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ERTC Annual Meeting 2011 agenda
Day 3: Thursday 1st December 2011
Jump to the streams:
Stream A: Gasoline production
Stream B: Operability, reliability, safety and maintenance
Stream C: Biomass and biofuels
08.20 Registration
08.50 Opening remarks, Eliot Morton, Director, GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY FORUM
08.55 A view from around the world: refining in North America, Latin America, Middle East and Asia and its effect on the European refining industry
Michael Bedell, Conversion and Emerging Processes Manager, BP
Dawood Nassif, General Manager - Strategy and Business Development Division, BAPCO
Li Xuejing, Deputy Director, Strategy Research and Information Division, Petrochemical Research Institute, PETROCHINA
Geraldo Santos, Corporate Process Refining Optimisation Manager, PETROBRAS
10.25 Coffee and networking break
11.00 Stream opening remarks
11.05 Multi stage reaction catalysts: a breakthrough innovation in FCC catalyst technology
• Successfully commercialised new MSRC manufacturing platform allows separate functionalities to be staged in the same FCC catalyst particle
• First product from the platform, FortressTM is designed for resid applications where contaminant feed metal passivation is crucial
• FortressTM performance demonstrated in two refinery trials which validate improved metals tolerance and lower dry gas and coke yields in resid FCC
BASF
11.35 The development of rare earth free catalysts
• Rare earth metals, an important component of FCC catalysts, are becoming less available and more expensive
• In response, Grace Davison has developed a comprehensive portfolio of rare earth free and low rare earth catalysts
• Commercial trials are underway and the rare earth free and low rare earth catalysts are performing extremely well
GRACE
12.05 Advanced FCC catalyst stripper technology - enhancing performance and reducing utilitie
• Lummus Technology's MG(Modular Grid) stripper design maximises mass transfer between the catalyst and the steam phases to achieve highest efficiency of hydrocarbon removal from the catalyst phase, and reduce steam consumption
• The modular grids eliminate the problem of bypassing/channelling or dead spots in the stripper and these can be easily installed, inspected, and removed when required
• Case study results from implementation of this state of the art MG stripper design highlighting FCC yield and throughput improvements as well as reductions in steam consumption are presented
LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY
12.35 Lunch and opportunity to visit hospitality suites and exhibition area
14.00 Gasoline benzene reduction through ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company's reformate alkylation catalytic technology: BenzOUTTM
• BenzOUTTM process achieves low Benzene content in the gasoline pool; increases reformate volume and upgrades light olefins to high octane gasoline blendstock.
• Simple and flexible process design - simple retrofit or grassroots.
• Available for license through Badger-EMRE Alliance
EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH & ENGINEERING COMPANY
14.30 Increasing revenues in Fluid Catalytic Cracking
• Catalytic options to process the cheapest feeds while maximizing bottoms conversion
• Commercial experience with Albemarle's latest resid FCC Catalysts UPGRADER and UPGRADER R+
• Options to reduce costs by applying Albemarle's Low Rare Earth Technology (LRT)
ALBEMARLE
15.00 Coffee and networking break
15.30 Catalyst additives to increase FCC residue processing capacity
• The most common operating constraint experienced by FCC operators is the main air blower
• This paper describes technology capable of reducing delta coke via vanadium passivation and feed nitrogen absorption
• Reduced delta coke leads directly to increased feed processing capacity and operating flexibility
INTERCAT
Stream B: Operability, reliability, safety and maintenance
11.00 Stream welcome remarks
11.05 Linking incident investigation to risk assessment
• Traditional incident investigations drive towards management system root causes
• The B-SCAT approach addresses both a site's barriers identified in their risk assessment and the safety management system
• This enhances process safety by providing direct learning on barrier performance and the current status of barriers
DNV
11.35 From risk assessment in day to day operation to an electronic tool for change management
• Risk assessment is usual practice of all permits to work (PMT) in Schwechat refinery and well documented by the electronic system
