2024 Conference Program

06 - 08 May 2024   |   Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
07:30

Registration

08:00 09:00

VIPs & Guests Arrival

09:00 09:20

Keynote Session: Commitment to Innovation and Process Excellence Hall 1

Master of Ceremony

Osama Al-Ansari

Master of Ceremonies, Saudi Arabia

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Ali Abdullah Al-Meshari

Senior Vice President, Technology Oversight and Coordination, Aramco

09:20 09:40

Keynote Session: A Perspective on Technology Development at SABIC Hall 1

Master of Ceremony

Osama Al-Ansari

Master of Ceremonies, Saudi Arabia

Keynote Speaker

Ernesto Occhiello

EVP, Technology and Innovation, SABIC

09:40 10:00

Keynote Session: Creation of sustainable value: Industrial Automation to Industrial Autonomy Hall 1

Master of Ceremony

Osama Al-Ansari

Master of Ceremonies, Saudi Arabia

Keynote Speaker

Norinao Sato

President and CEO - Saudi & President and CEO - Middle East and Africa, Yokogawa

10:00 10:30

Break & Exhibition Networking

10:30 11:30

Strategic Panel: Hydrocarbon Plant of the Future Hall 1

What does the next generation of refineries/chemical plants look like, what do they produce, where will they be, how will they decarbonize, etc?

Moderator

Shakeel Kadri

Executive Director & CEO, CCPS

Speakers

Dr. Rajesh Gattupalli

Vice President & General Manager, Honeywell UOP

Menahi Al Utaibi

Vice President of Manufacturing, Saudi Aramco Jubail Refinery Company (SASREF)

Mariano Delpozo

VP, Engineering & Technical Services, SATORP

Fabien Lundy

EMEA Commercial VP, Axens

Lada Kurelec

General Manager Polymers Technology & Innovation, SABIC

11:30 12:30

Exhibition Networking

12:30 13:30

Technical Session VII

4 Sessions

Process Excellence VII Session Room A, Hall 2

Moderator

Dr. Hayat Abdulla Yusuf

Assistant Professor and PCAP Program Coordinator, University of Bahrain

Design and Operation of Various Gas-Liquid Distributors for Trickle Bed Reactors

Speaker

Pradyut Kumar Dhar

Senior Engineer - Research and Analytical Services Department, Aramco

Heat Integration of an Industrial Crude Plant Distillation Unit Using Pinch Analysis

Speaker

Saba Alomari

Student, University of Bahrain

Decarbonization & Energy Transition V Session Room B, Hall 2

Moderator

Dr. Ranjit Kulkarni

Global Director – Business Development, Honeywell UOP

Using Low Carbon Hydrogen for Olefins Decarbonization: Operational and Economic Considerations

Speaker

Ibrahim Sedie

Olefins Process Engineer, SABIC

Process Results and Operational Experience from the Dmx™ Demonstrator Installed at Arcelormittal‘s Steel Mill at Dunkirk, France

Speaker

Peggy Chan

Technology Engineer, Axens

TC2C™ - More Carbon-Effective Conversion of Crude Oil into Chemicals

Speakers

Derek Jones

Principal Technology Specialist, Lummus Technology

Mazin Tamimi

Lab Scientist, Aramco

Process Excellence VIII Session Room C, Hall 2

Moderator

Shakeel Kadri

Executive Director & CEO, CCPS

Novel Approach for Increasing Gas Production and Enhancing Controllability for Upstream Degassing Tanks Toward Process Excellence

Speakers

Hussain Abualsaud

Process Engineer, Aramco

Mohammed Alwani

Engineer, Aramco

Plant Optimization – Begins with Right Concept and Effective Detailed Design

Speaker

Saravanavel Muthiah Ponnusamy

Process Engineering Manager, SLB

New Energies III Session Room D, Hall 2

Moderator

Dr. Anas F. Alkhani

Engineering Specialist, New Energies Engineering Division, Aramco

Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation from Seawater Using High Performance Polymeric Materials

Speakers

Ghalya Alabdulla

Chemical Engineer, Texas A&M University at Qatar

Noora Alsubaiei

Graduate, Texas A&M University at Qatar

Potential of Lcaf As a Complementary Tool for Decarbonizing the Aviation Industry

Speaker

Dr. Nasiru M. Tukur

Engineering Consultant, P&CSD, Aramco

Accelerating Scale up of the Hydrogen Economy with Systems-Level Strategic Evaluation

Speaker

Faisal Baksh

Principal Consultant, AspenTech

13:30 14:00

Break & Exhibition Networking

14:00 15:00

Technical Session VIII

4 Sessions

Process Excellence IX Session Room A, Hall 2

Moderator

Faisal Ahmad Raza

Technical Expert - Process, SLB Saudi Arabia

Best Practices in Design, Operation and Data Interpretation of Fixed Bed Pilot Scale Units to Overcome Scale-up Challenges for Hydroprocessing Catalysts

Speaker

Pradyut Kumar Dhar

Senior Engineer - Research and Analytical Services Department, Aramco

Tackling the Dual Challenge with Embedded AI

Speaker

Nooh Isa Mualem

Principal Solution Consultant, AspenTech

Trays in Amine Sweetening Contactor- Process Excellence in Debottlenecking with the Right Approach

Speaker

Michael Lam

Concept Solutions Engineer, SLB

Decarbonization & Energy Transition VI Session Room B, Hall 2

Moderator

Dr. Ranjit Kulkarni

Global Director – Business Development, Honeywell UOP

Low Carbon Ammonia Technology optimization – moving projects forward to achieve Net Zero targets

Speaker

Tim Ballai

Senior Offering Manager, Honeywell H2 & CO2 Solutions , Honeywell UOP

Use of Spiral Tube Heat Exchangers in Hydroprocessing Units

Speaker

Jan Reneteau

Managing Director, NECTIS

Forced Periodic Feed-Composition Switching to Address Methane Dehydroaromatization Catalyst Deactivation Challenge

Speaker

Mamoun Al-Rawashdeh

Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University at Qatar

Process Excellence X Session Room C, Hall 2

Moderator

Dr. Mohamed Bin Shams

Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Bahrain

Techno-Economic Assessment of Crude Oil/Water Emulsion Separation Efficiency

Speaker

Mashhor Aljabrine

Senior Engineer, Aramco

The Deployment of New Technologies and Initiatives in Samref’s SRU

Speaker

Khalid Ghazal

Technical Process Engineering (Sulfur & Amine Specialist), Saudi Aramco Mobil Refinery Company Ltd. (SAMREF)

Enrich Your Sulfur Plant Two Case Studies with High Level Oxygen Enrichment Implemented in Sulfur Recovery Unit Revamps

Speaker

Abdulaziz Alkhalid

Process Specialty Engineer, Fluor Corporation

Digitalization VIII Session Room D, Hall 2

Moderator

Nihar Gulwadi

Regional Head - MENA, Ingenero Inc

SRU Incinerator Fuel Gas Intelligence Optimizer

Speaker

Mohammed Aldossary

Process Engineer, Aramco

Harnessing Machine Learning for Precise Prediction of Fuel Gas Consumption

Speaker

Abdulmohsen Alnafea

Associate Engineer, Aramco

A Data-Driven Framework for Monitoring the Operation of Chemical Plants: Application to Monitor a Bench-Scale Fischer Tropsch Process

Speaker

Nour Basha

PhD Student, Texas A & M University

15:00 16:00

Closing Ceremony Hall 1

Master of Ceremony

Weam Al Dakheel

Journalist and TV Presenter, Saudi Arabia

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