2025 Spring Meeting and 21st Global Congress on Process Safety

Session: Kister Distillation Symposium 2025: Troubleshooting, Revamp, and Operating Improvements in Refinery Columns

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

Co-Chairs

Francesco Coletti, Hexxcell Ltd
Henry Kister, Fluor Inc
Nicholas Urbanski, Exxonmobil Upstream Integrated Solutions Company

Presentations

08:05 AM

(84a) Heat Integration in FCC Main Fractionators
Andrew Sloley

08:35 AM

(84b) Distillation Tray Cleaning Strategy Avoids Major Outage
Daryl Hanson, G Felix Dornier, Steve Stacy, Paul Verret, Michael Perkins, Christian Geppert

09:05 AM

(84c) FCC Main Fractionator Step-By-Step Improvements
Ross Vail

09:35 AM

(84d) Troubleshooting and Revamp of a VDU
Alessandro Ferrari, Zack Bondley, Anand Vennavelli, Madi Asiri

10:20 AM

(84e) FCC Main Fractionator - Beware What You Fix!
Ross Vail

10:50 AM

(84f) Do Not Ignore Side Strippers in Crude Distillation Unit Operations
Soun Ho Lee

11:20 AM

(84g) Challenges With an Ethanol Column Revamp to Structured Packing
David Martyn, Robert Sigal

11:50 AM

(84h) A System-Level, Hybrid-AI Digital Twin Approach to Optimizing Heat Exchanger Cleaning in Separation Units with Heat Recovery
Niccolo Le Brun, Francesco Coletti