
Speaker:
Andrew Craig, Great Southern Technologies
In this session, GST’s will show how they worked with Ergon in order to avoid some of the pitfalls encountered while designing or troubleshooting new or existing fired heaters. The session will provide means to increase operability and reliability of fired heater systems. GST will also present their patented innovative technology that creates flameless combustion at radiant flux rates and flue gas temperatures common to refinery process heaters. GST’s new technology also meets the industry's stringent requirements for environmental, safety, reliability, operability, and maintainability. This session will also present the benefits of having cooler and more controlled combustion and offer technological solutions, thus providing a peak into GST’s most recent advancements in heater technology. Their latest advancements affords a much improved controllability for units that require a large range of operation.
Facilitator:
Dan Harbs, Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions
Speakers:
Benoit Guerin, Veolia North America
Jamal Y. Shamas, Marathon Petroleum Corporation
Our expert panelists Jamal Shamas of Marathon Petroleum and Benoit Guerin of Veolia North America are going to give technical presentations on issues experienced with the management of the wastewater generated by renewable fuels pretreatment units. This will include recent experiences, and successful solutions implemented to address these challenges. We want to encourage attendees to please come with questions as we will have an audience Question and Answer session at the end.
