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Each year, the Ammonia Symposium allows over 400 professionals concerned with safety and reliability issues in the nitrogen and gas reforming industries to share recent developments.
Preliminary PrOGram
attend the 60th annual Safety in ammonia Plants and related Facilities Symposium
The Westin Copley Place Boston • Boston, masachussetts, USa • august 30 – September 3, 2015
TIME PAPER TITLE AUTHOR(S) – COMPANY
SUNDAY, AUGUST 30
12:00 PM-5:00 pm
REGISTRATION
MONDAY, AUGUST 31
8:00 AM Welcome from Committee Chair John Mason – Agrium
8:10 AM Keynote Address to be announced later
9:00 AM 1a Safety and Reliability Achievement in Ammonia Plants – ByMaximizing Availiability of Trip Interlock System
K R R Kumar and R. Raghavan – Nagarjuna Fertilizers andChemicals Limited
9:30 AM COFFEE BREAK
10:00 AM 1b Catacarb Foaming and Flooding Causing Gigantic ProductionLoss
Muhammad Hashim – Fatima Fertilizer Company
10:30 AM 1c Suprising Internal Damages on an Horizontal AmmoniaConverter Basket
A. Shukla, A. De Brujine, M. Warzee – Yara Pilbara Fertilizer
11:00 AM 1d From potentially unsafe to unsafe by inadequate tube plugging Joost Roes – Stamicarbon
11:30 AM LUNCH BREAK
1:30 PM 2a Safely Extending the Life of Two (2) 30-Year-Old ReformerFurnaces
Kenneth V. Lamb et al. – Valero, John Zink, Cetek, LindeEngineering
2:00 PM 2b Overpressure and Vacuum Protection Challenges for LowPressure and Atmosphere
David Pierce and John Mason – Southern Ionics and AgriumPartnership
2:30 PM 2c Retubing Experience of Synloop WHB no. 1 & Failure of Incolov800 WHB
G. Blewett, T. Srinivas, G. Raju – Qatar Fertlizer Company
GPIC Experiences in Synthesis Loop Vertical Waste Heat Boiler Eyad Rafei – GPIC Bahrain
3:00 PM COFFEE BREAK
3:30 PM 2d 60 Year History of the AIChE Ammonia Safety Sympsosium Jim Richardson and Venkat Pattabathula – Clariant and IncitecPivot Ltd
4:00 PM 2e Best Practices for Improvements in Reformer Performance andReliability
James R. Widrig, Giuseppe Franceschini – Integrity Group, Yara International
4:30 PM 2f Flange Dissassembly - An Under Rated Source of SafetyIncidents
Sam Tait – Methanex New Zealand Ltd.
SaVe $95 When you register by July 24th
Program continued on the back
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This information is subject to change and is accurate as of February 17, 2015.
Registration is Now OpenFor complete conference information, including sponsorship opportunities, please visit www.aiche.org/ammonia2015
or contact Ilia F. Killeen at 646-495-1316 or [email protected].
Preliminary PrOGram (Continued)TUeSDAY, SepTeMber 1
8:00 AM 3a State of the Art Leak Detection for Ammonia Piping and Loading Facility Andy Vluggen and Marcus Tennant – OCI Nitrogen (Sitech) andYokogawa
8:10 AM 3b Pulsations and Vibrations Control in Urea Plants Constantino Bruni and Leonardo Galimberti – Casale S.A.
9:00 AM 3c Evaluation of Ammonia Converter Shell With Cracked Weld Defects for Continued Operation
A. Nalbandian, S. Wilmes, W. Bhatti, A. Azmi – ThielschEngineering Inc., James Chemical Engineering, Fauji Fertilizer
9:30 AM COFFEE BREAK
10:00 AM 3d Cleaner for Longer — Meeting the Purifications Demands of theAmmonia Process
M.J. Cousins and P.J.H. Carnell – Johnson Matthey
10:30 AM 3e Process Safety: Our Role in Ammonia Plant Design and Runninga Successful HAZOP
Glenn W. Parizot – KBR
11:00 AM 3f Managing of Remaining Life-Based on the Outer SurfaceConditions of Catalyst Tubes
T. Shibasaki, T. Hokamura and B. Shannon – Chiyoda Corporationand H-Scan Internatioinal Co.
11:30 AM FREE TIME
WeDNeSDAY, SepTeMber 2
8:00 AM 4a Addressing Cold Temperature Brittle Fracture Hazards inAmmonia Plant Equipment
Daniel Benac, Dorothy Shaffer, and David Wood – BakerEngineering and Risk Consultants, Inc.
8:10 AM 4b Reformer Balancing for Optimazation of the PCS NitrogenTrinidad 02 Unit Primary Reformer
Hugo S. Roberts, Lawrence Sandy – Johnson Matthey ProcessTechnology and PCS Nitrogen Trinidad
9:00 AM 4c New Sealing System at the Main Flange-Connections of Reactor 105-D Mr. Brett, Dr.Deiniger, Mr. Raymann – SKWStickstoffwerke Piesteritz, TUEV SUED, Nord-Lock
9:30 AM COFFEE BREAK
10:00 AM 4d Mosaic - Clariant 2014 Startup: Lessons Learned from a LowTemperature Shift Hydrogen Reduction and Primary Reformer
Eugene Britton, Timothy Rembold – The Mosaic Company andClariant
10:30 AM 4e Optimizing Process Safety for Petrochemical Plant with Fireand Gas Monitoring
Chua Kien Kek, Tan Ping Yang – PETRONAS
11:00 AM 4f The Value of Primary Reformer Temperature Balancing and Monitoring Michael Dean, Jamie Chisamore – C.F. Industries, JohnsonMatthey
11:30 AM LUNCH BREAK
1:30 PM 5a Catastrophic Explosion in CO2 Removal Unit of an Ammonia Plant Alireza Orooji, S.Sajjad Hosseininia, Ehsan Askari Mahvelati –Pardis Petrochemical Company
2:00 PM 5b Steam Reformer Overheating: Absolute Protection Now Available Oscar Olatte Peter Tait – BD Energy Systems, LLC / MethanexCorporation
2:30 PM 5c Full Replacement of Bottom Wood Blocks from an Ammonia Storage Tank Rodolfo Heitor Campos – Petrobras
3:00 PM COFFEE BREAK
3:30 PM 5d Lessons Learned During First Years of Operation of Ca Mau Ammonia Plant
Dang Hoang Quan – Petrovietnam CaMau Fertilizer Company Ltd.
4:00 PM 5e Hydrogen-Induced Cracking (HIC) in a Single Weld of a 3Chrome – 1 Moly Steel Ammonia Synthesis Reactor
Keith Wilson K. Baumann – Potash Corp - Augusta
ThUrSDAY, SepTeMber 3
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Roundtable Session This year’s Roundtable Session seeks to encourage open exchange and discussion through brief presentations from panelists followed by a question-and-answer session on the following topics:Topic 1: Post Weld Heat TreatmentTopic 2: High Speed Equipment Monitoring and Protection SystemsTopic 3: Operator Training Topic 4: Plant Incidents