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March 9-11, 2016Harrah’s New Orleans I New Orleans, Louisiana

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2016 Technical Seminar & ExhibitsValve Manufacturers Association of America

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Attendee Registration Pricing and Information Open to all VMA/VRC members and industry non-members. Registration fees are $645 for the first registrant and $545 for any additional registrants from the same company. Your registration fee covers the VMA Technical Seminar, speaker handouts’ manual, and all food functions to include continental breakfasts, breaks, lunch and Welcome Reception as well as access to the exhibit area. A ticket to attend the Michoud Assembly Facility tour must be purchased separately and is not included in your registration.

Registering Additional Attendees from the Same CompanyYou can register more than one attendee from your company for $545. There is no limit to the number of additional attendees that can be registered, however, in order to be eligible for the discount an attendee must be registered from your company who has paid the full registration fee. Discounted additional attendee registration fee includes the 1.5-day seminar, speaker handout materials and all food functions including continental breakfasts, breaks, lunch and Welcome Reception as well as access to exhibits. A ticket to attend the Michoud Assembly Facility tour must be purchased separately and is not included in your registration.

Exhibit RegistrationFor information on exhibiting, please download the Exhibitor Prospectus from www.vma.org for qualifications and registration pricing.


at the upcoming 2016 Technical Seminar, open to the industry, the focus is on a topic of concern to everyone in the industry: Safety and the Environment.

The theme and program for this educational event has been developed by members of the Vma Technical Committee: arie Bregman, Chairman, DFT Inc.; Jim Barker, DeZurik aPCo; David Escobar, metso automation USa, Inc.; Dale Friemoth, Crane Fluid Handling; Ken Juncewicz, gE oil and gas; Kevin Lamb, Technetics; ron manson, Cameron Valves and measurement; and Stephane meunier, Cowan Dynamics.

Who Should Attend?Mid-to-senior level management, engineering and technical personal in valve manufacturing companies, suppliers to the industry, distributors, valve repair facilities and end-users. This meeting is open to members of VMA, as well as non-members.

Who Should Exhibit? Companies that sell or provide services to valve manufacturers and end-users. This exhibit program is open to VMA members as well as non-member companies.

Questions? Contact Malena Malone-Blevins at [email protected] or by phone at 202-331-8105 ext. 310.

Hotel Reservations Accommodations for the 2016 VMA Technical Seminar have been arranged at a discounted rate of $179 per night (king/double queen). Discounted rate valid from March 8-11, 2016 ONLY. To make your reservations online go to www.vma.org and click on HOTEL RESERVATIONS on the Technical Seminar webpage.

For guests that prefer to phone in their reservations, please call the Reservation Center at 1-877-466-7847 to secure a reservation at the discounted rate. Currently, the name of the group is listed as VALVE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION, however, callers should mention the group code S03VMA6 to ensure you receive the correct rate.

Last day for making reservations at the discounted rate is February 5, 2016.

Registration Cancellation Policies• Cancellations received up to 30 days before the event are

refundable, minus a 5% administration fee.

• Cancellations received between 15 and 29 days before the eventare 75% refundable.

• Due to hotel and other event guarantees, cancellations receivedbetween 0 and 14 days prior to the day of the event arenon-refundable. Substitutions may be made until March 4,

2016.

The last day to register in-house is March 4, 2016. After that, registrations will be accepted on-site in New Orleans.

Wednesday, March 9 9:00am - 2:00pm (bus loads 8:45 am)

NASA’S Michoud Assembly Facility Tour($70 fee applies in addition to registration, both attendees and exhibitor personnel are welcome)

NASA Michoud Assembly Facility will be the site for the March 9th 2016 Technical Seminar tour. The Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans is a manufacturing facility that provides vital support to NASA exploration and discovery missions. Michoud’s capabilities include the manufacture and assembly of critical hardware components for exploration vehicles under development at Marshall Space Flight Center and other NASA centers.

