A recent email alerted me to the LARTC 4th Annual Meeting 10th – 11th June 2015 - Call For Papers Deadline Extended: Friday 9th January 2015
One of the conference presenters is Oscar Chamberlain, R&D Downstream & Biofuels General Manager, Petrobras. He is listed as the inventor on a number of patents, including …
Modified Y-zeolite, process for the preparation thereof, and modified Y-zeolite-containing FCC catalyst US 5576258 A (http://www.google.com/patents/US5576258)
He is also mentioned in a Petrobras Magazine article …
Pioneering at SUX
Petrobras will carry out an unprecedented experiment in its Shale Industrialization Unit, SIX, located in the city of São Mateus do Sul, in the Brazilian state of Paraná. The capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) will be tested on a demonstration scale in a Fluid Catalytic Cracking Prototype Unit. The experiment is a world first and is necessary to make possible the use of the technology on an industrial scale and thereby reduce the release of emissions into the atmosphere of one of the gases most responsible for increasing the greenhouse effect and global warming. The first test should take place in 2009.
source: http://www.hotsitespetrobras.com.br/petrobrasmagazine/Edicoes/edicao56/en/internas/six/
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The text of the email appears below.
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Global Technology Forum are pleased to be returning to Miami for the LARTC 4th Annual Meeting in 2015. LARTC will again unite senior refining and petrochemical professionals along with industry suppliers to examine the latest news on ongoing projects, supply and demand challenges, discuss investment opportunities, explore cutting edge technological developments and find solutions to operational challenges facing the downstream refining sector within Latin America.
As with all Global Technology Forum events we will again be working with our esteemed advisory board to make the paper selections for the conference. The LARTC 4th Annual Meeting advisory board are:
•Oscar Chamberlain, R&D Downstream & Biofuels General Manager, Petrobras
•Enrique Troncoso Colombo, Energy Efficiency Coordinator, YPF
•Ezequiel Acosta Mora, Refining & Petrochemical Development Leader, Ecopetrol
•Hildo Francisco Henz, Director Partner, MSW Capital
•Marcos Godinho Tavares, Director, Marketing Solutions
You are now invited to submit one or two original papers for this conference for acceptance by the advisory board. Acceptance criteria will be originality and technical innovation. At this stage, the only requirements are a working title, subject area and brief description of the proposed content (typically a 200 word abstract).
Due to a number of requests for extra time to complete abstracts from a number of individuals, we've decided to extend the deadline for all until Friday 9th January.
Preference will be given to papers giving case histories and actual operating experience. We would be pleased to receive abstracts from supply companies that are co-authored with operating companies. Some hot topics for the conference programme are as follows but not restricted to:
•Economics of the refining industry in the region by country; investment review strategies; models for development
•Future trends of the Latin America refining industry
•Business overviews or opportunities with the different producers/owners
•Opportunities arising from the Mexican oil sector
•Refining projects and/or immediate and medium term plans of individual countries
•The potential impact of Tier 3 in terms of revamp/catalyst usage
•Update on bio-fuels technologies
•Emissions reductions and sulphur removal technologies
•Update on shale oil/gas processing
•New process technologies
•Residue upgrading new technologies
•Coke furnace to produce steam and power
•Filterable solids in crude oils (ASTM D 4807). Increasing impact on desalter upsets and tight oil-water emulsions
•On line energy management
•New technologies in hydrocracking catalysts to improve cold properties on diesel oil
•New technologies to isolate FCC Reactor from fractionator
•Challenges for handling, storage and blending FAME - glucoside deposits
•Neural networks applied to crude oil/product property predictions and process control
•Use of tablets for operator routine duties in turnarounds etc..
•Converting natural gas to liquid fuel by synthesis
•Noble metal catalyst challenges: Catalyst regeneration, metal recovery and spent catalyst transportation as a dangerous waste
•Tendencies in ultralow sulphur processes.
•R&D challenges
•Delayed coking
•Processes for optimum plant maintenance and reliability
•Technologies for managing greenhouse gas
•Best practices / refiner case studies
For more information about the LARTC Annual Meeting please visit the website where you will find regular updates as well as details of our other events.
Important notice: All papers are selected on merit and are not commercially linked and we welcome innovative submissions from both refiners and suppliers. There will however be a fee applicable to all presenters of the accepted papers as specified by GTF.
Please email your abstracts to me at victoria.pope@gtforum.com by Friday 9th January, I look forward to hearing from you shortly.
Victoria Pope
Conference Manager
Global Technology Forum
Incisive Media
Haymarket House, 28-29 Haymarket, London, SW1Y 4RX, UK
Tel: + 44 (0)20 7316 9910
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