CatCracking Papers,
Work Groups & Demonstrations

Texas City Revival

Keith Casey, Plant Manager,
BP Texas City

Operational Safety at the Refinery

Dan Harris,
Operations Director,
Western Refining El Paso

Shift Connection - Setting Us Up for Success

People-communication issues are first step to success in achieving a highly engaged, focused workforce. Irving Oil has implemented a software solution for improving communications between the shift teams from shift-to-shift in a standard, easy-to-use format.

Kim Phillips, Irving Oil

Overcoming Chloride Fouling Problems in FCC Gas Con

Prevention, mitigation and design considerations to overcoming choloride fouling problems.

Matt Meyers, Western Refining, El Paso

Safety in Confined Spaces, Especially FCC Reactors

New concept to improve confined space safety using modern techniques. This out-of-the-box development is based on years of experience resulting in fulfilling challenging jobs and improving safety supervision during TA's and other difficult projects.

Matty Zadnikar, Z-Safety/Total Safety

What to look out for during the last three years of the FCC operating cycle

FCC Feed Injector Technology Update

The FCC feed injection system plays a critical role in the overall performance of the unit. This presentation outlines the development history and key design considerations when evaluating feed injector technology. Commercial benefits are presented.

Paul D. Wendt, Lummus Technology, CB&I

Alternatives to Rare Earth

Commercial Evaluation of REpLaCeR™ FCC Catalysts at Montana Refining Company

Ann Benoit, Grace

Improving Light FCC Product Recovery

This presentation reviews current best practices in design and retrofit of FCC Gas Plants for optimum light ends product recovery. Examples of the challenges and creativity required to get around hardware constraints when revamping existing equipment.

Eric Hutchins, Process Consulting Services

FCC Catalyst & Logistical Optimization

ECI has worked with refiners, leveraging its logistical assets, to help provide catalyst solutions to meet the demands of the current marketplace. Presentation is a short summary of high valued, FCC catalyst optimization options provided by ECI.

Michael Hurley, Equilibrium Catalyst

FCC Reliability and Run Length Management

FCC run length, reliability is critical to refinery's operating/maintenance plans. Dependable operation throughout 3–7 year run is critical for success. Controlling long term unit problems, importance of unit monitoring will be discussed to improve performance.

C.J. Farley, Astron Int'l, Inc.

Getting More Value from FCC Bottoms

Isolation Valves and FCCU Slide Valves

Michael Lemeshev, Zimmermann & Jansen

View 2012 Coking papers

View past Seminar papers

Interlocks and Control Systems
Panel and Presentations

Various refiners are working through local and corporate approval channels to present their failsafe controls, interlocks and Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS). The presenters will also include industry consultants on process safety management and layers of protection. Afterwards, suppliers will give demonstrations on state-of-the-art technologies

Moderated by Ken Peccatiello, CatCracking.com and Grover Herring, Western Refining

 Safety Is Contagious

2012 FCCU Work Groups

Flareless Startups and Shutdowns

successfully meeting EPA requirements and other regulatory issues.

Jason Danford, Valero and Grover Herring, Western Refining

FCC Turnaround Best Practices

With technical oversight practices of contractor field work.

Whitney Strickland, AltairStrickland and Paul Komperda, United Laboratories

Practices for reliable startup and operation post-turnaround

Guidelines and procedures for specific FCC shutdown events; conducting shutdowns in an efficient/safe manner; what to check before restarting an FCC following an emergency shutdown.

Ord Limbrick, LyondellBasell

Refractory Quality Control

With samples of good and bad refractory.

Robert Jenkins

Things to watch in your FCCU

Ken Peccatiello, CatCracking.com and Mike Zehender, Grace

How to positively influence process safety

Including improving workplace injury rates; and personnel behaviors and mechanical integrity issues and their connection to the other elements of PSM.

Skip Early, original member of the API-PSM standards committee

Mechanical Integrity and Reliability Assessment topics

Including: expansion joint, cyclone, expander integrity monitoring

Richard Boswell, Stress Engineering Services

Incident Investigation

Case Studies and Lessons Learned

Would you like to lead a group or recommend a facilitator? Contact Paul@CatCracking.com

Demonstrations and Workshops

An exciting new feature scheduled into the conference!

Breakout workgroups are moving from Thursday afternoon to Friday morning. On Thursday afternoon you choose to attend an equipment demonstration or workshop in the Exhibition Hall or listen to a technical paper in the Presentation Hall. TapcoEnpro, TAS, Velan and ValvTechnologies have confirmed demonstrations – and there's more to come.   Let us know if you have something to demonstrate.

Demonstrations will be listed here in the next few weeks.

"The seminar was excellent. The breakout sessions and hall meetings were extremely useful. The [shop] tour was great." - Marsulex (Calgary 2007)

Advisory Committee