On the tour attendees will learn about the history of the facility, and about the processes for building the barrel rockets. See the six massive friction stir welding tools Michoud is installing - one more than 170 feet tall - specifically designed and built to weld together pieces of the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) - NASA’s new heavy-lift rocket that will send humans to deep space destinations, including an asteroid and Mars. The initial flight of SLS is currently slated for 2017.

Lunch has been tentatively scheduled at the facility. We have invited speakers from NASA, Boeing and Lockheed Martin to address the group during lunch.

Because this is a tour of a secure government facility you will be required to provide information to VMA during the registration process for a background check to be conducted by the Department of Homeland Security. This is mandatory. Everyone who registers for this tour must be an American citizen. Exceptions for Canadian nationals can be made if information is submitted promptly, but clearance is not guaranteed. This only applies to the tour, it does not apply to general registration for the Technical Seminar. Because the clearance process takes time, if you wish to attend the tour you must register for the meeting AND the tour before January 22nd. This date is not flexible and space is limited. Please contact Malena Malone-Blevins, Meetings Manager at [email protected] if you have any questions.


Harrah’s New Orleans228 Poydras street, New Orleans, La 70130

Reservation Center at 1-877-466-7847

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Thursday, March 107:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 am Welcome

Arie Bregman, Chair, VMA Technical Committee and Vice President and General Manager, DFT Inc.

8:10 - 9:00 amKeynote Address: Regulations and Regulatory Initiatives of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement

Keynote Speaker: Douglas Morris, Chief of Offshore Regulatory Programs, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement

Moderator: Ron Manson, Director of Application Engineering, Cameron Valves and Measurement

This timely and educational opening presentation will discuss the latest regulations and regulatory initiatives that the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement are working on that are intended to improve safety in offshore oil and gas operations. The requirements that will be outlined are intended to improve safety in offshore oil and gas operations through the use of reliable and better performing equipment, such as valves, actuators and control devices.

Points of discussion will address a number of programs which BSEE is focused on:

• Best available and safest technology program

• Near-miss reporting system

• Third party certifications programs

• BSEE’s Houston based Technology Center.

These initiatives and their outcomes will affect all equipment and valve manufactures as well as end users and contractors specifying equipment.

9:00 - 9:45 amBeyond Certification; Modern Safety Management Systems

Speaker: Mike Chaudron, Executive Director of Sales, DNV GL Business Assurance

Moderator: Dale Friemoth, Vice President, Technology and Business Development, Crane Fluid Handling

Safety Management systems have been around a long time, yet people still get injured or worse. Process based safety, behavorial and cultural safety systems followed, and then Safety

Management Systems Certifications arrived on the scene. This presentation will focus on Modern Safety Management Systems, OHSAS 18001 (transitioning to ISO 45001), and more important, what you as a manager need to know about and how to deal with safety related management systems.

9:30 - 11:30 amExhibits Set-up

9:45 am - 10:00 amMorning Break

10:00 - 10:45 amRole of Valves in HAZOP Analysis, Safety and Environmental Risk Assessments

Speaker: Li Li, Senior Health Safety Environmental Technical Specialist, Fluor Enterprises, Inc.

Moderator: Jim Barker, Director of Customer Order and Field Service, DeZURIK APCO HILTON

Valves play an important role in safe operations in a variety of facilities involving hazardous chemicals. Operations can be drilling, refining, manufacturing, storage, moving, handling, using, etc. During an EPC Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) analysis and safety and environmental risk assessments, a team of engineers and operators carefully evaluate the design. The team will focus on identifying what could go wrong, potential causes, initiating events, previous incidents, and resulting consequences. They will also focus on safety, environmental, health, and financial risks, what safe guards are already in place and what safe guards must be implemented to prevent an incident. In quantitative risk analysis, Emergency Isolation Valves (EIV) also plays an important role in calculating isolable inventory and total potential loss. During Front End Engineering Design (FEED) and Detail Engineering phases, correct placement and selection of valves in the design can reduce the size of spills and prevent or mitigate potential catastrophic losses.

This presentation will explore the role of valves in the HAZOP analysis and risk assessments.

