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SPTC - 2025 Presentation Files

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Track 1 Track 2

Day 1

(Monday September 22)

Keynote

1.0.1 Keynote 1: Dean Foreman, Chief Economist Texas Oil & Gas Association

Global Economics and Energy Outlook – Q3 2025

Session:  Energy Efficiency 1

1.1.1.1: US DOE's Energy Intensive Energies Initiative 

1.1.1.2: Various Approaches for Identifying Energy Efficiency Opportunities in Pumping Systems

1.1.1.3: Pinch Analysis of a Complex Reboiler System

Session:  Process Safety & Risk Management

1.2.1.1: Chemical Loading and Unloading:  Risks at the Intersection of the Truck Driver and Facility

1.2.1.2 Process Safety Digitization (Not available for internet posting)

1.2.1.3: Uncovering Relief Systems Design Deficiencies to Enhance Process Safety

Session:  Energy Efficiency 2 Session:  Advances in Digitalization, Part 1: IIoT

1.1.2.1: Low Cost Intelligent Diagnostics for Improving the Energy Efficiency of Industrial Equipment (Pending Release)

1.1.2.2: Expanding Enterprise-Wide Monitoring to Steam Systems and Crude Preheat Trains for Enhanced Energy Optimization (Not available for internet posting)

1.2.2.1: Workforce Connectivity: The benefits of operator round tools (Pending Release)

1.2.2.2: Regarding process automation modernization topics with AI and real-time edge optimization

1.0.2: Engineering Ethics

Session:  Distillation & Seperation

1.1.3.1: What could distillation look like in the next couple of decades

1.1.3.2: Distillation Diagnostics: The Forgotten Child of the Energy Transition

1.1.3.3: A Novel Rate-based Model for Liquid-Liquid Extraction: Validation with Plant Data

Session:  Advances in Digitalization, Part 2: AI

1.2.3.1: From Principles to Practice: Governing AI Responsibly in Manufacturing

1.2.3.2: From Data to Decisions: AI-Powered Operational Excellence in Chemical Manufacturing

1.2.3.3: Optimizing Industrial Energy Use with AI-Driven Battery Storage (Not available for internet posting)

Session:  Refinery Technology & Operations

1.1.4.1: Achieve Test Run Objectives with Advance Preparation and Real Time Reports - Charles Herzog (Retired - Kellog, Shell, M

1.1.4.2: Improving Performance of CO Boilers (Pending Release)

1.1.4.3: Use of dewaxing catalyst to expand feedstocks option in naphthenic lubes

Session:  Chemical Plant Technology & Operations

1.2.4.1: Cracking Technology - Past, Present & Future

1.2.4.2: Ethylene Plant Case Studies – Process Technologies and associated Critical Hazards, SIS Functions, Data Analytics, ...

1.2.4.3: Olefins to Opportunity: Navigating the Global Storm in Petrochemicals

Day 2

(Tuesday September 23)

Keynote

2.0.1 Keynote 2:  Dan Coombes, Director of PureCycle Technologies Inc.; formerly EVP for LyondellBasell

The Future of Chemical Engineering

Session:  Catalysts & Reaction Engineering

2.1.1.1: Catalyst and Process Optimization for Intensification of Ethylene Oxide Plant Designs (Not available for internet posting)

2.1.1.2: Kinetics Related to CO2 Scrubbing Using Aqueous Amine Solutions (Not available for internet posting)

2.1.1.3: Direct Propylene Epoxidation by Water Oxidation on PdPtOx Electrocatalysts (Pending Release)

Session:  Renewable & Sustainable Technology 1

2.2.1.1: Challenges within a Sustainable Process Technology Transformation (Not available for internet posting)

2.2.1.2: The Nexus of Materials, Energy, and Carbon Dioxide—and How Science, Technology, and Market Development Can Impact It (Pending Release)

2.2.1.3: Combined Heat and Power and Alternative Fuels

Session:  Efficient Water Use

2.1.2.1: Experiences with process modeling of municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities

2.1.2.1: Experiences with process modeling of municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities

Session:  Renewable & Sustainable Technology 2

2.2.2.1: Electrocatalysis with MNenes

2.2.2.2: Synthesis of novel pyroelectric non centrosymmetric materials for waste energy harvesting applications

Session:  Leadership & Management Forum

2.1.3 Leadership & Management Forum

Session:  Innovations in Process Technology

2.2.3.1: Advancements in Large Scale Plastic Pyrolysis Technology

2.2.3.2: Boosting Plant Design Efficiency with Novel Auto Routing Techniques

2.2.3.3: Bio Diesel & Renewable Diesel Market Review - Paul Wicker, Director

Session:  Project Development

2.1.4.1: Why Capital Projects Fail (Pending Release)

2.1.4.2: Overview of Decision Analysis

2.1.4.3: Respect of Gated Process via Fit-for-Purpose Process Design

Session:  Process Control & Reliability

2.2.4.1: Keep Distillation Products On Spec at Max Rates

2.2.4.2: The evolution of APC technology over the past 40 years (Pending Release)

2.2.4.3: Control Valve Performance Troubleshooting and Understanding Dynamic Performance