Session Chairs:
- John Pendergast, The Dow Chemical Company
- Jim Brigman, Ingenero
Session Description:
The chemical industry is entering a new era of growth and rejuvenation triggered by shale gas related developments over recent years. This session will focus on chemical processes and chemical technologies that will play a role in serving the near term and future needs of the industry. This session will focus on new developments and help to define the needs of the industry as we move forward. The presentations will be selected to offer ideas and thoughts for researchers, process engineers, business leaders and planners that can help during planning, development and execution of new projects.
Schedule:
| TIME | PRESENTATION | SPEAKER |
| 1:30pm-2:00pm | Big Process Data Analysis Helps Improve Operational Efficiency in Ethylene Plants | Pratap Nair, Ingenero Inc. |
| 2:00pm-2:30pm |
Improving Life-Cycle Costs of Large Integrated Capital Projects in the Chemical Industry |
Mike Strobel, Fidelis Group |
| 2:30pm-3:00pm | Guidelines for Dynamic Modeling of Column Startup | Wendy Young Reed, Chemstations, Inc. |
| 3:00pm-3:30pm | Coffee | |
| 3:30pm-4:30 pm | Executive Panel | Raghu Narayan, Saudi Aramco |
| Andrew Kenner, Westlake | ||
| Pratap Nair, Ingenero, Inc. | ||
| Darlene Schuster, AIChE | ||