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10:45 - 11:30 amValve Selection & Risk - An End-user’s Perspective

Speaker: Stephen Treichler, Mechanical Services Manager, BASF Corporation

Moderator: Stephane Meunier, Director of International Business Development, Cowan Dynamics

Once building a chemical plant or a refinery was a simple matter of finding a flat salt marsh prairie somewhere and start throwing together pipe, vessels, boilers, pumps, tanks, an alarm or two – and, of course, valves - and start making products as fast as you could. Little or no thought was given about things like the environment and community impact or the degree of risk being placed on those working in or near the facility. Now, history and tragedy has taught us many lessons and from these hard lessons, processes and tools have been created, promulgated, and implemented to manage inherent risks and to mitigate the hazards that come with many of our chemical and refining processes.

The challenge is that process safety performance and environmental compliance expectations are an ever-rising bar that applies to every facet of the petro-chemical industry. Even to something as simple as a valve. Discussion will focus on philosophies of valve selection, hazard analysis practices and internal and external factors affecting the petrochemical industry.

11:30 am - 1:00 pm Lunch/Exhibits Open

1:00 - 1:45 pmAddressing Challenges in HIPPS Design and Implementation

Speaker: Afton Coleman, FIELDVUE SIS Product Manager, Emerson Process Management

Moderator: Stephane Meunier, Director International Business Development, Cowan Dynamics

High Integrity Pressure Protection Systems (HIPPS) are being increasingly used in the oil and gas industry. In addition to providing over pressure protection in the safety instrumented system (SIS), the benefits of implementing HIPPS also include lower flaring and decreased fugitive gas emissions. This presentation explores advantages and challenges faced in the implementation of HIPPS, and the role of proper equipment specification in the safety lifecycle.

1:45 - 2:45 pmSeismic Design and Qualification

Speakers: Dr. M.S. Kalsi, Founder, Kalsi Engineering & Nimish Jagtap, Senior Consultant, Kalsi Engineering


Focus on safety has increased lately across different industries, especially following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear accident in Japan. One way to improve safety is to perform qualification testing to verify that equipment can properly function under worst-case scenario conditions. Valve standards, such as ASME QME-1 and ANSI B16.41 provide specific requirements for functional qualification. API and ASME/ANSI Codes provide requirements for design. One very important aspect of functional qualification and design is seismic loading. If not properly designed and qualified, valve and actuator assemblies can experience mechanical overload, fatigue failures, mechanical looseness, undesirable frequency response, or mechanical interference under credible seismic conditions.

This presentation will discuss the critical aspects of seismic design and qualification testing for valves and valve assemblies. It includes a description of applicable Codes and Standards, key design considerations and objectives, analysis methods, and how a combination of testing and analysis can often provide the most cost effective and reliable solution.

2:45 - 3:15Afternoon Break with Exhibits Open

3:15 - 3:45 pmFugitive Emission Testing and Certification of Valves – What Will We Have To Do Next?

Speaker: David Bayreuther, Vice President of Engineering for Metso Automation, USA, Flow Control.

Moderator: David Escobar, VMA Technical Committee, Vice Chairman, and Director of Engineering, Metso Automation, USA, Inc.

Many refineries and petrochemical plants have been penalized by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for violation of the Clean Air Act. Compliance with the rules is being enforced by fines and consent decrees with the EPA. Of the many changes required in consent decrees, one common item is that facilities utilize low emission sealing technology. Since valve stem packing is one of the more common sources of emissions from these plants, manufacturers have been working to develop tighter sealing materials. However, what has been lacking is a singular, comprehensive way to test and validate compliance with the

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EPA expectations. In response, some standards development organizations have published some standards for fugitive emission testing.

But due to a lack of common understanding of issues, varying priorities, high effort to complete, safety risks, and general lack of knowledge in sealing technology, the existing standards are limited in their acceptance and use. Therefore, even more standards are being developed. This presentation will review the problem in practical terms, present the differences and inherent weaknesses of each standard, and discuss the standards that are still in development.

3:45 - 4:15 pmBraided Packing – An Old Technology With a Modern Twist

Speaker: Henri Azibert, Technical Director, Fluid Sealing Association

Moderator: Arie Bregman, Chairman, VMA Technical Committee and Vice President and General Manager, DFT Inc.

