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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, Massachusetts, 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 TBA
9:00 AM 1a 60 Years History of the AIChE Ammonia Safety Sympsosiums Jim Richardson & Venkat Pattabathula – Clariant & Incitec Pivot Ltd.
9:30 AM COFFEE BREAK
10:00 AM 1b Foaming of Catacarb CO2 Removal System Leads to Methantor Runaway Reaction and Expander Fire Incident
Muhammad Hashim – Fatima Fertilizer Company
10:30 AM 1c Surprising Internal Damages on a Horizontal Ammonia Converter 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 Operating Experiences – re-Tubing and Failure of Incloy 800 Tubes – of Ammonia Synthesis Loop 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 Improving Safety and Reliability by Improved Trip Interlock Systems K R R Kumar & R. Raghavan – Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited
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 Underrated Source of SafetyIncidents
Sam Tait – Methanex New Zealand Ltd.
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Program continued on the back
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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 International Company
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 Optimization 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 Root Cause Analysis of Incidents during LTS Catalyst Reduction and Primary Reformer Coking Event
Eugene Britton, Timothy Rembold – The Mosaic Company andClariant
10:30 AM 4e Optimizing Process Safety for a 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 Ureaknowhow.com Urea Incident Database: Learning from Each Other Jo Eijkenboom, Giel Notten, Mark Brouwer – Ureaknowhow
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