2025 Spring Meeting and 21st Global Congress on Process Safety

Session: Kister Distillation Symposium 2025: Troubleshooting: The Lessons Learned Applied to Better Operation, Control, and Diagnostics

Thank you for your interest in this session. Please send Henry a copy of your submission or your intent to submit at Henry.Kister@Fluor.com.

Chair

Henry Kister, Fluor Inc

Co-Chairs

Nicholas Urbanski, Exxonmobil Upstream Integrated Solutions Company

Presentations

01:35 PM

(54a) The Meanderings and Ruminations of an Unlikely Distillation Control Expert
Michael Taube

02:05 PM

(54b) Draining Inlet Steam-Controlled Reboilers
James Risko

02:35 PM

(54c) Condenser Troubleshooting in a Steam Stripping Tower with the Aid of Computational Fluid Dynamics
Mohammed Asaduzzaman, Claudio Ribeiro, Carine Achoundong

03:05 PM

(54d) Distributor Modifications to Improve Performance
Raj Manivannan, Greg Theunick

03:50 PM

(54e) A Study of Vacuum Flash Column Broken Packing Case
Richard Chen

04:20 PM

(54f) Which One of These Usual Suspects Is the Culprit? High-Quality Distributor or High-Quality Packing?
Babak Rafi, Duncan M. Mnyapara

04:50 PM

(54g) Improving Tray Efficiency by Reducing Weeping
Aadam Aryan

05:20 PM

(54h) New Frontiers in Quantitative Analysis of Packed Tower Gamma Scans
Henry Kister