Compression packing is the primary method employed to seal the stem of many types of valves. It has been in use for quite a long time, and is often considered to be an “old” technology. Yet requirements for sealing effectiveness have been ever increasing, and modern packings have proven capable of meeting the challenges. As always, as soon as a performance level is reached, there is a demand for improvements. Current efforts are to insure that the technology utilized to design and manufacture high performance packing will be keeping up, not only with current but also with future needs and requirements. This presentation will discuss advances in packing technology as well as testing equipment and methodology that is helping to improve packings and reduce emissions all leading to improved environmental standards conformance and improved worker safety.

4:15 - 4:45 pmGasket Performance Standards and Application Toward Fugitive Emissions Reductions

Speaker: Mike Shorts, President of the Fluid Sealing Association Vice President and General Manager for Triangle Fluid Controls Ltd.


With the advent of new gasket technologies in the market over the past decade, standards have had to evolve in order to satisfy some of the performance specific parameters being addressed by these new technologies. Though basic gasket data can often suffice in standard application design requirements, advanced gasket data parameters and behavioural knowledge are required in order to meet modern and future fugitive emissions reduction

standards. This presentation will provide an overview of the updates in gasket performance standards and how manufacturers apply those towards applications requiring significantly lower emissions. This level of understanding is also applied to gasket applications in the valve OEM market as valve manufacturers are constantly developing their valves to meet tighter emissions requirements.

Participants will learn the concepts that gasket manufacturer applications engineers use to decode an application and make relevant recommendations to the end-user and/or installer.

4:45 - 5:30 pm Panel Discussion with Speakers


5:30 - 6:30 pmVMA Welcome Reception with Exhibits Open

Friday, March 117:30 - 8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 8:45 amThe ASME Code Process for a Code Case: Non-traditional Manufacturing Methods/Materials

Speaker: Jay Cameron, P.E., HSB Global Standards, Codes & Standards, Home Office

Moderator: Ken Juncewicz, Senior Principal Engineer, GE Oil and Gas

Code Cases have been used in the B&PVC for a very long time. There are exceptions to the mandatory Code rules. It is a “try before you buy” product to introduce new materials, new design rules, new welding and NDE technologies, etc. Since Code Cases are issued on a quarterly basis to purchasers of the Code Case book, it can be a way to get an idea into production on a much faster basis than waiting for the Code book to be revised, which is currently done on a 2-year schedule. If adjustments are needed to the Case based on experience implementing the Case, these revisions can also be done quarterly. Code Cases are intended to be temporary, and they are processed for incorporation or annulment after a period of time.

This presentation will go through the 5 W’s and 1 H – who, what, where, why, when and how – of ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code (B&PVC) Code Cases. The presentation will also review the Code Cases that are in-process or issued regarding powder metallurgy parts.

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8:45 - 9:30 amThe European Union’s New Legislative Framework: Impact on EU Directives, particularly the Pressure Equipment Directive.

Speaker: Mike Norman, Director of Product Assurance, DNV GL Business Assurance

Moderator: Dale Friemoth, Vice President, Technology and Business Development, Crane Fluid Handling

After the first adoption of Directives in 1987 and several years of New Approach EU Directive implementation, and in some cases recast of the initial Directives, the EU Commission reviewed the purpose, impact, and effectiveness of the New Approach System. The result is the revision of the New Approach System, commonly referred to as the New Legislative Framework (NLF). This presentation will review the acts, regulations, and decisions comprising the NLF, and its impact on the recast EU Directives, like PED, ATEX, Machinery Directive. Clarifications to the responsibilities of the various actors in the scheme, impact on the surveillance approach and controls, and some detailed changes to standards will be discussed.

