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February
Sunday, 22 February
Registration & Exhibition
Welcome Reception in Exhibition Hall
15:00 - 19:00
17:30 - 19:00
Monday, 23 February
Registration
Exhibition
Session 1
Lunch break
Session 2
Italian Evening at the Villa Miani
07:00 – 18:00
07:30 – 18:00
08:30 – 13:15
13:15 – 14:45
14:45 – 16:00
18:30
Tuesday, 24 February
Registration & Exhibition
Session 3
Lunch break
Session 4
08:30 – 17:30
09:00 – 12:00
12:00 – 13:30
13:30 – 17:00
Wednesday, 25 February
Registration & Exhibition
Session 5
Lunch break
Session 6
Preliminary agenda – revised 13.01.2009
08:30 – 17:30
09:00 – 12:00
12:00 – 13:30
13:30 – 17:00
Sponsors:
Monday, 23 February
08:30 Welcome
J. FRENCH, Conference Director (British Sulphur)
08:40 History of the birth of the synthetic ammonia industry
U. ZARDI / F.ZARDI (Casale Group)
SESSION 1: Laying Down the Basics –
Market and industry developments
SESSION CHAIRMAN: A. R. JAWAHERY (GPIC)
09:10 Opening remark from the Session Chairman
A. R. JAWAHERY (GPIC)
09:15 The future of gas markets: Where will supply and demand come from?
G. SAMMARCO (ENI SpA)
09:45 Global nitrogen supply and demand
K. NYIRI (British Sulphur Consultants)
10:15 World methanol outlook
R. HANDS (BCInsight)
10:45 COFFEE BREAK sponsored by
Officine Luigi Resta SpA
11:15 How will the credit crunch impact project finance in the nitrogen industry?
O. MUSSET (Société Générale)
11:45 Update on GTL and GTO industries
SPEAKER TO BE ANNOUNCED
12:15 Price Risk Management: A survival tool in today’s volatile market
M.L. SOUTHWOOD (CRU Price Risk Management)
12:45 Freight market review
SPEAKER TO BE ANNOUNCED (Bery Maritime)
13:15 LUNCH sponsored by
Johnson Matthey Catalysts
Uhde
SESSION 2: Preparing for the Future
SESSION CHAIRMAN: NAME (Company)
14:45 Key aspects during the development of world-class projects
J. CAMPS (Jacobs Consultancy)
15:10 DME synthesis technology ready for market
S. TERAI (Toyo Engineering Corporation)
15:35 Strategic approach to address environmental issues in a 25-year old
ammonia-urea complex
M. HAFIEZ (Fauji Fertilizer Co.)
16:00 COFFEE and NETWORKING
18:30 Italian Evening at the Villa Miani sponsored by
Saipem SpA
Tuesday, 24 February
SESSION 3: Synthesis Gas Generation
SESSION CHAIRMAN: V. PATTABATHULA (Incitec-Pivot Ltd)
09:00 New technologies help increase production performance of existing plants
K. AL BIN ALI (Gulf Petrochemical Industries Co.)
09:25 Coal to ammonia: A new approach
J. JOHANNING (Uhde GmbH)
09:50 Advanced auto-thermal gasification process for ammonia plants
Y. W ATANABE (JGC Corporation)
10:15 COFFEE BREAK
10.45 Optimizing reformer tube life by applying advanced inspection and remaining life
assessment technology
B. SHANNON (IESCO, Inc.)
11:10 Automated inspection, fitness for service and remaining life assessment of reformer
furnace tubes
B. FISHER (Quest Integrity)
11:35 Development of centrifugally cast materials for high-temperature service in steam
reforming furnaces
U. PETRAT (Schmidt + Clemens)
12:00 LUNCH
Tuesday, 24 February
SESSION 4: Urea
SESSION CHAIRMAN: L. CONNOCK (BCInsight)
13:30 Urea technology: The combined knowledge of licensor and contractor
A. GIANAZZA / G. P. TESTA (Saipem SpA)
13:55 AVANCORE® urea process The newest Stamicarbon innovation is launched
J. MEESSEN (Stamicarbon BV)
14:20 Application of ACES21® in urea plant capacity expansions
G. NISHIKAWA (Toyo Engineering)
14:45 Optimization of the life cycle costs for a high-pressure valve through intelligent
design concepts for critical operating conditions and stocking strategies for spare
parts
S. PULS (Uhde High-Pressure Technologies)
15:10 COFFEE BREAK
15:40 Production of urea in a high-speed drum granulator
N. CHEBLAKOV (JSC NIIK)
16:05 Rotex involvement in fertilizer/urea processing
O. THOUVARD (Rotex)
16:30 Process and equipment for removing dust and ammonia from urea and
ammonium nitrate granulator exhaust
M. SKORUPKA (Prozap Engineering Ltd.)
16:55 End of session
Wednesday, 25 February
SESSION 5: Nitric Acid and Nitrates
SESSION CHAIRMAN: NAME (Company)
09:00 Strategy to minimize the impact of raw material market influences on nitric acid
production cost
T. KELLER (Heraeus)
09:25 Delivery of N2O abatement projects
S. ROE, (Johnson Matthey, Noble Metals) / R. STRANGE-CARDANI (N-Serve Environmental
Services)
09:50 EnviNOx® process for N2O and NOx abatement in HNO3 plants
C. FRANK (Uhde GmbH)
10:15 N2O abatement catalysts for highly loaded ammonia oxidation reactors
M. SCHLETT (Umicore AG & Co. KG)
10:40 COFFEE BREAK
11:10 Ways to improve the energy efficiency of AN solution plants
A. ERBEN (Uhde GmbH)
11:35 50% capacity increase of an AN plant
V. GRANCHAROV (Neochim plc)
12:00 LUNCH
SESSION 6: Ammonia and Methanol
SESSION CHAIRMAN: NAME (BCInsight)
13:30 Ammonia technology – the second fifty years
V. PATTABATHULA (Incitec-Pivot Ltd)
13:55 Surviving market cycles with a streamlined ammonia plant mothballing and
recommissioning procedure
P. ORPHANIDES (Orphanco)
14:20 Features, performance & optimisation of the world’s largest ammonia synthesis plant
J. PACH (Johnson Matthey Catalysts)
14.45 New KBR ammonia synthesis loop revamp technology improves plant energy
efficiency
S. SINGH (KBR, Inc.)
15:10 COFFEE BREAK
15:40 Casale Technologies for Fertilizer and Methanol Grass-Root Plants
E. FILIPPI (Casale Group)
16:05 Debottlenecking of CO2 removal system
M. HAFIEZ (Fauji Fertilizer Co.)
16:30 Catalysts to drive environmental improvements in fertilizer manufacture
J. BRIGHTLING (Johnson Matthey Catalysts)
17:00 Closing remarks
17:15 End of conference