Each year, the Ammonia Symposium allows over 400 professionals concerned with safety and reliability issues in the nitrogen and gas reforming industries to share recent developments.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Attend the 60th Annual Safety in Ammonia Plants and Related Facilities Symposium

The Westin Copley Place Boston • Boston, Massachusetts, USA • August 30 – September 3, 2015

TIME PAPER TITLE AUTHOR(S) – COMPANY

SUNDAY, AUGUST 30

12:00 PM-5:00 pm

REGISTRATION

MONDAY, AUGUST 31

8:00 AM Welcome from Committee Chair John Mason – Agrium

8:10 AM Keynote Address TBA

9:00 AM 1a 60 Years History of the AIChE Ammonia Safety Sympsosiums Jim Richardson & Venkat Pattabathula – Clariant & Incitec Pivot Ltd.

9:30 AM COFFEE BREAK

10:00 AM 1b Foaming of Catacarb CO2 Removal System Leads to Methantor Runaway Reaction and Expander Fire Incident

Muhammad Hashim – Fatima Fertilizer Company

10:30 AM 1c Surprising Internal Damages on a Horizontal Ammonia Converter Basket

A. Shukla, A. De Brujine, M. Warzee – Yara Pilbara Fertilizer

11:00 AM 1d From Potentially Unsafe to Unsafe by Inadequate Tube Plugging Joost Roes – Stamicarbon

11:30 AM LUNCH BREAK

1:30 PM 2a Safely Extending the Life of Two (2) 30-Year-Old ReformerFurnaces

Kenneth V. Lamb et al. – Valero, John Zink, Cetek, LindeEngineering

2:00 PM 2b Overpressure and Vacuum Protection Challenges for LowPressure and Atmosphere

David Pierce and John Mason – Southern Ionics and AgriumPartnership

2:30 PM 2c Operating Experiences – re-Tubing and Failure of Incloy 800 Tubes – of Ammonia Synthesis Loop WHB

G. Blewett, T. Srinivas, G. Raju – Qatar Fertlizer Company

GPIC Experiences in Synthesis Loop Vertical Waste Heat Boiler Eyad Rafei – GPIC Bahrain

3:00 PM COFFEE BREAK

3:30 PM 2d Improving Safety and Reliability by Improved Trip Interlock Systems K R R Kumar & R. Raghavan – Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited

4:00 PM 2e Best Practices for Improvements in Reformer Performance andReliability

James R. Widrig, Giuseppe Franceschini – Integrity Group, Yara International

4:30 PM 2f Flange Dissassembly – An Underrated Source of SafetyIncidents

Sam Tait – Methanex New Zealand Ltd.

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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (Continued)TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

8:00 AM 3a State of the Art Leak Detection for Ammonia Piping and Loading Facility Andy Vluggen and Marcus Tennant – OCI Nitrogen (Sitech) andYokogawa

8:10 AM 3b Pulsations and Vibrations Control in Urea Plants Constantino Bruni and Leonardo Galimberti – Casale S.A.

9:00 AM 3c Evaluation of Ammonia Converter Shell With Cracked Weld Defects for Continued Operation

A. Nalbandian, S. Wilmes, W. Bhatti, A. Azmi – ThielschEngineering Inc., James Chemical Engineering, Fauji Fertilizer

9:30 AM COFFEE BREAK

10:00 AM 3d Cleaner for Longer – Meeting the Purifications Demands of theAmmonia Process

M.J. Cousins and P.J.H. Carnell – Johnson Matthey

10:30 AM 3e Process Safety: Our Role in Ammonia Plant Design and Runninga Successful HAZOP

Glenn W. Parizot – KBR

11:00 AM 3f Managing of Remaining Life-Based on the Outer SurfaceConditions of Catalyst Tubes

T. Shibasaki, T. Hokamura and B. Shannon – Chiyoda Corporationand H-Scan International Company

11:30 AM FREE TIME

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2

8:00 AM 4a Addressing Cold Temperature Brittle Fracture Hazards inAmmonia Plant Equipment

Daniel Benac, Dorothy Shaffer, and David Wood – BakerEngineering and Risk Consultants, Inc.

8:10 AM 4b Reformer Balancing for Optimization of the PCS NitrogenTrinidad 02 Unit Primary Reformer

Hugo S. Roberts, Lawrence Sandy – Johnson Matthey ProcessTechnology and PCS Nitrogen Trinidad

9:00 AM 4c New Sealing System at the Main Flange-Connections of Reactor 105-D Mr. Brett, Dr. Deiniger, Mr. Raymann – SKWStickstoffwerke Piesteritz, TUEV SUED, Nord-Lock

9:30 AM COFFEE BREAK

10:00 AM 4d Root Cause Analysis of Incidents during LTS Catalyst Reduction and Primary Reformer Coking Event

Eugene Britton, Timothy Rembold – The Mosaic Company andClariant

10:30 AM 4e Optimizing Process Safety for a Petrochemical Plant with Fireand Gas Monitoring

Chua Kien Kek, Tan Ping Yang – PETRONAS

11:00 AM 4f The Value of Primary Reformer Temperature Balancing and Monitoring Michael Dean, Jamie Chisamore – C.F. Industries, JohnsonMatthey

11:30 AM LUNCH BREAK

1:30 PM 5a Ureaknowhow.com Urea Incident Database: Learning from Each Other Jo Eijkenboom, Giel Notten, Mark Brouwer – Ureaknowhow

2:00 PM 5b Steam Reformer Overheating: Absolute Protection Now Available Oscar Olatte, Peter Tait – BD Energy Systems, LLC / MethanexCorporation

2:30 PM 5c Full Replacement of Bottom Wood Blocks from an Ammonia Storage Tank Rodolfo Heitor Campos – Petrobras

3:00 PM COFFEE BREAK

3:30 PM 5d Lessons Learned During First Years of Operation of Ca Mau Ammonia Plant

Dang Hoang Quan – Petrovietnam CaMau Fertilizer Company Ltd.

4:00 PM 5e Hydrogen-Induced Cracking (HIC) in a Single Weld of a 3Chrome – 1 Moly Steel Ammonia Synthesis Reactor

Keith Wilson, K. Baumann – Potash Corp - Augusta

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3

8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Roundtable Session This year’s Roundtable Session seeks to encourage open exchange and discussion through brief presentations from panelists followed by a question-and-answer session on the following topics:Topic 1: Post Weld Heat TreatmentTopic 2: High Speed Equipment Monitoring and Protection SystemsTopic 3: Operator Training Topic 4: Plant Incidents