9:30 - 9:45 am Morning Break

9:45 - 10:30 amIndustry Standards Update

Speaker: Carlos Davila, Product Manager-Americas, for Crane ChemPharma/Energy

Moderator: Jim Barker, Director of Customer Order and Field Service, DeZURIK APCO HILTON

This presentation will provide an update to US Industry standards organizations and their corresponding published valve standards. Three organizations will be covered including ASME B16 Codes and Standards, API Refining and MSS, Manufacturers Standardization Society. Important revisions to ASME B16.34 and B16.5, Valves and Flanges, will be discussed. Several API product and testing standards covering check, globe and butterfly valves, will also be covered. Additionally, current activities and standard updates to MSS SP’s related to steel castings, both visual and sampling quality, steel flanges and procedures for oxygen cleaning and cryogenic service testing will be outlined.

10:30 - 11:15 amAPI Upstream Standard Development Update- Supply Chain Management

Speaker: Rick Faircloth, Sr, Technical Consultant-Engineering, Cameron Valves and Measurement


This presentation will provide the latest update on the API Upstream Standards Development for Supply Chain Management. It will include the history, drivers, goals, status update and specific specifications that have been issued API monogram licenses for l API 20 series Supply Chain Management specifications and standards published and under development.

11:15 am - NoonPanel Discussion

Arie Bregman, Chair, VMA Technical Committee and Vice President and General Manager of DFT Inc.

NoonSeminar Adjourns

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Henri azibertTechnical Director, Fluid Sealing Association

Henri V. Azibert started his career as counsel for the State Rating Bureau for the Division of Insurance for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He then joined the A.W. Chesterton Company where he has worked for over three decades. In his most recent role as Technical Director for the Fluid Sealing Association, he coordinates all the technical activities of the association including the publication of handbooks and the creation of educational material. On behalf of the Association, his duties include making presentations in various industrial venues and appearing in front of government agencies to testify on rules and regulations affecting emission reduction and energy conservation as well as lecturing in international forums on various aspects of mechanical seals and compression packings.

Mr. Azibert received his Baccalauréat from Lycée Louis Le Grand, a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, a Jurisprudence Doctor degree from Boston College, and a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University. Mr. Azibert has been granted over thirty patents on mechanical seal and packing designs and improvements.

David Bayreuther Vice President of Engineering for Metso Automation, USA, Flow Control.

Mr. Bayreuther is currently responsible for managing four of the global valve & actuator technology groups. David is a graduate of Northeastern University and holds a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering. His career as a valve engineer started over 30 years ago at General Dynamics / Electric Boat, building nuclear submarines. For the last 20 years, he has worked for Metso. David actively participates in standards development organizations, and is a member of ASME B16, MSS, API, and ISO. He has contributed to the development of the API and ISO fugitive emission standards.

Jay CameronHSB Global Standards, Codes & Standards, Home Office

Mr. Cameron started his career working in aerospace at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft responsible for flight gas turbine finite element analyses (FEAs) and materials development and design, project and test efforts. He has also worked in the oilfield downhole measurement-while-drilling services industry where he was responsible for design, analysis, test, manufacturing assistance, and failure analysis of radiation and ultrasonic sensors; and provided solutions to issues with pressure, shock, fatigue

and vibration. He also spent 3 years with HSB Mechanical & Materials Engineering providing ASME and NBIC Code consulting, and analytical and failure analysis services. 23 years later he is still with HSB in the current capacity of Principal Engineer.

Mr. Cameron has a BS in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Mechanics (stress analysis) from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and a MS Metallurgy (thesis: composites) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In addition to being a member of ASM (materials), ASTM (materials and testing) and NACE (corrosion), he is also an active member on three ASME Code committees (Standards Committees II [Materials] and VIII [Pressure Vessels], and Special Committee on Interpretations/VIII) and Chair on one (Subgroup on Materials/VIII).

mike ChaudronExecutive Director of Sales, DNV GL Business Assurance

Mike Chaudron is currently responsible for sales of all DNV GL Business Assurance Services in North America and serves on the North American Executive Leadership Team for DNV GL Business Assurance. Mike has been in the Management Systems Certification Business for 13 years, including 4 years with DNV GL. Mike is a sought after speaker, having delivered numerous presentations on safety management system and safety leadership development. He is a graduate of the University of Alabama and resides in Katy, Texas.

afton ColemanProduct Manager, FIELDVUE SIS, Emerson

Afton Coleman has been working with Emerson since 2005 and provides safety instrumented systems (SIS) subject matter expertise with a focus on the final control element. Afton became a certified functional safety professional (CFSP) in 2010. She holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Iowa (2005) and MBA from Iowa State University (2014).

