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Preliminary Program

56th Annual Ammonia Symposium - Final Program - Printer friendly, PDF document

Sunday, September 11
Monday, September 12
Tuesday, September 13
Wednesday, September 14
Thursday, September 15

		Sunday, September 11th
Time
12:00PM-5:00PM		Registration

		Monday, September 12th
Time	Paper	Title and Author
8:00AM	Welcome	Welcome from Committee Chair Danny Franceus - Yara Belgium S.A.
8:10AM	Keynote	Lessons Learned From Major Chemical Industry Incidents Dr. Rafael Moure-Eraso - Chairperson and CEO, U.S. Chemical Safety Board
9:00AM	1a	Major Ammonia Leak Incident in Urea Plant S.G. Gedigeri- Oman India Fertiliser Company S.A.O.C
9:30AM		COFFEE BREAK
10:00AM	1b	An Alternative Approach for Leak Before Break Assessment to Postpone First Internal Inspection of a Refrigerated Ammonia Storage Tank Alex Scheerder - Stamicarbon BV- The Netherlands; Pascal Schreurs - Sinatra Engineers- The Netherlands; Shafi Ahmed - Kafco Limited- Bangladesh
10:30AM	1c	Hazards Involved in Handling Oxygen- (Fire Centrifugal Oxygen Compressor- A Case Study) R.K. Bhatia - National Fertilizers Limited
11:00AM	1d	Operator Training Simulator in Ammonia Plants: Increase Safety, Decrease Cost and Strengthen Competitiveness- Klaus Schuebel - SKW Stickstoffwerke Piesteritz GmbH; Norbert Ringers, KisnaduthKesore - SudChemie A.G.-Germany; Marco Lanteri, Massimiliano Morniroli - APC Tech- Italy; Gregor Fernholz - Invensys Operations Management- Germany
11:30AM		LUNCH BREAK
1:30PM	2a	Commissioning Experience of World's Largest Single-Train Ammonia-Urea Complex Muhammad Idrees, Muhammad Azhar & Muddassar Y. Rathore - Engro Fertilizers Limited- Pakistan
2:00PM	2b	Recycle Hydrogen Interconnection Line Failure at IFFCO Phulpur- Surjit Singh, Yogesh Narula & R. Maiti - Indian Farmers Fertilisers Cooperative Limited- India
2:30PM	2c	Rupture of the Primary Reformer-Mixed Feed Coil at Tringen1 Stenn Mowassie, Laurent Ruhlmann - Yara Trinidad; Michael Schlaug - Yara International S.A.
3:00PM		COFFEE BREAK
3:30PM	2d	Mechanical Integrity of Primary Reformer Hot Outlet Headers- Carl E. Jaske, Greg T. Quickel - DNV Columbus Inc.- USA
4:00PM	2e	Failures of Pigtails: Why They Happen and How to Avoid Them CW Thomas and MJ Smillie - Quest Integrity Group
4:30PM	2f	Problem in Synthesis Compressor Train- Severe Damage of End Gas Seals & Inter-Stage Labyrinths- A Unique Experience by Indo Gulf Fertilisers C.K. Datta, Anand K. Gupta - Indo Gulf Fertilisers- India

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		Tuesday, September 13
Time	Paper	Title
8:00AM	3a	Successful Operating Experience of CFCL Ammonia Plant Revamped with KRES Technology Upendra Singh- Chambal Fertilizers & Chemical Ltd. India; Shashi Singh & Avinash Malhotra- KBR- USA
8:30AM	3b	Woodward, OK Ammonia Converter Revamp: More Efficiency and Reliability Through Innovation Debra Lawrence- CF Industries; Jamie Ballard- Sud Chemie Inc.; Francesco Baratto- Ammonia Casale S.A.
9:00AM	3c	Severe Safety Relevant Problems During Ammonia Converter Optimization- Borealis Agrolinz Melamine Experience- Leonhard Werner, Ignaz Mayr & Richard Brandmair- Borealis Agrolinz Melamine GmbH
9:30AM		COFFEE BREAK
10:00AM	3d	Ammonia Synthesis Loop WHB Failure at GNFC- Pradip M. Patel, Hasmukh S. Patel – Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers Company Limited, India
10:30AM	3e	Failure Analysis of High Pressure Synthesis Gas Compressor Cooler Imran Mubashir Saeed- Qatar Fertilizer Company
11:00AM	3f	Understanding the Risk of Legionella Bacteria in Industrial Cooling Water Circuits Loraine A. Huchler- MarTech Systems Inc.

