World Refining Outlook
Sustainability
The Energy Transition to a lower carbon future will play a significant role in the Refining Industry. How our industry – in the US and around the world - will adapt to changing market conditions going forward is evolving. However, the US will be well positioned to take advantage of opportunities. This session will highlight challenges and concerns that will impact our Refining outlook.
Facilitator: Susan Grissom, AFPM
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John Auers, RBN energy
Alan Gelder, Wood Mackenzie
Debnil Chowdhury, S&P Global
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HF Alky Isobutane Exchanger Bypass Leak
Learnings from Incidents, HF Alkylation
In 2021, hydrofluoric acid vapors were detected by the safety instrumented subsystem (SIS) line of sight laser detection system, which activated both the rapid acid dump system and the fire suppression/unit deluge system. The source of the leak was determined to be the bypass line around the isobutane recycle cooler. Topics discussed: Residual Elements, CMLs for high RE, PMI for high RE, low flow and process deadleg identification.
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Mark Geisenhoff, Flint Hills Resource
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Monetization Including IRA - IRA & ISCC+
Sustainability
Several new technologies have been developed to produce renewable fuels and petrochemical products. However, monetization of these new renewable streams is important to justify commercialization and utilization. This session will highlight IRA and ISCC+ incentives for monetization.
Facilitator: Jeff Sexton, Marathon Petroleum Corporation
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Bill Kessom, GreenStar BCS
Soheil Razjouyan, GreenStar BCS
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How to Attract, Recruit, and Retain Great Employees
Leadership, Emerging Leaders
Attracting and keeping talented employees is a critical activity of any organization. Steve Anderson, PhD., will share research and his experience of over twenty years in helping health care organizations hire and keep the best employees. During this interactive session you will learn the critical components of creating a culture that empowers employees and attracts the best talent. He will also share how to create hiring processes that weeds out the pretenders and get the best candidates. Dr. Anderson will talk about the necessity of holding accountable, and possibly terminating, problem employees that harm your culture of excellence.
As a result of attending this speech participants will:
- Gain insight into five functions of management.
- Learn how to design a hiring system to locate and hire the best talent.
- Understand how to develop those employees.
- Understand how to create a review system that rewards good behavior and holds accountable “bad” behavior.
Facilitator: Lawrence Moreaux, LyondellBasell Industries
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Steve Anderson, PhD., Integrated Leadership Systems
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Renewable Naphtha
Sustainability, Gasoline Processing
Facilitators:
Steve Philoon, Honeywell UOP
Matt Hutchinson, Axens
Speakers:
Christian Arnoux, Axens North America
Robert Auers, RBN Energy
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Casting Quality Issues in HF Alky Valves
HF Alkylation
Over the last few years, there has been an increase in through body leaks on cast HF Alkylation valves. This presentation will review several real life examples of casting failures on valves in HF Alkylation service including cross sections of the failure location. These failures have occurred on both low RE carbon steel and Alloy 400 (M35-1) castings. Some common causes of casting failures will be reviewed including sand inclusions, porosity and varying levels of shrinkage. Common locations of casting quality issues with HF Alkylation valves will be discussed including the bottom bowl area and the body to end flange transition on Alloy 400 plug valves. The presentation will also cover some of the methods that are being implemented in the industry to improve the casting quality of HF Alkylation valves along with efforts to standardize and consolidate requirements for these valves.
Speaker: Michael Alford, Marathon Petroleum
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