Carlo DavilaProduct Manager-Americas, for Crane ChemPharma/Energy

Mr. Davila is a registered professional engineer and a graduate of the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. With over 47 years of experience in the valve industry, his background includes design, development, application and production of valves. Currently, he is Product Manager-Americas, for Crane ChemPharma/Energy (Fluid Handling). Previously held positions include Chief Engineer, Technical Operations Manager and General Manager. He has

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written and published several papers in ASME and Hydrocarbon Engineering. Active voting member of the API Manufacturers Subcommittee on Piping and Valves for over 30 years. Current Vice-Chair of the ASME B16 Standards Committee, member of B16 Subcommittee C, Flanges, B16 Subcommittee N, valves and the USTAG committee. Voting participant in ASME B31.3 Standards Committee addressing Process Piping. Current member of the MSS Board of Directors and chair of Technical Committees 304, Quality Standards, 406, Diaphragm Valves and 110, Steel Flanges. Active in ISO standards activities as member of the ANSI/ISO Team and Chair of ISO TC5/SC10, Metallic Flanges and Components.

rick FairclothSenior Technical Consultant-Engineering, Cameron Valves and Measurement

Rick has more than 48 years’ experience in the field of steel melting, castings, forgings, heat treatment, materials, non-destructive examination, quality, welding along with API & ASME technical standards development.

In his career, Rick has held numerous positions in manufacturing, quality management, project management, standards management and engineering and has spent 36 years in API Upstream and 22 years in ISO Pipeline transportation systems standards development. He is currently involved in numerous API and ASME technical committees for standards development and serves as Chairman of API SC6 TG1 on pipeline & subsea pipeline valves, Chairman of API SC20 Supply Chain Management as well as a member of ASME B16 Subcommittee N on (B16.10 & B16.34).

Li LiSenior Health Safety Environmental Technical Specialist, Fluor Enterprises, Inc.

Li Li has seven years diversified EPC experience with Fluor Enterprises, Inc. in Health Safety and Environment (HSE) Engineering Design, Process Hazards Analysis (PHA), HSE Risk Assessment and Management for international and domestic Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) projects. Project scopes include Conceptual, Front End Engineering Design (FEED) and Detail Engineering Phases; small, medium, large to mega capital projects; on-shore and off-shore; refineries, petrochemicals, and LNG.

Prior to her career at Fluor, Li worked twenty years at various technical and application positions at manufacturing plants, technical center and research facilities in Canada and United States. Ms. Li holds a Master Degree in Chemical Engineering and Applied Science from University of Toronto, Canada, and a BS of Chemistry from Peking University, China.

Douglas morris - Keynote SpeakerChief of Offshore Regulatory Programs, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement

As Chief of Offshore Regulatory Programs, Mr. Morris is responsible for developing and maintaining up-to-date regulations, policies, standards and guidelines for best available and safest practices that govern industry’s offshore operations nationwide and maintains oversight of the bureau’s compliance activities and assures appropriate and effective enforcement actions.

Mr. Morris comes to BSEE most recently from the Energy Information Administration where he initially served as Director of the Reserves and Production Division and was subsequently responsible for the Oil and Gas Supply & Financial Statistics Team. Prior to joining EIA, Mr. Morris was a member of the American Petroleum Institute’s executive staff where he served as the Group Director for Upstream and Industry Operations. Before joining API, he worked as a petroleum engineer with MMS and with private industry. Mr. Morris has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Michigan State University and a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from South Texas College of Law.

mike NormanDirector of Product Assurance, DNV GL Business Assurance

Michael (Mike) Norman is currently responsible for product assurance activities, including product certification to EU Directives within DNV GL Business Assurance, North America. After education in Industrial Engineering, and several years of quality control positions, Mike joined DNV GL (formerly Det Norske Veritas) in 1985 as a certification specialist. Mike has been responsible for the technical development of services for PED, ATEX, Machinery Directive, and other EU Directives since 1998, including participation with the DNV GL Notified Body Units towards CABF guidance documents.

