The most successful digital transformation initiatives invest in employees and underlying company culture as well as technology innovations. This session will discuss how enabling process engineers with advanced analytics applications scales digital transformation efforts across companies allowing management and front-line workers access to key insights to accelerate decision making. And how these insights reinforced new levels of empowerment and contribution to their organization.
Participants will:
Hear cases studies from refining and petrochemical manufacturers on technology deployment successes and learnings
Learn factors to consider when establishing digital transformation initiatives, and
Discuss ways to efficiently scale across organizations to drive enterprise-wide value
The FCCU continues to be challenged to process varying feeds in the refinery now and for the foreseeable future. This 101 series session will cover the FCC heat balance with an emphasis on feed properties and their effect on regenerator temperatures. Recommended optimization paths for regenerator temperature being too high or too low will be discussed.
Facilitator:
CJ Farley, Astron International, Inc.
Speakers:
Todd Miller, HF Sinclair Corporation
Kent Turner, W. R. Grace & Co.
Net Zero CO2 emissions by 2050 will require large investments in the oil industry on technologies. New technologies must be developed to reach the target but still need to scale up and mature. Improving the performance of Existing Assets will contribute to reduce the impact on carbon footprint now and advancements in cleaning techniques can restore more lost heat transfer more efficiently than traditional methods.
Petroval will discuss technologies to preserve heat transfer by maintaining clean surfaces further into the run, while Clean as New will discuss the varying benefits & limitations of techniques to restore lost heat transfer from fouling.
Facilitators:
Sam Lordo, Becht
Jacob Young, Petroval
Speakers:
Nicolas Aubin, Petroval
Roberto Tomotaki, Clean as New
Various options existing to lower carbon intensity of existing SMR-based H2 plants. This session will explore how this can be achieved through plant operation, focusing on the reformer and PSA.
Facilitators:
James Esteban, UNICAT Catalyst Technologies, LLC
Speakers:
Diane Dierking, Johnson Matthey
Amit Gupta, Heurtey Petrochem Solutions
FCC equipment advances will feature 2 presentations, one focused on the regenerator and one focused on the reactor. The first will discuss a next generation catalyst cooler technology used to debottleneck regenerator constraints and stabilize regenerator operation. The second will cover optimization of the FCC reactor riser hydrodynamic profile to minimize dry gas & coke, increase conversion, and improve reliability.
Facilitator: Todd Hochheiser, Johnson Matthey
1. Advanced Catalyst Cooler Features to Enhance FCC Operational Flexibility
Speakers:
Yongcan Gao, Technip
2. From Vision to Reality - FCC Reactor Riser Improvement
Speakers:
Javier Rios, Honeywell UOP
Nik Larsen, Marathon