2025 Spring Meeting and 21st Global Congress on Process Safety

Session: Kister Distillation Symposium 2025 Legacy of Jimmy Humphrey: Overcoming the Energy Transition Challenges in Distillation

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

08:05 AM

(69a) Life and Legacy of Jimmy Humphrey: Co-Founder of SRP and the AIChE Separation Division
Frank Seibert

08:35 AM

(69b) Critical Review of Distillation Energy Consumption Landscape
Izak Nieuwoudt, PhD.Eng, D.Eng, Henry Kister

09:05 AM

(69c) Electrified Separation: Advancing Heat Pump and Vapor Recompression Technologies in Process Industries
Johannes Neukäufer, Armin Rix, Niklas Paul, Lea Wessner

09:35 AM

(69d) Enhancing Post-Combustion Carbon Capture with Advanced Mass Transfer Technology
Taylor Topham, Zack Bondley, Michael Krela, Anand Vennavelli

10:20 AM

(69e) Exergy Analysis and Product Optimization for Retrofits of Existing Distillation Columns
Avi Kister, Clinton Duewall, Mahmoud El-Halwagi

10:50 AM

(69f) Modification of column internals as a key element in the optimization of energy management of distillation processes
Lea Wessner, Carmen De Santiago, Niklas Paul, Armin Rix, Moritz Schröder, Ralf Höchemer

11:20 AM

(69g) Reformulating Underwood’s Minimum Reflux Equations to Remove the Restriction of Constant Component Relative Volatilities
Alexis McDowell, Mohamad Habib, Brian Hanley