Stephen TreichlerMechanical Services Manager, BASF Corporation

Stephen Treichler graduated from Michigan State University in 1985 with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. Upon graduation from MSU, he began work at BASF’s Freeport site. There, he had progressive positions in production operations and, then, mechanical maintenance. During that time, he also served as rotational leader of the site rotating and stationary equipment teams and as the site or unit mechanical representative for a number of large scale capital projects.

In 2012, Steve was appointed the Freeport Mechanical Services Manager. In this newly-created site role, he is responsible for


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the site’s mechanical maintenance and reliability engineering activities and the site’s stationary equipment, mechanical integrity programs and processes. He is currently serving on the engineering committee of BASF’s Responsible Care/Process Safety/PSM Audit Group as a mechanical integrity subject matter expert. Outside of BASF, he has also been a frequent standards reviewer for assorted ANSI standards being developed or updated by the Fluid Controls Institute. He recently finished a five year tenure as the leader of BASF’s North America mechanical engineering team and is currently co-leading BASF’s North America CUI Task Force and leading BASF’s North America Valve Team.

Dr. m.S. KalsiFounder, Kalsi Engineering

Dr. Kalsi founded Kalsi Engineering, Inc. in 1978. He has over 35 years of technical/project management experience and has managed many projects involving valves (gate, globe, butterfly, safety/relief, check and ball valves), seals, pressure vessels, flanges, clamps, pumps, bearings, down-hole tools, turbines and drill string components. He has performed ASME Section VIII and Section III stress analyses as well as thermal, vibration, impact/shock, fatigue, wear and seismic analysis of mechanical equipment, pressure vessels, valves and piping components. He has conducted many failure analysis investigations, made design modifications, developed predictive degradation techniques and contributed significantly to the development of industry guideline documents for the application and use of valves. Dr. Kalsi has provided expert witness testimony for legal issues related to pressure vessel and piping components.

Dr. Kalsi has served as a principal investigator in many valve, seal and other mechanical equipment research and development projects for the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I & II projects. He has been awarded 32 patents and has authored or co-authored over 70 technical papers.

Nimish JagtapSenior Consultant, Kalsi Engineering

Mr. Jagtap has over 9 years of experience with Kalsi Engineering Inc. (KEI) in the areas of design and analysis of various types of valves and mechanical components in the nuclear and petroleum industries. He holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on solid mechanics. Through the various course projects and thesis work during his M.S. studies he has developed through knowledge in the area of solid mechanics; specifically in fracture mechanics, plasticity, modal analysis and FEA. In the consulting division of KEI, Mr. Jagtap has contributed in the design/analysis projects for the valve-actuator assemblies (gate, globe, butterfly, safety/relief, and check valves) that required the application of ASME BPV, API, IEEE codes and SAE fatigue criteria. He also has worked for the projects involving failure analysis and root-cause analysis of the valve components. The finite element analysis (FEA) projects that Mr. Jagtap has worked on involved elastic-plastic, thermal, seismic, dynamic/impact, contact and hyperelastic FEA. Additionally he has also contributed in the projects utilizing computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

mike ShortsPresident, Fluid Sealing Association, Vice President and General Manager for Triangle Fluid Controls Ltd.

Mike received his Bachelor of Science in Engineering in 1996 and his MBA in 2005 both from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Mike has worked for Triangle Fluid Controls for 19 years, and has held several positions in production, laboratory, R&D, inside and outside sales, and finally as the General Manager. Mike also acts as the International Business Development Manager for Triangle Fluid Control and travels extensively to promote the usage of Durlon sealing products. Triangle Fluid acts as the global non-USA marketing, sales, and technical support of Durlon sealing products as well as being the manufacturing center of excellence for the PTFE and metallic gasketing product lines. Mike has been a very active member in the Fluid Sealing Association (FSA) since 2000, siting on several committees. He has served as Past Chair of the Gasket Division, and is currently President of the Fluid Sealing Association.


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