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		Wednesday, September 14
Time	Paper	Title
8:00AM	4a	Avoiding the Conventional Revamp Philosophy for an Ammonia Plant SahbanZafar Ali- Fauji Fertilizer Company Ltd.- Pakistan
8:30AM	4b	Failure and Refurbishment of Process Air Compressor Turbine R. Muthu Manoharan- Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation Limited, India
9:00AM	4c	Urea Reactor Extension Hermann Kernberger- Schoeller-Bleckmann Nitec GmbH- Austria; Bob Edmondson- Yara Belle Plaine- Canada
9:30AM		COFFEE BREAK
10:00AM	4d	Utilizing Analytical Tools and Machine Welding to Predict and Minimize Residual Stress and Distortion in Urea Reactor Linings T. Scandroli – Aquilex Corp; M. Welch – Aquilex SRO
10:30AM	4e	GV Absorber Shell Leak in Ammonia-II Plant at IFFCO Aonla Unit, India- A K Maheshwari, Rajiv Srivastava, G V Gautam- IFFCO Aonla, India
11:00AM	4f	Stress Corrosion Cracking in an Atmospheric Ammonia Storage Tank- Wim Versteele, Arie de Bruyne - Yara Belgium S.A.
11:30AM		LUNCH BREAK
1:30PM	5a	Ammonia Vapor Cloud from Vent Stack of Safety Relief Valve Collector System Hans H.Wagner- INEOS Cologne
2:00PM	5b	Explosion in the Flare Stack Seal Pot After Site Power Failure in Ammonia Plant of NFL, Nangal Unit B.G. Singh, Rajan Kanwar - National Fertilizers Limited- Nangal Unit, India
2:30PM	5c	Management of Dissimilar Metal Welds Colin Alexis - PCS Nitrogen Trinidad Ltd.
3:00PM		COFFEE BREAK
3:30PM	5d	Cracking of Closing Weld in a Secondary Autothermal Reformer in a Mega Methanol Plant D M Firth, Q. Rowson, A. Saunders Tack, C. Thomas, K. Lichti, J. Soltis - Quest Integrity NZL Limited; P. Tait - Methanex Global; M. Wei, R. Dookran, S. Ramjattan, W. Boodram- Methanex Trinidad
4:00PM	5e	What Not To Do On Your Plant (Catalyst Catastrophes 3) Peter Broadhurst & Steve Ransom- Johnson Matthey Catalysts
		STANDBY PAPERS
	Stb1	Energy Efficiency and CO2 Generation in Indian Ammonia Plants Dr. S. Nand & Manish Goswami - The Fertiliser Association of India
	Stb2	Risk-Based Approach for Evaluating Safety Events in Fertiliser Production Jatin Shah & Dorothy Maxwell Shaffer- Baker Engineering and Risk Consultants Inc.
	Stb3	ID Fan Low Flow Problem & Repeated Shaft Failures of Semi-Lean Pump Iftikhar Hussain Turi, Tamvada Srinivas- Qatar Fertiliser Co.
	Stb4	Process Safety in The Fertilizer Industry- A New Focus Phil Eames- ABB Global Consulting; John Brightling- Johnson Matthey Catalysts
	Stb5	Optimizing Installation and Operation of New 3-Bed Ammonia Synthesis Converter Basket Ather Iqbal & Noor-ul-Hassan- Fauji Fertilizer Company, Ltd.- Pakistan

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Thursday, September 15

Round Table Session:

8:00AM

The Roundtable meeting provides informal and interactive sharing of common problems and incidents with fellow producers. Audience questions-and-answers are stimulated by a set-up of chairs in a half-circle around the panel table.

The Roundtable is an informal session meant to generate open communication. It is not a recorded session. Any notes from this session should be considered confidential and not distributed outside your organization.

This year’s Roundtable Session seeks to encourage open
exchange and discussion through panel groups focusing on:

- Ammonia Storage and Handling Facilities
- Urea Reactor Failures
- Reformer Incidents

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