5th REFINING INDIA 2017
The special themes of this year’s conference reflect areas of particular interest to the Indian refining community:
- Meeting advanced clean fuels targets
- Integrating production of petrochemicals and fuels
- Being flexible with the crude state
- Raising energy efficiency and meeting climate change targets
- Overcoming corrosion and fouling issues
- Transforming the workplace through IIOT
- India as a base for international research
5th Conference India 2017
Day One
| 0800 | Registration & Networking Tea |
| 0845 | Plenary Session Inaugural Address Sanjiv Singh, Chairman, IOCL Residue upgrading – options and economics Rajiv Narang, Director of Technology (Process Economics program) Gajendra Kumar, Principal analyst – Downstream technologies (Process Economics Program) IHS Markit, India Refining challenges in a BS-VI ultra low sulphur gasoline world. Dr Soumitro Nagpal, process technology, fluor India |
| 1030 | Networking Tea |
| 1100 | Session I Opportunity Crudes Processing |
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| 1100 | Benefits of crude oil management for successful heavy crude processing George Duggan, Director, Refinery and Petrochemical technology, baker hughes. |
| 1130 | Operational flexibility and availability: process any crude oil with confidence Jeffrey A zurlo, Global marketing strategy – Refining GE water & Process technologies. |
| 1200 | Processing waxy opportunity crudes Dr Werner reimann, Global marketing manager, clariant |
| 1230 | Guwahati refinery case study of INA Dept G technology IOCL R&D Refinery |
| 1330 | Networking Lunch |
| 1415 | Session II Energy Efficiency |
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| 1415 | Raising Energy Efficiency to Enhance Refining Margin and Curtail Carbon Footprint. Chiranjib Haldar, Process and Technology Delhi Operating Centre Technip India Ltd |
| 1445 | Raising energy efficiency and meeting climate change targets Johnson Matthey Process technologies |
| 1515 | Optimize process parameters, flow schemes and equipment design to reduce refinery emission EIL |
| 1545 | Unveiling Your Plant’s Energy Saving PotentialAxens |
| 1630 | Networking Tea |
| 1700 | Session III Fuels Production I |
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| 1700 | Liquid Phase Hydrotreating Technology for Diesel Dr XU Youming, Regional representative regional representative—Technology & Marketing SINOPEC Hong Kong Representative Office China Petrochemical Technology Co Ltd (SINOPEC TECH) |
| 1730 | Integrating Petrochemicals and Fuels: Monetizing the Intermediates with Deep Chemical Conversion Sushree Chaudhuri, Process Engineering, fluor India |
| 1800 | TBA Exxonmobil |
Day Two
| 0800 | Networking Tea |
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| 0845 | Session IV IIOT |
| 0845 | The digital twin, real and gaining ground Shree Dandekar, Vice President and general manager, Honeywell connected plant, Honeywell |
| 0915 | IIOT marking financial impact in refineries Emerson Process management. |
| 0945 | The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence – Foreseeing Manufacturing in the CognitiveEra Nandini Natarajan, Research Analyst , Frost & Sullivan |
| 1030 | Networking Tea |
| 1100 | Session V Fuels Production II |
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| 1100 | Reliable Vacuum Column Operating Pressure Peter R. Corbelli, Senior Application Engineer Graham Corporation |
| 1200 | Reformer Tubes in a Steam Methane Reformer Antonin steckmeyer,Senior engineer metallurgy and Technical Support Manoir Industries |
| 1230 | New vistas in fluid catalytic cracking technology HPCL R&D Centre |
| 1315 | Networking Lunch |
| 1415 | Session VI Delayed Coker Operations |
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| 1415 | Safe delayed coker feed Delta valve |
| 1445 | Improving delayed coker furnance run length with proprietary flux profile Dr Niaz Mustafa, senior Vice president – commercial, Petro-chem development co. |
| 1515 | Delayed coking updates for maximising bottom of the barrel conversion. Srini srivatsan, Director – Coking technology, business solution group, amec foster wheeler USA corporation. |
| 1600 | Networking Tea |
| 1630 | Session VII Contaminants & Corrosion |
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| 1630 | Reliable trace contaminant montoring in refinery and petrochemical process. Sudheesh sudhakaran, Manager – Marketing (Nucleonic & gas analytical), Endress+Hauser (India) Pvt.Ltd. |
| 1700 | Material Solution for Heater Tubes with High resistance to Polythionc Acid together with napthenic Acid Corrosion in Refinery Environments Shabareesh Nair, Senior Manager – Sales & Marketing tubacex India Pvt Ltd |
| 1730 | Desalting Operations for Opportunity Crudes Dr Isis E. Mejias, Sales/ Process Manager, Process technologies Forum Energy Technologies |
| 1800 | Chairman’s Final Summing Up. |