• Management of Change - similar to permit to work - requires role definitions and follows a defined work flow
• For these similarities a project was launched with the vendor of the PMT system to promote the MoC process from paperwork to a computerised system
OMV
12.05 Case study on the revamp of Slovnaft's hydrocracking unit
• Increasing middle distillate yields
• Improving unit safety and reliability
• Stacked catalyst beds for flexible operation
SLOVNAFT / HALDOR TOPSØE
12.35 Lunch and opportunity to visit hospitality suites and exhibition area
14.00 Using a novel chemistry for hydrogen sulphide abatement in bitumen
• Hydrogen sulphide scavengers offer a way to safely and economically reduce the H2S content of bitumen
• Treated product has increased marketability due to decreased safety concerns
• Scavengers developed specifically for bitumen offer:
*Fast reaction
*Ability to scavenge large quantities of H2S
*No effect on bitumen quality
*Stable at high temperatures
• Modified test method improves safety and repeatability of field and laboratory performance tests
BAKER HUGHES
14.30 Managing integrity and reliability on ageing assets
• Asset life planning is an ever increasing business critical requirement for operators in ensuring continued production well into the future
• Managing ageing plant presents operators, duty holders and stakeholders with a significant challenge that needs to be met with resource efficient solutions
• Best practice asset life planning is not simply equipment focussed, but must take into account the full range of activities including the effectiveness of the management organisation coupled with the integrity of the equipment relative to present and future demands
ABB
15.00 Coffee and networking break
15.30 Flare loads revisited
• Apply dynamic process simulation to determine transient flare loads for refinery process units.
• Three studies at BP Lingen refinery show significantly more accurate flare loads compared to conventional methods.
• Benefits include saving the need of upgrading the existing flare header
INPROCESS / BP
Stream C: Biomass and biofuels
11.00 Stream welcome remarks
11.05 Innovative reconfiguration: an alternative to capex intensive - build new or revamp
• The OMV Schwechat Refinery has unique historically based HDS, HDW and MHC configurations that potentially allow a conversion boost by a low cost reconfiguration based on a systematic analysis
• This reconfigured system potentially offers an enhanced HVO production and these configuration advantages might be translatable at other locations
• Hydrotreatment of the biofuel is critical along with hydroisomerisation (MIDW) to correct cold flow properties
• Any decision to proceed with such a scheme would be based on market conditions
OMV / EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH & ENGINEERING COMPANY
11.35 Biofuels markets: EU mandates in the global context and their impact on European refiners
• What options are available for meeting EU mandates?
• How will EU countries deliver sustainable biofuels?
• What are the implications for European refiners?
KBC
12.05 Update about new high-activity catalysts and technologies for the production of biofuels
• Albemarle brings new catalysts for conversion of biomass into transportation fuels and chemicals
• Albemarle recently launched its new GoBioTM platform of catalysts with eight new products
• Albemarle's new series of catalysts contain heterogeneous FAME catalysts, biosyngas conversion catalysts, and pyrolysis oil upgrading technology
ALBEMARLE
12.35 Lunch and opportunity to visit hospitality suites and exhibition area
14.00 Cellulosic fuels in a single step by IH2
• Cost effective, demonstration ready technology
• Drop in hydrocarbon fuels or blend stocks are produced
• Key figures of future large scale BTL production plants
CRI CATALYST COMPANY
14.30 Butyric acid ethyl ester as biogasoline
• Better quality and higher energy content than ethanol
• A novel and simple process for ester fuel production
SK INNOVATION
15.00 Coffee and networking break
15.30 Efficient production of ethylene and propylene from biomass
• Production of large volume monomers - ethylene and propylene from biomass
• Fast conversion of biomass to olefins using heterogeneous catalysts
• How moderate temperature process keeps capital costs low
• Economic assessment of ethylene and propylene production using this new route
EXELUS
16.00 Closing keynote address - Scenarios for the energy scene to 2040
Johan Peter Paludan, Director, The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
16.30 Conference close
